Remember all the outrage over state workers breaching Joe the Plumber’s records in Ohio? The media, along with the right wing nuts went crazy over it. You would have thought someone beat the hell out of him. Well here is a story where someone did get the hell beat out of them, and the media […]
Someone at the NYTimes screwed up: Earlier this morning, we posted a letter that was signed by Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, sharply criticizing Caroline Kennedy. This letter was a fake. It should not have been published. Doing so violated both our standards and our procedures in publishing signed letters from our readers. But […]
The other day Matt Yglesias posted this: Third Way is a neat organization — I used to work across the hall from them. And they do a lot of clever messaging stuff that a lot of candidates find very useful. But their domestic policy agenda is hyper-timid incrementalist bullshit. There are a variety of issues […]
Paul Krugman has some advice for Barack Obama: Whatever the new administration does, we’re in for months, perhaps even a year, of economic hell. After that, things should get better, as President Obama’s stimulus plan — O.K., I’m told that the politically correct term is now “economic recovery plan” — begins to gain traction. Late […]
This is a perfect reason why those damn traffic cameras should be outlawed: High school students in Maryland are using speed cameras to get back at their perceived enemies, and even teachers. The students duplicate the victim’s license plate on glossy paper using a laser printer, tape it over their own plate, then speed past […]
Finally! From Juan Cole: I was told that Warren’s friends among the MPAC Muslim community had urged him to call Melissa Etheridge Friday night in the run-up to their being (serially) on the same stage Saturday night, and that he did so and they talked for half an hour. During his address, Warren mentioned also […]
You have a GOP IT consultant. This consultant set up the infamous email system involved in the White House’s email-gate, but had recently said those emails are actually archived on some servers. The same guy who was a key witness in the Ohio election fraud case, and was ready to share information. . He was […]
I’m still taking in all the outrage over the decision to have Rick Warren give the invocation on Inauguration Day. I don’t agree with the outrage, but I do understand it. I am more in the same line of th I have no problem with Barack Obama asking Reverend Rick to deliver a prayer at […]
Sarah Palin just keeps getting more and more attention: A 42-year-old Wasilla woman was arrested Thursday at her home by Alaska State Troopers with a search warrant in an undercover drug investigation. Sherry L. Johnston was charged with six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance. Johnston is the mother of Levi Johnston, the […]