Mother Jones: Send a public records request seeking documents from his 12-year stint as Arkansas governor, as Mother Jones did recently, and an eyebrow-raising reply will come back: The records are unavailable, and the computer hard drives that once contained them were erased and physically destroyed by the Huckabee administration as the governor prepared to […]
There has been non-stop talk this week about Joe Sestak’s job offer by the Obama administration if he wouldn’t run against Arlen Specter. Now we have some answers: Senior White House advisers asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about whether he was serious about running for Senate, and to feel out […]
One thing I have been having trouble finding is how the federal poverty level is actually adjusted every year. Here is how Health and Human Services describes the process: To calculate the 2009 poverty guidelines, do you use a projection of what the Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) will be for 2009? No. ASPE does not […]
The mystery of the Cheney X has been solved. After downloading the torrent from Crooks and Liars there was an additional frame that was dropped from the originalCrooks and Liars video and also from The Political Teen’s slow-mo version. In this first frame, the X and the words underneath appear in white. Very close examination […]