Posted by Morbo Across the country, outraged fundamentalist Christians are threatening to boycott Target stores because the Minneapolis-based chain has excluded Salvation Army bell-ringers from its establishments this holiday season. Target officials say they don’t allow other groups to solicit in its stores, and they no longer want to make an exception for the Salvation […]
C’mon, general, this is getting silly. Asked if he has any regrets about the statements he made before the war that he was confident that weapons of mass destruction would be found, [Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] said, “It’s not over yet,” indicating he thinks it […]
At a White House briefing on April 17, 2002, just days after President Hugo Chávez fell victim to an unusually-brief coup, a senior administration official told reporters, ”The United States did not know that there was going to be an attempt of this kind to overthrow — or to get Chávez out of power.” As […]
The cabinet-related news was coming fast and furious yesterday. Here’s a recap with a few updates that you might have missed. * Tommy Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, resigned today. He’s the eighth cabinet member to go in less than a month. Mark McClellan is the leading candidate to replace Thompson, which […]
The White House is paying lip service to the intelligence reform legislation crafted by the 9/11 Commission, but if Bush and his gang really want to pass the bill, there’s an option they haven’t considered yet. President Bush, facing pressure to do more to enact a stalled bill that would restructure the nation’s intelligence community, […]
There’s an impression among many that the highest-profile political reporters in DC aren’t tough enough because they’ve developed cozy relationships with powerful players. The idea is, big-time journalists won’t ask the tough questions on Thursday if they’ll be golfing with their subject on Saturday. I’ve never fully bought into these concerns, but there may be […]
Despite four tax cuts in four years, and endless promises about prosperity being right around the corner, when it comes to job growth, Bush is still a miserable failure. U.S. hiring slowed significantly last month, the Labor Department reported today, dampening an economic outlook already clouded by lagging pre-holiday shopping by wary consumers. The November […]
In all sincerity, I really want to know what someone has to do in American politics to become a pariah. What does it take before a political figure is so disgraced, he or she is no longer welcome in polite society? By any reasonable standard, Jerry Falwell should have been spurned by the mainstream years […]
Following up on yesterday’s revelation that federally-funded abstinence programs offer wildly incorrect information to students, it’s also worth noting that these same curricula often take a neo-puritan approach to demeaning women. As Paul Waldman noted yesterday, some of these programs, which we pay for, offer a nineteenth-century view of sex roles to public school students. […]
I knew if I waited long enough, eventually Ken Starr would say something with which I can agree. Kenneth Starr says he never should have led the investigation that resulted in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton. The former independent counsel, now dean of the Pepperdine University law school, says “the most fundamental thing […]