Chris Wallace, host of “Fox News Sunday,” can’t help but notice that Democratic presidential candidates are disinclined to accept his invitations to appear on the air. And because they aren’t “playing ball” with him, Wallace has decided to whine incessantly. “I think the Democrats are damn fools [for] not coming on Fox News,” Wallace said. […]
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: * A week after Hillary Clinton’s campaign was embarrassed by an Iowa country chair spreading the ridiculous Obama/Muslim email, it’s happened again. “Hillary Clinton’s campaign on Sunday requested the resignation of a second […]
On Sunday, in a gruesome tragedy, 24-year-old Matthew Murray killed two people at a Christian missionary center in Arvada, Colo., and then killed two others a Colorado Springs megachurch later that day. Murray apparently intended to kill others before a church security guard shot and killed him Sunday afternoon. Tony Perkins, head of the far-right […]
More so than any other presidential candidate in either party, Mike Huckabee is using his Christianity as a campaign tool. In his first TV ad, the viewer is told that the former Arkansas governor is a “CHRISTIAN LEADER” (all-caps in the original). In his first debate, Huckabee rejected modern biology, preferring creationism. In his first […]
The evidence has been overwhelming for quite a while that, when it comes to climate-change science, the Bush administration prefers restrictions to revelations. Just two months ago, for example, Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was set to testify on the impact of climate change on public health, but […]
There have been many, many reports in recent years about Bush administration officials torturing detainees, and using barbaric tactics like waterboarding, but insiders have been reluctant to admit publicly and on the record exactly what we’ve done and to whom. It’s one of several reasons why John Kiriakou’s perspective is of unique significance. A former […]
As of Sunday, the official line on the destruction of the CIA’s torture tapes was that the agency had been warned to preserve the videos. The White House, in particular, was at least tacitly aware of the videos’ existence, and the White House counsel’s office urged the CIA to keep them intact. So, who exactly […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Not surprisingly, the Bush gang has become a little shy about the CIA torture tape scandal: “White House lawyers have advised President Bush’s spokeswoman not to answer specific questions about why the CIA destroyed tapes of terror suspects under interrogation, as Congress seeks answers about the matter…. With that […]
I realize there are some ambiguities regarding private contractors’ legal status in Iraq, but this truly nauseating scandal, if accurate, should put a whole lot of people behind bars. A Houston, Texas woman says she was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Baghdad, and the company and the U.S. government are covering up the incident. Jamie […]
Al Gore was in Oslo, Norway, this morning to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize. If you have a minute, his acceptance speech is well worth reading. For example, I didn’t realize it, but this week is the seventh anniversary of Gore’s concessions speech after the 2000 race. Seven years ago tomorrow, I read my […]