A few items for your consideration: First, following up on a point I raised briefly last week, I wrote a full-length article for AlterNet on the “gap” between the launch of the Plame investigation and the notice given to White House staff to preserve relevant documents. Take a look. Second, I neglected to mention that […]
Tomorrow, the Senate Judiciary Committee will convene and hold major hearings into Bush’s warrantless-search program, its legality, its protections for civil liberties, its challenge to the separation of powers, etc. The hearings will be the first substantive congressional response to a White House controversy since, well, since before Bush became president. The principal witness will […]
Almost exactly year ago, I did my one and only post ever on football in honor of last year’s Super Bowl. (Perhaps I should do more of these; it was the only individual post I’ve ever done to get nominated for a Koufax Award.) With today being Super Bowl Sunday again, I thought it best […]
I appreciate and agree with the pro-science sentiments the president shared during his State of the Union address, but the notion that George W. Bush has a real affinity for science is laughable. The president’s fascination with the gee-whiz breakthroughs of modern science may not be new, but it has certainly been more evident in […]
[Editor’s Note: Yes, Morbo sort of retired a few weeks ago, but he suggested he might come back on occasion, when he has something to contribute. Thankfully, today is one of those days. Enjoy. -CB] Guest Post by Morbo The Carpetbagger mentioned recently that TV preacher/assassination advocate/instrument of God’s wrath Pat Robertson’s American Center for […]
This week the “God Machine” offers a key update on one of the more entertaining recent stories from the world of religion. Last month, we learned that the Rev. Lonnie Latham, a far-right Oklahoma pastor and a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s executive committee, was arrested after propositioning a male undercover police officer outside […]
[Editor’s Note: Yes, Morbo sort of retired a few weeks ago, but he suggested he might come back on occasion, when he has something to contribute. Thankfully, today is one of those days. Enjoy. -CB] Guest Post by Morbo I admire the folks at the Dodgeville School District in Wisconsin. They’ve got moxie. Dodgeville was […]
[Editor’s Note: Yes, Morbo sort of retired a few weeks ago, but he suggested he might come back on occasion, when he has something to contribute. Thankfully, today is one of those days. Enjoy. -CB] Guest Post by Morbo The Academy Award nominations were announced just before the State of the Union, and believe it […]
A friend of mine sent me a copy of a speech Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) delivered yesterday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and I have to say, it’s quite good. I don’t agree with every word, just as I don’t agree with every vote Bayh has cast, but the sentiment and general […]
Gallup released a poll today showing that 53% of Americans believe the Bush administration “deliberately misled the American public about whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction,” with 46% disagreeing. A year ago, these numbers were reversed. Similarly, the latest WaPo/ABC poll found the same percentage (53%) said they do not consider the president trustworthy. […]