Former House Minority Leader Tom Delay will announce tomorrow that he will not be seeking re-election. There is a April 3 New York Times article about the decision. But even more interesting is the Knight Ridder article, published today, which...
This past Thursday Todd Gitlin had posted a piece about The Washington Post’s hiring of RedState.com’s Ben Domenech titled: Washington Post: Craven or Principled?I’d venture a guess to say that the Post was downright derelict in it’s vetting process of...
I just want to draw your attention to an important matter. An honest whistleblower fingered Diebold In California (so that Diebold was disqualified in the 2004 election for their illegal softwear applications) He is now charged with 4 felonies (they...
Hearts are fluttering at DKos and Atrios over the news that a Barron's editorial suggests that Bush's "willful disregard of a law" may be grounds for impeachment and should be thoroughly investigated.Good for Barron's. But their position shouldn't be surprising considering how many high-stakes international financial...
At the beginning of the program, Alan Alda said they should debate like Lincoln. Why then does this debate sound more like the McLaughlin Group? Sigh....
First I must say, it just does my heart good to see these folks in the White House be made to endure a bit of their own type of medicine: From CNN today... But the investigation has taken a toll...
This all takes me back to where I posted a comment in Having Plame Withdrawals? Aug 16, 2005. See: 18 U.S.C. § 641. See: 18 U.S.C. § 793. Now with either one of those hanging over one's head it would...
And why aren't the results of government funded research treated as valuably as private intellectual property. We just give the stuff away. Personally I don't have a problem with that because I think we all benefit greatly from the free flow...
The Pew survey has lots of other nuggets that should provide many, many hours of blog discussions beginning with the opening paragraph of the summary:"Both major political parties have a problem with their approach toward religion, in the eyes of...
This is an FYI post.Guess what book is the second bestseller at Amazon.com: Neal Boortz and John Linder's The Fair Tax, beaten only by the latest Harry Potter.Kind of scary, isn't it.Also today Boortz launched his book tour on Hannity and...
Josh has linked to a variety of tech/sigint/spook sites mulling the interface of technology, tradecraft, and gumshoe lore seeking an explanation for the strange decision by the administration to eschew the legal route to sigint for a darker and more...
I needed a job, partly because my health insurance is terrible because as a private person, the fact that I had breast cancer 7 years ago counts against me so much that I simply HAD to be in a group. ...
A computer expert has testified http://www.iwilltryit.com/fixed1.htmthat he was asked to, and did produce software that allowed hacking into voting computers in Ohio which would flip the vote from say, 49 - 51 to the opposite. He also said it was untraceable. ...
What do you think of this from today's New York Daily News?http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/357107p-304312c.htmlSome are using this story to go after Bush's and McClelland's statements about Rove, Libby, and leakers in general. Horrors! This proves that they must be disengenuous! My take on it is...
Well, for starters, I didn't used to feel sympathy for them, but then my best friend, one of the smartest people I know confided in me that she was $50,000 in debt to credit card companies. I couldn't believe it! ...
Many of us made much of Karen Hughes' blunders in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Her unstated theme was, "If you just really knew us you would like us so much. We have all the answers, and so you should try...
The ad by Patty Wetterling that bops from one view to another is so distracting that I wouldn't vote for her no matter what! Please! Stop that ad and don't put any more like that! I can't read unless I...
For an administration that views every problem as one that can be managed with spin; with the right public relations ploy, Karen Hughes is a no-brainer (pun intended).This is a woman who "feminized" Bush -- taught him to always say...
I buy produce, meat, poultry, seafood, etc as I eat it. I don't have a freezer full of stuff. I did buy a whole bunch of water containers last winter, but they froze and leaked all over my garage floor.So,...
I mean, I care about those who have suffered from mother nature. After all, YOU CAN'T FOOL MOTHER NATURE, can you?But let's face it -- you can only review the same footage 1000 times before it gets, well... old!So, why...
I posted this as a comment to someone else's blog, but it is so short and catchy, I thought I'd try to get it out to more people. I think this would be a great chant in DC next week...
A lesson that I learned the hard way is that the ability to graciously accept help is an indication of strength and friendship. We in the US are usually on the other side of the equasion, and often generously offer aid to...
most particulary those (Time, The NYT, et al) who granted double-super-secret status -- NOT to the whistleblower -- but to those who wanted to ruin the whistleblower! He likens this to Erlichman and Haldeman meeting, say, a Matt Cooper in...
If they had, they would not be referring to it as a VAT Tax. Regarding Social Security and its threatened demise: Recently people became so concerned about the latest Supreme Court decision regarding eminent domain, that they made their concerns...
I won’t try to paraphrase this Lithub excellent essay by Rebecca Solnit.
This is just one example in the well-wriiten look at how things have changed on the empathy train:
...PBS News Hour featured a quiz by Charles Murray in March that asked “Do You Live in a Bubble?” The questions assumed that if you didn’t know people who drank cheap beer and drove pick-up trucks and worked in factories you lived in an elitist bubble. Among the questions: “Have you ever lived for at least a year in an American community with a population under 50,000 that is not part of a metropolitan area and is not where you went to college? Have you ever walked on a factory floor? Have you ever had a close friend who was an evangelical Christian?”
In a sublime case of poetic justice, the so-called Tax Cut and Jobs Act is backfiring on the Republicans big time. Most voters are unimpressed, and Republicans themselves are ceasing to emphasize it in their campaign material.
Fox News host who said Trump’s fixer ‘knows real estate’ has a portfolio that includes support from Department of Housing and Urban Development, a fact he did not mention when interviewing secretary Ben Carson last year
[....] Hannity’s chosen investment strategy is confirmed by thousands of pages of public records reviewed by the Guardian, which detail a real estate portfolio of remarkable scale that has not previously been reported.
In East New York, Brooklyn, a police observation tower still hovers over the intersection where a 16-year-old boy was gunned down on his way home from playing basketball last November.
They are interviewing him (James Shaw, Jr.) on CNN TV right now, he is a really soft-spoken, polite, humble guy; impressive "young black male," that the Nashville police have already labeled a "hero"no holds barred. By the way, the shooter was clearly white.
Home page lede: Theresa “Red” Terry is trying to stop a natural gas pipeline from coming through Virginia land granted to her husband’s family by the king of England in colonial times. For three weeks, she has endured rain, snow, hail, high winds and nighttime temperatures in the 20s. As the stalemate drags on, “I stand with Red” has become a rallying cry for opponents of the 300-mile, $3.5 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline.
But what Comey’s actions and book reveal is a tendency toward a corrupting belief that his “higher loyalty”—which lifted him above partisan politics—somehow bestowed upon him the right to take actions that were well beyond his role as FBI director. It’s a very dangerous attitude, and one that resulted in him taking unprecedented actions in the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, with devastating consequences.
Verdejo still believes Sanders’s core message about economic inequality is important, but it doesn’t capture the racial complexities of the America that he and other people of color live in — especially in the wake of police shooting after police shooting and recent news about two young black men arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks simply for asking to use the bathroom of without ordering anything first.
If he runs again in 2020, it won't be the same as 2016 - count on it.
By Friday evening, when the American cruise missiles actually started flying, the vaunted attack had been reduced to a single predawn volley against three Syrian government chemical-weapons facilities, carefully chosen to avoid hitting known Russian or Iranian bases and thus escalating a war from which Trump himself had recently demanded an exit. The strike was bigger than last year’s, but hardly the sustained response with “all instruments of our national power” that the President promised in his televised address announcing the attack.
Fox News and CNN On Wednesday again traded blows on the air with Fox News's Sean Hannity comparing CNN's Anderson Cooper to Jerry Springer and Cooper hitting Fox for not reprimanding its top-rated host.
The back-and-forth jabs seem to be happening on a regular basis between the two cable news networks, with MSNBC, which is currently second to Fox News overall in the cable news race, rarely being dragged into the fight [....]