Funny how the subject of fact-checking came up in the comments section yesterday, and today I have a post about it.
Here’s MSNBC’s Alex Johnson on the subject of the Texas primaries/caucuses:
…Texas, where 195 of the 228 delegates the state will send to the Democratic National Convention will be chosen in a primary and caucuses Tuesday.
And […]
To the extent that the Hillary Clinton campaign has self-destructed, apparently no one is responsible.
Harold Ickes knows it wasn’t him:
Harold Ickes definitely doesn’t buy the argument that Mark Penn isn’t responsible for everything that has happened to the Hillary Clinton campaign.
“Mark Penn has run this campaign,” said Ickes in a brief phone interview this morning. […]
President George W. Bush made this striking statement at his press conference yesterday:
I don’t know if you noticed yesterday, but it was a very interesting moment in Iraqi constitutional history, when part of the — a member of the presidency council utilized his constitutional right to veto one of the three pieces of legislation recently […]
On Tuesday we had all that grim news about the economy. But there was really no cause for alarm, after all. President George W. Bush has stepped up to the plate, and President George W. Bush has reassured America:
I don’t think we’re headed to (sic) recession.
And he should know. Because he’s the President. […]
All sorts of people have been freely rendering advice to Hillary Clinton, telling her what she should do with her presidential aspirations (for example, Jonathan Alter in Newsweek). The consensus seems to be that, although she is locked in a tight race with Obama, and although it is virtually certain that if she stays […]
Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples is — still, at the time I write this — the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. What he is not is a team player.
He was up on Capitol Hill yesterday, giving testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, when he was asked about waterboarding. A […]
Legendary broadcaster Myron Cope dies at 79 - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (2/27/08):
Myron Cope, colorful sports broadcaster and reporter whose Terrible Towel remains the banner of the Steelers nation, has died.
In declining health since even before his 2005 retirement after a record 35 years of Steelers broadcasts, Mr. Cope died this morning of respiratory failure at the […]
Since a few people wrote in for more cycling coverage (one of them even in comments), I figured I’d make them happy. The 2008 Amgen Tour of California wrapped up on Sunday at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA. George Hincapie won a very exciting final stage in a total downpour, and Levi […]
The state of the economy, encapsulated in an AP report yesterday:
No good news today on the economic front. Consumer confidence plunged, the wholesale inflation rate soared, the number of homes being foreclosed jumped, home prices fell sharply and a report predicts big increases in health care costs.
And they go on to spell out each one […]
Americans often react to world events with ludicrously unrealistic perspectives. And I’m talking about experienced lawmakers, not ordinary folks (who, to be frank, usually don’t react to world events at all). And that includes lawmakers experienced enough to have run for President solely on the basis of their experience of world affairs.
A case […]
