Do you want Open Threads?
Some of you have been writing in to complain that the comments section is going far off-topic too often. One possible solution is to start running “Open Threads”...
Life
Dissent = Treason
Fidelismo 101 in action: “The presidential elections are coming and the opposition is all out of whack, divided, diminished…but we are not fighting against the Venezuelan opposition, but...
Thinkcrime update
RSF Warning: Dissing the powerful might be hazardous to your freedom Reporters Without Borders voiced concern after the state prosecutor’s office laid a charge of ”insult” against Napoleón...
Thinkcrime update
RSF Warning: Dissing the powerful might be hazardous to your freedom Reporters Without Borders voiced concern after the state prosecutor’s office laid a charge of ”insult” against Napoleón...
Missing the Point of Chavez's Anti-American Rants
The Washington Post runs this piece about Thomas Shannon’s probably doomed attempt to de-escalate the Caracas-Washington pissing match. Key bits: After an especially ugly week in the hostile...
Missing the Point of Chavez's Anti-American Rants
The Washington Post runs this piece about Thomas Shannon’s probably doomed attempt to de-escalate the Caracas-Washington pissing match. Key bits: After an especially ugly week in the hostile...
Brothers...
Teodoro Petkoff picks up on an old hobby horse of mine noting the similarities between Bush and Chavez lurking just behind the official animosity. Key graf: Chavez is...
Brothers...
Teodoro Petkoff picks up on an old hobby horse of mine noting the similarities between Bush and Chavez lurking just behind the official animosity. Key graf: Chavez is...
The Devil Wears Cartier: Larry Birns and COHA's Indecent Game Against Maria Corina Machado
Normally, I stick to a policy of ignoring the tiresome propagandistic tirades that ooze out of Larry Birns’ fringy-lefty Council on Hemispheric Affairs, but his latest COHA-culo riled...
Grab bag
Gilberto Landaeta, allegedly the #2 guy in Danilo Anderson’s one-time extortion racket, is taken off Anderson’s murder investigation, to “spend more time with his other cases.” Yoraco Bauza,...
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