I realize that Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 is generating some strong feelings out there, but this is ridiculous. Singer Linda Ronstadt not only got booed, she got the boot after lauding filmmaker Michael Moore and his new movie “Fahrenheit 9/11” during a performance at the Aladdin hotel-casino. Before singing “Desperado” for an encore Saturday night, […]
For whatever reason, the president continues to think David Kay is an asset in proving the necessity for the war in Iraq. Just last week, Bush said: “In 2002, the United Nations Security Council yet again demanded a full accounting of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs. As he had for over a decade, Saddam Hussein refused […]
In 1996, as Bill Clinton was hitting the campaign trail to seek re-election, Congress passed a massive welfare reform law and a minimum wage increase, both of which Clinton signed into law. The president was able to remind voters that even with a Republican Congress, led by a rabid partisan like Newt Gingrich, he could […]
Bush really wants us to believe the Taliban is a thing of the past… “One other thing about this job that I have is that when you say something, you need to say it clearly so people will understand, and you better mean what you say. And I meant what I said, and the Taliban […]
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 […]