Posted by PWalker Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” topped $100M at the box office this weekend. Which according to The Washington Post puts it at number 273 all time. It’s reported that the film cost only $6M to make, which means a lot of profits lost by Disney. How does Michael Eisner feel about it? According […]
Posted by SamFelder On the brink of resolution, the George W. Bush AWOL story spiraled out of control when we learned two weeks ago that Bush’s personnel files had been “inadvertently destroyed” in a freak microfilm preservation accident. The accident, to have taken place eight years prior, had not come up before in the ten […]
I have good news and bad news. The bad news is I have a family commitment that will keep me away from my desk through Wednesday. That means, obviously, that I won’t be able to post anything. The good news is I have lured three capable Carpetbagger readers into helping out while I’m away. Their […]
It’s time for my every-Friday feature — your favorite and mine — Poll Day. As always, these state-by-state presidential poll results were released within the last seven days. Pay particular attention to Arizona, Missouri, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, where there’s some very encouraging news. Arizona (10 electoral votes) KAET/Arizona State — Kerry 42, Bush 41 The […]
You’ve almost certainly already read about this elsewhere, but since I’ve been obsessing over the court–stripping issue for months, I figured I should wrap the story up with an exclamation point. Now that the conservatives have been denied the opportunity to ban gay marriage, Congress’ loony right has decided it’ll pass a law to take […]
This is getting embarrassing. A few months ago, we learned that the Christian Coalition was having trouble paying its bills and is facing a lawsuit from a Virginia firm that helped the group struggle through a series of self-inflicted scandals. A local law firm has asked a judge to garnishee the assets of the Christian […]
Doonesbury just gets better and better. This week’s series on Fox News has been terrific, especially today’s.
Every few months, the GOP will try and convince the public that it really, really wants to boost the party’s weak support in the African-American community. Four years after black voters all but ignored George W. Bush at the ballot box, the Republican Party is still struggling to make itself more attractive to them and […]
When the Sandy Berger story first broke, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellen said he was just keeping apraised by what he saw in the papers. “What we’ve seen is, and what we know is what has been reported in the news media. It is apparently an investigation that is underway, and the questions are […]
Just a month ago, voters learned that the Bush campaign, in its infinite wisdom, wanted church goers to collect directories from their houses of worship for Bush’s benefit. The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has sent a detailed plan of action to religious volunteers across the country asking them to turn over church directories to the campaign, […]