From James' Taranto's "Best of the Web Today" over at OpinionJournal.com, we have these gems from the same speech by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. "When they [the Bush administration] could have listened to General Shinseki and put in enough troops to maintain order, they chose not to. They were wrong." "General George Casey, our top […]
And his name is Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S first term, some of the most important decisions about U.S. national security — including vital decisions about postwar Iraq — were made by a secretive, little-known cabal. It was made up of a very small […]
I've tried, largely unsuccessfully, to convince most moderates that I know that today's left is full of nutjob wackos. They may have reservations or misgivings about the war, and they believe that the Code Pinkos, American Friends Service Committee and Interational ANSWER are noble groups just expressing sane, but contrary opinion to those on the […]
I just got finished watching "Fox News Sunday" after spending the better part of the day collecting surplus furniture from the Hoy family homestead -- the parental units are downsizing now that they don't have slaves children to do all of the house and yard work (this has been a snark test). Anyway, getting back […]
California Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein -- both Democrats -- hate black people. Why? Because they would rather build a sculpture garden in Washington State, an animal shelter in Westerly, R.I., (coincidentally home to the world's greatest niece) and two "bridges to nowhere" in Alaska than to help rebuild New Orleans. I say that […]
That's how House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi likes to describe the Republicans in Congress, but let's not forget the Democrats in St. Louis or Washington State.
There's been some buzz hither and yon about Washington Post columnist George F. Will's column due out this Sunday. It's strictly embargoed, so I can't link to it or post it just yet, but it's a devastating critique of the Harriet Miers nomination. I won't attempt to steal Will's thunder, but he did make one […]
Travis County prosecutor Ronnie Earle has revealed that he doesn't have the smoking gun list of candidates and money amounts that are at the heart of his indictment of Republican Tom DeLay. Travis County prosecutors admitted Friday they lack physical proof of a list of Republican candidates that is at the heart of money-laundering indictments […]
I originally saw this during my blogging slowdown, and so I'm just catching up on it now. It is Aug. 31, and Sen. [Carole] Migden is lobbying on the Assembly floor for her bill, which would require cosmetics manufacturers to advise the state if their products contain cancer-causing ingredients. Migden's presence is typical. Senators routinely […]
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 […]