To update an item from late last week, [tag]Democrats[/tag] on the House Judiciary Committee issued a sweeping indictment Friday of the Bush White House’s casual approach to law-breaking in a [tag]report[/tag] called, “The [tag]Constitution in Crisis[/tag].” Carpetbagger regular Hark emailed me with a question about the media’s reaction to the report so far. Needless to […]
Brent Wilkes, “Co-conspirator #1” in the Duke Cunningham scandal, has been pretty quiet lately, but he opened up to the New York Times, which ran a must-read story yesterday. Mr. Wilkes had set up separate meetings with the lawmakers hoping to win a government contract, and he planned to punctuate each pitch with a campaign […]
After 9/11 intelligence failures, pre-war intelligence failures on Iraq, and revelations about intelligence officials conducting legally-dubious spying on Americans, Congress was going to be more diligent in its oversight. At least that was the plan. In reality, lawmakers are not only failing to be more rigorous, they’re not even reading intelligence bills before voting on […]
So, just how big a deal is Tuesday’s Senate primary in Connecticut? The Washington Post’s Dan [tag]Balz[/tag] has a very good piece today that argues, persuasively, that the outcome “could be a party watershed.” The passion and energy fueling the antiwar challenge to Sen. Joseph I. [tag]Lieberman[/tag] in Connecticut’s Senate primary signal a power shift […]
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow held a quick gaggle with reporters in Crawford yesterday, when an interesting subject came up. Q: Tony, earlier this year the President brought in some advisors to talk about the war in Iraq, some outsiders — outside experts. Is he doing anything similar, or are any senior officials doing […]
Raise your hand if you find this surprising. Former Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith is claiming President George W. Bush was unaware that there were two major sects of Islam just two months before the President ordered troops to invade Iraq, RAW STORY has learned. In his new book, The End of Iraq: How American […]
A remarkably dumb YouTube video is working its way through conservative circles, spoofing Al Gore, “An Inconvenient Truth,” and global warming. It’s pretty weak — the video’s basic pitch is that Gore’s movie is boring and is intended to brainwash viewers. The Wall Street Journal noted that the video “has a home-made, humorous quality,” though […]
In March, Claude Allen, a top White House domestic policy advisor and favorite of Christian conservatives, was caught in a two-bit shoplifting scheme in which he’d return items he hadn’t actually purchased. At the time, Allen said there had been a mix-up with his credit card. He was lying. Yesterday, however, he managed to avoid […]
First up from the God machine this week is an unusual religion problem in a religious Texas town. Apparently, it has too many churches. They are not the words one expects to hear from a politician or a Southerner, and Leonard Scarcella is both: “Our city has an excessive number of churches.” Scarcella is mayor […]
Guest Post by Morbo [tag]James Dobson[/tag]’s [tag]Focus on the Family[/tag] is very upset because evolution opponents lost their majority on the [tag]Kansas[/tag] [tag]Board of Education[/tag] this week. The FOF “news” service ran an interesting story about the election. It is full of lies. Let’s parse it, shall we? Advocates of accurate science standards in public […]