Listening to Rudy Giuliani’s blatantly dishonest radio ad about his bout with prostate cancer, the audience is led to believe that his access to the U.S. healthcare system saved his life. We don’t need to expand access to more Americans, he argues, because the system is fine the way it is. After all, countries that […]
To say that the White House’s policy towards Pakistan has left the United States in an awkward position right now would be a dramatic understatement. With Gen. Pervez Musharraf having suspended the constitution and stifling any semblance of freedom, Bush, once again, is left with bad and worse options. As Fred Kaplan explained, these conditions […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Crisis in Pakistan: “Police fired tear gas and clubbed thousands of lawyers protesting President Gen. Pervez Musharraf’s decision to impose emergency rule, as Western allies threatened to review aid to the troubled Muslim nation. Opposition groups put the number of arrests at 3,500, although the government reported half that.” […]
I need a small favor from readers. It literally only takes a few seconds. The Carpetbagger Report has been nominated in the 2007 Weblog Awards, which apparently are driven by popular vote. (I’m nominated in the Best of the Top 251-500 Blogs. I’m not sure how they arrived at these numbers and/or rankings, but it’s […]
Way back in July, the House Judiciary Committee approved contempt of Congress citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, for their refusal to testify in response to congressional subpoenas. And then … nothing. There’s been nary a word uttered on the matter since. Judiciary Committee Chairman […]
When it comes to the polls, Ron Paul can’t quite top 5% in any scientific state or national survey. But when it comes to fundraising, results like these sure are impressive. Proving again his ability to raise significant cash online, Ron Paul has raised nearly $2 million since midnight via his website. In what is […]
There was plenty of speculation over the summer about whether NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg might run as an independent candidate for president. He’d deny interest, but then tease reporters with some kind of ambiguous answer about intentions. This went back and forth for a while, until in August, Bloomberg stopped being coy. Asked by Dan […]
It’s been a while since we’ve last heard from the American Family Association’s the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon. Every once in a while, Wildmon and the AFA will draw headlines for attacking a group or company for being insufficiently “pro-family,” though most of their complaints come across as bizarre rants from extremists. The targets from […]
One of the underlying themes of Tom Schaller’s Whistling Past Dixie and Paul Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal is how the modern Republican Party has relied on racial tensions for electoral gain. The exploitation of racism has varied in subtleties over the years, but the basic “Southern Strategy” has been consistent for several decades. […]
The recent discussion of the U.S. tolerance for waterboarding has been dominated by a certain Alice-in-Wonderland quality lately, but when a top U.S. State Department official can’t even comment on Americans being waterboarded by foreign governments, the debate has officially gone down the rabbit hole. (via Talk Left) The top legal adviser within the US […]