President Bush committed political treason today
I’ve seen a lot of sad things in American politics in my lifetime — the resignation of a president who became a national disgrace after he oversaw a campaign of break-ins and cover-ups, another who circumvented the Constitution to trade arms for hostages, and yet is now hailed as national hero. And those [...]
Dear 1boringoldman,
Last night, I appeared on MSNBC’s Verdict with Dan Abrams to discuss Karl Rove’s outrageous refusal to appear before Congress regarding serious allegations that he used the US Justice Department to take down a prominent Democratic politician. It is alleged that Mr. Rove personally instigated the prosecution [...]
Bush equates talking to terrorists with appeasing Nazis
Original posting at 8:28 a.m. ET: President Bush just made some interesting remarks about terrorism, going so far as to describe negotiating with terrorist groups as a "foolish delusion" akin to the appeasement that failed to stop Nazi Germany from invading its European neighbors.
Bush didn’t explicitly criticize Sen. [...]
Misogyny I Won’t Miss By Marie Cocco
As the Democratic nomination contest slouches toward a close, it’s time to take stock of what I will not miss.
I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan "Bros before Hos." The shirts depict Barack Obama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton [...]
Yesterday, I was looking up the military experience of Donald Rumsfeld in Wikipedia, and I ran across these two statements:
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Rumsfeld led the military planning and execution of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Rumsfeld pushed hard to send as small a force as possible [...]
I’ve been reading the transcript of John H. Richardson’s interview with John Yoo in Esquire. It’s long, and frankly pretty confusing. I wrote a long post about Yoo that I just erased. What I concluded was that the biggest force in Yoo’s opinions was his being the son of immigrants from Korea who hated Communism [...]
May 8, 2008
The Honorable George W. Bush President of the United States 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to register our strong opposition to possible unilateral, preemptive [...]
If you didn’t see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Fieth, watch it here. If you did see Jon Stewart interview Douglas Faith, watch it here [it includes parts that didn't air]. The interview speaks for itself, but there’s one point I’d like to make about the interview.
Douglas Feith was trying to explain to Jon Stewart the [...]
I knew that India was once floating in the ocean and slowly slid into Asia creating the Himilayas, but I had no idea that there was still this much seismic activity in inland Asia [bottom figure].
Earthquakes in China, Cyclones in Burma, Volcanos in Chile, Tornados in Georgia. The gods must be angry…