Or rather, when he speaks it is torture. Former Vice President Al Gore said Wednesday he had no intention of ever running for president again, but he said the United States would be "a different country'' if he had won the 2000 election, launching into a scathing attack of the Bush administration. "I have absolutely […]
Travis County, Texas, District Attorney Ronnie Earle today issued a subpoena for various phone records of Rep. Tom Delay (R-Sugar Land), his daughter and his campaign office. I am not a lawyer, but don't you usually gather this sort of evidence before you indict someone? I don't think that DeLay has much to worry about.
Robert Jordan's latest book in the Wheel of Time series, "Knife of Dreams" came out today. Blogging will be sluggish until I can finish it. I first started reading this series when I was in college -- and the end is finally in sight. This is the penultimate installment. I'm approximately halfway through, and I […]
In light of last week's especially dishonest piece of journalism on Chuckaquiddick (the scandal surrounding two DSCC staffers' illegally acquiring a probable GOP senate candidate's credit report). I got to thinking about how Bill Keller's propaganda rag would have covered Tom DeLay's indictment in Texas if they leaned to the right as far as they […]
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller opened his mouth and again cut into the little remaining journalistic integrity his paper still possesses. At a conference in Phoenix, Keller lashed out at bloggers, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, The Wall Street Journal and anyone else who annoys him while laughably lauding his own work. Keller pointed […]
The New York Times tries, unsuccessfully, to give credence to the unctuous Juan Cole's suggestion that journalist Steven Vincent was part of an honor killing. If you read far enough into the Times article, you notice a couple of things that put the suggestion of an illicit affair to blame for Vincent's killing to rest. […]
But is it just me or if this guy had been a Republican, would this have Halliburton II?
Check out William Shawcross' op-ed piece in today's Los Angeles Times. It's hard to think of a more graphic illustration of the horror the U.S.-led coalition is fighting in Iraq than the mass murder on Sept. 26, in which terrorists disguised as policemen (a New York Times headline called these butchers "fighters") burst into a […]
As a relatively new homeowner who actually gets money back from the government now that Hoystory World Headquarters isn't a rental, you can take my mortgage interest deduction when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. Just as the nation's housing boom appears to be slowing, debate is starting among policymakers about reining in […]
Judge Alex Kozinski of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and a member of the Judicial Council which rules on cases of misconduct by judges, demonstrates why too many judges can't be trusted with power. Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about Judge Kozinski, I'm talking about district court Judge Manuel Real first and […]