Despite the latest revelations that Alberto Gonzales lied about his involvement in the prosecutor purge, the President is standing by his Attorney General. I’m wondering if he’s the only one. I was reading several conservative blogs yesterday to gauge their support for the embattled AG. I was surprised to see so many who have decided […]
Jonah Goldberg seems a little peeved that his yet-to-be-published book, Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton, isn’t being taken more seriously. In an NRO item yesterday, Goldberg defends his forthcoming book as “groundbreaking.” Goldberg seems genuinely disappointed that his critics haven’t been “thoughtful” enough in their analyses. He told Tim Noah […]
I appreciate the fact that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales believes an aggressive public relations offensive will help him keep his job, but to avoid being laughed at, again, he should probably add some nuances to his defense. For example, yesterday, Gonzales appeared on a Seattle talk-radio show. Seattle is of particular significance, given John McKay […]
I suppose this was inevitable. On the March 23 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh told listeners that former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) and his wife Elizabeth are “political people [who] are different than you and I.” Referring to the couple’s March 22 announcement that Elizabeth Edwards has Stage IV metastatic breast […]
First up from the God Machine this week is a federal court ruling on the president’s faith-based initiative that appears to be something of a Pyrrhic victory for the religious right. A religious group called the Northwest Marriage Institute, which was created to provide Bible-based premarital and marriage counseling, has received public funds in the […]
Of the new purge revelations, perhaps even more startling than learning about Alberto Gonzales’ mendacity — after all, is that new? — were emails between Tasia Scolinos, a senior public affairs specialist at the Justice Department, and Catherine Martin, a White House communications adviser. First, the notion that the prosecutors were fired for performance reasons […]
Remember all the comments [tag]Attorney General[/tag] [tag]Alberto Gonzales[/tag] has made this month about not having been directly involved with the [tag]prosecutor[/tag] purge? Right about now, Gonzales probably wishes you didn’t. Internal [tag]Bush[/tag] administration e-mails suggest that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have played a bigger role than he has acknowledged in the plan to fire […]
Guest Post by Morbo I realize not everyone is a fan of “The New Republic.” Personally, I find it sometimes enlightening and sometimes exasperating. For a journal of political and cultural thought, that’s not a bad place to be. Recently, TNR was bought by a CanWest, a Canadian media conglomerate that leans right. There are […]
Guest Post by Morbo A museum in Tallahassee, Fla., is under fire for an exhibit called “The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag.” The piece, by artist John Sims, shows a Confederate flag hanging from a noose on a gallows. Officials at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science say they have no […]
Guest Post by Morbo The allegation that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the plays that bear his name is the creationism of the literary world. I was pleased, therefore, to see a thorough debunking of this nonsense recently. In the piece, Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, points out that there […]