With a terribly sad three-year anniversary upon us, this Center for American Progress paragraph seemed to summarize the landscape nicely. “As we approach the third anniversary of the onset of the Iraq war,” neoconservative-turned-Bush-critic Francis Fukuyama writes, “it seems very unlikely that history will judge either the intervention itself or the ideas animating it kindly.” […]
For the gang that puts together fake-news segments, this doesn’t seem like a huge surprise. A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina said two men who later identified themselves as Secret Service agents pretended to be Fox News journalists when surveying their neighborhood in advance of a March 8 visit from President […]
Families that live around coal-fired power plants can breathe a little easier today. A federal appeals court blocked the Bush administration’s four-year effort to loosen emission rules for aging coal-fired power plants, unanimously ruling yesterday that the changes violated the Clean Air Act and that only Congress could authorize such revisions. A three-judge panel of […]
NPR released its first national survey of the year yesterday and the results were surprisingly one-sided: Republicans are “losing their stranglehold on national security and foreign policy,” leaving Dems with “a unique opportunity to get heard on keeping America safe.” Democrats win every security debate in this poll and when voters are asked who they […]
First up from this week’s God machine is news from Georgia about the state’s constitution, religious liberty, and Gov. Sonny Perdue’s (R) initiative to break down the church-state wall a little too much. This year, a couple of high profile measures didn’t make the cut – and with good reason. The one that has drawn […]
Guest Post by Morbo Here’s a story that gives me hope for the future: The cities of Houston and Dallas are locked in a fierce competition over which can get more money from gay travelers. You read that right. Two cities in Texas want gay people to come visit them. Look, I don’t want to […]
Guest Post by Morbo Former Bush domestic advisor Claude Allen claims his arrest on charges of retail theft is all a misunderstanding. I don’t buy it. Allen doesn’t seem to have a plausible defense. Unlike an ordinary shoplifter, he can’t claim he simply forgot to pay for a certain item, since his scam was somewhat […]
The president spoke at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in DC last night and tried out a new line about his party’s vision: “We don’t fear the future.” “We don’t fear the future,” Bush told donors who contributed $8 million Thursday night to support Republican House candidates. “We welcome it.” Bush repeated a version […]
On Wednesday, the New York Times ran an editorial noting former White House aide Claude Allen’s arrest, and said, given what we’ve seen over the last several years, “If the current Congress had been called on to intervene in the case of Mr. Allen, it would probably have tried to legalize shoplifting.” It was a […]
Clear Channel Communications doesn’t put any real effort in hiding its ideological bias. It’s a Republican company, run by Republican executives, which contributes mostly to Republican campaigns. What’s more, it also uses its ownership of a huge national billboard company, called Clear Channel Outdoor, to advance partisan ends. It’s hard to forget examples like this […]