In an article talking about Tuesday’s race, the Boston Globe decides to talk to one single “liberal blogger” to gauge the feel of the entire blogosphere: Liberal blogs are loaded with complaints about Obama and demands that the president move to the left. During the campaign, “they energized enthusiasm among people who were really jazzed […]
There has been a lot of polls come out over the past 48 hours showing the Massachusetts special election for Kennedy’s seat was turning a tide and heading towards a possible defeat for Democrats. Now there is a new poll that may give Democrats some breathing room: A new Boston Globe poll shows Martha Coakley […]
Mary Katharine Ham of The Weekly Standard is up in arms because Jon Stewart told an audience he would like to say “Fuck you” to Sarah Palin in response to her “pro-America parts of the country” comment. Even more disturbing is that she is trying to equate the punchline of a comedian to the calls […]
Right wing hack Jeff Jacoby apparently saw a different debate last night than the rest of the world: JOHN MCCAIN’S opening words last night were: “Senator Obama, it’s good to be with you at a town hall meeting!” Indeed it was. We now know why Barack Obama declined McCain’s invitation earlier this year to appear […]
The Boston Globe questions McCain’s constant chastising of Middle East adversaries by saying they don’t embrace our “Judea-christian values”: At the end of a long list of reasons to be suspicious of the Iranians, McCain declared: “And they sure don’t share our Judeo-Christian values.” It seemed at the time to be an odd thing to […]
So one of the big stories today is that Mitt Romney still uses illegal immigrants to do his lawn work. I guess the wingnuts will disown Romney now – won’t they? Let’s ask Erick at Redstate: The Boston Globe has decided to stake out the Romney house and harass contract workers on their citizenship status. […]
The Boston Globe takes a big look today at what is happening in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division: The Bush administration is quietly remaking the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, filling the permanent ranks with lawyers who have strong conservative credentials but little experience in civil rights, according to job application materials obtained by […]
The Boston Globe has an interesting article today that talks about the American Bar Association’s recent decision to investigate Bush’s signing power: The board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously yesterday to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that […]
The Bush dictatorship is in full swing and today the Boston Globe takes a look at how it got to this point: President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when […]
So today Gale Norton, the Interior Secretary, resigned abruptly from Bush’s cabinet today. For those who are not familiar with her ties to Abramoff, I thought it would be time to highlight some of them. First up is this nice article from the Boston Globe on 11/4/2005: WASHINGTON — Investigators have unearthed e-mails indicating that […]