So this morning I read this interesting article: Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission following reports that senior agency staffers spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were supposed to be policing the nation’s financial system. California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House […]
Times are tough for poor Rupert, so he has decided the time is coming to charge people to read his news: Rupert Murdoch expects to start charging for access to News Corporation‘s newspaper websites within a year as he strives to fix a ”malfunctioning” business model. Encouraged by booming online subscription revenues at the Wall […]
The other day Matt Yglesias posted this: Third Way is a neat organization — I used to work across the hall from them. And they do a lot of clever messaging stuff that a lot of candidates find very useful. But their domestic policy agenda is hyper-timid incrementalist bullshit. There are a variety of issues […]
Yup – that’s what the wingnuts are saying. John McCain says “horseshit” not once, but twice, during a nationally televised debate and the crowd who screams and yells every time a word slips out on a liberal blog, calls this being a maverick. Unfuckingbelievable. Let me give you a glimpse of how the wingnut blogs […]
This is from Brian Ross’ Blotter: But according to an instant message provided to ABC News by a former page, Foley did make such an offer to a former page in April, 2003. Maf54: then we can have a few drinks Maf54: lol Teen: yes yes 😉 Maf54: your not old enough to drink Teen: […]
WTF? The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March. “I thought it was very sad, very […]
The Christian Science Monitor gives us this nice little piece of information: ASHLAND, ORE. – Of all the lawsuits seeking to halt the National Security Agency’s program to eavesdrop on certain Americans’ electronic communications, a new one filed last week in Oregon may provide the federal courts with the most detailed glimpse yet into the […]