Here’s a little item that appeared earlier today on The Huffington Post: “In April 2005, police swarmed the U.S. Capitol to confront an erratic Australian man, carrying two suitcases, who they feared was a suicide bomber. After blowing up one of the bags, officers realized he was harmless. The police never noticed the two nervous …
For the curious among you, here’s my review from The Washington Monthly of Stephen F. Hayes‘ incurious and unpenetrating biography of our vice president, Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President. Bottom line: wait a couple years for a real biography to come out.
Rob Marchant has labeled me “a well-versed observer of the dark arts practiced in the corridors of power’’ who possesses “an interest in the scheming, ambitious, grandiose side of American life.’’ Rob, flattery will get you everywhere. In a complimentary profile on front page story in Sunday’s Journal News—the big Gannett paper in Westchester County, …