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Josh points to Doug Feith’s new website and licks his chops. Here’s a look at the design process that created dougfeith.com:
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There’s self-delusion, and then there’s self-delusion.
Glenn Beck sees himself as Edward R. Murrow to Keith Olbermann’s Joe McCarthy . I can’t decide whether to laugh or cry.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Olbermann said Beck is a “wolf in sheep’s clothing. The very dangerously bigoted guy who is selling himself as a […]

It hurts me deeply to sully the name of (the late great) John Lee Hooker by associating his signature refrain with the likes of Dick Cheney, but I prostitute myself for the sake of a catchy headline.
If Uncle Sam only had a dollar for every time an American heard or read that Dicky heard a […]

Between now and the time the markets reopen tomorrow, all kinds of people are going to be telling you, in all possible news media, what could happen.
To save you time, I give you here the benefit of my lifelong market wisdom very succintly. (And if you have ever checked my bio, you know that […]

Brutal day on Wall Street CNN (2/27/07):
The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 416.02 points, its biggest one-day point loss since the day the stock market reopened after the Sept. 11th attacks.
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Trying to limit the declines, the New York Stock Exchange said it imposed trading curbs as of 1:03 p.m. ET, around the time the Dow […]

It’s really hard to fool all of the people all of the time if your underlings insist on fluffing their lines.
Who can forget the earnest assurances that President Bush has repeatedly given his fellow Americans about his relentless determination to hunt down and capture Osama bin Laden?
When it was reported in July 2006 that the […]

I think this was meant to be reassuring:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on February 15: “We are not, you know, for the umpteenth time, we are not looking for an excuse to go to war with Iran. We are not planning a war with Iran.”
But I really don’t know… We wouldn’t be looking, would […]

It’s worse than anyone could possibly have imagined. The friends of our worst enemy have finally become our friends. And we’re not just breaking bread with them. We’re financing them. According to Seymour Hersh writing in The New Yorker, the U.S. government has been covertly funneling money to Sunni extremists who […]

Dick Cheney’s up to his old tricks again:
“She accused me of questioning her patriotism,” Cheney said. “I didn’t question her patriotism. I questioned her judgment.”
“Al-Qaeda functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That’s their fundamental underlying strategy: that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough […]

It’s definitely on a roll. The only problem is that it seems to be rolling over an unconscionably large number of Americans. An increasingly large number.
Here are the highlights of a McClatchy Newspapers analysis of the economy:
• The percentage of poor Americans who are living in severe poverty reached a 32-year high in 2005
• Nearly […]