Everything Murdoch touches turns to crap, and the Wall Street Journal is the latest piece of media turned tabloid by the media mogul. The latest example, an article asking if Barack Obama is too fit (as in athletic) to be President.
In his radio address yesterday, Bush did more of the “blaming Democrats” for the high oil prices, through their rejection of lifting the offshore drilling ban: First, we should expand American oil production by increasing access to the Outer Continental Shelf, or OCS. Experts believe that the OCS could produce enough oil to match America’s […]
And the crime family known as the RNC continues on: There are reports that former U.S. Senator Trent Lott is under investigation in connection with an on-going judicial bribery probe. Today’s Wall Street Journal is reporting that federal agents are investigating whether Trent Lott knowingly played a role in an alleged conspiracy to influence a […]
Tech burst 2.0 for Yahoo: Battered by slow revenue growth and the popularity of social networking Web sites, Yahoo Inc. is poised to lay off hundreds of workers, according to published reports. more stories like this The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have both reported on the slumping Internet icon’s cost-cutting plans, […]
Old Turdblossom is leaving the White House: Karl Rove, the political adviser who masterminded President George W. Bush’s two winning presidential campaigns and secured his own place in history as a political strategist with extraordinary influence within the White House, is resigning, the White House confirmed today. In an interview published this morning in The […]
It appears now that the Justice Department may have delayed the investigation into Rep. Rick Renzi until after the elections last year: As midterm elections approached last November, federal investigators in Arizona faced unexpected obstacles in getting needed Justice Department approvals to advance a corruption investigation of Republican Rep. Rick Renzi, people close to the […]
This is in today’s Wall Street Journal: In short order, John McCain has gone from Republican presidential front-runner to political death watch. On Wednesday, the Arizona senator kicks off a month of high-profile events, seeking a resurrection of sorts. Actually I think death watch might be an understatement. We have McCain telling 60 minutes tomorrow […]
NBC is reporting: In a guest column in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal President Bush addressed a range of issues. On Iraq he said he’ll reveal his new strategy in the coming days. Administration officials tell NBC News it will involve sending some 20,000 additional U.S. troops to Iraq. The plan is being called surge and […]
For the first part of his Presidency, Bush has been given a free ride by the press. This not only hurt the American people, but also placed the press in a very peculiar situation. The White House became accustomed to such a passive press that once the media started asking the hard questions they did […]
What is ironic is how Republicans talk about backing Bush 100% until it comes to their re-election chances (From today’s Wall Street Journal): President Bush goes to Pennsylvania tomorrow to campaign for embattled Republican House members in the Philadelphia suburbs. But one of the candidates isn’t expected to be there. Mr. Bush “is really doing […]