Via IraqSlogger: Riverbend, the famed Iraqi blogger who has transfixed English-speaking readers with her sensitive, introspective, and brutally honest chronicling of life in the war zone on her Baghdad Burning blog has announced that her family will finally flee Iraq in hopes of safely surviving the war in a foreign land.
I remember Baghdad […]
The vast amount of sleaze and corruption flowing from the Bush administration truly boggles the mind.
The loyal Bushie appointee whose job was selling abstinence to Africa has been caught hiring prostitutes in DC. The Madam in question apparently has an extensive list of the powerful who have used her service - I’m guessing members of […]
The pony search committee comes up empty handed again.
The New York Times reports that U.S. government-sponsored reconstruction projects in Iraq are failing due to neglect. The Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction inspected eight different projects that had been touted as successes by the Department of Defense. They wanted to […]
Here’s the Bush administration’s political strategy, with acknowledgement to Talking Points Memo, where they have been saying this for months now:
The Bushies need the Iraq escalation to take them through their last two years without having to admit failure. It will be June by the time we finish deployment of the additonal 50,000 soldiers. It […]
Damn, damn, damn.
I really need to stop reading the other blogs because they’re so good they make me break my promises.
Terrance at Republic of T has an astonishing series of posts - here, here and here - entitled The Queer Thing About School Shooters, highlighting the ways in school shooters are victims of hazing, teasing, […]
You can watch the first episode of Bill Moyers Journal is called Buying The War is no real surprise for those of us who’ve been paying attention.
But for others, the direct parallels to the propaganda machinery of the government controlled media of say Soviet Russia under Stalin may come as a shock.
One thing that WAS […]
Tune in to CBS “60 Minutes” this Sunday for some primo schadenfreude. Ex-CIA Director George Tenet will be on, telling us that when he said “It’s a slam dunk case,” he wasn’t referring to a belief on his part that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq possessed usable weapons of mass destruction. Oh no, he’s not […]
For far too long now, conservatives have desperately shielded themselves behind the facade of the soldiers’ morale, arguing that any criticism of the Iraq war damages the soldiers’ morale. The big lie of “supporting the troops” is the belief that supporting the troops means never criticizing anything done by the military for any reason. Stated […]
Satan behind illegal immigration, Utah County Republican claims
This man is free, on the streets. He probably has a driver’s license. He can get a concealed weapon permit. And he thinks Satan is behind illegal immigration.
Is there any idea that is simply so daft, so nuts, so embarrasingly simple-minded that a Republican won’t believe it?
Alberto Gonzales might not make it to Utah- or out of Washington alive. But the list of Bush administration flunkees running to Utah to look busy is obvious and somewhat frightening. The Bush “Mod Squad” of Gonzales, Education Secretary Spellings and HHS head and former Utah governor Mike Leavitt, is due to come here Friday […]
Our Commander in Chief appeals for more time in his own unique idiom, inadvertently revealing why Iraq is such a catastrophe. From Slate:
“And so, what Gen. Petraeus is saying, some early signs, still dangerous, but give me—give my chance a plan to work.”
—in an interview with Charlie Rose, April 24, 2007
What ever happened to […]
I thought I would post this today because it has a Nader connection. The very first day I went on my lone Impeach Bush crusade, I wrote a letter to my mother who was on a mission for the LDS church in Des Moines, Iowa. That same week, Ralph Nader had been invited to speak […]
Seven years ago, I stood behind a table for hours and pleaded with skeptical voters on behalf of Senator John McCain. McCain’s 2000 run for the presidency was finished, but he was still on the ballot in the Utah primary. It was the last chance to vote for a real Republican hero, a […]
SCOTUS unbelievably bad, medically ignorant, wignutty and sexist decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, has been brilliantly dissected elsewhere - Professor Wood in particular has done some great work in The Lie at the Heart of Gonzales v Carhart, and here pointing out that the Supreme Court has decided they know better than doctors. Jill at Feministe […]
We’ve gotten used to scurrilous Bush administration attacks on the patriotism of Democrats and the few Republicans who have dared to disagree with the President’s Iraq fiasco. Now, in the face of polls that indicate overwhelming opposition to the continued occupation of Iraq, the loyal Bushies are displaying their contempt for Americans in general. […]
The profound incompetence of the Bush administration, their collective inability to actually do their jobs in anything like an effective way, has extensive implications for the American body politic. Bill Scher of Liberaloasis had dedicated a great deal of time to pointing out the ways in which the Bush administration has followed the Heritage Foundation’s […]
The impeachment clause of the American Constitution is fashioned upon the English experience with impeachment used frequently as a Rule of Law community emerged in Britain. There, the supremacy of Parliament, especially the House of Commons, was the result. As Parliament came to prevail over Tudor and Stuart monarchical power, Parliament used impeachment […]
Last week, I posted a series on the cost of running for the state House of Representatives in 2006; the average per house seat was $38,000. The average of the 10 cheapest winning campaigns was just under $5000. The single cheapest winning campaign was district 55’s John Matthis; Matthis had a Constitution party challenger who […]
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