ABC News reported this week that a group of so-called “Principals” — including Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet, Attorney General John Ashcroft, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice — met dozens of times in the White House to “discuss and approve” specific interrogation […]
Gallup released a poll this week that offered Barack Obama some good news, and some bad, all relating to an “education gap.” As Jonathan Chait noted, “Obama’s lead over Clinton among white college-educated Democrats (and Democratic leaners) has risen from 7 points to 12 points. Among those with post-graduate degrees, it’s exploded, from an 8 […]
Guest Post by Morbo If there’s one thing I don’t like, it’s being lectured on morality by a corpulent autocrat with four wives who heads one of the most repressive regimes in the world. I speak of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, that bastion of freedom of thought and freedom of religion. The king recently […]
Guest Post by Morbo Editor’s note: Two months ago, Morbo fell on a patch of ice, broke his left wrist, and hasn’t been able to type much since. Fortunately, he makes a triumphant return this morning. -CB There is a school of thought among some scientists that if we ever encounter intelligent life on another […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Hillary tells Bill to please stop talking: “Sen. Hillary Clinton wants her husband to quit talking about her trip to Bosnia in 1996, the former president said Friday. ‘Hillary called me and said, ‘I misstated it, you said I misstated it, but you got to let me handle it […]
We’ve probably all seen some entertaining take-downs of Fox News, but The Daily Show’s John Oliver put together one of the gems to end all gems. Pay particular attention to the great contradictions on everything from executive privilege to pardons. Here’s the first part:
Look, I know it must be tough for the media personalities. It’s been a slow week on the campaign trail, and we’re still about two weeks away from the Pennsylvania primary. As Dayo Olopade noted the other day, the gap has created “a ‘news’ vacuum that has essentially forced the national media into a sort […]
A couple of weeks ago, Hillary Clinton got into a fair amount of trouble when she claimed to have faced sniper fire in 1996 during a diplomatic trip to Tuzla, Bosnia. After the story lingered for a few days, the campaign backed down, Clinton said she “misspoke,” and she even ended up telling a self-deprecating […]
There are probably some grounded, half-way reasonable arguments against withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, but the fact that the White House keeps relying on sheer nonsense suggests the Bush gang can’t think of any, either. Consider Dick Cheney’s remarks on Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday. HANNITY: If we pull out too early, what do you […]
Last week, on the anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, John McCain’s record in opposition to a King holiday not only created a headache for the senator’s campaign, but ultimately led McCain to publicly acknowledge that he was wrong. His record on the Civil Rights Act of 1990 may prove to be a little […]