In case you missed it over the weekend, the AP wrote the kind of article that’s entirely too rare: the kind that calls Bush on his bogus rhetorical games. In this instance, the AP’s Jennifer Loven, to her enormous credit, explained that when the president “starts a sentence with ‘some say’ or offers up what […]
I realize that Dick Cheney was in the untenable position of having to defend the administration’s policy in Iraq, and I’ve come to expect a disturbing amount of mendacity in the Vice President’s remarks. But yesterday, on CBS’s Face the Nation, Cheney was in rare form. (TP has video.) Schieffer: Mr. Vice President, all along […]
Just a quick alert to readers who read and participate in the comments section. I had hoped to avoid any changes to the wide-open, edit-free nature of the forum, but recent developments regarding a handful of, shall we say, “dissenters,” has made it necessary for me to make a few changes. My goal has always […]
With a terribly sad three-year anniversary upon us, this Center for American Progress paragraph seemed to summarize the landscape nicely. “As we approach the third anniversary of the onset of the Iraq war,” neoconservative-turned-Bush-critic Francis Fukuyama writes, “it seems very unlikely that history will judge either the intervention itself or the ideas animating it kindly.” […]
For the gang that puts together fake-news segments, this doesn’t seem like a huge surprise. A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina said two men who later identified themselves as Secret Service agents pretended to be Fox News journalists when surveying their neighborhood in advance of a March 8 visit from President […]
Families that live around coal-fired power plants can breathe a little easier today. A federal appeals court blocked the Bush administration’s four-year effort to loosen emission rules for aging coal-fired power plants, unanimously ruling yesterday that the changes violated the Clean Air Act and that only Congress could authorize such revisions. A three-judge panel of […]
NPR released its first national survey of the year yesterday and the results were surprisingly one-sided: Republicans are “losing their stranglehold on national security and foreign policy,” leaving Dems with “a unique opportunity to get heard on keeping America safe.” Democrats win every security debate in this poll and when voters are asked who they […]
First up from this week’s God machine is news from Georgia about the state’s constitution, religious liberty, and Gov. Sonny Perdue’s (R) initiative to break down the church-state wall a little too much. This year, a couple of high profile measures didn’t make the cut – and with good reason. The one that has drawn […]
Guest Post by Morbo Here’s a story that gives me hope for the future: The cities of Houston and Dallas are locked in a fierce competition over which can get more money from gay travelers. You read that right. Two cities in Texas want gay people to come visit them. Look, I don’t want to […]
Guest Post by Morbo Former Bush domestic advisor Claude Allen claims his arrest on charges of retail theft is all a misunderstanding. I don’t buy it. Allen doesn’t seem to have a plausible defense. Unlike an ordinary shoplifter, he can’t claim he simply forgot to pay for a certain item, since his scam was somewhat […]