Do you want to "Marry, 'Boff,' or Kill"? w/ Poll
It’s Thursday night on NBC, and just I sat through a half-hour setup on that Network’s struggling sitcom, 30 Rock, just now, to hear the "out" Network Promo, as the credits started to roll [voiced over...
View ArticleI admit, I'm confused about "immigration."
... but, here's what's going through my mind, and what I just sent to my Main (Wo)man:Dear [My Senator]:There is an old Chinese saying that, when spoken, does not conjure any horrible or fearful...
View ArticleBush's Baghdad 'Success'...Iraq=Israel
This afternoon George Bush let the Naval War College in on his recipe for success in Iraq: It should use Israel as a model:"Our success in Iraq must not be measured by the enemy's ability to get a car...
View ArticleCheney blows off Leahy with "4th Branch" argument
In the background of the confrontation between the Senate Judiciary Committee's Patrick Leahy and White House counsel Fred Fielding is this, reported by TheHill.com: Vice President Dick Cheney’s office...
View ArticleMaliki brings the Window Dressing for Patraeus
The BBC is reporting that leaders of Shi'ite Kurdish and Sunni factions have fashioned an agreement "on collective leadership" that, according to the White House, puts them on the road toward...
View ArticleI want to play high-stakes poker w/ Harry Reid (w/ poll)
Imagine sitting down across a poker table from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and telling him, "If I bluff, you don't get to see my cards, you just have to accept my word that I've got the winning...
View Articlere: The Death of Tongues
The LATimes has a story relating an extinction just as alarming -- perhaps more alarming -- than the possible extinction of Polar Bears by the shinking Polar Ice Cap: One of the world's 7,000 distinct...
View Article"Noblesse Oblige" was 'Progressive' in Victoria's Empire...
...back in the 1880s & '90s, but it's kind of ugly when it rears its head in 2008 America.In full, Hillary said: I would point to the fact that that Dr. King's dream began to be realized when...
View ArticleDe-fund the war on Iraq "or stay forever"
For months, the Bush Administration has been trying to lock in the U.S. Military's occupation of Iraq regardless of who our next president is. Democratics in Congress as well as candidates Clinton and...
View ArticleWho says Corporate Media "censors" free speech? [Conventions edition]
Northwest Airlines serves Minneapolis-St Paul in a big way. It's no wonder they tout themselves as "The Official Airline of the Republican National Convention," and they're concerned about the comfort...
View ArticleI just watched "The Best of the Best" - Maddow
Rachel Maddow just did an on-air interview of David Frum, and Rachel showed a quick intelligence, a deep and facile knowledge of the media environment she occupies, and a self-possession and self-love...
View ArticleObama knows how to deliver a threat
The Obama Administration stimulus package will "either be passed in this lame-duck session, or it will be the first thing I do as President, after January 20th."That's what Barack Obama told the White...
View ArticleMr. President: It's whatever Dick Cheney says it is.
That the Bush Administration implemented a policy of torture, and that torture is illegal under U.S. law is a settled issue both here on D-Kos and in much of the media discussion. Whether or not those...
View ArticleTweety sez "He has until October to change History."
Chris Matthews -- no matter what you think about the spittle-maester -- summed up the First Obama Administration with, "He has until October to change history," in his this evening's broadcast.And...
View ArticleMay we be rid of Rahm Emanuel soon?
Sally Quinn floated the news/rumor that Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is considering a run for Mayor of Chicago.Could we be so lucky?
View ArticleDavid Frum says HCR is "a fight the GOP might want to lose"
David Frum, American Enterprise Institute fellow and former special assistant to President George W. Bush that authored the idiotic and counterproductive phrase "Axis of Evil", has just published an...
View ArticleBaseball player's union steps up
The Major League Baseball Players Association has blasted Arizona's SB 1070 law that requires the harassment of Hispanics (my opinion). They've released a statement [.pdf] saying they want the measure...
View Article"Who's next" is the Republican mantra, and we're watching it tonight
The New Hampshire primary is showing us a glimmer of what we're likely to face, come 2016.First, let me say that I think that the Republicans will do this year what they've always done in years past;...
View ArticleWill McCain 'splain Mitt's $millions -- or will Keith Olbermann?
So John McCain is making another run at Dave Letterman this evening. Instead of explaining why he's rushing back to Washington to "save Wall Street", this time he's probably going to try to explain why...
View Article9th Circuit to consider "Misconduct" of racist judge
Just came across this at ThinkProgress: The Judicial Council of the 9th Circuit will conduct a formal misconduct hearing into Chief Judge Richard Cebull’s decision to email a racist joke about...
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