What is one to make of last week’s developments in the Pat Tillman story?
When I read on Friday that there were, at this late stage, new developments — that there was actually new information that the U.S. military had successfully managed to sit on all this time — my first response was outrage and anger. […]
We’ve been writing for a while now (see here, here, here, and here, for instance) about how real wages have declined for most lower and middle class Americans over the last few years, even as President Bush, and his chorus of false voices, continues to trumpet the amazing technicolor growth of the economy.
Well, you can […]
The Iraqi parliament has now taken off for their August recess. But that’s not the real story. It was, after all, already known that’s that what they were going to do (despite all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men).
Here’s the AP report on the subject, hot off the press:
Iraq’s parliament adjourned […]
The Interior Department had Julie A. MacDonald, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. Her claim to fame? Despite having “a degree in civil engineering and no science background”, the Union of Concerned Scientists, a nonprofit group that advocates scientific integrity, charged that:
Julie MacDonald personally reversed scientific findings, changed scientific conclusions […]
When you compare it to dog-fighting. When the expert legal opinion being rendered is that of a CNN sports journalist. All that immersion in the macho sports culture, it clearly does things to a man’s values. (I’m being extremely charitable here, and assuming that Larry Smith had any to start with.)
SMITH: Yes, […]
The NYT is reporting that the dramatic hospital-bed drama in 2004 starring John Ashcroft, Jim Comey and Buttercheeks was about the data-mining component of the NSA’s terrorist surveillance program rather than the warrantless wiretapping component.
Mr. Gonzales insisted before the Senate this week that the 2004 dispute did not involve the Terrorist Surveillance Program “confirmed” by […]
Sen. Patrick Leahy and Rep. John Conyers and Rep. Henry Waxman (among others) have apparently been going about getting information from the Bush administration the wrong way. Official requests for documents and testimony, followed by threats of subpoenas, followed by subpoenas, may have seemed the proper way to go about it. But what […]
William Arkin: Clinton 1, Obama 0 - all the serious people think hillary was right. sarabeth is clearly more serious than matt is.
Golden Fiddle: Letter To Cash Warren - jessica alba is now single. cash is going to have to kill himself.
WaPo: War Crimes and the White House - Gen. P.X. Kelley (ex-commandant […]
The endpoint of that logical progression is the Bush administration’s economic statistics.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has just — quietly, without much blowing of trumpets — revised downwards the real GDP growth estimates for each of the last three years.
Estimates, you may remember from elementary statistics, are subject to random error. And the thing […]
Some perfectly good stuff has been crowded out of the news cycle by the ongoing Buttercheeks saga. My nomination for the best story in the also-ran category is the Dole-Shalala “Wounded Warriors” presidential commission. Mr. Dole and Ms. Shalala were charged with figuring out how to improve the woefully inadequate systems we have […]
