Not surprised at all. It’s been coming and we all saw it miles and miles away.
Army Recruits With High School Diplomas Drops To 25-Year Low
The share of Army recruits with a high school diploma – which has shown to be a key indicator of future success in the military – dropped more than 12 percent between 2005 and 2007, reaching a 25-year low, according to an analysis of government data published yesterday. The percentage of Army enlistees who joined the service with a high school diploma went from [...]
Tags: Army Recruits
Categories: Military
Scmategy. It ain’t working for Rudy.
How’s that brilliant strategy going, Rudy?
Okay so remember Rudy Giuliani’s strategy in the presidential race? His brilliant idea was to skip all the early states except for Florida, in the hopes that a landslide win there would make up for his lack of organization or campaigning in the February 5th states and somehow vault him into the lead on Super [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Rudy Giuliani
Categories: Giuliani
Good to check your facts. Thanks, Democratic Daily, for doing the legwork for us.
A Little Fact Checking: Clinton and WalMart, Obama and Rezko
Barack Obama thought he was getting in a good dig when he said during the debate Monday night, while I was working on those streets watching those folks see their jobs shift overseas, you were a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart.” But Obama clearly did not know the facts behind Clinton’s time on [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
A real smackdown from Glenn Greenwald. His target?
Harry Reid: Democratic Leader?
Glenn Greenwald: “Harry Reid — who has (a) done more than any other individual to ensure that Bush’s demands for telecom immunity and warrantless eavesdropping powers will be met in full and (b) allowed the Republicans all year to block virtually every bill without having to bother to actually filibuster — went to the Senate [...]
Tags: FISA, Senate
Categories: FISA
A really BIG problem. Nobody likes him!
The More They Get To Know Him…
Throughout the summer it became clear that as people got to know Rudy Giuliani, the less they liked him. It was inevitable, after all, considering his sky-high favorability ratings were based on such a profoundly unsubstantiated myth. But those were national numbers. What about where he actually campaigned, on the ground, and allowed people to really get to know him, the real him? Not much better I’m afraid. As we all know, [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Rudy Giuliani
Categories: 2008 Election · Giuliani
The predictions are in. The smart people agree; the U.S. economy is in trouble.
Message From Davos: The Recession Is Coming
A full-blown, prolonged recession in America is now inescapable, with the rest of the world set to be dragged into a severe global slowdown despite yesterday’s emergency US interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve, leading economists said in Davos this morning. A darkening outlook for the global economy looked [...]
There was one bit of good news today:
Stocks Recover From Sharp Losses
Wall Street pulled off a stunning comeback Wednesday, surging higher in late trading and wiping out what looked to be yet another precipitous decline. The Dow Jones industrials, down more than 323 points in earlier trading, ended the day with an advance of just under 300 points, according to preliminary calculations. While such volatility has become [...]
Tags: Economy, Recession
Categories: Economy
False testimony in a boatload of drug cases. The bad guy goes down, but just think of what’s happened to the lives of the men wrongly put behind bars.
15 Inmates Freed Due to Drug Informant’s Lies
…Our system which relies so heavily on purchased testimony from informants — whether bought with money or promises of leniency in their own cases — is morally bankrupt. Freedom is a precious commodity and the incentive to lie in order to satisfy the Government that it is hearing “the truth” is [...]
Tags: Crime, Drug Dealers
Categories: Crime
What are Senate Dems thinking? Are they not listening? Or does somebody have a whole bunch of “pictures”?
Capitulation
The handwriting has been on the wall for some time, but it now seems certain that Senate Democrats will pass a new FISA bill that contains retroactive immunity for telecoms, shielding them from lawsuits over their cooperation with the Bush [...]
Tags: FISA, Senate
Categories: FISA
The good old U.S. Government ain’t exactly got things in balance.
U.S. budget deficit estimated at $250 billion.
A new Congressional Budget Office estimate released today concluded that the “budget deficit for the current budget year will jump to about $250 billion,” which includes the cost of the Iraq war. This figure, however, does not factor in the “at least $100 billion in additional red ink from an upcoming deficit-financed economic stimulus measure.” UPDATE: [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Federal Budget
Categories: Bush Administration · Economy
Something happens to convince me Edwards is still viable. He handled himself well on Letterman last night, even getting in a zinger or two. And, his strategy sounds pretty solid to me.
Edwards Plots Delegate Strategy
As the February 5 primaries approach, ABC News reminds us that battle isn’t likely to be over even after 23 states vote that day. “Unlike November’s winner-take-all system of electoral votes, Super Tuesday, the Feb. 5 nationwide battle for delegates, is largely proportional and allows multiple candidates within each party to win large swaths of delegates… It is no surprise, [...]
Of course, a bit of love from Keith doesn’t hurt..
Countdown: John Edwards Was Right On The Economy
On Tuesday’s Countdown, Keith looks at the market meltdown and how the failed policies of President Bush and the Republicans made it possible by deregulating the institutions that led us to where the economy is today, and by borrowing money from other countries to pay for [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, John Edwards
Categories: 2008 Election · Edwards
There is renewed optimism in some quarters that Congress just might be able to get something done on a key issue…health care. It would be amazing to see progress in that area.
Universal Healthcare
Ezra Klein has a very good piece in the American Prospect this month about why Bill Clinton’s 1994 healthcare bill failed and why a repeat performance next year might not. I’m not usually very optimistic about the chances of [...]
Tags: Health Care
Categories: Health Care
The really sad thing about this is that there was talk of health issues with these trailers long before the government started to sell them. So, now, our tax dollars are being wasted. Again.
WaPo: “FEMA Flip Flops Again on Trailers”
So now FEMA will buy back the trailers they sold….. “FEMA was forced to put trailers on the market, selling them to anyone for 40 cents on the dollar. Yesterday, however, the emergency agency offered to buy them back, for [...]
Tags: Hurricane, Katrina, FEMA
Categories: Bush Administration · Hurricanes
It really not surprising. We continue to get it all wrong.
When political ‘progress’ in Iraq looks more like political ‘regress’
Over the last 10 or so days, supporters of the administration’s Iraq policy have insisted, repeatedly, that Iraq’s new “de-Baathification” law is proof of long-awaited political progress. John McCain, who’s been wrong about every aspect of the war for six years, said the law is evidence that “we’re succeeding politically.” Fred Kagan, an architect of the [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
Welcoome to Wednesday. And, yes, there is a big “gotcha” delivered to the Bush Administration today. Pay attention, now. If there was any doubt about the fact that the Bush Administration lied about Iraq, this should put an end to it.
Study: False Statements Preceded War
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that [...]
Of course, blogs on the Right pounced on those reports.
Pure Soros Propaganda from the Associated Press
It’s hard to even know what to say about this garbage, as the media swallows whole some idiotic propaganda from George Soros-funded organizations, intentionally misrepresenting erroneous intelligence as deliberate falsehood: Study: False statements preceded war. Just disgusting. Associated Press “journalism” finds another [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Iraq
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
