June 1, 2005

FROM THE WEST

Once again, Montana shows the way... UPDATE: And more! Western Democrat has a full round up of the work just completed by Montana Democrats this legislative session. --------... [More]


THE SMOKING GUN HITS THE MIDWEST

Why the Downing Street Memo isn't getting more attention is beyond me. But over the weekend, a major paper in the "heartland" paid significant attention to it, and here is... [More]


BOLTON

Bush on Bolton: WASHINGTON, May 31 - President Bush criticized Senate Democrats on Tuesday for "stalling" a vote on John R. Bolton's nomination as ambassador to the United Nations, and... [More]


GONE FISHIN'

So... My 2005 cross-country road trip is about to begin. One month. Coast to coast to coast. In case you're curious, here's what I'm looking at: THURSDAY 6/2 » MONDAY... [More]


June 16, 2005

STILL FISHIN

A quick update from the road.... I'm now half-way in my road trip, landing for the next week in my once (and future?) hometown of San Francisco, CA. After a... [More]


June 17, 2005

OBAMARAMA... AGAIN!

While on my vacation, I recieved an email from a reader with a link to a recent address my man Obama gave at Knox College. If you thought his DNC... [More]


A WWII HISTORY MYSTERY

solved at long last! --------... [More]


June 19, 2005

PLEASE NO

Please. No. This cannot be true. It cannot. A Bush-watcher website identified as TBRNews.org is reporting under the byline of "domestic intelligence reporter" Brian Harring that the Department of Defense... [More]


MORE MEMOS

Not only is the AP finally on the case of the Downing Street memos, but... they've got some new ones too. Take this, for example: "U.S. scrambling to establish a... [More]


UP IS DOWN

Apparently "significant adverse impact" is the same thing as "beneficial to animals" in the NewSpeak of the Bush administration. 5 minutes of reading the news and I'm already so disgusted... [More]


READ FOR YOURSELF

Just in case you want to go to the primary source documents, MSNBC has excerpts of the Downing Street Memos. Take a look and decide for yourself. --------... [More]


June 21, 2005

A HISTORY LESSON

A reader over at TPMCafe gives an amazing history lesson involving JAckson, Nixon, and realignments. It's a bit deep if you aren't up on your 19th century US politics, but... [More]


June 22, 2005

GIMMIE FIVE?

I knew that Jack Abramoff was a nutter, but this is just beyond belief. Their secret kickback scheme was called "gimmie five?" What were these guys? 8 years old? --------... [More]


DO YOU FEEL SAFER?

No. WASHINGTON, June 21 - A new classified assessment by the Central Intelligence Agency says Iraq may prove to be an even more effective training ground for Islamic extremists than... [More]


THAT COMING REALIGNMENT

David Sirota has a great post today about a trend I spent a good deal of time researching this past semester: the shift out West of hunters, outdoorsmen, and ranchers... [More]


YOUR WAR IS WAITING

Ouch. --------... [More]


CUE RIGHT WING HYSTERIA

They're right. But that won't stop the nutters from losing it. If this made it up to the Supremes and was anything less than unanimous.... --------... [More]


June 27, 2005

GONE FISHIN, PART II

So... it's off once again, this time to West to East. I'm leaving a day or two later than I had originally planned, and I've picked up an extra passenger... [More]