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2284 items by Tim Dickinson
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DeLay Out | BLOG ENTRY
Disgraced former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, wary of losing in 2006, has bowed out on his own terms — striking a blow to Democratic hopes for a November to remember. With DeLay gone, and Cunningham and Abramoff...
April 4, 2006 6:42 PM ET -
Iraq Reality Check | BLOG ENTRY
This New Yorker piece by Steve Coll is the best thing I've read on Iraq all year. It highlights the results of a little noticed and still only partly declassified study by the Pentagon that...
April 4, 2006 6:41 PM ET -
Footloose Takes Manhattan | BLOG ENTRY
A Supreme Court Judge in New York has declared it's constitutional to ban dancing in bars and clubs. Kevin Bacon, your services are required.
April 4, 2006 6:41 PM ET -
McKinney's Chef Trouble | BLOG ENTRY
To my mind, this is the kind of culture of corruption we should encourage: Channel 2 Action News has uncovered documents showing McKinney, D-Ga., spent about $1,000 of taxpayer's money to fly singer Isaac Hayes to Georgia...
April 4, 2006 6:32 PM ET -
No Good Options | BLOG ENTRY
President Bush has repeatedly made clear that all options — including military strikes — are on the table for dealing with Iran's nuclear program. But as this WaPo article makes clear, Iran has the capability to uses...
April 3, 2006 6:32 PM ET -
Tahoe Jamming | BLOG ENTRY
Chevy got more than it bargained for when it asked the public to edit a new commercial for it's Tahoe SUV. These anti-global warming spots are unusually well done. Even a bit chilling: "What will...
April 3, 2006 6:30 PM ET -
Powered by Corn (and Coal) | BLOG ENTRY
Ethanol may be a boon to Iowa agribusiness, but those touting the "green" benefits of this corn-alcohol fuel need a serious reality check. As this Christian Science Monitor piece makes clear, distilling ethanol takes shitloads of energy...
April 3, 2006 6:30 PM ET -
Employment Opportunity | BLOG ENTRY
It's a heck of a job, but nobody seems to want it. Maybe the Bush administration should launch a reality show: Who Wants to Be a FEMA Director?
April 3, 2006 6:22 PM ET -
"Intended for Conventional Weapons" | BLOG ENTRY
Murray Waas at the National Journal is proving himself the best muckraker in Washington: Take his lastest expose, documenting the administration's top-level machinations to cover up what Bush knew, and when Bush knew it, about Iraq's...
March 31, 2006 10:42 AM ET -
53 Seats | BLOG ENTRY
For all of the GOP's woes, the latest Zogby/WSJ poll suggests Democrats may only pick up two Senate seats in November, cutting the Republican majority from fifty-five to fifty-three.
March 31, 2006 10:35 AM ET -
John Dean on Censure | BLOG ENTRY
Former Nixon White House counsel John Dean testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, making a forceful call for censure of President Bush over his illegal wiretapping. Excerpts: No presidency that I can find in history has adopted...
March 31, 2006 12:00 AM ET -
"Vaffanculo" | BLOG ENTRY
The Scalia gesturegate controversy just keeps getting juicier. After the Supreme Court justice insisted that his old-country chin flick wasn't profane and demanded the paper print a correction, the Boston College photography professor who captured the...
March 30, 2006 10:33 AM ET -
Saudi Nukes? | BLOG ENTRY
An expose by a German magazine suggests that Saudi Arabia helped finance the Pakistani bomb program, and is now leaning on that country's nuclear scientists to build a bomb of its own.
March 30, 2006 10:32 AM ET -
Sinking Ship? | BLOG ENTRY
A new 2006 congressional poll shows Democrats trouncing the GOP nationwide 51 to 41 percent. The RNC, meanwhile, has sent out a memo warning candidates not to run away from the political pariah that is president Bush:...
March 30, 2006 12:00 AM ET -
The Democrats' "Real" Deal? | BLOG ENTRY
The Democrats unveiled their party platform for "Real Security" to great fanfare today. But I'm not sure I'd be crowing about this plan. First, the good: Action item Number One is to "eliminate" Osama Bin Laden. This puts...
March 29, 2006 10:39 AM ET -
Judging Secret Spying | BLOG ENTRY
"I am very wary of inherent authority. It sounds very much like King George." —U.S. Magistrate Judge Allan Kornblum, advocating Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court oversight of Bush's illicit NSA spying scheme.
March 29, 2006 10:39 AM ET -
Sir Sex Bomb | BLOG ENTRY
The incomparable Tom Jones has just been knighted
March 29, 2006 12:00 AM ET -
Photo-Op Hell | BLOG ENTRY
Guitars and photo ops can make for a perilous political mix. First there was George Bush, captured clowning around with a presidential guitar given to him by country music star Mark Wills on the day after Katrina...
March 28, 2006 10:36 AM ET -
Bill Frist's Pete Wilson Moment | BLOG ENTRY
Marc Cooper has this immigration story nailed. The pro-immigrant backlash that has arisen in response to the deport-'em-all rhetoric of Frist, Tom Tancredo, and their fellow travelers on the Hill could do permanent...
March 28, 2006 10:30 AM ET -
A Clarification | BLOG ENTRY
The obscene gesture I discussed Antonin Scalia making yesterday was apparently not the more familiar "fuck you" symbolized by the middle finger, but rather the more old-country "fuck off" symbolized by the Supreme Court justice flicking...
March 28, 2006 12:00 AM ET
