When Michael Connell‘s plane crashed in mid-December, there was a rumbling suspicion that this was no simple accident. Connell has been the focus of the BradBlog, the Velvet Revolution, and Raw Story‘s Larisa Alexandrovna for some time. Connell was a computer Guru who set up many of the Republican Candidate’s web sites and the Swiftboat […]
The Washington Post has some excerpts from the Cheney biography [Angler] today. As I looked over the timeline of the Unwarranted N.S.A. Domestic Spying story, I realized how the "ends justify the means" mentality leads people into the wilderness. After the September 11, 2001 attack, the first real "Presser" was Cheney’s interview on Tim Russert’s […]
My Magic Penny Keeps You Safe by: tremayne In the fall of 2001 I picked up a penny and since that time we have not had a major terrorist attack in the United States. My magic penny is the reason. I know this because I did not have the magic penny on Sept. 11, 2001 […]
I’ve never seen anything quite like the report released today entitled: REINING IN THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY Lessons and Recommendations Relating to the Presidency of George W. Bush House Committee on the Judiciary Majority Staff Report to Chairman John Conyers, Jr. January 13, 2009 It’s 487 pages long [so I’ve only scanned the table of contents […]
Bush isn’t the only person looking back. I have been too. Of all the people who testified at the U.S. Attorney Hearings, one person stands out in my mind as the most odious – Bradley Schlozman. He was my choice for the worst person in the world. He combined physical awkwardness, an obnoxious demeanor, moral […]
When Bush Is History By Eugene Robinson January 13, 2009 Not to kick the president on his way out the door, but he was wrong when he told White House reporters at a wistful, nostalgic news conference yesterday that "there is no such thing as short-term history." It’s true that some presidencies look different after […]
I know that I’ve been boring as hell with my obsession with financial bubbles, but it’s not only interesting, it’s important. Again, a financial bubble is when some Market takes off like a rocket and prices soar. The situation is accompanied by all kinds of rationalizations about why. "The Internet is the wave of the […]
Man, this is better than a new video game! January 8th: Obama gave his speech on the Economy. January 9th: The next day, Nobel Laureate Economist NYT Columnist, Paul Krugman, responded with a column, The Obama Gap, which said: But Mr. Obama’s prescription doesn’t live up to his diagnosis… Why isn’t Mr. Obama trying to […]
The Stock Market Indices lose their diagnostic value in a Recession or Depression. The number that matters is Unemployment, and as we all know, it’s beginning to skyrocket. Unemployment [Bureau of Labor Statistics] In this case, the Unemployment figure is doubly important, because we’re all aware that we’re worried not just about an economic Recession, […]
Critiquing the Critique By Josh Marshall from TPM Reader AJ One of the most difficult dynamics in legislating is the seemingly never ending critique that the good is not perfect. That argument is in constant use and is far too often an excuse to make the bad worse or not at all. As the debate […]