There’s a Washington Post column today suggesting that President Bush is planning to sneak in perhaps dozens of recess appointments for key posts over the summer while the Senate is not in session. Post columnist Al Kamen writes that with the chances of Bush’s nominations getting through in an election year (2008) close to nil, […]
Good news from Iraq. Well, not really from Iraq, but for Iraq. The United Nations Security Council has voted to make sure that Iraqi funds will cease being wasted on the totally useless search for weapons of mass destruction. The Associated Press reports:
The Security Council voted Friday to immediately close down the U.N. inspection bodies […]
Good news from my home state of New Hampshire… A new ARG poll has found that President Bush’s approval rating in this first-in-the-nation primary state, has a 14% approval rating. New Hampshire, which has been seen as reliably conservative for decades, voted in 2006 to throw out both of its Republican House Representatives in favor […]
As even the most impartial observers have noted, President Bush’s view of executive power is markedly far-reaching, and beyond that of most presidents before him. Although how often his Administration breaks the law in over-reaching its bounds is disputed, what is indisputable is his tendency to disparage democracy in favor of dictatorship or monarchy, as he has done several times, he would say jokingly, in the past. And on Thursday, he brought it up again.
Today’s quote of the day came from Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Richardson in Thursday night’s PBS debate, on the topic of boycotting the 2008 Olympics which are being held in China, which has refused to stop supporting the murderous regime in Sudan:
“I believe fighting genocide is more important that sports.”
I wasn’t going to write about this, but there’s an intruiging new development in the case of that pro-wrestler who killed himself and his wife and son. The following is certainly very intriguing:
Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before authorities discovered the […]
This is a liveblogging thread for the PBS Democratic debate, 9PM EST to 10:30. The debate is hosted by the excellent Tavis Smiley and ins meant to address in particular issues that an African American audience is most interested in. Those reading this in RSS readers should jump to the full entry on the website […]
Michael Moore appeared on The Daily Show Wednesday night, and discussed how it felt to be dumped by CNN’s Larry King in favor of a Paris Hilton interview. Moore was supposed to have Wednesday’s Larry King episode, but it’s been delayed until Friday night because of the Paris idiocy.
Incidentally, Moore was denied entry into the […]
Prose Before Hos has some of Pat Robertson’s greatest hits– some of the worst stuff that’s ever come out of the arch-conservative theocrat’s mouth. Here are a few of my favs:
“There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not […]
Check out this headline:
Am I missing something here? Uh, why should Elizabeth Edwards have to defend anything she’s done?
It seems to me that Coulter should be the one on defense here, after accusing the Edwards family of exploiting the tragic death of their son more than a decade ago, and calling Edwards a “faggot” and […]
This just in:
Americans are giving bad grades all around. President Bush’s job approval rating now stands at 31 percent, the lowest ever in the FOX News poll, and almost twice as many Americans say they disapprove of the president’s job performance. And those harsh sentiments extend down Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill. Six months after […]
Tom Tancredo loves his lettuce. So much so that he’s sending it to Administration officials:
It’s not every day a presidential hopeful sends Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff a head of lettuce, but that’s what Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, did Wednesday to show his disagreement with Chertoff’s recent comments on how failure of passing immigration reform […]
I just stumbled across an interesting post at The Marketing Technology Blog about the apparent differences between the various presidential candidates websites. This really isn’t important, but it’s kind of interesting from a technology point of view. After a little research, the blogger discovered that most Republican presidential candidates’ web servers were running Windows and […]
Waiting lists, waiting lists, waiting lists! OMG! Michael Moore is a terrible person!
Michael Moore’s denunciation of America’s health-care system is about to hit the silver screen. In the film’s trailer, a desk attendant at a British hospital smiles while explaining that in Britain’s National Health Service, “everything is free.” But for free hospital care, Britons […]
Today’s quote of the day goes to The New Republic’s Johann Hari, who describes arch-conservative Indian-American author Dinesh D’Souza’s stance on immigration thusly:
D’Souza summarizes the prevailing sentiment by unveiling what he modestly calls ‘D’Souza’s law of immigration’: An immigrant’s quality is “proportional to the distance traveled to get to the United States.” In other words: […]
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