(1) Hats off to Senate Republicans. The Senate on Thursday night abandoned efforts to fashion a government rescue of the American automobile industry, as Senate Republicans refused to support a bill endorsed by the White House and Congressional Democrats. The failure to reach agreement on Capitol Hill raised a specter of financial collapse for General [...]
Just stop talking like this: I don’t doubt John McCain’s sincerity on this issue, but I doubt his wisdom on it. The fact is I’m somebody who opposed the war when it was unpopular to do so. For a candidate whose supposed strength is his communication, Barack Obama leaves a lot to be desired. The [...]
(1) Depends On The Definition Of Protest BBC: A top US official has described the suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a “good PR move to draw attention”. Speaking to the BBC’s Newshour programme, Ms Graffy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, said the three men [...]
One thing’s for sure. There are all kinds of future doctoral dissertations falling all over themselves here. In Political Science, in Journalistic Ethics. (Are both of those terms oxymorons?) My crystal ball sees topics like “Spin, Rumor, Truth, Fiction and Mystery: The Role of the Media in Reporting the Goss Resignationâ€. Or “Why did Porter [...]
As the Harrient Miers nomination drama played out over the past month, it was hard to figure out quite how to react to the spectacle of the right wing tearing one of the president’s nominees to shreds. On one hand, she wasn’t the obvious hardcore fringe candidate that conservatives wanted to parade in the Democrats’ [...]
Note to anyone planning to challenge Rick Santorum for his Senate seat in 2006: Don’t bother hiring high-priced consultants or ad agencies, because the best campaign material is found every time Santorum opens his mouth. We’ve had the comments linking homosexuality to beastiality and terrorism, the comparison of Democrats to Nazis during the filibuster debate, [...]
During the recent Macworld show, the most intriguing piece of iPod news wasn’t the introduction of the new iPod Mini—it was the announcement that Hewlett-Packard had inked a surprising alliance with Apple. The agreement between the two companies will soon result in HP-branded iPods and the inclusion of iTunes software on every HP machine. For [...]
How about education… So the Prez’s boasting about Texas’ education programs on the campaign trail was full of lies. Shocking, I know. But this one is way out of hand. Read the full story here. …the Houston Independent School District — showcase of the “Texas educational miracle” that President Bush has touted as a model [...]