Olmert Laid Out updated This story actually broke earlier today in the Jeruselum Post and the Guardian, with the Washington Post chiming in for tomorrow. An official Israeli investigative committee on Monday accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of “a serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence” in taking the country to war in Lebanon [...]
Archive | April, 2007
Murtha Invokes the ‘I’ Word
Murtha on “Face the Nation” Now he’s really done it. Yesterday on “Face the Nation” Murtha said the “i” word. That’s right impeachment. Is that a blast at Bush’s broadside or is Murtha just sending a not so subtle message? Whatever, but it seems like the news is just now catching some attention. Murtha doesn’t [...]
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No Joy for Maliki
No Joy for Maliki bumped & updated Maliki is in trouble, which means so are we. Now Saudi’s King Abdullah is ratcheting up the pressure (and no doubt the presidential panic) by dissing al-Maliki. After calling U.S. efforts in Iraq an “illegitimate occupation” no one should be surprised. In a serious rebuff to U.S. diplomacy, [...]
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Stephanie Miller on MSNBC
Stephanie Miller on MSNBC updated & bumped UPDATE: Crooks & Liars now has some video up of today’s show. Don’t miss it. Today Ms. Miller debuted on MSNBC. The clip above of Miller on Ann Coulter is hilarious, though it’s not from today’s show. It will give you an idea of what Miller and her [...]
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The DC Madam Speaks
By now you've likely become aware of the first fall out of the DC Madam story. The reason given for Mr. Tobias' resignation is just classic. It's all for “personal reasons.” I'll bet. But today the DC madam gave new meaning to the word “subcontractor.” On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times [...]
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Republicans are Bailing on Iraq
Here it comes. If you want to know why John McCain's presidential hopes are tanking, today is a good example. New problems for Mr. Bush arrived today as well. Republicans are getting the message, swallowing hard and finally facing up to reality. Today on Fox “News” Sunday Bill Kristol even suggested that Bush might have [...]
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Angels From The Sea: The Soft Power of the United States
Angels From The Sea: The Soft Power of the United States guest post by Mash Today the Washington Post reports on another example of the Bush administration’s disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. While Katrina victims suffered the Bush administration failed to make use of the massive outpouring of aid from foreign countries: As the winds and [...]
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Condi the Incompetent Resurfaces
Today Ms. Rice earned the title I gave her many years ago. This woman has been in over her head since Bush appointed her as national security adviser. But this interview on “Face the Nation” strains all reality. She didn’t know that we were to “preemptively strike” inside Afghanistan in the summer of 2001? This [...]
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Joe Biden Belongs at State
VIDEO: Biden smacks Rudy (audio only) Biden on “Meet the Press” will not make many happy today. He believes flatly that we will have some residual forces in Iraq. One of those people who might be on his way to Iraq is Biden's son. Right now he wants to salvage as much as we can. [...]
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Edwards on ‘Global War on Terror’
John Edwards may not have had the most stellar debate night, but he got out in front on something very important. This has been widely missed. I didn’t catch it until earlier today (likely because I was dealing with a massive tech crash all day Thursday and beyond). So I wanted to make sure it [...]
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Romney, Osama, and a Movie About the Mormon Massacre
“September Dawn” trailer. You know Osama bin Laden is really so yesterday’s news isn’t he? “It’s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. …” – Mitt Romney By Mitt’s theory of reality, history is just such a nuisance, isn’t it? So let’s just move on, bury [...]
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Racist Wingnut Radio Led by Rush
This has been playing on Rush for weeks and weeks. TPM, welcome to my world; radio, that is. They put a video together of Rush's latest racist worsts, so I couldn't resist offering it up. Wingnut radio and Fox “News” have been switching back and forth between smearing and swiftboating Mr. Obama for weeks. Part [...]
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About the ‘Global War on Terror’
It’s a man! It’s the president! It’s Terror Guy! From NBC’s Chuck Todd While Mark noted the lack of guns in the Edwards, Clinton and Obama households (something that won’t be a plus in a general), that same trio all agreed that there is indeed such a thing as a “global war on terror,” which [...]
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A Very Good Night for Clinton
A Very Good Night for Clinton updated & bumped The first Democratic debate. Hillary Clinton did what she needed to do and then some. She sounded strong and made it over the most important bar of all: Hillary Clinton passed the commander in chief test. The personality bar was an easy one for her, too. [...]
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Riverbend Says Goodbye
River sounds like she’s leaving Iraq. Gee, I wonder why. I remember Baghdad before the war- one could live anywhere. We didn’t know what our neighbors were- we didn’t care. No one asked about religion or sect. No one bothered with what was considered a trivial topic: are you Sunni or Shia? You only asked [...]
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TM Must Reads
THE 21st century world offers ways to tweak your appearance, or alter it altogether, with women finally able to combat directly the comparison that’s always been around. Men look distinguished as they age, while women look old, unattractive, or to use Rush Limbaugh’s favorite comment, who wants to look at a woman with wrinkles? The 2012 plastic surgery statistics are out and the American Society of Plastic Surgery tells the story.
The real question about Hillary is this: When people take a new look at her in the coming years, will they see the past or the future — Mrs. Clinton or Madam President? – Maureen Dowd IT’S A classic front page from Huffington Post, coupled with a post by Jason Linkins, which details what’s been going on.
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “Here’s what nobody is telling you: Find a husband on campus before you graduate. Yes, I went there.
“Norma Rae is a survivor and for the first time in her life she’s got a chance to become something more… a winner.” – Promo for “Norma Rae” CRITICS like Anne-Marie Slaughter, but especially Maureen I-Love-My-Pearls Dowd, and others [most of whom didn't read the book or do their homework] who are blaming Sheryl Sandberg for being a billionaire Ivy League graduate, while accusing her of letting corporations and government off the hook, are missing a major point.
Great sex doesn’t always just happen. Sometimes, it takes a little planning, especially if — like many Americans — you’ve been in a bit of a sex rut. Do some prep work by turning your bedroom into a love nest: Make the bed (with new, or at least clean, sheets), tidy up, light a candle or two, and queue up a sexy playlist on your iPod.
“You Don’t Own Me” PSA -Official from You Don't Own Me on Vimeo. WHO DOESN’T know the song “You Don’t Own Me,” sung by Leslie Gore? The movie First Wives Club helped to reignite the relevancy of the song.
“Last night I interviewed Jill Stein the presidential candidate for the Green Party on this show. And I confess right now, I should have asked her to just get out of the race.” – Jennifer Granholm, “The War Room” [Current TV] THE ARGUMENT Jennifer Granholm makes above is a tactic that no longer fits the times.
“With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said. [New York Times] IN THE GAPING MAW of our leadership vacuum stands Aurora Police Chief Daniel Oates, whose resolve, vulnerability and humility inside the vortex of a man made hell revealed what nobody in Congress or either political party has shown in decades. Leadership without regard to anything but his own duty to the people, which included the cops in the eye of volcanic carnage.
“Rick Doblin has done a lot for the field, but he is more of a populist,” Grob says. “We need careful and controlled scientific studies showing the efficacy of these drugs so funding can continue.” Broader awareness of these sorts of end-of-life psychedelic studies could be good for everyone, the researchers say.
*updated below* So much for keep calm and carry on, what Joe Scarborough proclaims to be his motto. It was the weirdest one-on-one back and forth with a high profile talking head imaginable. It makes high school look mature.
**UPDATED** Would we be any worse off with Stephen Colbert as president? I doubt it. Politifact has watched the video “(repeatedly!
Despite rising public concern about the federal budget deficit, Americans favor keeping Social Security and Medicare benefits as they are rather than taking steps to reduce the budget deficit (by 60% vs. 32%). – Public Wants Changes in Entitlements, Not Changes in Benefits This is starting early, so it’s time to revisit the facts.
“If we can prove that a biological attack originated in a country that attacked us, then all bets are off.” – Sect. Hillary Clinton Women can do it, too.
The interview with Obama by George Stephanopoulos wasn’t nearly as contentious as the interview with the Edwardses. No Republican talking points from Stephanopoulos yesterday, like when he accused Edwards of abandoning the troops with this beauty: “Do you think the Democrats should be saddled with the idea of completely cutting off funding for the troops?” Or this one: “You know, a lot of Democrats still in the Senate think that your position here is cynical political theater.
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