The Turkey incursion into Northern Iraq is really heating up. 77 Kurdish rebels were killed over night and Turkey is making a stronger presence in northern Iraq. Robert Gates finally addressed the situation: Defense Secretary Robert Gates has a message for Turkish leaders: Get your troops out of northern Iraq in the next few days. […]
And by a rather large margin: Today Barack Obama earned the endorsement of MoveOn, one of the largest grassroots membership organizations in the United States, after clobbering Hillary Clinton by 40 percent in Internet balloting. Obama led the final tally 70.4% to 29.6%, clearing the supermajority required for the endorsement. MoveOn, which has never endorsed […]
After a two year run at Lypha, IntoxiNation is now out growing the little shared hosting server we have been living on. Today I am moving us over to a very hefty server, shared with Crooks and Liars and Firedoglake (besides the fact it makes my life easier since I do the tech work for […]
It’s funny how last week al Qaeda was talking about setting booby traps then a few days later we have six U.S. troops killed in a house that was booby trapped in Iraq. Not sure what to make out of that timing.
Joe Conason sums it up perfectly: The polls that had showed Barack Obama well ahead of Clinton were not so much wrong as misleading — or at least badly interpreted by journalists too eager to write Clinton’s political obituary. In fact, the polls correctly measured Obama’s share of the vote. What happened during the contest’s […]
Just being reported by the AP and on MSNBC. The big preliminary report due out in a few days will conclude that the Iraqi government has met none of it’s targets. Sounds like it is pull out time to me.
I have been very busy the last few days and haven’t had much time to post. Things will get better in the next day or so, but I did want to take a minute to wish everyone a happy and safe Labor Day.
This outcome is not shocking to any of us who have been patriotic enough to question this war: A U.S. military report passed to the commander in Iraq on Friday found Marine officers failed to respond properly to conflicting reports of the killings of up to 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last year, an official […]
Like everyone else being investigated for their dealings with Abramoff, Bob Ney is no different. He has taken the same stance of “not remembering” key events like this one: Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney didn’t recall meeting with members of the Tigua tribe of Texas when Senate investigators questioned him during a probe of rogue […]
He will still be the mouthpiece of the administration, the only difference is he will now be in Scott McClellan’s office: Sources close to the White House said Monday that Fox anchor Tony Snow is likely to accept the job as White House press secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan. The sources said they expect him to […]