The 10 members of the 9/11 Commission are divided equally along partisan lines, five Dems and five Republicans. It makes the panel bi-partisan, not non-partisan. And as active members of their respective political parties, I can appreciate their desire to participate in the process during an election year. In this case, however, I wish they […]
I don’t have much to say about the ridiculous smear launched by the Partisan Hacks for Bush, I mean, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. The group’s slanderous and baseless attacks on John Kerry are almost too pathetic to rebuke, though the New York Times does a nice job highlighting how different the group’s attacks are […]
Poor Disney. After “The Alamo,” “Hidalgo,” and “Home on the Range” were seen by a combined 14 people nationwide, you’d think the company might be looking for a hit. Sure enough, Michael Moore wants to give it one, but the company doesn’t want anything to do with it. Go figure. The Walt Disney Company is […]
Fred Clarkson picks up on one of my favorite topics today in Salon — Roy Moore’s possible presidential run. (I happen to know Clarkson, so believe me when I tell you he knows of what he speaks.) Clarkson seems to agree with my earlier assessments on this. Moore may not run, but if he does, […]
Sometimes, taking a look at Bush’s dissembling and deceptions is more frustrating than fun. Today is one of those days. As Eugene Oregon noted this morning, Bush was in Michigan yesterday at a campaign rally in which he was asked a series of questions, nearly all of which were obvious set-ups. There was, however, one […]
This just hit the wires: Former U.S. vice president Al Gore plans to announce on Tuesday that he has acquired cable television channel NewsWorld International from Vivendi Universal to launch a new liberal network, a source familiar with the matter said. NewsWorld International currently airs international news broadcasts. Terms of the deal were not immediately […]
Another minor interruption on my self-imposed moratorium on Nader-related news. About a month ago, the Nader campaign held an event in Oregon, one of Nader’s strongest states in 2000, to help him appear on the state’s ballot in 2004. It failed miserably. Ralph Nader continued his long and much-maligned march to win the White House […]
This is a dreadfully bad idea. I may not have been an enthusiastic “Deaniac” during the Dem primaries, but hearing that Howard Dean is considering a new career as a TV talk show host is enough to make me cringe. Love him or hate him (I’ve leaned towards the latter), Dean made a serious contribution […]
When I worked in DC, I used to visit the Supreme Court about once a week. When the justices weren’t hearing cases, it wasn’t unusual to see them outside the building, often with a federal marshal by their side. I thought about this over the weekend when I heard that Justice David Souter had been […]
I think the new Kerry campaign ads border on perfection and I think they’re the ideal part of a new national ad buy the campaign is rolling out this week. While there are a number of positive features to the spots, there’s one point I’d like to emphasize that the ads touch on in a […]