Factual statement by Henry Waxman, but also one that comes as no surprise: e chairman of a House committee said a White House spokesman’s statements Thursday in the controversy over missing e-mail conflict with what congressional staffers were told four months ago. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., scheduled a hearing and challenged the White House to […]
Because he is thought of the same there as he is in New York: Rudy Giuliani’s plan to ride in a Miami-Dade firetruck in Sunday’s Three Kings parade has outraged some firefighters who say the presidential candidate has ”lied” about his 9/11 record because he did too little to equip and protect emergency workers. The […]
It looks like the citizens of New York paid for Judith Nathan’s security longer than they thought: Judith Nathan got taxpayer-funded chauffeur services from the NYPD earlier than previously disclosed – even before her affair with then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani was revealed, witnesses and sources tell the Daily News. “It went on for months before the […]
There used to be a time in this country where people could easily ask candidates questions and didn’t have to be screened before hand. The sad part is that has been within my lifetime, and I’m not even 40 yet! But here we are in 2007 and these candidates, who all try to out tough-guy […]
So long idiot!: Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, whose tenure has been marred by controversy and accusations of perjury before Congress, has resigned. A senior administration official said he would announce the decision later this morning in Washington. Mr. Gonzales, who had rebuffed calls for his resignation, submitted his to President Bush by telephone on […]
It appears that way. On Tuesday I blogged about the Pelosi plane controversy started by the Washington Times. Josh Marshal was all over this story and said that it was not Pelosi wanting this plane, but rather the military. You can read that full posting here. Well Pelosi just held a press conference and said […]
There is all this flack over Rich Little headlining the Correspondents’ dinner this year. Reading the article on Editor and Publisher, I was amused at the final paragraph: Scully has said that the choice of Little, who practices a milder former of humor than Colbert, had nothing to do with any controversy surrounding Colbert’s performance […]
The Dixie Chicks new album, Taking The Long Way is due out tomorrow and along with it comes a nice article in Time about the controversy that put the Dixie Chicks in the national spolight as a strong anti-war voice (excepts from Huffington Post): “I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President. But I […]
Sounds like a joke but sadly it is not. Did you know high schools and even middle schools have started using tasers on students? I didn’t. There’s a brewing controversy on this now in Wichita, Kansas, which I learned about from Jake Lowen of the excellent organization Hope Street Youth Development. Here’s the timeline he […]
For more proof that the iron curtain never fell and now surrounds America, you have to look no further than Deborah Davis. She is a 50 year old mother of a son serving in Iraq. She lives in Denver and leads an ordinary middle class life or at least she did. On December 9th, she […]