Who is Randy Scheunemann?
He’s John “Oops!” McCain’s top foreign policy adviser, the one who advises him about things like Iraq and Afghanistan. (And who forgets to tell him every night that Czechoslovakia doesn’t exist any more.)
What did Randy Scheunemann say yesterday?
The American people deserve a commander-in-chief who puts their country first ahead of party, […]
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Over the weekend, The Sunday Times brought us the delightful story of how Stephen Payne, a “lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.”
Yesterday, someone at the White […]
That would surely be a fitting political epitaph for George W. Bush: “I didn’t do it!”
The only thing that might sum up his presidency more accurately than that four-word sentence might be a choice selection of four-letter words.
Bush has precious little to show by way of achievements. In fact, to borrow a […]
When you’re a lame duck president, some of the time even tame prime ministers you installed in office can’t resist the temptation to thumb their nose at you. Take Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, for instance. He knows perfectly well that one thing that’s guaranteed to give George Bush conniptions is talk about […]
Much as George Bush might hope otherwise, a major component of his so-called legacy is going to be his unenviable record of consistently being dishonest with the American people.
He’s lied to us about all sorts of stuff, from how Saddam’s non-existent WMDs were an imminent threat to the U.S., to Mission Accomplished, to “we do […]
Always a pleasure to point out that Blackwater Worldwide is in the news again. Funny how they are hardly ever in the news for doing anything good. Still, there’s no such thing as bad publicity, right? Even if Blackwater is caught first breaking the law, and then lying about it. Under the […]
You may or may not have noticed, but coverage of the Iraq war has really dropped this year:
According to data compiled by Andrew Tyndall, a television consultant who monitors the three network evening newscasts, coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the three newscasts have shown 181 weekday […]
On June 17, the Washington Times reported on a joint investigation with ABC News:
The government is testing drugs with severe side effects like psychosis and suicidal behavior on hundreds of military veterans, using small cash payments to attract patients into medical experiments that often target distressed soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, a Washington […]
Here’s a two-fer. The GOP’s crystal ball on Iraq. And mine on Obama and the Clintonites.
The Republican party has made a lot of predictions about Iraq. Not a single one has turned out to be true. To keep that unbroken streak alive, they offered up another one yesterday to celebrate […]
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It was foretold these seven days ago that 1115 would turn into a poetry-and-cooking-and-snorkeling-and- skiing blog.
Today we begin that transition, by bringing you one of my favorite recipes. This one is for balancing the budget, and is evidently a great favorite of the McCain family.
• Take one budget deficit, of $400 billion per year, give […]
