Nearly three months ago, Raw Story reported that Valerie [tag]Plame[/tag], before being outed by the [tag]Bush[/tag] White House, was “part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from [tag]Iran[/tag],” while working on the clandestine side of the [tag]CIA[/tag] in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover […]
Way back on Jan. 4, Scott McClellan promised reporters a “thorough report” on Jack [tag]Abramoff[/tag]’s [tag]White House[/tag] contacts “very soon.” Shortly thereafter, [tag]McClellan[/tag] decided he didn’t want to talk about the issue anymore. At this point, the White House must be working quite diligently on McClellan’s “thorough report,” because no one’s heard a peep on […]
I’m finally back at my desk, about 40 hours later than I was supposed to be. I can say with considerable confidence, however, that I’ve learned several important things. First, Michael J.W. Stickings from The Reaction came through for me in a huge way. I’m not surprised his guest posts were terrific, because I’ve long […]
(airport wi-fi blogging is cool) I overheard a couple of people talking at the airport about how Stephen [tag]Colbert[/tag] killed at the White House Correspondents’ Association [tag]Dinner[/tag] over the weekend. I caught a snippet here and there, and thought it was a fairly typical roast-like stand-up routine. But after seeing the whole thing, and then […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Kevin Drum has posted on the NBC story about the Pentagon’s plans, just months after 9/11, “to hit the camp of Abu Musab Zarqawi” in northern Iraq. According to the story, Bush “refused to authorize a military strike”. The story, from star correspondent Jim Miklaszewski, “was based on anonymous […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings A new CNN poll reveals that “Americans have strong doubts that the United States will fulfill the promise of President Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ backdrop”: The CNN poll, conducted April 21-23 by Opinion Research Corporation, found that only 9 percent thought the U.S. mission in Iraq had been accomplished, while […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings They both lost their mojo. But let’s be more precise: Austin Powers (in The Spy Who Shagged Me) had his mojo stolen by his archnemesis Dr. Evil. Powers returns to 1969, and he and partner Felicity Shagwell recover it. And all is well, Fat Bastard and Mini-Me notwithstanding, until […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Needless to say, I and almost every other sensible person in the world have been rather critical of Iranian President Mahmoud “Madman of Tehran” Ahmadinejad’s incendiary rhetoric, both with respect to Iran’s budding nuclear program and to Israel and the Holocaust. See my post from yesterday here (as well […]
It’s a terribly long story, but I was supposed to be back home from a quick weekend trip by Sunday afternoon. It didn’t happen. Not even close. Long story short, I won’t be back at my desk today and won’t be able to post until tomorrow. I asked The Reaction’s Michael J.W. Stickings, who had […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Yesterday witnessed the Rally to Stop Genocide, a significant if relatively small protest held on the Mall in Washington. The Post reports: Clutching signs that read “Never Again,” thousands of protesters from across religious and political divides descended on the Mall yesterday along with celebrities and politicians to urge […]