Have you ever married your second cousin, got an annulment 14 years later because your church wasn’t okay with it, married your second wife, got a divorce because you were having an affair with a female staff member, and then married said staff member?
One of the Presidential frontrunners did that (actually, two of them, if […]
The Onion had a hilarious satire piece last week about how Rudy Giuliani has no credibility on any issues other than 9/11.
At a well-attended rally in front of his new Ground Zero headquarters Monday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani officially announced his plan to run for president of 9/11.
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“Sure, he has no foreign […]
Joint Chiefs Chairman General Pace attended an event with the National Governor’s Association today, with ABC News reporting that “The general took questions from the governors on Iraq policy, and according to Gov. Phil Bredesen, D-Tenn., when asked what constituted the administration’s “Plan B” for Iraq, Gen. Pace’s response was that “Plan B” is […]
Sunday afternoon, the press was told that Iraqi President Jalal Talabani had had a heart attack or a stroke, however these reports were disputed by Talabani’s son, who said his blood pressure only went down and he felt dizzy. After Talabani left his country to go to Jordan for treatment, doctors say there is no […]
A short time ago from the federal courthouse:
A federal judge avoided a potential mistrial in the CIA leak case Monday by dismissing a juror and sending the other 11 back to continue deliberating the fate of former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said the juror had seen or […]
49,444
– The number of MySpace “friends” Barack Obama has, by far the highest number of any 2008 candidate.
772
– The number of MySpace “friends” Rudy Giuliani has.
Libby trial
Will there be a verdict today? With every weekday that goes by, it becomes more and more likely that the verdict will come today.
Or, to put it another way, it is more likely that the verdict will come today than it was on Friday. And it was more likely that the verdict would come […]
And the Best Documentary Feature Oscar goes to…. “An Inconvenient Truth”
Hey, remember that time when the President of the United States nominated his personal lawyer who had no experience as a judge– to serve as a Supreme Court Justice?
Oh, nothing. Just, you know, reminding you that it happened.
Well, tonight is Oscar night. And all the inside-the-beltway pundits, talking head TV news hosts who have no idea what they’re talking about, and quite a few bloggers (to my dismay) have bought into the idea that there is actually a possibility that Al Gore could announce for President if he “wins an Oscar.”
What a […]
“Since 2002, pretty much all the intelligence that’s come to us has proved to be wrong.”
– An unnamed senior diplomat at the IAEA on intelligence that the CIA has tried to use to convince them that Iran is developing nuclear weapons, quoted by the LA Times on 2/25/07.
“If you go back and see what Vice […]
Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani has had a stroke and left Iraq for Jordan for treatment, according to a report just published on CBS’ News website. Talabani is 73, and the stroke is being described as “minor” by a spokesman.
John McCain on Ethanol in 1999:
“Ethanol is not worth it. It does not help the consumer. Those ethanol subsidies should be phased out. And everybody here on this stage, if it wasn’t for the fact that Iowa is the first caucus state, would share my view that we don’t need ethanol subsidies. It doesn’t help […]
This is truly strange. The following is the error message you get when you go to Senator Ted “series of tubes” Stevens’ 2008 re-election website, and don’t know their super-secret password:
Through a series of highly sophisticated and complex algorithms, this system has determined that you are not presently authorized to use this system function. It […]
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