Condi is out doing the tough talk on North Korea, but is she making promises she can’t keep? U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reassured Japan on Wednesday that Washington would stand by a commitment to protect its Asian ally, trying to temper concerns of an Asian nuclear arms race after North Korea’s atomic test. […]
I posted this past weekend Mike DeWine’s piss-poor excuses for his horrible attendance record on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sherrod Brown now has a new ad highlighting DeWine’s failure to appear and do his job for Ohio and the United States: (H/T Aravosis on the video find)
Here’s the key parts, but I urge you to read the entire report: Doctors in Gaza have reported previously unseen injuries from Israeli weapons that cause severe burning and deep internal wounds often resulting in amputations or death. The injuries were first seen in July, when the Israeli military launched a series of operations in […]
Here is a summary of the polls in the last week for the Ohio Senate Race Poll Date DeWine (R) Brown (D) Quinnipiac 10/17 41% 53% Rasmussen 10/16 41% 46% SurveyUSA 10/12 40% 54% Bliss Institute 10/10 36.3% 35% AVERAGE 39.6% 47% With numbers like that it is no wonder why the GOP has […]
And in this chapter? Curt Weldon! That’s right. Now the Republican congressman under federal investigation is blaming Clinton and members of his administration for his legal problems (h/t TPMmuckraker). I haven’t posted much in the past couple of days. I have been tied down with a series of plumbing nightmares around the house. Damn you […]
And for another dose of corruption: Lester Crawford, the former Food and Drug Administration commissioner who resigned suddenly in September 2005, was indicted in U.S. court for making false statements related to his investments and conflict of interest. U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Taylor announced the indictment in a court filing today in Washington. Forget the fact […]
This can become a nice campaign photo: Federal agents raided the home of the daughter of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R., Pa.) and his longtime friend Charlie Sexton this morning. The agents departed Karen Weldon’s three-story brick home on Queen Street in Philadelphia with arms loaded with boxes. A government car pulled into the alley […]
The culture of corruption expands: Federal officials are probing scathing allegations that the Romney administration falsely claimed to conduct safety inspections in the Big Dig tunnel that collapsed and killed a woman in July. The Securities and Exchange Commission is zeroing in on state financial documents from 2005 – cited in a new report by […]
Since Bob Ney pleaded guilty Friday, we now have a felon sitting on the United States House of Representatives. Now he has said he will resign in the future and the Republicans have vowed to vote him out, but that will not happen until after their recess, which means Ney will continue to draw a […]
In 2003 we heard how we could fight two wars at the same time without putting our country at greater risk. A lot of military experts agreed with that assessment, but the “decider” spoke so here we are 3 years later fighting two wars. Of course our efforts in the war that really matters, Afghanistan, […]