The federal government’s budget deficit for the month of July reached $54.2 billion, almost double the deficit for July 2002. This means, for the year so far, the deficit is $324 billion. This easily eclipses the old record of $290 billion from the final year of the other President Bush’s term. Keep in mind, of […]
In case you’ve been wondering what’s been going on with our friends down in the Lone Star state, the Texas 11 are still in New Mexico and the Republicans back in Austin are driven slightly crazier with rage on a daily basis. The situation got slightly worse late last week, when the GOP approved new […]
I noticed late last week that Joseph Farah, editor of the right-wing news-website WorldNetDaily, launched a fairly predictable criticism of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. After reading it twice, however, I came to believe that Farah, conservative though he may be, may have had a point. Farah noted that Ginsburg, whom he dislikes anyway […]
Ret. Gen Wesley Clark was on CNN over the weekend, addressing a variety of issues — including his possible presidential campaign — on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. He had a particularly good line about Bush’s deceptive claims in advance of the invasion of Iraq. “You’d be taking them to the Better Business Bureau if […]
Today is the deadline for Roy “Theocracy Ain’t So Bad” Moore to remove his Ten Commandments monument from the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery. Of course, the deadline is somewhat anti-climactic, since Moore already announced that he will defy the federal court order and keep the monument where it is. It does mean, however, that […]
You already know about Fox News Channel suing Al Franken for use of the phrase “fair and balanced,” and the suit’s inadvertent consequence of pushing Franken’s upcoming book to the top of the bestseller lists. Yesterday, however, Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, rumored to have been the driving force behind the Franken lawsuit, took time out […]
I’m not really in the habit of agreeing with Republicans, particularly those that hail from Alabama, but I have to admire Gov. Bob Riley for doing the right thing with his new tax proposal. Alabama’s tax rate is currently at the very bottom — 50th of 50 states for total state and local taxes per […]
One of Carpetbagger’s regular readers, we call her Madre, works for a respected physician at a highly-regarded hospital. It’s not unusual for this physician to be invited to attend conferences, give lectures, and receive awards. With this in mind, it wasn’t a big surprise when Madre received a call about a year ago from House […]
Last week, when my computer was working, I noted the bizarre claims by televangelist and all-around nutjob Jack Van Impe, who said that he had recently been contacted by “the Office of Public Liaison for the White House and by the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice to make an outline” for the president on Biblical […]
In March, Howard Dean was slowly breaking through and developing a following. His fundraising was modest, but growing. Dean saw that some of his Dem rivals were independently wealthy (specifically Kerry) and hoped to keep a relatively even playing field, so he promised to raise a big fuss if any of the other candidates decided […]