It’s Friday afternoon and, as always, I’m wrapping another week with some state-by-state polling data for the presidential race. As with every other Poll Day, these results were released within the last seven days. Arizona (10 electoral votes) Arizona State/KAET — Bush 41, Kerry 38, Nader 3 Comment: It’s nice to see Kerry well within […]
Maybe someone can explain this to me, because I can’t figure it out. The Treasury Department agency entrusted with blocking the financial resources of terrorists has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track Osama bin Laden’s and Saddam Hussein’s money, documents show. In addition, the Office […]
The Wall Street Journal had an interesting news brief today about Clinton’s advice to Bush over international priorities upon leaving office. When the two spoke privately at inauguration time, Clinton put al Qaeda at the top of his list of national-security concerns, with Iraq behind the Mideast, North Korea and India and Pakistan, according to […]
I realize there may be a reasonable explanation for this, but it struck me as troubling. The meeting was not recorded electronically, as a result of a decision made by the White House. The commission was allowed to bring along its staff director as a note taker. […] Despite what both sides agreed was the […]
You’ll probably be hearing a lot over the weekend about the one-year anniversary of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” photo-op aboard the USS Lincoln. It was May 1, 2003, when Bush declared the end of “major combat operations” in Iraq. What I didn’t realize is that the United States lost more troops in the four weeks of […]
Bringing back one of my every-Friday features after a one-week hiatus, I thought I’d share some of my favorite Carpetbagger emails from this week. It’s a little segment I like to call the Correspondents’ Corner. First up is an insightful email I received from a long-time reader, whom I fondly call Morbo. Sure, this email […]
Let’s play everyone’s favorite game, Source That Quote. I’ll give you the comments; you guess who said it. In a speech to a terrorism conference six months before the Sept. 11 attacks, this person felt pretty strongly that the Bush White House wasn’t taking the terrorist threat seriously at all. “The new administration seems to […]
By now, nearly everyone has already heard all about this, but it’s so offensive, I wanted to weigh in anyway. ABC’s Nightline announced earlier this week that it would devote its entire Friday night program to honoring those soldiers who have died in Iraq. The network said in a statement that the broadcast is intended […]
Over the last two years, as the legal fight over the phrase “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance has worked its way through the courts, proponents of keeping the Pledge as is remind us that it’s voluntary. In schools and other public settings, no one can be forced to recite it. People who don’t […]
This is so ironic on its face, I thought it was some kind of joke: Judges have become too much like politicians, with the unfortunate result that picking new ones has become needlessly partisan and time-consuming, Justice Antonin Scalia said Thursday. As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to “do what the people want,” […]