Why Public Broadcasting Matters!
I don't watch television, and ever since Air America came into being, I've listened to NPR a lot less than I used to. Like many others here, I tend to think of it as 'National Republican Radio', and...
View ArticleRove is a Subject of the Investigation
Apologies if this has been posted already. I don't think it has. Most of the blogosphere seems to have missed a very important statement that appeared in Byron York's spin-laden NRO piece on his...
View ArticleFeminists (sic.) for Life and Federalists
John Roberts may be the perfect stealth Supreme Court candidate, the anti-Souter. From a lawyer's perspective, he has good credentials, and his smooth, collegial demeanor has earned him the admiration...
View Article"Fair Game"
I posted a diary yesterday about John Roberts, his membership in the Federalist Society (this has now been denied by a Federalist Society spokewoman; the Society's membership records are "private"),...
View ArticleFitzgerald: Some Personal Insights
Last night I had dinner with a former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. My friend knew and worked with Patrick Fitzgerald when he was attached to that office. She shared...
View ArticleA Little Bit of Good Environmental News
I was a birder when I was a kid, and like so many others with that interest, the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker captured my imagination. . .so much so that I broke down and cried when the rediscovery was...
View ArticleWanker of the Month or Whore of the Year: Broder
I wrote the following to David Broder. His latest column left me shaking with fury. Shame on you for writing such sycophantic horse-manure about Hurricane Katrina and the "opportunities" it affords the...
View ArticleCriminal Negligence and Katrina
From Larry Johnson at tpmcafe. This is a must read. If you have press contacts, please circulate! A National Response Plan was put in place in 2004 for disasters of this type, with the clear...
View ArticleBreaking. . .Miller Turns Over New Notes
Just posted over at Democratic Underground:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051007/pl_nm/bush_leak_dc Judy Miller has turned over notes to Fitzgerald. She claims she just found these notes that pertain to...
View ArticleLuskin's Latest. . .More Parsing
Luskin's Latest. . .More Parsing by MMinNY [Subscribe] [Edit Diary] According to CNN Luskin is now claiming:"Karl has truthfully told everyone who's asked him that he did not circulate Valerie Plame's...
View ArticleMore Wingnut Wackiness
Now they're accusing Wilson of involvement in forging the Niger documents. From "The American Thinker If Wilson had seen those documents before the United States government had them, the question is...
View ArticleCrimininalizing Conservatives
A newly posted article by Jeffrey Bell and William Kristol in The Weekly Standard is pretty revealing about how the right will try to spin any indictments in the Plame affair and all the other brewing...
View ArticleMiller's Account Ghosted. . .er. . .Vetted
The Raw Story is reporting that Miller's article was co-written by a lawyer. No link as yet. This is an interesting new wrinkle, and it further fuels the questions about the Times' honesty in its...
View ArticleRaw Story. . .Hannah has flipped
Raw Story's got it. Here Key Graf -- "Individuals familiar with Fitzgerald's case tell RAW STORY that John Hannah, a senior national security aide on loan to Vice President Dick Cheney from the offices...
View ArticleNew From John Dean
This was just posted at Findlaw. John Dean has a very interesting, if not altogether encouraging, take on what is coming from Fitzgerald. Some highlights: Something is going to happen, and, I think,...
View ArticleBush is Coming Unglued
Today's Daily News is reporting that Bush is losing the remnants of his self-control. The article is well worth reading. Facing the darkest days of his presidency, President Bush is frustrated,...
View ArticleQuestioning Wilson's Neighbors
It has been reported that the FBI has been questioning Wilson's neighbors in recent days about whether they knew Valerie Plame Wilson worked for the CIA. What seems to have eluded most commentators on...
View ArticleSomething Better Change. . .
in the words of The Stranglers. I can't do rants with Maryscott's passion and skill, but I'm furious. More below the fold. . .
View ArticleAmazon: Still Failing
Amazon's public statement explaining the de-ranking of books having GLBTQ themes, as well as many other books on sexuality, is vague and disingenuous:More below the fold.
View Article#amazonfail: one week later
Despite recent media coverage suggesting that the #amazonfail controversy is over, significant issues remain, and all readers and authors should be concerned about amazon's secret "adult" policy. The...
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