And this one ain’t pretty.
The George W Bush administration plans to launch an air strike against Iran within the next two months, an informed source tells Asia Times Online, echoing other reports that have surfaced in the media in the United States recently. Two key US senators briefed on the attack planned to go public with their opposition to the move, according [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Iran
I can’t imagine how the defense will argue that these pictures are anything but trouble.
Shocking new photographs show polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs holding and kissing two different young girls in wedding-like photos…The images, dated July 2006 and January 2005, were entered into evidence last Friday by the defense in the custody battle over a 1-week-old baby, the Deseret News reported. The case was sparked by [...]
This could be doggone interesting! Little Scottie, turning on his master.
In a surprisingly scathing memoir, Scott McClellan accuses ex-boss of running a White House lacking in candor and competence [...]
UPDATE: New York Times has more:
The memoir by Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, is the first negative account by a member of the tight circle of Texans around President Bush [...]
Categories: Bush Administration
Could this be the result of extended tours and repeat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan? Sure, it could.
The number of troops with new cases of post-traumatic stress disorder jumped by roughly 50 percent in 2007 amid the military buildup in Iraq and increased violence there and in Afghanistan. Records show roughly 40,000 troops have been diagnosed with the illness, also known as PTSD, since 2003. Officials believe that many more are [...]
Categories: Iraq War
I haven’t seen the blogosphere this slow in a long time. It must be the post-Memorial day blues among bloggers. Heck, it was livelier over the weekend than it has been today.
Here’s one from the “stupid move” files.
Fly A Flag – Get Hit With a Lawsuit
What better way to honor a veteran who is flying a US Flag in front of his home, then to hit him with a lawsuit for doing so: A Central Florida war veteran faces a lawsuit for flying the American flag in his front yard. “I don’t understand why it would [...]
Categories: Military
Four times the national average when you narrow your focus to towns with a military presence. Ain’t something wrong with this picture, folks? Have we made life this rough for our military families?
Foreclosures in military towns quadruple the U.S. rate.
Bloomberg reports today that “in the midst of the worst surge in mortgage defaults in seven decades, foreclosures in U.S. towns where soldiers live are increasing at a pace almost four times the national average“: “Foreclosure filings in 10 towns and cities within 10 miles of military facilities, including Norfolk, Virginia, home of the Navy’s largest [...]
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
I know, it probably shouldn’t be a big deal, but it sure seems to have taken on a life of its own today.
Dumber Than Bush, Dumber Than Quayle
I pretty much ignored political news this weekend, only to find out that the top story on Memeorandum.com this morning was of a gaffe Barack Obama made regarding Memorial Day. On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken [...]
And, right on the heels of that one, comes this:
Obama: My Uncle Helped Liberate Auschwitz (Bzzt! Wrong!)
Is there a point at which the media will start calling Barack Obama out for his absolutely stunning lack of historical knowledge, and his willingness to lie at the drop of a hat? Obama Talks of Family’s Military Service. “Obama also spoke about his uncle, who was part of the American brigade that helped to liberate Auschwitz. He said [...]
UPDATE: Explained this way:
Obama misspoke about Auschwitz, aide says
An aide to Barack Obama says the candidate misspoke on Memorial Day when he told a group of veterans that his uncle was among the American troops who liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp.In fact, Obama’s great uncle took part in the liberation of one of the concentration camps at [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Edwards · Obama
Good news (marginally): Home Sales Rise For The First Time Since October
The U.S. housing market remained mired in its weak state as sales of newly constructed single-family homes rose less than analysts expected, while a separate study showed average home prices fell a record 14.1 percent in [...]
Bad news: Consumer Confidence Plunges to 16-Year Low
U.S. consumer confidence plunged unexpectedly to its lowest in 16 years in May as rising gasoline costs and falling home prices made Americans nervous about the future, a survey showed. The Conference Board, an industry group, said [...]
More economic fallout in the news, via the NY Times: “The auto industry is getting sideswiped by the housing crisis.” Auto lenders and banks, closing their wallets, have prevented hundreds of thousands of consumers from obtaining the financing for a car. Home equity loans, which had been used in at least one of every nine deals, [...]
And, no surprise here: As gas goes up, driving goes down (Biggest driving drop ever recorded)
The Department of Transportation said figures from March show the steepest decrease in driving ever recorded. Compared with March a year earlier, Americans drove an estimated 4.3 percent less — that’s 11 [...]
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
It’s getting really tough to keep track of what John McCain thinks about immigration reform. If you think you understand where he stands, you’d better think again.
McCain spins like a top on immigration flip-flop
John McCain’s incoherence on immigration policy has quickly gone from problematic to humiliating. The poor guy has spun himself into a box he can’t seem to get out of. Just Thursday, in a relatively high-profile speech in California, McCain went back to the position he’d given up to win the Republican nomination. McCain boasted about having [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · Illegal Immigration · McCain
Gas prices. Higher almost every day. Why? Supply and Demand? Investors playing the market? The Iraq War? Likely all of the above, but this economist pegs the war and the big problem.
The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy prices alone. The oil economist Dr Mamdouh Salameh, who advises both the World Bank and the UN Industrial Development Organisation (Unido), told The Independent on Sunday that [...]
Other than that, how was your holiday weekend?
Categories: Economy
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