With the vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment coming right up, opponents are playing hardball. With action on the Federal Marriage Amendment slated for next month, gay activists are renewing calls to “out” closeted members of Congress, as well as gay staffers who work for members who support the amendment. It is, to be sure, […]
We’ll be hearing a lot about this: The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq — that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons — were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted Friday. Intelligence analysts […]
It’s come to this. The Illinois GOP, reeling after pushing Jack Ryan from his Senate campaign, is so desperate for a competitive candidate, they’re turning to Mike Dikta. I wish I were kidding. In the wake of Steve Rauschenberger’s withdrawal from the Illinois Senate race, former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka has surfaced as a […]
One of Dick Cheney’s favorite lies — that 9/11 terrorist Mohamed Atta met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attacks — has been thoroughly and repeatedly debunked. Atta wasn’t even in Prague at the time of the alleged meeting and the 9/11 Commission has concluded, “We do not believe […]
I was wondering who, if anyone, the New York Post would fire as a result of its historic screw-up regarding the alleged Kerry-Gephardt ticket. It turns out, the Post knows exactly who’s responsible, but his job is perfectly secure. After all, he owns the paper. When The New York Post tore up its front page […]
Call me crazy, but I always thought being a third party candidate always meant working away from the other two parties. If that’s the case, I’d love to hear why a certain former consumer advocate is working alongside the Republican Party in states across the country. The latest example is Michigan. Michigan Republicans are helping […]
Murray Waas, who’s done some fine research on the Plame Game scandal, noted yesterday that John Ashcroft had more than a passing interest in the investigation before he recused himself on Dec. 30. Attorney General John Ashcroft received numerous detailed briefings last year regarding the criminal investigation of the unauthorized disclosure of a CIA agent’s […]
Ten years after Texas Democrats began raising questions about whether George W. Bush fulfilled his responsibilities to the National Guard, reporters finally decided to go to the heart of the matter — Bush’s microfilmed personnel file. There’s one significant new problem to finding out the whole truth: Bush’s files have been “inadvertently” destroyed. Military records […]
Sorry, I’ll be away from my desk today and won’t be able to post. I’ll be back tomorrow with plenty of long-winded tirades for your reading pleasure.
John Kerry’s campaign, during the Dem primaries, followed Howard Dean’s lead and left the public financing system. It was a gamble that paid off beautifully — Kerry’s campaign is already the strongest Dem campaign in U.S. history in terms of fundraising. Even more importantly, had Kerry stayed in the system, he’d be trailing Bush’s fundraising […]