The Associated Press released video footage showing that, in direct contrast with his own his own later statement that “we couldn’t anticipate the breach of the levees“, the President and Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff were advised of everything that was later going to happen as a result of Hurricane Katrina. The Emperor has no clothes. We have videos of him stripping, in fact, and laughing about being naked. As I’ve said on other occasions: imagine for a moment if this were President Clinton, or Gore, or Kerry. Would we ever hear the end of this? Democrats finally have their mantra...

The President has arrived to as warm a welcome as possible in New Delhi, India; Prime Minister Singh went to the airport himself to greet him. One of the joys of blogging and the internet is the immediate availability of foreign sources; in this case, the Hindustan Times, the sidebar’s entry from India, has extensive coverage on the visit, and notes that one of the key issues is a civilian nuclear power cooperation agreement between the United States and India. Who knew? As India already has nuclear weapons, this is sort of the same order the United States developed nuclear...

Today’s revelation comes from this story in the Jerusalem Post, observing that Dubai Ports World is a proud participant in the Arab world’s boycott against goods and services originating in the State of Israel; participating in that boycott is, of course, against American law, and should, by itself, it is intimated at least by the story, be a sufficient basis to block the port deal under which the Emir of Dubai will secure operational control of 21 American ports (not just six) from Maine to Texas. Given his inconceivably bad 34% approval rating, the worst of his presidency, Bush has...

Apparently, the Coast Guard had issued a report questioning the homeland security implications of portions of the proposed Dubai Ports World’s acquisition of the American operations of British Peninsular and Oriental, the current operator of some ports, after which DPW will operate six twenty-one American ports. While some Republican senators, like Susan Collins of Maine, appear gung ho on having hearings to inquire as to implications of the deal, it looks like Bill Frist has been brought back to the reservation, and he favors waiting the whole 45 days of the voluntary rubber stamp sweetheart non-Congressional review that DPW proposes...

This just in… it looks like The Bush Administration actually plans on complying with a federal court order telling it what to do over an aspect of the War on Terror TM… in this case, a decision appears to have been made to comply with the order of Manhattan federal court judge Jed Rakoff to turn over the names of over 500 detainees at Guantanamo Bay pursuant to the Associated Press’s Freedom of Information Act request. This is stunning news, not insofar as the names will be all that “new;” probably most of the detainees’ names are known insofar as...

< The Loquacious Pup is a fan of at least one show that features a talking dog, notably Disney Channel's American Dragon Jake Long. Like all talking dog’s, Fu dog is magical, in his case, over 600 years old as well as talking. He also fights dirty, as, like a certain other talking dog, Fu has spent an awful lot of time on the streets of Brooklyn. < LP's Daddy has his own favorite currently active talking dog, however, his second-favorite character on Cartoon Network's Family Guy, none other than Brian, a dog that, like Fu Dog, does a lot...

An amazing confluence of events, all of which seems to benefit… whom? But for the first item, I’d have had another guess altogether. But the first event, the thwarted suicide attack on a major Saudi oil refinery (ably discussed here by Professor Cole) at Abqaiq, a Shiite area in Saudi Arabia, throws off virtually all prior analyses. I understand that Al Qaeda itself has claimed credit, but this is simply not its usual M.O. While A.Q.’s attacks in Saudi have, on occasion, involved the deaths of Saudi nationals, they are usually either incidental or collateral to a primary intent to...

It seems that the President is going to survive the port-sale fiasco after all. Everyone and their Dubaian uncle are rushing in to save him, including Dubai Ports World, which agreed voluntarily to belay its takeover of operations at six American ports for a delay of unstated duration. At the same time, the New York Times reports that the Bush Administration itself is seeking a delay of the port deal, to “convince Congress” that their security concerns are… unwarranted. Again, this is a logical result of having spent the last four and a half years of making reality the enemy…...

Bad s*** coming out of Iraq. (Dogrun member) Professor Juan Cole is writing that the situation over in our Mess O’Potamia is lookin’ pretty ominous… in particular, the recent guerrilla bombing of the gold domed Shiite Askariyah Shrine in Samarra, which in turn led to retaliation against Sunnis all over Iraq, with 75 Sunni mosques attacked, including 3 burned to the ground, 3 clerics and 6 people overall killed, on the same day that saw bombings all over Iraq that killed dozens more. Bruce the Veep suggests that Iran (or, as I prefer to think of it, Iraqi elements closely...

For those of you in the New York area, you might want to consider joining me and a few hundred of our friends at a Bill of Rights reading/protest of NSA internal spying etc. sponsored by Move-On.Org; tonight’s protest is 6 pm, at Federal Hall on Wall Street, sight of President George Washington’s first inauguration, on this, President Washington’s natural birthday. Be there. Aloha. Update: Maybe around 200 people showed up for the 20-25 minute protest, mostly upscale looking, mostly older than me (and I ain’t so young); Move-On was kind enough to provide many with signs (“Bush broke the...