The Washington Post's Dana Milbank has been chastized by his bosses at the paper after he showed up on MSNBC Monday night wearing a bright-orange hunting vest and cap. Ombudsman Deborah Howell addresses the issue in her column this week: From reader Eric Welch: "Does Dana Milbank's wearing of a bright orange hat and vest […]
Alec Baldwin: Cheney is a terrorist. Richard Dreyfuss: Impeach Bush! Matt Hoy: Alec Baldwin and Richard Dreyfuss are a morons.
Well, it looks like the Progress for America Voter Fund has gotten the Minnesota Democratic Party in full outrage mode. The conservative advocacy group is running a series of support-the-troops/support-the-Iraq-war spots that have the Dems questioning their own patriotism. The Minneapolis Star Tribune has more tonight. They report on KSTP television's refusal to run the […]
I usually agree with George Will, but today's column isn't one of them. Will argues that the NSA surveillance program is "monarchical." The next time a president asks Congress to pass something akin to what Congress passed on Sept. 14, 2001 -- the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) -- the resulting legislation might […]
I guess it really shouldn't come as a big surprise, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation is reporting that the RIAA -- the record companies' lobbying group -- is floating the legal position that making backup copies of CDs you own or ripping the CDs to an Ipod or other MP3 player is not fair use. […]
When last we heard from NBC "news analyst" and "The West Wing" writer Lawrence O'Donnell he was going ape during an appearance on MSNBC with John O'Neill of Swift Boat Veterans for Truth fame. Today O'Donnell appeared on Hugh Hewitt's radio show to defend his silly article on the Huffington Post that Dick Cheney was […]
San Francisco Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, a Democrat, was on Fox News' "Hannity & Colmes" last night to talk about his opposition to having the USS Iowa turned into a museum on the San Francisco bayfront. Of course, it didn't take long for Sandoval to show how completely insane he is -- he wants the U.S. […]
I'm a big World War II history buff, both of my grandfathers served -- one in the Army Air Corps, the other in the Marines -- and I must confess that one of the major holes in my pretty extensive reading was the Bataan Death March and the Japanese occupation of the Phillippines. "Ghost Soldiers" […]
Federal Judge Jeremy Fogel apparently didn't like the idea of invalidating California's death penalty -- and possibly that of 36 other states, so he did a little legislating to get the result he was looking for. A federal judge ruled Tuesday that California must change its lethal injection method for the execution of Michael Morales […]
Just about every teacher has said it at one point in time or another: "There's no such thing as a stupid question." It's a lie. There are stupid questions and there are stupid answers, and then there's this gem from the reporter for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times who broke the story. Click here to play […]