Ungern von Sternberg

"Tell me about yourself and your trip," he urged. In response I related all that I thought would interest him and he appeared quite excited over my tale.

"Now I shall tell you about myself, who and what I am! My name is surrounded with such hate and fear that no one can judge what is the truth and what is false, what is history and what myth. Some time you will write about it, remembering your trip through Mongolia and your sojourn at the yurta of the 'bloody General.'"

He shut his eyes, smoking as he spoke, and tumbling out his sentences without finishing them as though some one would prevent him from phrasing them.

[Thanks to seraphimsigrist for his introduction to a remarkable man and a remarkable book.]

Wannisky on Rove/Plame

Jude Wannisky is a scholar I have respected since the 1970s as a conservative in the best sense of the term, though he is a critic of the war, and therefore no doubt vilified as an enemy of the State.

But I find it disturbing to find this supremely level-headed guy worried about "secret evidence" of a "very serious crime" blanked out of eight pages of the court records. ( Read more... )

What`s the Real Story on Karl Rove?

Memo To: Website Fans, Browsers, Clients
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: What's in Those Eight Blank Pages?