Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld needs to take responsibility for the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by soldiers under his command by apologizing and resigning. Just over a decade ago, at the Branch Davidian compound outside Waco, Texas, Attorney General Janet Reno ordered the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' agents to enter the compound […]
The New York Times last week screwed up (yeah, I know this isn't news). Thursday's New York Times misidentified GOP Senate candidate Pete Coors as a Ku Klux Klan member who murdered a black sharecropper. The Coors campaign found the error "so outrageous it's kind of funny," said spokeswoman Cinamon Watson. "It could have been […]
I was lucky enough to be able to catch most of President Bush's press conference last night. He did an acceptable job; he'll never be mistaken for Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton when it comes to public speaking. you can find a transcript of the press conference here. I was disappointed that Bush didn't answer […]
For those who have heard criticism about President Bush's effort to combat AIDS in Africa, check out James K. Glassman's column for a truth-check.
Well, the White House released a PDB for the first time in history. After reading it, my first response is: Democrat hack Richard Ben-Veniste thinks this is some sort of smoking gun? In her testimony last week, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice characterized the Aug. 6 PDB as a historical document, not a threat analysis. […]
I criticized CNN earlier for putting up a useless poll in the GOP Senate primary in Pennsylvania. The poll in question had a margin of error of +/- 10 points. For those of you who are interested, a SurveyUSA poll can be found here. It has incumbent Arlen Specter leading challenger Pat Toomey by only […]
I'm watching the replay of CNN's "The Capitol Gang" and they've put up a Philadelphia Daily News/Keystone poll on the GOP Senate primary race between incumbent Arlen Specter and Rep. Pat Toomey. The poll of "likely Republican voters" has Specter ahead 46 percent to 33 percent. However, the margin of error is 10 (TEN!) points. […]
Last week the Bush administration put out some positive ads which included brief glimpses of ground zero and 9/11. Unsurprisingly, some families of 9/11 victims screamed bloody murder at President Bush using images "for political gain." Well, it turns out that these individuals were part of a coordinated campaign by a liberal anti-war group. It […]
More evidence (as if it was necessary) that Hollywood isn't that thrilled about Republicans. The Wall Street Journal ran an article (link for subscribers only) about the Academy Award-nominated Best Foreign Film "Osama," about a girl who poses as a boy to support her family under Taliban rule. A film about Osama arrived at the […]
President Bush has unveiled his first television ads of the 2004 campaign (you can see them here). Two of the three ads show some a couple of seconds of extremely tame 9/11 images. Predictably, Bush opponents -- including some who are relatives of 9/11 victims -- have come out decrying the ads as insensitive. Get […]