Filed at 3:24 pm, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Photo by spcoon.
As you probably already knew, there’s a major rally down on the Mall in Washington today protesting against the President’s escalation plan in Iraq and in favor of withdrawal. While no hard numbers are available for how many people are in attendance, most news organizations are estimating in the tens of thousands.
Among the […]
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Filed at 9:52 am, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
According to a new poll of Canadians, a vast majority is willing to make sacrifices in their lives if it will help curb global warming. CTV says:
- 76 per cent are willing to pay to have their houses retro-fitted to become more energy efficient
- 73 per cent […]
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Filed at 8:30 am, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
And the worst headline of the day goes to…
… The Washington Post. It’s borderline irresponsible to use the words “Bush,” “Solve,” and “Iraq” in the same sentence, much less a headline. Is it just me, or does this headline suggest that by ignoring a co-equal branch of government (in this case, Congress), the President will […]
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Filed at 2:19 am, Saturday January 27th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Brave New Films (the production company behind the awesome people-powered documentaries Uncovered, The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price, Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, and most recently Iraq for Sale) is creating a campaign called The Real McCain.
The idea is to demonstrate how the self-proclaimed “straight-talker” contradicts […]
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Filed at 9:54 pm, Friday January 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Evidently the Libby trial will make a turn towards the totally awkward, according to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, who writes about the case as though it was a rumor in high school or something. According to Isikoff, it’s going to get, like, totally awkward for the White House.
What’s the scoop? Well, evidently Team Libby has been […]
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Filed at 7:03 pm, Friday January 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
I don’t know who’s running Team Hunter, but I’m not impressed. Representative Duncan ‘I will lecture visitors to my website‘ Hunter (R-CA) just dropped an ad buy in my home state, New Hampshire. The focus of the ad? Immigration. Immigration-immigration-immigration. He stands in front of a fence on the US-Mexico border in the ad. You […]
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Filed at 5:43 pm, Friday January 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Can you believe this? I do not find this at all believable:
“Never did.”
That’s ultra-patriotic/jingoistic country music star Toby Keith on whether or not he supports the Iraq war. The only bit of information that even slightly lends credence to this unbelievable claim of his is that he’s apparently good friends with New Mexico’s Democratic governor […]
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Filed at 5:12 pm, Friday January 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
So much for Defense Secretary Gates remaining non-political (unlike his predecessor)…
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that a congressional resolution opposing President Bush’s troop buildup in Iraq undercuts U.S. commanders and “emboldens the enemy.”
[…]
At his first Pentagon news conference since taking office Dec. 18, Gates was asked his reaction to the debate in Congress over […]
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Filed at 1:32 pm, Friday January 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The Senate Intelligence Committee is working on wrapping up a major report on prewar intelligence that’s been more than two years in the making, and the new Chairman of the committee, Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is alleging that the old Chairman was pressured by the Vice President to intentionally stall the report. McClatchy:
Vice President Dick Cheney […]
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Filed at 11:30 am, Friday January 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Let’s just keep things in perspective here with regard to violence in Iraq, and the causes of that violence. The Bush Administration has said that they are in Iraq to combat al Qaeda and, more recently, Iranian operatives within Iraq, such as those belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard forces.
Estimated number of foreign (i.e. al Qaeda, […]
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Filed at 9:30 am, Friday January 26th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Setting a new standard for transparency
Newly elected Democratic Senator Jon Tester (Montana) is “setting a high standard” for transparency according to the Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity. What’s Tester doing? He’s created a schedule available on his official Senate.gov website so his constituents can see exactly what he did the previous day. […]
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Filed at 8:05 pm, Thursday January 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
CBS News blasted the President’s State of the Union last night for not mentioning Hurricane Katrina even once. You can watch a video of their report here. CBS reporter Armem Keteyian ended the report saying:
To a point where in places like Mount Olive Gardens [an area full of trailers for Katrina refugees] words like relief […]
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Filed at 7:18 pm, Thursday January 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Both the Colbert Report and The Late Show did segments on Nancy Pelosi blinking during the State of the Union Address. Ironically enough on The Late Show, Letterman said in the lede to his segment: “I don’t think this is the kind of thing you’ll see on any other show.” Sorry, Dave. First The Late […]
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Filed at 5:51 pm, Thursday January 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
The FEC has decided that former Representative Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) can use his leftover campaign funds to pay legal bills, TPM Muckraker writes. Kolbe decided not to run for re-election in 2006 and retired in his 70s.
If you’ll remember, in the fallout of the Foley scandal last October I was the first person (blog or […]
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Filed at 1:57 pm, Thursday January 25th 2007
by Arlen Parsa
Senator Obama has been for universal health care for a while now, but today he “officially” said it, using those exact words. AP:
Every American should have health care coverage within six years, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday as he set an ambitious goal soon after jumping into the 2008 presidential race.
“The time has come […]
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