LATEST BLOG POSTS

• Judith Miller: Tipped Off to 9/11?

  May 18, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Sure, she didn't stop 9/11, but at least she helped lead us into the Iraq war. Good grief! Ms. Run Amok's latest claim is that she was tipped off to super-... | More »

• About Face!

  May 17, 1:00 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  "Well, the National Guard is really, first of all, not trained for that mission. I think it would be a horribly over-expensive and very difficult way to manage this pr... | More »

• Shock and Awe, Tehran Style

  May 17, 12:44 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The Glasgow Herald outlines the Pentagon's military contingency plan for taking out Iran's nuclear program. (Hat Tip: Raw Story): The main plan calls for a ... | More »

• U.S. on Republicans: "Wrong Track"

  May 17, 12:44 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  According to the latest Washington Post/ABC News poll, 69 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. Sixty-three percent disapprove of the way the G... | More »

• Betray Privacy, Pay $200,000,000,000

  May 17, 12:43 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  The class action suit against Verizon over the release of customer phone records has now been expanded to include AT&T and Bell South, and the dollar figure has quadru... | More »

• A Pre-Conceived Notion

  May 17, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Are you "pre-pregnant"? The government wants all you post-pubescent women to quit your drinking, your smoking, and start popping folic acid. Because that fetus that yo... | More »

• A Small Dose of Compassionate Conservatism

  May 16, 4:07 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  I've gotta give Bush some credit on his immigration plan. Yes, the National Guard deployment is an embarrassing farce. As Marc Cooper said it best: "The real mis... | More »

• Anti-Terror Tool Turned on Muckrakers

  May 16, 3:52 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  I had been feeling that the controversy surrounding the USA Patriot Act was incredibly overblown —particularly in light of the almost unfathomable privacy abuses per... | More »

• From the Dept. of Daily Show-ology

  May 16, 12:00 AM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  This study out of the esteemed University of East Carolina, purporting to document the deleterious effects of the Daily Show, is hopelessly speculative academic gasbag... | More »

• "No Attempt to Militarize the Border"

  May 15, 5:39 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  That's the bizzaro spin from Bush press secretary Tony Snow on the president's new proposal to send as many as 10,000 armed military personnel from the Natio... | More »

• Class Action: The Verizon Lawsuit

  May 15, 5:37 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Verizon is already in the crosshairs of a $50 billion class action suit over the release of customer phone records, and AT&T and Bell South customers may be able to jo... | More »

• VP: "Or Did His Wife Send Him on a Junket?"

  May 15, 1:20 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  Dick Cheney's handwritten notes on Joe Wilson's New York Times column have been released as part of the Scooter Libby filings. Will this scandal eventually t... | More »

• Live From New York: Al Gore's Revival

  May 15, 1:06 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  This is the funniest opening SNL sketch of the'00s. If nothing else, Gore has a future as a co-anchor with Stephen Colbert. | More »

• Americans Against Spying

  May 15, 1:00 PM ET

  | By Tim Dickinson

  A majority of Americans disapprove of the NSA's domestic phone call monitoring, according to a poll by USA Today. More than two-thirds are concerned the program g... | More »