July’s almost over, Congress starts a five-week summer break tomorrow, and Bush seems to have some kind of moral objection to working in the month of August, so let’s take on a slightly less serious discussion-group topic today, shall we? National Review’s John J. Miller recently published what he labeled the “50 greatest conservative rock […]
If you have time, I’d really encourage readers to watch the video of yesterday’s press conference with Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. A link to the video is on the White House transcript. The president doesn’t hold many press conferences, so it’s sometimes easy to forget just how difficult it is for him […]
As expected, one of the more shameless GOP stunts in a while passes the House last night, by a fairly narrow vote. The House approved an increase in the federal minimum wage on Saturday, but its future was clouded because Republicans tied the pay change to an estate tax cut that had been blocked in […]
Sen. [tag]Russ Feingold[/tag] (D-Wis.) likes to joke that the campaign-finance reform measure that bears his name is so well-known that a large part of the country thinks his first name is “[tag]McCain[/tag].” As it turns out, that may not be a problem anymore. The quartet of lawmakers behind every major federal campaign finance restriction in […]
First up from the God machine this week is an unusual trend in the field of religion and sports. Hand fans waved in southeast Atlanta on Thursday afternoon as they do at so many summer worship services in the South. Only this revival was at Turner Field, and Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz preached on […]
Guest Post by Morbo Fred Phelps, the Kansas minister known for his strident opposition to homosexuality, is widely acknowledged to be a moron. There’s a good reason for this: Phelps is a moron. Phelps’ entire family consists of morons. (I will exempt the young children, who appear to have been brainwashed.) But guess what — […]
Guest Post by Morbo Last week I criticized the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times for a strange column it ran about the rise in popularity of Mexican food. This week, in an effort to be fair and balanced, I’d like to give The Times a pat on the back for running an interesting story […]
Today’s White House press conference with Bush and British Prime Minister Tony “Yo” Blair was not particularly newsworthy, but there was one comment the president made towards the end of the event that bothered me. “[W]hat the world is seeing is a desire by this country and our allies to defeat the ideology of hate […]
Just to follow up for a moment on an earlier post, we were waiting to see what congressional [tag]Republicans[/tag] would tie to a [tag]minimum-wage[/tag] [tag]increase[/tag], if anything. GOP leaders could let Congress pass it straight, take credit for a popular move, and take a key campaign issue away from Dems. Or they could play a […]
I try not to link to every [tag]Paul Krugman[/tag] column, but today’s piece was especially strong, in part because Krugman seems equally disgusted with Bush and the news outlets who cover his presidency. Whatever the reason, the fact is that the Bush administration continues to be remarkably successful at rewriting history. For example, Mr. Bush […]