GUANTANAMO BAY — This is complicated. Something vexing a bunch of us in the press room — actually, I’ll just speak for myself here — is how to describe Interrogator Number 11 without falling into some rather odious gender double-standards. The lay of the land: she’s an attractive young woman and former military interrogator who [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 350-10 April 30, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Nathan P. Kennedy, 24, of Claysville, Pa., died April 27, of wounds sustained when enemy forces attacked his unit using small arms fire near Quarando Village, [...]

While liberals have been outraged about Arizona’s new immigration law, quite a few commentators have defended the measure as necessary. Usually the argument sounds something like this, “The federal government has punted the ball on immigration! Arizona receives a huge number of illegal immigrants had to do something to stem the tide! This is something.” [...]

The boyfriend and I came up to Baltimore to watch the last game of the Yankees-O’s series last night. I’m not sure I saw the Yanks live in 2009, and damn, it’s good to see them playing like champions again. A.J. was hitting the mid-90’s with his fastball 110 pitches in. Robby Cano crushed a [...]

Not that it matters, but I wanted to voice my full-throated support for this idea: As Reagan and Grant supporters duke it out over who should be on the $50 bill, not a single legislator has proposed a woman who could represent the 51 percent of the population that hasn’t been seen on our nation’s [...]

GUANTANAMO BAY — A young-looking woman with a very pleasing demeanor is testifying about the rapport she built with “Omar,” never using his last name, vindicating her superiors’ decisions to assign her to Khadr because she would be “more of a mother figure for him, and he could relate to me.” She is a former [...]

You may have noticed that I sort of tiptoed around the term “Astroturfing” in yesterday’s post. I actually find it to be a really problematic term, and I’m glad it’s not being used quite as regularly as it was this time last year. We can all agree that groups that can’t get anyone to come [...]

Or at least, he gets upset when political science research flies in the face of his biases and ideology. Here are his thoughts on the University of Washington’s recent study on racial resentment among Tea Party sympathizers: They won’t give it up. “Are Tea Partiers Racist?” asks a Newsweek.com headline, apparently written under the mistaken [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 345-10 April 29, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Grant A. Wichmann, 27, of Golden, Colo., died April 24 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., of wounds sustained March 12 when enemy forces [...]

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 346-10 April 29, 2010 DOD Identifies Army Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Keith A. Coe, 30, of Auburndale, Fla., died April 27 in Khalis, Iraq, of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with an explosive device. [...]