Here is a possible motive for McCain’s game I hadn’t thought of : McCain’s ploy was transparent. To counter the public’s preference for Obama’s economics over his own, he would get both of them in a room and emerge proclaiming that they had reached agreement, that they had no differences. In fact, they have very […]
As Hurricane Fay nears landfall, oil prices are rising in fear that it could interrupt operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Kind of ironic this is happening at a time we are debating rather to allow more offshore drilling or not.
We are conducting a “crusade”: At the western entrance to the Iraqi city of Fallujah Tuesday, Muamar Anad handed his residence badge to the U.S. Marines guarding the city. They checked to be sure that he was a city resident, and when they were done, Anad said, a Marine slipped a coin out of his […]
Another spectacular special comment from Keith blasting the administration and their fear mongeing.
I certainly hope not: The images in the Basra police file are nauseating: Page after page of women killed in brutal fashion — some strangled to death, their faces disfigured; others beheaded. All bear signs of torture. The women are killed, police say, because they failed to wear a headscarf or because they ignored other […]
What is camp 7? The AP has uncovered that: Somewhere amid the cactus-studded hills on this sprawling Navy base, separate from the cells where hundreds of men suspected of links to al-Qaida and the Taliban have been locked up for years, is a place even more closely guarded — a jailhouse so protected that its […]
The Soviet Union isn’t gone – it has just moved to America: The N.S.A.’s reliance on telecommunications companies is broader and deeper than ever before, according to government and industry officials, yet that alliance is strained by legal worries and the fear of public exposure. To detect narcotics trafficking, for example, the government has been […]
Tomorrow’s Washington Post gives us the insight to the meltdown happening within the GOP over Foley: Republican insiders said Reynolds spoke out because he was angry that Hastert appeared willing to let him take the blame for the party leadership’s silence. A House GOP leadership aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear […]
The radical right has been trying to pin the church fires in Alabama on the left. Even Chris Matthews had his little go at it. Now it turns out they did it as a “joke”. This from the AP: Three college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in […]
From Newsweek: If you read enough numbers, you never know what you’ll find. Take President Bush and private Social Security accounts. Last year, even though Bush talked endlessly about the supposed joys of private accounts, he never proposed a specific plan to Congress and never put privatization costs in the budget. But this year, with […]