AlterNet
Jonah Goldberg bet $1,000 in 2005 "that Iraq won't have a civil war, that it will have a viable constitution, and that a majority of Iraqis and Americans will, in two years time, agree that the war was worth it." Two years is up and
Jeff Cohen wants Tribune to pay the $1,000. "Not only does Tribune syndicate Goldberg's column, it was Tribune's Los Angeles Times that added the analytically-impaired Goldberg to its columnist roster in November 2005 -- at the same time it fired renowned columnist
Robert Scheer, whose Iraq analysis had been breathtakingly accurate."