Alberto Gonzales wants you to know the government is serious about stopping leaks. So serious, in fact, that it might consider prosecuting reporters under espionage laws. Prosecuting journalists would be an interesting method of leak control, when one of the decade’s two most famous leaks came from Bush and Cheney themselves. The other, of […]

“Sexual union in marriage,” says Dr. Joseph Stanford, “ought to be a complete giving of each spouse to the other, and when fertility (or potential fertility) is deliberately excluded from that giving I am convinced that something valuable is lost.” Stanford is a public figure — he sits on the FDA’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory […]

I’m all in favor of Google expanding into China. After some initial skepticism, I had come to appreciate Google’s policy of engagement. Then, yesterday, I heard this: explaining why Google won’t lobby for the end of censorship in China, CEO Eric Schmidt said,
I think it’s arrogant for us to walk into a country where […]

Lewis Libby told Judy Miller about Valerie Plame. No, Cheney told Libby to tell Miller. No, Bush told Cheney to tell Libby to tell Miller. No, Bush just told Cheney to tell somebody; he didn’t say who. And who cares, because Plame is a loser anyway! Recent coverage of the Plame affair sounds like […]