Dispatches
Are Escort Services Poised to Go Mainstream?
05.13.2008 11:41 | RUSS WELLEN
Whores no more.On the job, the key for many of us is adapting by adopting -- an alternate personality, that is. But some jobs arouse emotions and sensations that are too overwhelming for the conscious mind. In the process called splitting, we shunt those...
Donors to Clintons: We Gave at the Office
04.30.2008 07:41 | RUSS WELLEN
"In a campaign of surprises," writes Daniel Henninger in a recent Wall Street Journal column, "none has been more breathtaking than the falling away of Clinton supporters, loyalists [and] friends. Why?"The answer, of course -- after al...
Obama Makes Old Bush Dog Go All Warm and Fuzzy
04.11.2008 05:55 | RUSS WELLEN
When Barack Obama was endorsed by Jay Rockefeller in late February, it was considered a feather in his national security cap because the senator from West Virginia is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Rockefeller, however, as he told the...
Which Rocky Is Hillary? The Winner or the Loser?
04.02.2008 09:07 | ADAM BULGER
It's time for Hillary Clinton to bone up on her classic '70s cinema. Attempting to pander to a Philadelphia crowd, she compared herself to Philly's most famous fictional son, the Italian Stallion, Rocky Balboa.The AP reports:"Let me tell...
Condi Rice: Never Met a Milestone She Wasn't Willing to Render Meaningless
03.27.2008 11:25 | RUSS WELLEN
At The Washington Note yesterday, the estimable Steve Clemons wrote "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is speaking this morning to Grover Norquist's weekly powerhouse gathering at Americans for Tax Reform of conservative associations, think tan...
"Unsexiest" Woman Holds Mirror up to Judges
03.24.2008 04:33 | RUSS WELLEN
"Am I really the unsexiest woman in the world?"That's the rhetorical question actress Sarah Jessica Parker posed to Grazia (which actually bills itself as Britain's "first glossy magazine"). She was responding to the title of &...
Looks Like the Iran NIE Has Gone the Way of the Iraq Study Group
03.06.2008 05:22 | RUSS WELLEN
The UN Security Council just passed a third set of sanctions against Iran ostensibly because it refuses to cease and desist enriching uranium. In truth it was informed by another issue both more immediate and intimidating.On February 22 the International...
You Can't Tell the Players in Iraq without a Scorecard
02.27.2008 06:49 | RUSS WELLEN
Years ago, when Bosnia-Serbia-Kosovo was aflame, I found myself tuning out the conflict because of difficulty tracking all the warring factions. Afterward, I read a book on the subject, Michael Parenti's "To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavi...
Will Our Championship Drought in the Super Bowl of Elections Ever End?
02.01.2008 14:27 | RUSS WELLEN
It's been 99 years since the Chicago Cubs have won a World Series. But they, as well as teams that have never won a Super Bowl, aren't the only ones in the throes of a championship drought.No one is more long-suffering than those of us who dream o...
Tale of Two Zingers
01.14.2008 05:57 | RUSS WELLEN
Not only Obama, but Iran's Supreme Leader, spoke with a barbed tongue this week.It was the week of the artful put-down. The first was Obama's now infamous response to Hillary Clinton's protest, at the last presidential New Hampshire debate, th...
Give Us Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Iraqi Refugees. . . Hey, Wait a Minute
01.02.2008 07:59 | RUSS WELLEN
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have fled the carnage and poverty that our intrusion into their affairs has unleashed. They've been admitted to two countries ill-equipped to accommodate them: Jordan and Syria. Meanwhile, the US has kept its borders cl...
Sioux Sue for Sovereignty
12.27.2007 10:36 | RUSS WELLEN
In December, a Lakota (Sioux) delegation delivered a statement of "unilateral withdrawal" to the State Department. In other words, it plans to secede. Not all Lakota, just the delegation, which was led by Russell Means. He, of course, is famous...
Oprah: The Un-Hillary
12.14.2007 05:47 | RUSS WELLEN
As more and more people are beginning to sense, the Democrats may have missed the boat with Hillary Clinton. If she's nominated, winning the election will be no promenade up the gangplank of the ship of state. Instead, it will be a flying leap from pi...
Ahmadinejad Kosher?
12.11.2007 10:31 | RUSS WELLEN
A sergeant in the US Army Special Forces with whom I'm acquainted turned me on to an article on Israel's Ynet in which a member of the Knesset responded to the Iran NIE.Shas party minister Yitzhak Cohen has been called a key coalition partner in O...
Is the Iran NIE a Trojan Horse?
12.05.2007 11:18 | RUSS WELLEN
The Iran NIE has elicited a range of emotions in those opposed to the Bush administration's policies from gloating to discreet celebration. In the minds of many, it's like V-Day: Let the church bells peal, kiss a girl in Times Square. Others, part...
Ahmadinejad: Holocaust Denier or Mystic?
11.30.2007 05:54 | RUSS WELLEN
In December 2006 Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad kicked off a two-day conference dedicated to examining whether the Holocaust took place.In October 2007 he addressed the audience the International Congress on the 800th birth anniversary of Rumi.Jalal a...
Alex Rodriguez's Relationship with Yankees Replicates His Marriage
11.27.2007 10:12 | RUSS WELLEN
The foundation for Alex Rodriguez's new contract was poured two weeks ago -- 10 years at $275 million. As if that weren't already enough to start his own nation (the Republic of Rodriguez? A-Rodriana?), on Sunday the infrastructure for his five $6...
Time to Sic the Church Lady on Bush
11.26.2007 19:30 | RUSS WELLEN
Jack Goldsmith, Bush's disaffected former director of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department, wrote: ". . . the administration's conception of presidential power had a kind of theological significance that often trumped politic...
Left Behind: Black Music by White Musicians
11.14.2007 03:22 | RUSS WELLEN
"Why did so many white rock bands retreat from the ecstatic singing and intense, voicelike guitar tones of the blues, the heavy African downbeat, and the elaborate showmanship that characterized black music of the mid-twentieth century?"Sasha Fr...
Attack Iran, Lose Your Job
11.05.2007 03:26 | RUSS WELLEN
It beggars belief. Polls show the president's support at less than 30 percent nationally -- in not one single state does even 50 percent approve of him. Yet he retains enough of his beloved "political capital" to plan an attack on another co...
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