There are plenty of instances from recent years of [tag]blogger[/tag]s getting [tag]fired[/tag] for writing about their place of employment, but this is an interesting twist on the phenomenon. [tag]Christine Axsmith[/tag], a software contractor for the [tag]CIA[/tag], considered her blog a success within the select circle of people who could actually access it. Only people with […]
Operation Rescue, the radical anti-abortion group, has changed its name to Operation Save America. As reader G.F. reminds me, the group has not, however, changed its unhinged ways. Activists from Operation Save America, formerly known as Operation Rescue, have been in Jackson since Saturday for eight days of protests against the state’s only abortion clinic, […]
Over a year ago, in June 2005, the New York Times uncovered the fact that the White House hired [tag]Philip Cooney[/tag], a former lobbyist for the [tag]American Petroleum Institute[/tag], to be chief of staff of the president’s [tag]Council on Environmental Quality[/tag]. As part of his responsibilities, Cooney re-wrote government reports on [tag]global warming[/tag], editing out […]
When it comes to the president’s legally dubious tactics and power grabs, Bush isn’t catching many breaks from the federal judiciary lately. A month ago, the Supreme Court delivered a major setback to the administration in its Hamdan ruling; and yesterday, a federal district [tag]court[/tag] gave the green light to a lawsuit challenging Bush’s warrantless-[tag]search[/tag] […]
After a five-year boycott, the president finally addressed the [tag]NAACP[/tag] today. While [tag]Bush[/tag] emphasized his desire to “change the relationship” between the Republican Party and African Americans, he had to stretch matters a bit to show how his concerns coincide with those of the African-American community. “You know, one of my friends is Bob Johnson, […]
The House of Representatives, which hasn’t done much of anything of substance in months, has been surprisingly busy lately, debating and voting on a series of bills that are geared towards making the Republican base happy. Taken together, I think there’s a pattern. * The House approved a measure to shield “under God” in the […]
Once in a while, we’ll hear a Republican lawmaker express concern that the party’s recent rhetoric on immigration has been so over the top that the GOP risks driving Hispanic voters away for the indefinite future. Apparently, the party should probably pay closer attention to those warnings. A new poll of Spanish-speaking voters shows significant […]
In the Wall Street Journal today, [tag]Peggy Noonan[/tag] argued that it’s “sad and frustrating” that the world’s leading scientific minds can’t get together and decide if [tag]global warming[/tag] is real, and if it is, whether it’s dangerous. And this meeting of the minds happen, Noonan says, because scientists aren’t reliable. You would think the world’s […]
Other than Joe Lieberman, it seems Bush is just about alone in his optimism about the war in Iraq. That includes Republicans. Faced with almost daily reports of sectarian carnage in Iraq, congressional Republicans are shifting their message on the war from speaking optimistically of progress to acknowledging the difficulty of the mission and pointing […]
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: * In Wisconsin, both of the key statewide races are leaning in the Dems’ direction, but one more so than the other. According to a new Rasmussen poll, Sen. [tag]Herb Kohl[/tag] (D) continues […]