Just blatant, over-the-edge, slanted journalism. That’s all it is..
Are servicemen and women ‘fearful’ about the presidential election?
Some attempted smears are so special in their inanity, it’s tempting to pause to appreciate just how stupid they are. They’re almost impressive in their idiocy, so you want to treasure it as an example of what a determined far-right news outlet is capable of. Take this fine example from the far-right Washington Times, by way [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Iraq
Categories: 2008 Election · Iraq War
The contradictions within the Bush Administration continue.
Clarke, Other Experts Contradict Administration Line on Wiretapping
You’ve heard from President Bush over and over and over and over again about the imminent danger the country is in. And you’ve heard from the director of national intelligence and attorney general about how the telecoms are quaking over [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, FISA, Wiretaps
Categories: Bush Administration · FISA
It’s the latest nickname for Mike Huckabee. And it’s all because of his latest venture into pro-life territory…
Have they really thought this through? If Mike Huckabee and a 20-year-old Colorado woman get their way, a Colorado constitutional amendment would guarantee that every fertilized egg is a person. There’s all manner of astonishing [...]
Tags: Mike Huckabee, Pro-Life
Categories: 2008 Election · Huckabee · Religion
Sincerely. Just don’t bring it up.
Dom Armentano: UFOs and censorship - why Cato Institute dumped me
On Jan. 10, just one day after my article on UFO secrecy appeared in this newspaper and on this Web site (”Intelligent Extraterrestrial life: The Other Inconvenient truth?” Jan. 9), I was unceremoniously dropped as a Cato Institute adjunct scholar, a position I’d held for more than [...]
Tags: UFO
Categories: Uncategorized
There really is no explanation for this. It’s looking like it’s somewhat of a trend, too. Why?
Secret Service is slacking on security for Democratic candidate events all over the country. Regularly. Repeatedly. With many independent, corroborating witnesses to back it up. As Teresa says, “Since every Abba revival concert and monster truck rally in [..]
Categories: 2008 Election · Democrats
The economy took punch after punch today. It’s a bloody mess, any way you look at it…
Inflation Soars as Confidence Plunges
Producer prices rose 1 percent in January and a consumer confidence reading came in below expectations, while another report showed home prices falling [...]
Tags: Economy, Home Sales
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
It looks like it really will all come down to voters in one state…
The latest polls show Hillary Clinton maintaining a solid lead in Ohio, and a large lead in Rhode Island, while Barack Obama has a huge lead in Vermont. Assuming those numbers hold, Clinton’s chances of remaining at all viable will rest with Texas. The three most recent Texas polls, from [...]
Tags: 2008 Election
Categories: 2008 Election
As I mentioned earlier, it’s absolutely unbelievable that the White House is this far behind the tech curve. Unconscionable.
White House e-mail preservation system ‘primitive.’
Today, House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) held a hearing on the White House’s electronic data preservation. In light of the White House’s notorious e-mail destruction, Steven McDevitt, a computer expert who worked in the administration, called its system “primitive,” creating a “high” risk that data would be lost. He noted: – The White [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, E-mail
Categories: Bush Administration
Really. This is getting painful to watch.
Milbank: Clinton Team Down And Out Of Touch
They are in the last throes, if you will. As Vice President Cheney knows, such predictions can be perilous. Still, there was no mistaking a certain flailing, a lashing-out, as two Clinton advisers sat down for a bacon-and-eggs session yesterday at the St. Regis Hotel. The Christian Science Monitor had assembled the [...]
Real Clear Politics notes the difference between that commentary and what the sponsoring paper reported:
For an illuminating example of the difference between a straight news story and news commentary, read the Christian Science Monitor’s account of it’s recent breakfast with Clintonistas Harold Ickes [... ]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
Every business is required to archive and preserve e-mail. How can the White House continue to tap-dance around the same issue. I guess we all know the answer, don’t we?
Still No Upgrade for White House E-Mail
The White House still has not finished work on a new records management and e-mail archiving system, a project that began nearly five years ago. The status of the electronic records system is detailed in testimony scheduled for delivery Tuesday to a [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
She really is. Rachel Maddow has now earned the official title of “MSNBC Political Analyst”. Apparently, they’re working hard to find a niche for her. She and Keith seem to work pretty well together! via Crooks and Liars…
Countdown: Maddow Calls Out Media For Obama Patriotism Smears
C&L has covered the media’s shameless smears of Senator Barack Obama’s patriotism and Monday on Countdown, Keith Olbermann talks with Air America Radio’s Rachel Maddow about how quickly the MSM has picked up on “the dirtiest stuff of the far reaches of right wing media” and shamelessly ran with it, treating it [...]
Tags: MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann
Categories: Obama · Olbermann · Television
Simply embarrassing. To have the White House spokesperson stammering, searching for viable talking points, is absolutely horrible.
The White House searches in vain for talking points
To hear the White House tell it, Congress’ reluctance to immediately give the president all of the surveillance powers he wants is not only the most pressing matter on the nation’s policy agenda, it’s currently putting all of us at risk of a catastrophic terrorist attack. But if that’s true, why can’t the White House answer [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, FISA
Categories: Bush Administration · FISA · National Security
It looks like John McCain has really given critics something to attack him on - the Iraq War. Let’s take a close look at what he’s been saying lately. Hold on tight, it gets a bit confusing…
The Straight Talk, Flip-Flop Express
John McCain has decided to take up the Mitt Romney’s campaign theme of flip flopping. This time McCain is flip flopping on Iraq, not, say, on torture, as he has in the past. He’s appealing, I suppose, to a Republican base that needed reassurance both about torture and independents who wish us out of Iraq soon. Yes, [...]
Tags: Iraq, John McCain
Here’s something to discuss, while you watch the debate tonight. What message does this send, if the staffers reallly do walk?
The Staffers Look To The Exits
After all that wine, demoralized Clinton staffers can’t wait for next week: “Advisers figure that a loss in Texas is as likely as a win in Ohio; a large number of staffers appear to be willing to quit en masse [...]
Tags: 2008 Election, Hillary Clinton
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton
We’re hitting the ground running on what promises to be a fast and furious Tuesday night! Dig in, ladies and gentlemen! There’s much to go through and we’ll scatter it out over the next several hours. The great thing about blogs is, it doesn’t make any difference when I post anything, it’s always there for your taking.
We begin tonight with the “R” word. Not “Recession” - at least not in THIS post. “Resignation”
Generals to quit if US strikes Iran
Some senior US military commanders are prepared to resign if President Bush orders a military strike against Iran, a new report says. “There are four or five generals and admirals we know of who would [...]
Why bring that up now? Because of this:
In the world outside the American media’s obsession with the “Great Race” the ticking time bomb that is President Bush’s desire to bomb Iran before he leaves office just advanced a little closer to zero. Iranian officials have confirmed that its capacity to enrich uranium has increased dramatically. TEHRAN, Iran (AP) Iran said Sunday that it has started using new centrifuges that can churn out enriched uranium at more than double the rate of the machines that now form the backbone of the Islamic nation’s nuclear program. The announcement [...]
Tags: Bush Administration, Iran
Categories: Bush Administration · Iran
See what you think about it. My biggest problem with it is that (and this is just from my experience), young people of that age can be very impressionable and might be a bit predisposed to support a “rock star” candidate over one with more substance. MIGHT be. I have also known plenty of 17 year olds who could manhandle me in a political discussion!
I’ve tossed around this notion twice in passing recently, but let me take a minute to lay it out with a little (very little) more substance. Why is the voting age 18? The voting age was lowered from [...]
Tags: Voting Age
Categories: Politics
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