I haven’t written yet about the Washington Post’s decision to hire Ben Domenech to be their “conservative blogger”. I have followed the story very close but feel there are numerous other bloggers out there getting the message out. Atrios has taken the lead on this and done a great job as usual. Hunter at Daily […]

Ahhh – while we are gearing up for the 2006 elections, so are the Republicans and they have a new strategy. Their new strategy is crafty and clever. It is a strategy to prove they are the party of integrity and honor: WASHINGTON – Many worried Republicans on the ballot in November have been pushing […]

While watching CNN this morning, I was (un)fortunate enough to watch an interview with Dan Bartlett, the White House Chief Propagandist and Spinmeister Communications Director, whose primary responsibility seems to be parroting Administration talking points while wearing a beatific smile and knowingly denigrating the intentions of Democrats. Bartlett seemed intent on focusing on talk of […]

I guess the Republicans in charge of our country do not like their citizens having access to information. One way to stop that is to overprice the internet to the point only CEO’s and millionaires can operate on it: FCC Chief Kevin Martin yesterday gave his support to AT&T and other telcos who want to […]

While the courts in Afghanistan look at the possibility of executing a man for converting to Christianity, Think Progress has exposed how much of an impact this has on the Bush doctrine of “freedom”: Shortly after its passage, however, President Bush praised the Afghan constitution as protecting freedom of religion. President Bush, 1/23/04: We’re making […]

This is definitely one for the WTF column. The U.S. military’s top commander said Wednesday that he underestimated the extent of the reluctance of the Iraqi people to accept a unified government, and he thought citizens would more quickly embrace the idea of a central government. “I think that I certainly did not understand the […]

Earlier this week we heard that the Republicans were having problems finding their platform for this year’s election. Now something else they have been quick to point out about Democrats is that they fall short on fund raising when compared to the GOP. Well looks like that other tactic has now changed: The Republican committee […]

Well over the last couple of days both President Bush (just for you RJ..lol) and Blair have been trying to justify their actions to their respective nations. Blair especially has been bringing Afganistan back into the frame with what looks like some backtracking. We all recall the invaision of Afganistan and how once they had […]

Comics is not the only thing Ted Rall is good at. His columns are great for putting the current state of things into perspective After a few brief decades of social progress the United States has lurched back into the dark ages of torture, concentration camps and police harassment of its scapegoats and undesirables–current members: […]

Yet more of our privacy is under attack and this time it comes from the IRS: The Internal Revenue Service is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns. If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers for the first time would be able to sell information from individual returns — or […]