Brothers

You’d think they might have talked..

‘Buzzy’ Krongard contradicts brother’s testimony.

Earlier today, State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard told the House Oversight Committee that he was “not aware of any financial interest or position” his brother A.B. “Buzzy” Krongard had as “a member of the advisory board.” During a break in the hearing, Krongard called his brother and returned to tell the panel that his [...]

Krongard Recuses Himself from Blackwater Investigations

Princess Di

I know some of you will appreciate this, a report that likely won’t make headlines in America.  But, I also know, there are a lot of Americans who thought a lot of Princess Di.

Electric Shock, Adrenaline And Heart Massage: Inside The Two-Hour Battle To Save Diana

A doctor yesterday described the desperate fight to save Princess Diana’s life. Anaesthetist Daniel Eyraud said a team of eight hospital staff battled for nearly two hours to keep the princess alive after her heart stopped. The inquest into her death heard that despite [...]

Fake Questions

I find it a bit hard to believe that Hillary Clinton can’t answer pretty much any question thrown at her, having watched her in operation as First Lady of Arkansas for several years.  So this technique just seems unnecessary and self-defeating..

Video- Clinton plant explains how fake Q&A worked

CNN interviews one of the students who said the Clinton campaign planted her in a crowd to ask Hillary a question. Among the troubling issues this Grinnell student raises is that the motivation for planting questions may be because Hillary herself is unable to answer some questions: She said a senior Clinton staffer asked if she’d [...]

Another Huckabee Note

A fellow Arkansas blogger has very good eyes!

Huck’s Red Army

I can’t be the first person in American to discover this. Has anyone called attention to the fact that the tank featured on Mike Huckabee’s grassroots campaign site (Huck’s Army) is not an American-made tank? In fact, it’s a T-34, a World War II-era Soviet tank, one of the most famous mass-produced armored vehicles in history. The USSR [...]

Then, there is this…

Meathead

There are a lot (I mean, a lot) of substantive reasons for me not to like Mike Huckabee, but I also simply cannot abide his particularly contemptible brand of Folksy Conservative Aphorism, like: [...]

Just The Facts, Please

Nice little bit of trickery here.  With just the snap of fingers and the stroke of a pen..

Secrecy measure hidden in transportation bill.

Last year, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) worked to ensure that “budget justifications” for appropriations bills are made “available to the public at the same time they were made available to appropriators.” But in the just released House and Senate Conference report for the Transportation-HUD spending bill, a provision has been slipped in that “would ban [...]

Oh, Those Bridge Players Are Tough

And they don’t seem to like George W. Bush.  Can you say “international crisis”?

Much Ado

Bridge too far, indeed.  Via Jon Swift: I always thought that people who play Bridge, a needlessly complicated card game, were harmless enough, though they certainly could be making better use of their time. But I had no idea that that the world of competitive Bridge was a hotbed of anti-American feeling. Last month at the [...]

Trash Talk

The decidedly sordid tale with big names and big money.

Regan throws kerosene on Kerik/Giuliani fire

In the sordid scandal surrounding Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik, celebrity book publisher Judith Regan has always been an embarrassing side note. After 9/11, a wealthy real estate developer donated use of a Manhattan apartment to the city, so relief workers could have a place to rest. Instead, Kerik used the apartment as a love [...]

Your Wednesday Economics Lesson

Not much to smile about, but it is an excellent lesson…

Is $100 Oil as Lethal as It Looks?

A terrific piece that puts the record increase in oil prices in a broader economic perspective. Coy is correct to emphasize that a housing downturn would be a much more serious problem for the US economy than oil at a $100 a barrel. He cites one survey that says for most American drivers, the rising cost of oil isn’t a problem until price at the pump hits $3.50 a gallon. Coy also notes that [...]

Huckabee’s Latest

Local Arkansas blogs are buzzing about the latest quote from Mike Huckabee.  More importantly, they’re wondering if the big media folks are paying attention.

Mike Huckabee’s lie du jour

The Republican network is humming about another Mike Huckabee whopper — telling Fox News that he made that speech begging for a tax increase — a big hit on YouTube — because of a court order to raise money for schools. It just ain’t so. Arkansas Journal is foaming at the mouth about it. The word [...]

Meanwhile, out there where it really counts…

Huckabee Makes His Move in Iowa

With two new polls in Iowa showing Mike Huckabee moving into a strong second place behind Mitt Romney in the Republican presidential race, Political Wire has learned that a poll coming tomorrow confirms the trend and [...]

Dinner Time

I cut meat in a grocery store when I was in high school, so I do know a little bit about that business.  When I noticed some stores doing the “preserved with gas” routine a few years ago, something didn’t seem right.  It just didn’t seem like a smart thing to do, but - heck - the federal government looked at it and said it was okay.  So, it must be.  Right?  Oh, if I only knew then what we know now…

Red Meat May Not be Safe to Eat

You went to the supermarket, looking for some fresh hamburger. You picked a package that had meat with a nice red color to it, thinking it must be fresher than the slightly brown hamburger you see sitting next to it. Unfortunately for you, there’s a good chance the meat you chose may have been rotten, but thanks to a gaseous technology approved by Bush’s Agriculture Department and the FDA in 2004 it merely looked fresher. That’s because, despite indications that this method of keeping meat looking redder longer (through the [...]