Guest Post by Morbo The Air Force just can’t seem to get this religious freedom thing down. First comes word that the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has become a hotbed of Christian fundamentalist proselytizers. To remedy that, the Air Force announced new guidelines governing religious activity by service members and chaplains. That in […]
Guest Post by Morbo This post may open up a big can of worms, but what the heck. I take it readers don’t come here to be bored. Earlier this year, Harvard University President Larry Summers created a firestorm when he suggested there may be innate reasons why women are under-represented in the sciences. Summers […]
I’ve been thinking lately about a terrific column Jonathan Alter wrote a few months ago about Watergate — and what the scandal would have looked like if it had happened now. Alter’s conclusion, which is hard to argue with, is that Nixon would have survived. Why? In large part because of Congress. [B]ecause both houses […]
Two weeks ago, Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s chief of staff at the State Department in Bush’s first term, made headlines for his blistering and unapologetic denouncement of the president and his foreign policy team. Yesterday on NPR, Dan Froomkin noted, Wilkerson took his charges one step further. NPR’s Steve Inskeep brought up U.S. policies towards […]
The week since Scooter Libby resigned under criminal indictment has been an odd one at the White House, at least for those of us watching Bush staffers go at each other through the press. The conflict, at this point, seems to be between Karl Rove vs. Scott McClellan. Yesterday, the Washington Post reported that Rove’s […]
I won’t pretend to be an expert in immigration law, but I can read the 14th Amendment as easily as anyone. And the last time I checked, it says that those “born…in the United States” are “citizens of the United States.” There’s not a lot of room for political maneuvering. And yet, some Republicans in […]
The first judge in Tom DeLay’s money-laundering trial was too hot. The second judge was too cold. Will the third judge be just right? I kind of doubt it. The state of Texas finally found a judge yesterday to preside over the criminal trial of former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), but not without […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * With just four days left before Virginia picks its next governor, a number of new polls show a close race, but with Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine (D) ahead. Mason-Dixon has Kaine leading […]
Tom DeLay stopped by the Heritage Foundation to deliver a speech on “Action and Accountability: Restraining Spending and Redesigning Government.” Considering the advertised topic, it might seem DeLay was an odd choice. After all, DeLay and his colleagues clearly don’t believe in accountability when it comes to administration oversight, and when it comes to spending, […]
It’s probably too much to ask, but just once I’d like our president to be able to travel abroad to a country that still respects and admires the United States. Argentina, this year’s host of the Summit of the Americas, used to be one of those countries. Not anymore. A poll by the pro-government leftist […]