Hey, remember that time when the Vice President of the United States shot an elderly man in the face after drinking too much?
Oh, nothing. Just, you know, reminding you that it happened.
Oh man, I can’t stop laughing at this person:
“Global Warming is a Trojan Horse for Socialism –
FACT- Our world is getting hotter. FACT- the sun is also getting hotter. We know the sun is getting hotter because in the last year or two we can see the ice glaciers on Mars melting. If you look […]
The Washington Post:
More than one-third of American women are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), which in rare cases can lead to cervical cancer, by the time they are 24 years old, according to a study being published today.
The new estimates suggest that there are 7.5 million girls and women 14 to 24 years old infected […]
Oh this just has to be the quote of the day:
“Let me just make one editorial comment here. I’ve seen some press reporting says, ‘Cheney went in to beat up on them, threaten them.’ That’s not the way I work. I don’t know who writes that, or maybe somebody gets it from some source who […]
Two new jury notes have emerged from the Libby trial today, one of which is from the jury to the judge asking a question yesterday afternoon, the second of which is from the jury to the judge this morning saying they had answered their own question.
Apparently, according to people more familiar with the case than […]
Joe Biden spoke to a crowd of about 350 people last night in Hanover, New Hampshire at Dartmouth College at a town hall event. I understand it was a smaller crowd and a more subdued speech than John Edwards speech at the same location last month (also, Biden was more Bidenly). Biden took questions from […]
Washington Post:
Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured.
If his family had not lost its Medicaid.
If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find.
If his mother hadn’t been focused on getting a dentist for his brother, who had six rotted teeth.
By the time […]
Libby Trial
… Well? Will we get a verdict today?
The dismissal of one juror Monday signalled that deliberations would go faster than otherwise, for two reasons. Firstly, if the jury had replaced that juror with one of the alternates, the jury would have had to start deliberations all over again (something Fitzgerald would have wanted for […]
I can’t express how pissed I’ve been at most of the media for promoting the “why on earth isn’t Barack Obama garnering more black support than Hillary?!?!?!?!” meme. We’ve all heard pundits and reporters repeating this asinine question.
It’s pretty much racist, when you really think about it. “Obama is black! Why aren’t all black people […]
Here’s a statement issued by the New Hampshire Democratic Party today:
The headquarters of the New Hampshire Democratic Party in Concord were burglarized on the weekend of February 24 and 25, 2007. NHDP staff informed the Concord Police Department of the break-in first thing Monday morning and a complete and on-going investigation is currently […]
“Running for president is like sex, Don. You don’t do it once and forget about it.”
– James Carville, 1/27/08, predicting that Al Gore will run for President in 2008.
“Moving in a negative direction”
– Michael McConnel, 1/27/08, the incoming Director of National Intelligence (who is replacing John Negroponte after he switched to the State Dept and […]
As part of CBS News/Katie Couric’s bid to “revolutionize the nightly television news” format, they’re trying all sorts of new things. And one of them is to expand their “nightly news” brand to, well, things that are neither nightly, televised, nor news.
One of the ways they’ve tried to expand is by offering exclusive web content. […]
Laura Bush:
“…Many parts of Iraq are stable now. But, of course, what we see on television is the one bombing a day this discourages everybody.”
Oh really? Check out this chart from the Brookings Institute Iraq Index with statistics for November (the latest month for which statistics are available). More information over at ThinkProgress.
1,246. The number of days after the US became involved in WWII for Nazi Germany to be defeated1
1,429. The number of days the US has been fighting in Iraq, with no end in sight2
Footnotes
1Calculated from December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor when the US officially declared war, until May 7, 1945, the day […]
A majority of Americans now want a deadline to withdraw from Iraq:
Fifty-six percent say U.S. forces should be withdrawn eventually even if civil order has not been restored in Iraq, reflecting a continued and gradual departure from the “you break it, you’ve bought it” sentiment, ABC said.
Fifty-three percent support setting a date for withdrawing U.S. […]
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