The President’s speech from the Oval Office was a major failure in my view. He missed a golden opportunity to really hit one out of the park. A good example is talking about the clean energy bill, yet he did not use the power of his office and speech to urge Senate to pass it. […]
The party of family values: NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – A onetime top attorney to former President George W. Bush is accused of trying to kill his wife at their Connecticut home by beating her with a flashlight and choking her. Fifty-seven-year-old John Michael Farren is charged with strangulation and attempted murder. He was ordered […]
“The 30,000 additional troops that I am announcing tonight will deploy in the first part of 2010 – the fastest pace possible – so that they can target the insurgency and secure key population centers. They will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans […]
Good luck with that: Media giant News Corporation Ltd intends to charge for all its news websites in a bid to lift revenues, as the transition towards online media permanently changes the advertising landscape. News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch told analysts in a conference call after News Corp released its full-year results that the traditional […]
Those are five words I swore I never would write. Now I have to eat crow and defend him against this: Karl Rove follows me on Twitter. That’s creepy. I joined Twitter a few months ago; so far, it has been a liberating way to transition from political to personal blogging. It’s allowed me to […]
Awaiting the Obama cabinet? How about worrying about your financial future? Well none of that is important. Instead let’s focus on the most pertinent issue of the day: President-elect Barack Obama has yet to attend church services since winning the White House earlier this month, a departure from the example of his two immediate predecessors. […]
The Obama team has unleashed change.gov, a site highlighting the transition of power. It even has a section where you can apply for a job with the administration.
Then America don’t want it! In a widely expected move, Sen. John McCain‘s (R-Ariz.) press department resigned en masse today. Communications director Brian Jones stepped down, along with deputies Matt David and Danny Diaz. Research director Brian Rogers and South Carolina McCain spokesman Adam Temple are also leaving the campaign. None of the depatures is […]
It has gone way to far now: A senior federal law enforcement official tells us the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources. “It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation. We do not know […]
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 […]