Siegelman: ‘This Will Make Watergate Look Like Child’s Play’ …In his chat with the Star, Siegelman questions Rove’s motives for refusing to testify to Congress under oath about the case: The Star: Why do you believe Rove hasn’t agreed to testify under oath? Siegelman: He doesn’t want to run the risk of lying under oath […]
Sen. Kennedy Awaits Tests After Seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy remained in the hospital Sunday, awaiting test results that could explain why he had a seizure a day earlier. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital said tests would not be complete before Monday, and the hospital and Kennedy’s office released no new information about his condition […]
The GOP War on (Democrats) Voting Since its inception, TPM has been chronicling the Republican party’s efforts to push bogus or wildly exaggerated claims of vote fraud to suppress voting among predominantly Democratic constituencies like the old, the poor and the non-white. And here we have another installment from the GOP vote fraud bamboozlement file. […]
I was lamenting the fact that all the public televisions here in red state georgia alway have Fox News running, thinking that it’s the price I pay living in a small blue enclave in a sea of red. But two people commented that their public T.V.’s have Fox on all the time, and they both […]
I’ve rattled on about "double binds" before. It is a kind of communication originally described under this terminology that’s common in families that produce mentally ill children. An example that immediately comes to mind from a case long ago was a patient who was in the hospital after a suicide attempt. It was her birthday. […]
Woman speaks of husband’s torture at CIA abduction trial in Italy Clutching her Italian identity card in a gloved hand, the cloaked wife of a fiery Muslim cleric Wednesday tearfully recounted publicly for the first time how her husband was kidnapped on a Milan street in 2003 and sent to Egypt to endure torture and repeated imprisonment. […]
Rush Limbaugh berates 10th grader’s school essay The best story I’ve heard this week by far was told today over lunch. Apparently, a co-worker of mine named George listens to the Rush Limbaugh show in his car, and yesterday heard him discussing Barak Obama’s comments about similarities between the recent housing crisis and the lead-up […]
Hubbert Peak Graph showing Oil Production in non-OPEC, non-FSU Countries Henry Ford introduced the Model-T in 1908, that’s 100 years ago. It required oil to run, so there’s been a century long run on oil. This Hubert Peak Graph shows that oil production in non-OPEC non-Former Soviet Union countries peaked about the time George Bush […]
A comment this morning made me think. Yesterday, I was thinking about Fox News blaring from public televisions everywhere here in Red State Georgia where I live. But joyhollywood says Fox News blares from the public television sets in New Jersey, the bluest of states with Democratic Senators. Why is that? That lead me to […]
I told you we’d hear from Rush Limbaugh today… dark days… Tomorrow, the Wall Street Journal, the Weekly Standard, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly will explain to us that what Bush said today is fine, maybe even courageous.