Not content to let a sleeping dog lie, Tom DeLay and his GOP allies are still upset about last week’s “Law & Order” flap and are intent on generating more attention for the controversy. The fallout from NBC’s “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” episode featuring the Tom DeLay T-shirt continues over the Memorial Day break. […]
One of the reasons the idea of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” is silly is because conservatives tend to operate out in the open. There’s no need for a conspiracy; the movement’s agenda is hardly a secret. Underpinning the movement, however, are wealthy and selectively generous foundations which provide the right-wing infrastructure with the kind of […]
I realize that the far right is still simmering with rage over the Gang of 14’s compromise over judicial nominees, but it’s hard to believe right-wing activists and groups could be so upset that they’d seriously consider primary challenges for the Republicans involved in the negotiations. And yet, here we are. About a week after […]
Advocates of intelligent-design creationism are claiming a major breakthrough in their crusade against modern biology: the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History will, for the first time, show a movie that attacks evolution directly. But before the reality-based community gets too upset, keep in mind that it’s not quite as offensive as it sounds. […]
I’m fully aware of the fact that the fight over Social Security privatization is far from over. Nevertheless, this struck me as terribly amusing. Social Security was supposed to be the focal point of the Bush domestic agenda this year, but passage of a plan to secure its long-term financing and add private investment accounts […]
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: * It’s probably just a fundraising ploy with no basis in reality, but Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) is telling in-state Republicans that she’ll need a sizable campaign warchest in case former Sen. John […]
I suspect the loudest grumbling in Dem circles when Howard Dean was named chairman of the DNC came from “blue” officials in “red” states. If you’re a party leader in, say, Wyoming, you already have a tough job — and having a perceived liberal from Vermont heading the party probably didn’t make the situation any […]
Atrios raised a point yesterday that I’ve been thinking about for a while. This has been bugging me for some time but I can’t possibly be the only one who has noticed. Internet connection is too crappy to look into this deeply right now, but has anyone else noticed that our media allowed the “Bush […]
Daniel Okrent, the departing “public editor” of the New York Times, had to know he was picking a fight. He may not have realized, however, he was starting a clash he was bound to lose. In his departing column, Okrent took a parting shot at columnist Paul Krugman, attacking his integrity and accusing him of […]
Walter Pincus had an important article in Saturday’s Washington Post, which will no doubt be lost in the holiday-weekend shuffle. That’s a shame; the piece highlights one of the most embarrassing flaws in the Bush administration’s approach to governing. Two Army analysts whose work has been cited as part of a key intelligence failure on […]