(source: Pew; h/t Matthew Yglesias) William A. Von Hoene Jr. (h/t Ben Smith): I have been a member of Trinity, a church with an almost entirely African-American congregation, for more than 25 years. I am, however, a white male. From a decidedly different perspective than…
Here’s a link to video of a crazy Baghdad cab ride a couple journalists recently took. Photographer Steve Bent, who shot the video, describes what took place: The ageing Nissan 4×4 is racing and rattling through the potholed roads of the Mansour district of Baghdad….
(Photo credit: Barton Silverman/New York Times) Dith Pran died today. If you can’t quite place him, this obituary from the NYT might help: Dith Pran was born on Sept. 23, 1942, in Siem Reap, Cambodia, a provincial town near the ancient temples at Angkor Wat….
My photo (Big Queen Laurita Barras of the Wild Magnolias on Dryades Street, Fat Tuesday, 2006): My father’s painting: (“The Return” © David M. Bridges) My photo: His painting: (© David M. Bridges) There’s more here and here.
CNN: The president also hailed the operation as a sign of progress, emphasizing that the decision to mount the offensive was al-Maliki’s. “It was his military planning; it was his causing the troops to go from point A to point B,” Bush said. “And it’s…
(photo credit: Rongem Boyo) Times Online: A day after Mr al-Maliki had sworn to fight powerful Shia militias “to the end” he appeared to soften his tough stance and offered them until April 8 to surrender heavy and medium weapons. He also offered cash to…
(photo credit: soldiersmediacenter) WaPo: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed to press ahead with the crackdown, aimed chiefly at sapping the strength of Sadr’s Mahdi Army militia, which controls much of Basra. Maliki’s pledge came as saboteurs blew up one of Iraq’s two main oil…
Not only has a nail found a home in one of our car’s tires, but the tire also has something of gash in it for good measure (pothole, surely). Post-K life in New Orleans has this added disincentive. I’ve lost count of how many flats…
Hillary said, He would not have been my pastor. You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend. And the door opened … (photo credit: @n@bou) … for the chickens. Who came home to roost. Update: And here’s another chicken.
(Walt Rostow shows President Lyndon B. Johnson a model of the Khe Sanh area; photo credit: NARA) NYT: The operation in Basra, which senior Iraqi officials had been signaling for weeks, is considered so important by the Iraqi government that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki…
During the final weeks of the race for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, Hillary Clinton badly damaged her reputation by failing to own up to misrepresenting the extent of her foreign policy experience, most notably by claiming she faced sniper fire upon landing…
(Image credit: NASA) CNN: NASA spent $800 million to build and launch Spirit and its twin, Opportunity, to Mars. They landed about 3 weeks apart in January 2004, on opposite sides of the planet from each other. Both were designed for 90 day missions, but…
(Photo credit: Dan Radosh; h/t Andrew Sullivan)