Sam’s Amusements

At Tahlequah, Oklahoma, Capitol of the Cherokee Nation: Coming to a town near you in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas 1. Setting Up 2. Base Camp: Indian Village RV Park 3. Carnival 4. Winding Down, Closing Down The Cast April Apodaca Barry Weddleton Becky Surber Brian Bishop Dan Peek Debra Miller Jack Branam Jacob […]

Bad Argument

It’s everywhere among the political class. On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Liz Cheney, Dick’s daughter, and Steve Schmidt, late of John McCain’s campaign, joined Clinton stalwart James Carville and The Nation‘s Katrina Vanden Heuvel for a round table with venerable conservative George Will. On the matter of potential removal of some foreign prisoners […]

What About Charles Freeman?

Maybe the most bitter inside Washington fight of the year was little known to the general public because it received scant attention from the mainstream media. However, while newspapers and television news nearly ignored ex ambassador to Saudi Arabia and China hand Charles Freeman – put forward by Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence as […]

Zhao Ziyang and Charles Freeman

The New York Times reports today of a rare and remarable occurrence, the publicly released memoir of communist Chinese leader – secretly recorded, in this case, during his 16-year house-arrest prior to his death, by former party General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, deposed in 1989 for being soft on the Tiananmen demonstrators before the ultimate crackdown […]