Spellings says No Child law near perfect (USA Today):
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said Wednesday the No Child Left Behind Act is close to perfect and needs little change as its first major update draws near.
“I talk about No Child Left Behind like Ivory soap: It’s 99.9% pure or something,” Spellings told reporters. “There’s not much […]
Bush’s latest Gulf Coast trip was his 13th trip to the region since Katrina struck.
In many countries, the established political convention is that some window-dressing type improvements would have been made in badly affected areas, just so that the leader of the country could point to them, and truthfully claim that progress was […]
(1) Next Time Lucky?
The press struck out big-time with the John Mark Karr story, but important questions remain. Are the cruel media gods done playing with them now? Will their next big story not suddenly turn into a damp squib embarrassingly late in the game? Stay tuned, but don’t get your hopes […]
Here’s WaPo from last week, writing about Israel’s use of what they called targeted killings:
… Since the beginning of 2006, Israel has targeted and killed 18 Palestinian fighters, according to B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization. Fifteen civilians were also killed, the group said.
“We face a tragic dilemma,” said Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, chief of […]
ThinkProgress reports a new Iraq war development:
“President Bush will launch another major public-relations offensive to strengthen support for the Iraq war — this time likely emphasizing the high stakes and changing nature of the battle more than the progress being made.” The new series of speeches begins tomorrow at the annual American Legion convention […]
Tonight, on NBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann“, Olbermann scooped up Donald Rumsfeld like a field mouse, and bopped him good and hard on the head.
It was one of the most impressive things I have ever seen on TV, and reminded me once again why I watch his show so devotedly every single day.
It deserves — […]
Say what you will, this “Texan” “rancher” plays a mean game of literary poker, huh? He just blew Brian Williams away with his “I’ll see your Camus, and raise you three Shakespeares.”
*** Update 9:15 pm ***
From Tim Grieve, War Room:
A week or so after leaking word that George W. Bush spent part of his […]
On Sunday, in my naivete, I asked: “is Rumsfeld delusional or is he just a liar?”
Today, older and wiser, I ask myself how I could ever have been so foolish. What on earth possessed me to think it had to be either-or?
On Sunday, I argued (convincingly, I hope) that the man is […]
Setting the stage:
Just before the August recess, the Senate was set to vote on a bill introduced by Sens. Barack Obama (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) that would create a public, searchable database of all federal grants and contracts. Envisioned as a Google-like website, it would provide free, immediate access the information, which can be […]
“Niggaz starvin and they dyin of thirst
I bet he had to go and check on them refineries first
Makin a killin off the price of gas
He woulda been up in Connecticut twice as fast
After all that we been through, nothing’s changed
You can call Red Cross but the fact remains that:
George Bush ain’t a gold digger
But he […]
