The Carpetbagger Report

Occasionally, an article is published that is so spectacularly stupid, you have to assume the writer was kidding. That, or someone wrote the piece under someone else’s name, as a way of trying to make them appear foolish. Jeffrey Lord, a former Reagan White House political director, has written just such a piece for The […]

Religious opponents of modern biology have been working to undermine evolution, with varying degrees of creativity, for about a century or so. Georgia State House Rep. Ben Bridges (R), however, thought he’d be extra clever by using the reality-based community’s arguments against them — if religion can’t legally be taught in public school science classes, […]

First up from the God Machine is a follow-up to last week’s item about the College of William and Mary, one of the nation’s oldest public universities, deciding to remove an 18-inch brass cross that had been displayed on the altar of an on-campus chapel. As we talked about, the public university wanted to make […]

For the last few years, the Pew Research Center has included an interesting question in its national political surveys: “Please tell me what one word best describes your impression of George W. Bush. Tell me just the one best word that describes him.” Those conducting the poll did not offer choices for respondents to choose […]

Guest Post by Morbo It seems that America has been dragged – or perhaps has simply lurched and stumbled – to a crossroads over the death penalty. As a recent article in The New York Times Magazine noted, the most common form of state-sponsored execution used these days — lethal injection — is now under […]

Today’s edition of quick hits. * A year ago, in honor of President’s Day, former Gannett chief and USA Today founder Al Neuharth rejected the idea that Bush was the worst president of all time. Today, he changed his mind. “I was wrong. This is my mea culpa. Not only has Bush cracked that list, […]

Final vote – 246 to 182. Reps. Jim Marshall (D-Ga.) and Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) were the only Dems to break ranks, while 17 Republicans voted with the majority. What about the rumors about several dozen Republicans joining Dems on this? Either there was some serious last-minute arm twisting, or the GOP was doing a very […]

On January 10, shortly before the president announced his escalation strategy in a nationally televised address, the White House held a press briefing to explain the Bush policy to reporters. An unnamed senior administration official, speaking from Tony Snow’s podium, specifically emphasized benchmarks that will let Americans gauge progress in Iraq. “Well, here’s — but […]

For the better part of 2006, it seemed we could barely go a few days without learning of another congressional Republican facing a federal criminal investigation. I doubt 2007 will top it, but this year’s already off to a good start — if you’re a defense attorney. This one takes a few twists and turns, […]

I suspect it was quite embarrassing. The Washington Times’ Frank Gaffney repeated a bogus quote from Abraham Lincoln as the lede in his column this week. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) saw the column, and used the fabricated quote as part of his argument in support of the president’s Iraq policy. Oops. Of course, accidents happen. […]