ON ALAN GREENSPAN'S MEMOIRS
'At the age of 80, he sat down to write his memoirs and tossed in the words, "The Iraq war is largely about oil", no doubt calculating that the sentence would give the book a handy shove out of the gate. It did.' 
Posted: September 21 2007
ON GENERAL PETRAEUS'S TESTIMONY TO CONGRESS
'Blend a war and a presidential campaign and you have a recipe for 200 per cent mendacity, as the Petraeus hearings triumphantly proved.'
Posted: September 14 2007
ON PETRAEUS AND THE SURGE IN PROPAGANDA
'He will paint as rosy a picture as can be managed within the bounds of credibility. Then they'll return to the reality of Iraq where the UN says the number of Iraqis fleeing their homes has gone from 50,000 to 60,000 a month.'
Posted: September 7 2007
ON SEX SCANDALS ON CAPITOL HILL
'Republicans acknowledge glumly that it's hard to defend Larry Craig's conduct and that he's a goner. Then they try to change the subject to Monica Lewinsky and say that it's all the fault of Democrats.'
Posted: September 7 2007
ON THE SALE OF THE WALL ST JOURNAL
'The only reason why Murdoch might respect the Journal's independence, at least in the opinion pages, is that the views expressed there are even more rabid than his own; perhaps he savours the possibility that one day he might call up the editorial page editor, and hint that he might moderate his tone.'
Posted: August 3 2007
ON DOG FIGHTING AND THE FALL OF A BLACK AMERICAN FOOTBALL STAR
The indictment describes dogs from the Bad Newz Kennels being shot out of hand after defeat. It also details the wagers, ranging from $3,000-$20,000 on a single contest.'
Posted: July 27 2007
ON RUDY GIULIANI'S BELLICOSE PRESIDENTIAL BID
'By publicly identifying Podhoretz as one of his foreign policy advisers, Giuliani is saying that he esteems the counsel of a man who is calling for an immediate attack on Iran.'
Posted: July 20 2007
ON BOHEMIAN GROVE
'The male staff, living on the fringes of the Grove, has naturally evolved into a gay community. Hookers from as far afield as Las Vegas heed the Grove's July call and await their clients in nearby motels.'
Posted: July 12 2007
ON BLOOMBERG'S PRESIDENTIAL BID
'Here in America, running as a third party presidential candidate is like exercising the right to go on strike. It's legal to try but the system just makes it impossible to win.'
Posted: June 22 2007
ON DUBIOUS SHRINKS
'A recent Pentagon report confirms the starring role played by psychologists and psychoanalysts in devising torture techniques as administered by the US military.'
Posted: June 15 2007
ON SEX AND CHRISTIANS
'Sex surveys suggest why Satan and his legions are finding it easy to beguile these evangelical Christians. Their sex lives are more vital than those paddling in the tepid mainstream and hence they are more easily led into temptation.'
Posted: June 8 2007
ON RON PAUL
'Put together Murdoch's Fox News, a mid-May debate between Republican presidential candidates and the state of South Carolina and you have a hotbed of stupidity.
But there was an intrusion of rational thought, in the person of Ron Paul.'
Posted: June 1 2007
ON WAR AND THE PUBLIC MOOD
'Candidates like Hillary Clinton are finding that brawny talk about 'leaving all options on the table' (ie nuke Iran if necessary) isn't at all popular with the solid liberal base they can't afford to offend.'
Posted:May 8 2007
ON CLINTON'S PART IN THE WMD MYTH
'Clinton's strategy had been successful. Iraq remained under sanctions, while in Washington the neo-conservative faction spun the wildest conjectures as to what evil schemes Saddam might be concocting.'
Posted: April 23 2007
ON HOW TO STOP CAMPUS KILLINGS
'Two dead bodies, a killer somewhere on campus, and the Virginia Tech president makes his big decision to do nothing. Don't hire stupid administrators.'
Posted: April 19 2007
ON DEMOCRATS FAILING US VOTERS
'The Democratic leadership faced the task of funding the war while appearing to oppose it. This they have now achieved, amid the satisfied cheers of the progressive sector'
Posted: March 30 2007
ON THE LAPTOP BOMBARDIERS OF THE PRO-WAR LEFT
'Sometimes I dream of them like characters in a Beckett play, buried up to their necks in a rubbish dump on the edge of Baghdad'
Posted: March 23 2007
ON GEORGE BUSH'S LAME-DUCK TOUR OF SOUTH AMERICA
'Few Americans study the travel brochures with more zeal than two-term presidents who face impeachment or popular loathing'
Posted: March 8 2007
ON HILLARY CLINTON'S TEMPER
'At the best of times, Hillary is taut by disposition; already her political prospects for winning the Democratic nomination are getting somewhat cloudier'
Posted: March 1 2007
ON ANOTHER 'BRIDGE PURCHASE' BY THE NEW YORK TIMES' MICHAEL GORDON
'A good conman, so the saying goes, can sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. Tyros in this art could well start with Michael Gordon'
Posted: February 15 2007
ON BRINKSMANSHIP OVER IRAN
'Can we hope for prudence from the White House? Who knows? Bush is a nutty guy. It was his insistence on democratic elections in Iraq that put the Shia in control'
Posted: February 8 2007
ON HOW TO END AMERICAN ENGAGEMENT IN IRAQ
'Aside from winning, there aren't that many ways of ending wars. Governments pay attention when the troops mutiny'
Posted: February 1 2007
ON THE FURORE OVER JIMMY CARTER'S 'ANTI-SEMITIC' BOOK
'With each gust of abuse, his book soars higher on the bestseller lists. This proves the Israel lobby can be dumb'
Posted: January 18 2007
ON BUSH'S 'SURGE' SPEECH
'Moral to nomads: when the US President schedules a major policy speech, don't herd, don't go to wedding parties, head for the nearest cave'
Posted: January 11 2007
ON THE DEATH OF GERALD FORD
'Ford reached the White House without vote fraud. He was a Keynesian big spender. He finally pulled the US out of Vietnam'
Posted: January 3 2007
ON MICHAEL GORDON, BUSH'S MAN AT THE NEW YORK TIMES
'He has pushed his own agenda in recent reports on Iraq, so much so as to provide a significantly misleading picture'
Posted: December 28 2006
ON GEORGE BUSH'S NUCLEAR DEAL WITH INDIA
'An act so greased with hypocrisy it's a surprise that the President's pen didn't skid off the parchment'
Posted: December 22 2006
ON DEMOCRATS' CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ
'There was a window to commence diplomatic operations to get out with all speed. That opportunity has almost gone'
Posted: December 19 2006
ON ROBERT GATES, NEW SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
'He surely figures - unless the George Bush Library records have been purged - as one of the 41st President's slimier henchmen.'
Posted: November 10 2006
