Everyone’s favorite theocrat, former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, has fallen off the public radar screen of late. He generated plenty of attention for failing to follow a federal court order and getting stripped of his robes for violating judicial ethics, but some of us had fun contemplating a Moore run for the presidency with […]
I know this quote has appeared everywhere, but I wanted to pass it along anyway. President Bush met privately with a group of Old Order Amish during his visit to Lancaster County [Pennsylvania] last Friday. He discussed their farms and their hats and his religion. He asked them to vote for him in November. The […]
Jerry Falwell on Fox News Channel, Friday evening: “The fact is that ‘Old Time Gospel Hour,’ or any other ministry with which I’ve been associated has never lost its tax exemption.” Falwell on CNBC, two weeks ago, when asked if his group had lost its tax-exempt status: “Never. Never. Never. Not one minute. Not one […]
Dems are poised for one of their most unified national conventions in recent memory. Our friends on the other side of the aisle? Not so much. More than half the Republicans in the House have signed a formal complaint to President Bush about the failure to give prominent conservative, pro-life party members even one prime-time […]
The right has been unusually excited about recent revelations from the Senate Intelligence Committee that allegedly call Joseph Wilson’s credibility into question. For his part, Wilson has very ably replied to each of the items in a detailed response to the panel, which Salon published online last week. I’m inclined to believe Wilson’s account, but […]
The president who has taken more time off than any of his predecessors, including each of the last three Augusts, sounds like he’d like this summer to be like the others. Unfortunately for Bush, a certain annoyance — running for president — is getting in the way. [T]he 2004 campaign has ruined Mr. Bush’s Texas […]
Let’s see, there’s a Middle Eastern country known to be a state-sponsor of terror, which has developed and used weapons of mass destruction, is trying to develop nuclear weapons, hates the U.S., threatens Israel, and thwarts any and all democratic reform. Saddam Hussein’s Iraq? Of course not. The country is Iran. And now we can […]
If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ve come to expect this. If you’re new, welcome; we do this every Friday afternoon. It’s my weekly round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days, and this week features one of the longest lists since I started doing this. Note: Zogby Interactive/Wall […]
(This post is considerably longer than usual. Sorry; I had a lot to say.) On Air Force One this morning, Bush compared himself to bicyclist Lance Armstrong and insisted both would come through in the end. “He’s going to win and I’m going to win,” Bush said en route to Florida and West Virginia — […]
My friend Poppy alerted me to a story you may be hearing a bit about over the weekend. Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, […]