Crooks and Liars is back up and running (it was not a hack as some people think). Firedoglake may be intermittent today. We transferred the servers over to the new hosting company last night and changed the DNS. It generally takes 24-48 hours for a DNS to propagate through the millions of nameservers around the […]

That is a mailing by California Republican Bill Conrad, a candidate for the State Assembly. Typical Republican attack – get on their health. Could you image what the right would have done if Edwards said something like this about Dick Cheney in 2004? Hey Bill Conrad – at least Tom Berryhill has a heart you […]

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Here are some choice quotes from this New York Times article today about the Hayden hearings and the NSA program: “It would be very difficult to have a confirmation hearing for General Hayden when half the committee knows what he’s been doing and the other half hasn’t,” said Senator Christopher S. Bond, Republican of Missouri. […]

SURVEY USA has their new 50-state tracking poll out for Bush’s approval rating. The overall weighted approval is at 33% (the lowest I have seen on SUSA). Even more interesting is the fact that Bush rates 50% or above in only 3 state (Idaho – 52%, Utah – 51% and Wyoming – 50%). In Bush’s home […]

An Inconvenient Truth is already being coined as “alarming” and “frightning”. Perhaps that is why the big oil companies are running scared and getting ready to spend their money (or should I say our money) to launch counter ads, as Think Progress points out: Today, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) will unveil two 60-second TV […]

On his second day behind the White House  cameras, Tony Snow once again put his foot in his mouth. Today he suggested that ABC was a “competing network” and now the question is – competing against what? Q Okay. But, I mean, maybe it was a terrific meeting. As far as I can tell, that […]

One good thing about the Bush administration – we sure have seen a good number of Republicans going to jail: A senior official in U.S. President George W. Bush’s re-election campaign was sentenced to 10 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in suppressing votes in a key U.S. Senate race, a scandal that […]

The House Ethics Committee gets to work (some what): In a burst of activity that ended 16 months of inaction, the House ethics committee on Wednesday opened investigations of a Republican and a Democrat who are subjects of federal bribery inquiries. One lawmaker is connected to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Rep. Bob Ney (news, bio, […]

A couple weeks ago Michelle Malkin had a post about being attacked by “cyberjihadis”. This is what she said about it: I greatly appreciated all the blogosphere’s support when the cyberjihadis took down my site down over the Mohammed Cartoons. If you’re down, please send me an e-mail and I’ll keep a list here of […]