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End It, Don't Mend It | BLOG ENTRY
Abolish FEMA That's the conclusion of the Senate panel that investigated the government's response to Hurricane Katrina. The bipartisan report upbraids Bush, pointedly noting that "the President did not leave his Texas ranch to return to Washington...
April 27, 2006 4:46 PM ET -
Still Crazy After All These Years | BLOG ENTRY
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is upping the biblical ante, threatening the U.S. with two eyes for an eye, two teeth for a tooth: "'The Iranian nation will respond to any blow," he menaced, "with double...
April 27, 2006 4:43 PM ET -
Out by the New Year? | BLOG ENTRY
Love him or loathe him, Democratic Senator Russ "Balls Out" Feingold is at it again, introducing an amendment that would require redeployment of U.S. troops by December 31st.
April 27, 2006 12:00 AM ET -
The Number One Book in America | BLOG ENTRY
By Amazon sales rank. And it doesn't ship for another three weeks. Blogger Glenn Greenwald's instabook: How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok.
April 26, 2006 3:06 PM ET -
Woodcockery | BLOG ENTRY
The battle over the prescription-only status of Plan B —the so-called "Morning After Pill" —just got a whole lot weirder. According to an internal memo released as part of ongoing litigation, the FDA's deputy commissioner —a woman...
April 26, 2006 2:56 PM ET -
The "Death Tax" Con | BLOG ENTRY
Public Citizen has uncovered a decade-long$30 million stealth campaign by eighteen of the richest families in America — including the clans behind Wal Mart, Campbell's Soup, and M&M's — to repeal the estate tax. You know...
April 26, 2006 2:54 PM ET -
"Something of an Embarrassment" | BLOG ENTRY
FoxNews host and frequent Bush critic Tony Snow has just signed on to shill for the administration.
April 26, 2006 12:00 AM ET -
Rumsfeld Sued by Teens | BLOG ENTRY
Are you among the 12 million high school students whose GPA, Social Security number and other personal information have been Hoovered up into a Pentagon recruitment database? Unhappy about it? Maybe you join this lawsuit, filed...
April 25, 2006 3:45 PM ET -
Thirty-Two Percent | BLOG ENTRY
CNN puts the president's approval rating at thirty-two percent. Worse: He's got a whopping sixty-percent disapproval. Good news for Democrats: In the poll's generic matchup, fifty percent of Americans would cast their ballot for a Democratic...
April 25, 2006 3:44 PM ET -
Petrol Politicking | BLOG ENTRY
Check out the two parties' proposed solutions to sky-high gas prices. Cutting against type, the Democrats are calling for a sixty-day federal gas-tax holiday, bringing prices down eighteen cents a gallon. Bush and the GOP want...
April 25, 2006 3:42 PM ET -
Free-for-All | BLOG ENTRY
Comment away!
April 25, 2006 3:34 PM ET -
The New AT&T | BLOG ENTRY
Sucks as much as the old SBC. Your friendly neighborhood blogger moved over the weekend. He was promised that his DSL line would go live this morning. And much to his surprise, it went live last night....
April 25, 2006 12:00 AM ET -
Single-Source War | BLOG ENTRY
The White House's only response to Drumheller's whistle-blowing has been that the Iraqi turncoat was a single source and therefore wasn't reliable. As Drumheller points out, this is a crock. "They certainly took information that came from single...
April 24, 2006 4:45 PM ET -
The Big Lie | BLOG ENTRY
60 Minutes has blown the lid on the administration's WMD bamboozlement. There can no longer be any doubt: The march to war was a deliberate sham. The CBS report connects the dots: We knew that the CIA...
April 24, 2006 4:42 PM ET -
Will Censure for Cash | BLOG ENTRY
We know Russ Feingold's censure resolution made for great political theatre, but how much was the MoveOn-pleasing gambit worth, in dollar terms? About $175,ooo as measured by the boost to Russ' Progressive Patriots PAC. He's going to...
April 21, 2006 4:24 PM ET -
Open Thread, Baby | BLOG ENTRY
The Bush administration says that medical-marijuana movement is less about chemo patients and more about stoners who want to get high in peace. Which is it America? (Be honest . . .)
April 21, 2006 4:23 PM ET -
Inside the Iranian Police State | BLOG ENTRY
The restrictive dress codes come as little surprise. But a $6,000 fine for watching satellite TV? Two months in jail for walking your dog? Ahmad[man]inejad, why must you be such a crazy bastard?
April 21, 2006 4:23 PM ET -
Kay on Iran: Nobody Panic | BLOG ENTRY
People don't note that the Iranians have taken longer and achieved less than any other country that attempted clandestinely to produce nuclear weapons. It's wrong to paint the situation in Iran as: Iran's on the...
April 21, 2006 4:22 PM ET -
4/20 | BLOG ENTRY
It's surely no accident that the FDA waited until the stoner holiday, 4/20, to release a finding that "no sound scientific studies" support the use of marijuana as medicine. And if the Bush administration has a devilish...
April 21, 2006 4:16 PM ET -
The One-Third President | BLOG ENTRY
Bush's approval rating has sunk to a new low. In a Fox News poll, no less. Thirty-three percent. (And just in case you were curious if Fox's polling was somehow less "fair and balanced" than its political...
April 21, 2006 12:00 AM ET
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