AP is reporting from Crawford that the decider is still deciding what to do about Iraq. The way they write it, it sounds as though he’ll still be ‘deciding’ and ‘consulting’ with his experts for quite some time:
“We’ve got more consultation to do until I talk to the country about the plan,” Bush said, appearing […]
Site difficulties
Unfortunately, the site has been having some problems over the past 24 hours or so, due to a problem on the part of my webhost, GoDaddy.com. The last update I got from them was that their “Advanced Technical Support Team” was working on my “complex issue” and their “most skilled technicians” will be […]
I haven’t written that much about former President Gerald Ford, who died yesterday. However, two items just came to my attention which I find interesting and I think you may find interesting as well. Firstly, this brief unsourced piece from Political Insider, a companion site to the better known Political Wire, run by Taegan Goddard:
The […]
Hey, all. Sorry for the problems that the site has been having today, I talked to my host and they don’t know what the problem is. However, hopefully the problem will pass, and if the site is being attacked (which I doubt, but it’s possible- I won’t get a chance to look over my server […]
If you’ve seen the documentary An Inconvenient Truth, you no doubt remember the animation of the polar bear drowning, because of global warming melting the block of ice he was living on. One of the most poignant moments of the film, I doubt if anybody left the theater able to forget it (if you haven’t […]
Several items today… Firstly, I will have a new piece published in Truthout Magazine by the end of the week and, I’ll link to it then. I’m quite excited, and I think you’ll like it. On to the real news however….
John Edwards’ plan
As I’ve written about several times before, John Edwards will announce his Presidential […]
Moments ago, from the Washington Post…. former President Gerald Ford dead. He was the only non-elected President that the US has ever had, relinquishing his role as Vice President to take over the role of the Presidency after Richard Nixon resigned (Ford immediately pardoned Nixon of any wrong-doing after his resignation in one of the […]
According to the Chicago Tribune today, the Bush Administration is scrambling to hire lawyers to protect themselves against subpoenas they expect from the new Democratic majority in Congress. Using language like “bracing for what could be an onslaught of investigations,” the Tribune says the White House is working to flesh out their legal staff:
Veterans of […]
Not long ago, I wrote a post entitled “Associated Press repeates tired false claim about Al Gore,” which was about a recent AP article which suggested that Al Gore claimed he invented the internet (he never did so- this is an old myth as I explained in the original post).
Well, I emailed them to correct […]
I produced this a while back but didn’t post it on the front page.
Iraq is not in complete and utter chaos. But parts of the embattled country are sliding towards it extremely quickly.
Yesterday, the NYT reported that “Hundreds of British and Iraqi soldiers assaulted a police station in the southern city of Basra.” Who was in the police station? Iraqi police officers. Police officers who, according to according […]
Phew. According to the Washington Post today, Bush’s Department of Defense has been sneaking no-bid contracts and in some cases illegal contracts out of the Department of the Interior. According to the Post, DoD officials find it easier to get their contracts through the DoI, and have routed 1.7 billion dollars through it over the […]
AFP reports today that Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) has become the fourth US Senator to visit Syria in the wake of the Iraq Study Group report which said such diplomatic interactions were vital to assuaging the situation in Iraq. The Bush Administration refuses to engage Damascus one-on-one about Iraq, and I understand that the State […]
Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it. This is one of the deadest news times of the year, but luckily, thanks to John Edwards, things will snap up a bit by the end of the week (I’m betting he announces on Wednesday, others have their eyes on Thursday. I know for a fact it won’t be […]
Reason #4,397 is…. Creating an animation graphic that shows Barack Obama being stabbed in the back on the Senate floor in order to “better illustrate” a point being made by one of their guests. Broadcast last night on Hannity & Colmes. Full video of the segment on YouTube.
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