One of the odd aspects of the current controversy over the Long Beach Veterans Day Parade is that anti-Iraq War veterans group are considered “political”, and therefore unacceptable, while pro-Iraq War veterans groups, like the American Legion, are seen simply as social organizations, and welcomed with open arms. But if the American Legion isn’t a [...]

Valerie Plame warms up at the Carpenter Center

It’s funny: four years after Valerie Plame was outed by Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer and Dick Armitage as a covert operative of the CIA working in nuclear counter-proliferation, I forget there are people who haven’t quite heard of the affair.
“Valerie Plame . . .” friends would [...]