I do appreciate tenacity.
CREW Asks FBI to Probe Missing White House Emails
It’s the burning question of the Bush Administration: malfeasance or incompetence? Did the White House just lose an untold number of emails because of their “primitive” archiving setup? Or is there something worse at play — something criminal? CREW, which [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Have we arrived at recessionland? The signs are getting clearer…
Retail sales fell in Feb: “NEW YORK (Reuters) - Retail sales fell at the fastest pace in at least five years and could tip an already fragile economy into recession, according to [...]
Apparently, we ARE there:
Here Comes Your Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown
Or a recession, whatever. “NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. recession has already started and the downturn is likely to last longer than in the recent past, with the economy recovering only late next year, according to a quarterly survey [...]
And, from the Millionaires File:
U.S. Millionaire Growth Stalls
The number of American households worth $1 million or more - not including the house itself - grew at the lowest rate in five years, according to a report released Wednesday. The report from Spectrem Group said the number of U.S. millionaires increased just [...]
Categories: Consumer · Economy
Is this the REAL John McCain he’s describing?
NoJohn.com - Former McCain supporter lets him have it
This is quite interesting. A former John McCain supporter, and 40-year Republican media consultant, is now running a campaign - NoJohn.com - to educate the public as to how radical and how shifty John McCain has become. “For nearly 40 years I have been a campaign media consultant working exclusively for Republicans. My first spot was created for Governor Ronald Reagan in 1970 when [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
From up in Northwest Arkansas, The Iconoclast blog notes a string of nefarious doings on the part of law officers from local to state level…and there are some doozies in here, folks.
It has been a bad week for the image and fact of justice in Arkansas, as law enforcement officers continued to commit serial abuses of power. Of course, one poster commented earlier that it is a good week for the people when the cops don’t shoot and kill an [...]
UPDATE: Whew! It’s not only Arkansas cops getting a bad rap:
Pa. trooper protected child prostitution ring, feds say
A former Pennsylvania state trooper tipped off pimps who ran a child prostitution ring in exchange for money and sex, federal prosecutors said today in announcing charges against him. Kevin J. Coleman, 42, of Harrisburg, was accused of [...]
Categories: Arkansas
It happens here at home, although there are laws against that kind of thing. But, we all know, laws are made to be broken or ignored, aren’t they?
In 1948, Congress passed the Smith-Mundt Act, which created the Voice of America and laid the foundation for our Cold War era propaganda efforts. However, in an effort to prevent the government from engaging in domestic propaganda while [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
I knew I should.
Buchanan flips out, tells guest to ’shut up!’
Tonight on MSNBC’s Live with Dan Abrams, guests Pat Buchanan, Rachel Maddow, and Keli Goff discussed the role of race in Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Buchanan suggested Obama is winning the black vote simply because he is black. Goff countered that Obama has won states that have small populations of African-Americans. As Goff spoke, Buchanan [...]
Tags: dan Abrams, Pat Buchanan
Categories: Bush Administration
It’s been done before and it will be done again. That certainly doesn’t make it right. Good for Chuck Grassley; he’s tenaciously digging for the truth.
Last November, Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley® sent letters…to six of the nation’s largest ministries asking for information about their finances. The request was in response to concerns that church leaders were abusing their tax-exempt status—concerns that seem to be merited in the wake of numerous reports about the platinum lifestyles adopted by [...]
Categories: Congress · Religion · Taxes
From the trenches, enjoy the latest campaign philosophy:
Sen. Barack Obama’s revised presidential campaign strategy “is, essentially, a mathematical calculation,” the AP reports. “If Clinton wins a few more delegates than he does in Pennsylvania, Obama figures, he can offset them in [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
First, he denied it. Then…
Meat Company Pres Admits Introducing Sick Cows Into Food Supply
The president of a slaughterhouse at the heart of the largest-ever meat recall denied under oath on Wednesday, but then grudgingly admitted, that his company had apparently introduced sick cows into the hamburger supply. He then tried to minimize the significance. [...]
Bad move.
Tags: Meat Inspections
Categories: Consumer · Health Care
The resignation.
“I am deeply sorry i did not live up to what was expected of me,” Spitzer said. “For this reason I am resigning from the office of governor.” In good news, New York will get its first ever African-American governor, when [...]
If you’re really into the Spitzer story, here’s the most detailed backstory I’ve seen, so far:
How exactly did the feds end up snagging Eliot Spitzer? We’ve been asking the question since the story broke on Monday. Reports from a number of news outlets have been providing more and more details so that now, with the [...]
Categories: Uncategorized
John McCain must be on the right track. I wonder how (and how quickly) he’ll distance himself from this guy. Or, will he?
John McCain’s “Spiritual Guide” Calls For Destruction Of Islam
Senator John McCain hailed as a spiritual adviser an Ohio megachurch pastor who has called upon Christians to wage a “war” against the “false religion” of Islam with the aim of destroying it. On February 26, McCain appeared at a campaign rally in Cincinnati with the Reverend Rod Parsley of the World Harvest Church of Columbus, a supersize Pentecostal institution that features [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain · Religion
General Wes Clark continues to make a heck of a lot of sense. It’s always good to see another Arkansan standing up for the way things should be (and could be) in America.
General Wes Clark writes about torture and the big picture: “Today, in the struggle to finish off the extremists plotting against us, it won’t be torture and fear that win the day for America. Far from it. Nations [...]
Categories: Torture
This seems a bit overboard, in terms of punishment, doesn’t it? I know we have to teach young people to “play by the rules”, but…
Ct. Honor Student Suspended For….
Drugs? Fighting? Cheating? Nope. He bought a bag of skittles from another student in defiance of the school’s “Wellness policy”: NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) ― An eighth-grade honors student at a New Haven school has been suspended for buying a bag of candy at school. Michael Sheridan, a student at Sheridan Middle School, [...]
Categories: Education
It’s time to sing “Happy Anniversary”!
Happy Almost 5 Year Iraq Invasion Anniversary…
Sure, I’m a little early, but who can hold back with President Rose-Colored Legacy touting his supreme fabulosity in the latest PR offensive:…”With the fifth anniversary of his invasion of Iraq coming next week, and a decision on troop cuts in Iraq on his plate, Mr. Bush used a 30-minute speech before an enthusiastic audience — the National Religious Broadcasters association — to make the case that liberty is on the [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War
And politics is, pretty much, a moving target. But, you would think the folks who run these campaigns would raise a red flag before a candidate goes and does something that makes him look less than sharp.
Barack Obama Was For Mail In Voting Before He Was Against It
Marc Ambinder has more detail on Barack Obama’s decision to lawyer up against counting Florida and Michigan votes. I’ll discuss the merits of this in a later post, but I first want to take a moment to consider the shameless hypocrisy of the Obama campaign. Barack Obama is out there [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Obama
It still amazes me how one campaign can make so many errors in judgement. Hillary Clinton seriously needs to get her surrogates under control, especially hubby Bill and Geraldine Ferraro.
Geraldine Ferraro, 1988: “If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race.” Geraldine Ferraro, 2008: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position… He happens to be very lucky to be who he is.” Yep, Obama was sooooo lucky to have been born in 1961 as a second class citizen without [...]
UPDATE: Late word is that Ferraro is out.
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
They just don’t even try to keep up appearances. And they’re, apparently, afraid to have the American people learn the facts.
Keeping the al Qaeda report under wraps
Following up on an item from yesterday, the Pentagon has prepared a new report on non-existent ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime. The document is the culmination of an exhaustive review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents that were captured after the 2003 U.S. invasion. Not surprisingly, officials discovered what we already knew [...]
The other night McClatchy broke the news that a huge Pentagon study of Iraqi archives had concluded that there was no Saddam-al Qaeda link. That’s been followed by reports in other media on the contours of the report, which was [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iraq War · Military
When we hit the halfway point in another week. I’m dragging a bit this evening. The “crud” is creeping through our house again this week. I think either she or I has felt less-than-excellent for the past month or so. Ugh. I’m really ready for spring. At least the past couple of days have given me hope that it will happen. Eventually.
From the blogosphere, here’s the first of what’s catching my attention this evening…
About that trip to Bosnia in ‘96…
We talked the other day about presidential candidates and foreign policy expertise. There are basically two categories: less experienced candidates who emphasize judgment, vision, and temperament (such as Obama this year, and Bill Clinton in ‘92), and more experienced candidates who emphasize expertise, knowledge, and background (such as Joe Biden). Hillary Clinton has gone to great [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Clinton · Obama
Did you hear? Hulu goes “live” today. Oh, you hadn’t heard about Hulu? I was part of the beta test group and it’s quite impressive. What is it? Wander on over and check it out. This, my friends, is the best implementation (to date) of online TV shows. The quality is excellent, even when viewed full screen. It’s mostly NBC and Fox content right now, but it certainly helps move TV out of the living room and onto a laptop.
Did I mention that it’s free? There are some short ads to watch, but they’re no big deal.
Categories: Television
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