Enemy Central
We’ve been away longer than expected. But do you know how long it takes to patrol the Canadian border from the Pacific to the Atlantic and back again, with extra surveillance along the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes? Since…
Who knew that Canadian geese would also become fair game this Kerry season? Certainly they were given no advance warning. Nor were we. Despite these Canadians’ illegal status in our country, the subject of controlling the borders and airspace between…
Since last we met, the race has tightened considerably. Dan Rather was riding high, only to fall behind, one debate later, to American holy warrior Mr. Tom Brokaw. The two met on stage at a New Yorker festival last weekend,…
Enemy Central regrets to announce that it’s back. And that we misled you. All summer, whenever anyone asked, we’d say, we’re on hiatus, or on vacation, or raising money on behalf of McCain-Feingold. It wasn’t quite that way. We were…
Did it have to end? Couldn’t the Democratic National Convention have remained in permanent session? Then it would be true that we had died and gone to heaven, where day after day so many nice people sit and cheer while…
Move over, Sandy Berger, if you can manage it. First there’s Linda Rondstadt to deal with. Rumor has it she fills out a stage these days, which is only right and just for someone who once contemplated a screeching operatic…
It wasn’t exactly a swearing-in, but Senate president Dick Cheney directed a memorable oath at Democratic subaltern Pat Leahy anyway. “Take good care of yourself,” Cheney told him, man to man, which everyone in the press, in reports based entirely…
Not every week do our laureates jump at the opportunity to unveil themselves. But there’s no stopping some people. And to think their latest round of publicity began last Friday when, for the first time since their introductory late nighter…
It was supposed to be Rumsfeld. Or Cheney. Or Bush. Or John Ashcroft. Not to mention DeLay, even Hastert, and of course Karl Rove and maybe Rice. Along with Wolfowitz, Feith, Krauthammer, Limbaugh, Hannity (but not Colmes), Roger Ailes, John…
It could have been worse for Ahmed Chalabi, recent target of the most noted raid by uniformed U.S. forces since the kidnapping of Elian Gonzalez. He could have been on the receiving end of a dressing down from Nancy Pelosi….
