What An Attitude

I worked for a News Director who said something darn close to this.  Last I knew, he kept a copy of a critical newspaper article in prominent view in his office.  As a reminder.

Zinsmeister: ‘I’ll Never Hire Another Woman Because They Just Get Pregnant And Leave’

Karl Zinsmeister is currently President Bush’s chief domestic policy adviser, hired when Claude Allen stepped down after being charged with shoplifting. Before joining the White House, Zinsmeister was editor in chief of The American Enterprise, the conservative think tank’s magazine. In a piece he wrote in 1996, Zinsmeister stated, “[C]olorblindness has become a real [...]

Tags: Zinsmeister, Domestic Policy Adviser

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It’s Gore Vs. Bush

Deja vu, all over again.  Except, this time, it’s the printed word.

New Gore Book Slams Bush: "[He} Has Repeatedly Violated The Law For Six Years"

When former Vice President Al Gore hosted "Saturday Night Live" in December 2002 he appeared in a skit that compared his vice presidential selection process from two years before to the dating reality TV show "The Bachelor." In one scene Gore appeared in a hot tub with a faux Joe Lieberman, both of them shirtless, drinking champagne, arms locked, romance in the air. Anyone then looking for clues to see if Gore would run for president in 2004 probably had no trouble discerning that an exploratory committee was not in the cards. Almost five years later, Gore still says he has no plans to run for president, but his latest book, "The Assault On Reason," is so searingly critical of the Bush administration it's hard to discern what [...]

Tags: Al Gore, Assault On Reason, Bush Administration

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Must Read for Today

And, of course, check out the comments.  Hardly a mention anywhere about this, but it seems to be worthy of passing along.  Do your Senators and Representatives know about this?

Bush Wants Full Control Of Government During Catastrophic Attack

Via The Progressive: With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack. Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility “for ensuring constitutional government.” He laid this all out in a [...]

Tags: President Bush, Catastrophy

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Thompson’s Trickery

How in the world do they think they can get away with stuff like this? How?

‘Fred Thompson’s Little Red Truck’

That former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) is moving forward with a presidential bid is hardly open to question anymore. Today, he hired a campaign manager (a former top aide to H.W. Bush), which is usually a reliable precursor to an announcement. With this in mind, we can now expect the onslaught of little-red-truck stories. A few [...]

Tags: Fred Thompson, Little Red Truck

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Living On Foodstamps

They’re proving it’s not easy…

TSA Confiscates Congressman’s Last Meal During Food Stamp Challenge

Today, four members of Congress conclude the Congressional Food Stamp Challenge, in which lawmakers chose to live “on three dollars of food per day, the same amount an average participant in the Food Stamp Program receives.” One of the participants, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), “stuck to the challenge” even as he traveled to speak at [...]

Tags: Food Stamps

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Something Fishy This Way Comes…

Just read between the lines…It’s looking like this was NOT the ambush, as described originally.

The Missing Soldiers Mystery

Something hasn’t smelled right about this one from the start. But when we got news that local Iraqis were involved it became even more suspect. One thing seems clear to me now. Our soldiers were targeted for a hit [....]

Tags: Iraq, Missing Soldiers

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And, So…

Just who’s in charge?

Iraqi Leadership Gone Missing

Juan Cole notes today that of the six men who actually run Iraq, one of them is in Iran getting chemotherapy for his lung cancer; one is in hiding; and one, improbably, is in the U.S. seeking [...]

Tags: Iraq, Iraq Government

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Timetable on A Showdown

Here’s the big question:  Does Congress have enough time to force the White House to comply with all these recent requests?  Or will we just see a political tapdance that goes on and on and on…

Under Pressure: The Congressional Subpoena

Congress and the administration keep getting closer and closer to the edge. As part of the U.S. attorney firings investigation, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) has threatened to subpoena Karl Rove and other White House officials, a [...]

Tags: U. S Attorneys, Pat Leahy, Karl Rove, Subpoena

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The Money Trail

Talk about a surprising report!  Just dig in…

Dems Outraising GOP — In The South!

Now here’s an interesting subplot to the story of the success Dem Presidential candidates are having — the Dems appear to actually be outraising their GOP counterparts in, of all places, the GOP stronghold of the south. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tallied up the numbers and reached some startling conclusions: "Something unusual happens to the political map when it’s overlain [...]

Tags: Fundraising, South

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Another U.S. Attorney Speaks Out

And he, like so many others, is angry, unhappy and VERY questioning…

McKay suggests his ouster was ‘possibly illegal.’

“Fired U.S. Attorney John McKay said Sunday he believes the Justice Department is covering up the real reason for his ouster. … ‘I still don’t know if the 2004 governor’s election was the principal reason I was asked to step down,’ McKay said in a speech. … ‘If it was, I think it is an [...]

Tags: U.S. Attorneys, John McKay, Justice Department

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Legal Teachings

From a legal point of view, it doesn’t seem that the students are learning "fair and balanced".  Not at all..

Number of Evangelical Law Schools Growing

This is about the scariest article I have read in a while. It begins with Jerry Falwell and his Liberty University dream of "training a new generation of lawyers, judges, educators, policymakers and world leaders in law from the perspective of an explicitly Christian worldview." Then it lists the other law schools in the mold. The number is growing…These schools exist to teach the students how to circumvent the constitution, eliminate the separation of church and state and deprive all of us of [...]

Tags: Liberty University, Falwell

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New Name

Familiar story.  And, yes, it has connections to the U.S. Attorney scandals in Arkansas and Missouri..

Hans von Spakovsky

Greg Gordon writes for McClatchy Newspapers that Hans von Spakovsky, a Justice Department lawyer now serving on the Federal Election Commission, allegedly used his position to prevent minorities from voting. During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of [...]

Tags: FEC, Hans von Spakovsky, Justice Department, U.S. Attorneys

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The Carter Comments

Jimmy Carter came out swinging against the Bush Administration over the weekend, via an interview with our very own Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Now, he’s saying he might have been misinterpreted.  I haven’t seen a response from the Dem-Zette, yet.  But…

Carter Says Remarks on Bush ‘Careless’

 ATLANTA (AP) – Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday his remarks were “careless or misinterpreted” when he said the Bush administration has been the “worst in history” for its impact around the world. Speaking on NBC’s “Today,” Carter appeared to retreat from a [...]

Tags: Jimmy Carter, Bush Administration, Nixon

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Tall In The Saddle

Harry Reid’s locked, loaded and ready for bear…

Harry Reid is Proving He’s the New Sheriff in Town

Good for Harry Reid… Two can play at Bush’s game and this summer Bush may lose: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has a little trick up his sleeve that could spell an end to President Bush’s devilish recess appointments of controversial figures like former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton. We hear that over the long [...]

Tags: Harry Reid, Recess Appointments

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Upsetting The Apple Cart

It’s really the ultimate insult to our Iraq plan…

Could the White House dump Iraq’s democratically-elected government?

A new report in today’s LA Times is more than a little bit worrying. The Times suggests that the Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is not effective in his job (well obviously– everybody knows that, probably even Bush), but that there might be an effort to get rid of him before his term is up. [...]

Tags: Iraq, al-Maliki

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Catching Up

From the weekend. How was yours? Here’s some linkage you may have missed..

New graves, fresh grief.

The Washington Post today runs a powerful story on Arlington National Cemetary’s Section 60, home to the “the graves of 336 men and women killed in Iraq and Afghanistan — almost one in 10 of the dead.” Mothers and widows, friends and regretful exes write intimate notes, some as casual as a message stuck on a [...]

US embassy in Baghdad to cost $592m and is size of Vatican

When will this kind of insane spending come to an end? With the increasingly regular and effective attacks on the Green Zone, this beast will be a magnet for problems. There are just too many important items that could be addressed with $600m back home in the US to keep throwing money around like this in Iraq. If the government wants to invest overseas there are [...]

Global warming and debunking the myths

The Guardian links to a great site that addresses the common myths promoted by the anti-warming crowd. Senator Inhofe [...]

Also from the British press:

We’ve Passed the Tipping Point on Global Warming

Via The Independent: The earth’s ability to soak up the gases causing global warming is beginning to fail because of rising temperatures, in a long-feared sign of "positive feedback," new research reveals today. Climate change itself is weakening one of the principal "sinks" absorbing carbon dioxide – the Southern Ocean around Antarctica – a new study has found. As a result, atmospheric CO2 levels may [...]

Quote of the Day: Republicans Retaliate to former President Carter’s Criticism

And the quote of the day belongs to Amber Wilkerson: "Most Americans will probably take his criticisms with a grain of salt considering he also challenged Ronald Reagan’s strategy for the Cold War, and history has since proven him wrong," [...]

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