Guest Post by Morbo As the Carpetbagger noted on Wednesday, Dinesh D’Souza’s new book, The Enemy at Home, is out. In a NUTshell (pun intended), D’Souza in this book asserts that al-Qaeda hates America because liberals insist on exporting a crude and sexually charged popular culture to the world. Thus, you see, the 9/11 can […]
Guest Post by Morbo Jan. 16 was “Religious Freedom Day.” Coming as it does around the same time as the federal Martin Luther King holiday, this event often gets overlooked. It’s a shame because the day marks an important anniversary. On Jan. 16, 1786, Thomas Jefferson’s “Act for Establishing Religious Freedom” became law in Virginia. […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * The initial reports after Jane Hamsher’s surgery are all positive, which is great news. We’re all pulling for you, Jane. * As partisan and polarized as Congress got last year, at least we’re still not close to the Parliament in Taiwan. * Given how long Thomas Friedman has been […]
I saw a big AP headline a few minutes ago that read, “Pelosi comments draw White House ire,” and got a little nervous. Sometimes, if a Dem slips even a little, and a remark comes out poorly, the White House will pounce and milk it for all it’s worth (and then some). I cringed just […]
I posted this over at my other gig, but it’s probably worth taking a moment to consider in more detail. Dean Barnett, filling in for Hugh Hewitt, highlighted the results of the latest Fox News poll (.pdf), which, among other things, asked respondents, “Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced last week […]
This story was making the rounds yesterday, but in case you missed it, the piece is well worth checking out. (via Digby) It is expected there would be no problems securing funding to explore a drug that could shrink cancerous tumors and has no side-effects in humans, but University of Alberta researcher Evangelos Michelakis has […]
About a month ago, some unhinged right-wing bloggers started a dangerous meme: Barack Obama’s “loyalties” may lie with Islam, instead of the United States. It was malicious and disgusting. And now right-wing news outlets are running with it. Insight magazine, a project of Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times, published an item in its new issue, […]
Top Bush administration officials seem to revel in historical analogies, particularly when it comes to the war in Iraq. At different times, the Bush gang has referenced Korea, the Revolutionary War, WWI, and the Civil War. By mid-2005, the president had settled on World War II as a personal favorite. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice […]
Time magazine White House correspondent Mike Allen is a real reporter. I’ve been following his work for a long time, and he’s generally a serious guy who, more often than not, does solid work. Which is exactly why this was so disappointing. Appearing on the January 17 edition of CNN Headline News’ Glenn Beck, Time […]
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: * Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) probably expects to suffer politically a bit for his support of Bush’s policies in Iraq, but probably not this much. A new LA Times poll shows that more […]