It’s a shame when I end the week’s posts on a negative note, but today’s must-read article happens to be pretty depressing. While nine Democratic presidential candidates battle one another for every available fundraising penny, Bush is cruising the country building an unprecedented war chest. With the second quarter FEC reports due Monday, speculation is […]
Every American has three representatives in Congress — a member of the House of Representatives and two senators. Everyone, that is, except the 600,000 people who live in the nation’s capital. A lot of people don’t realize that the citizens of the District of Columbia are the only people to live in this country and […]
Well, the results are in and they aren’t terribly surprising. Move On.org has published the results of its online primary, which has garnered remarkable media attention, and candidates finished more or less the way everyone expected. A total of 317,647 people voted, which, as Move On organizers noted, is larger than the combined vote totals […]
I noticed that a blog called Zeitblog has linked to an interesting article in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, with one fascinating quote. The article is primarily about Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and his efforts to deal with Hamas, but that’s not the interesting part (well, it is interesting, but it isn’t the part I […]
What’s the old saying? Once is an accident, twice a coincidence, and three times is a pattern? The White House has demonstrated a disturbing, 1984-like tendency to take government reports and either “change” them before they’re available to the public, or get rid of the reports all together. First, the White House stopped the Bureau […]
Most Americans have never heard of the “K Street Project.” For that matter, most Americans have probably never head of K Street. But this project is shaping politics in Washington in a way no one ever thought possible; no one, that is, except those fiendishly clever conservatives who orchestrate Republican political strategies. The project recognizes […]
When it comes to all the things Bush has said about Iraq that aren’t true — whether you consider them lies, mistakes, exaggerations, or whatever — there’s only one the White House is really willing to concede was patently false. If for no other reason, it’s worth pursuing in more detail. It came earlier this […]
This may be of limited interest to people outside Vermont, but I thought it was hilarious so I decided to share. Jack McMullen is a successful New England businessman interested in Republican politics. Shortly after moving to Vermont in 1998, the millionaire conservative sought the GOP nomination to take on popular incumbent Sen. Pat Leahy […]
CNN is really excited about a new report highlighting the discovery of nuclear technology parts found in Iraq. To hear CNN tell it, this is a major development in our post-war efforts, but a closer look at the “special report” reveals that the news is not quite what it appears. An Iraqi nuclear scientist, Mahdi […]
One of the many problems I have with publicly-funded private school vouchers is the idea of accountability. In every voucher program implemented in the United States, these private schools, most of which are operated by religious ministries, receive millions tax dollars with virtually no strings attached. While public schools in many parts of the country […]