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 […]
They just got a little shorter thanks to the Chile earthquake this weekend: The earthquake that killed more than 700 people in Chile on Feb. 27 probably shifted the Earth’s axis and shortened the day, a National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientist said. Earthquakes can involve shifting hundreds of kilometers of rock by several meters, […]
I was following the back and forth between Jane Hamsher and Katrina vanden Heuve on Twitter the other night regarding health care. I then noticed this post by Jane yesterday: There’s a very slick PR letter posted online that’s being furiously retweeted by DC political operatives. I wasn’t going to address it, but the editor […]
Dede Scozzafava is a Republican candidate for NY-23. Last night she held a dinner and afterwards someone from her campaign called the police on John McCormack from the Weekly Standard. Here’s what he says about it: I spotted Scozzafava later as she was walking to the parking lot, and asked her: ” Assemblywoman, do you […]
Where all the good little robots line up and act accordingly: CPAC it seems, is directing its loyal goers to not boo McCain. They must be more excited that McCain has finally signed on to appear after years of snubs than they want to let on. During registration last night at the Omni Shoreham a […]
Today I installed the new commenting system. It somewhat resembles the Haloscan system you may be accustomed to from such sites as Crooks and Liars. This one is a little more featured back however. It offers actual threaded comments. For those not familiar with threaded comments, you now have the option of replying to an […]
Bill it has been a couple years since your lawsuit over a picture of you on the cover of Al Franken’s book – Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them was laughed out of court. Out of everything that was said about you in the book, you conceited to them and only drew attention […]