Last week, we reported on Whole Foods and other supermarkets new sustainable seafood initiatives. Yesterday, Giant Food announced support for the principles of the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions, a coalition of nonprofit groups that works with retailers to change
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While chatting with reporters on his press plane this week, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), noting that many of the televisions at army bases in Iraq and Afghanistan were tuned to Fox News, jokingly asked, Is this the commander in chiefs
In the 100 years since it was created on July 26, 1908, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation -- or FBI, as it is better known -- has grown from a few dozen detectives to a force of 30,000-plus...
Bryon York over at NROs The Corner whines: Its a small passage from Obamas Berlin speech, but this formulation, common in some circles, grates on some ears, like mine: The terrorists of September 11th plotted in Hamburg and trained in
McCain apparently isnt as tech ignorant as we think. Like most Republicans, he appears to be getting all his news from chain emails, because hes parroting the latest talking point thats been propagating down the pipe that brought previous bits
Were in trouble: Obama was at the Tiergarten in Berlin, amid a sea of people. McCain was at Schmidts Sausage Haus und Restaurant in German Village, an enclave of Columbus, Ohio. McCain addressed about a half dozen Ohio small business
Colorado Quinnipiac U. 7/14-22. MoE 4.5% (6/17-24 results) McCain (R) 46 (44) Obama (D) 44 (49) These Q-poll numbers are creating a bit of a panic today, which is a bit overwrought and unwarranted, even if the odd number here
Here is the McCain campaigns response to todays speech by Barack Obama in Berlin, Germany. While Barack Obama took a premature victory lap in the heart of Berlin, proclaiming himself a citizen of the world, John McCain continued to make
Field (PDF). 7/8-14. Likely voters. MoE 3.9% (5/17-26) Proposition 8 is the Limit on Marriage Constitutional Amendment. It amends the California constitution to provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. If
Lots of news today. NM-Sen: So far, everything has come up Milhouse for Tom Udall; he has substantial polling leads and a significant cash advantage over Republican Steve Pearce. Get ready for a round of negative ads from Pearce...and, it
Who is this guy and why is he so whiny? He was frightened and intimidated by the angry left blog Daily Kos? What a wuss. Wondering what the Sarah Palin scandal is all about? Heres a good roundup of the
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 7/21-23. Likely voters. MoE 4.5% (No trend lines) McCain (R) 45 Obama (D) 42 A couple of weeks ago, Rasmussen had the race tied 43-43, and some wondered whether it might be an outlier. Obama
OK, we knew Republican Senate candidate Jim Gilmore was in serious electoral trouble, given that he trails by 20-30 points in every poll, and has about a tenth of the cash of his Democratic opponent Mark Warner. Now, it seems,
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 7/21-23. Likely voters. MoE 4% (5/22 results) Wicker (R) 45 (46) Musgrove (D) 44 (42) Looks like float within the MoE. This one is tight. Note, there was a methodological difference in this poll from
A final wrap-up. These are the aspirations that joined the fates of all nations in this city. These aspirations are bigger than anything that drives us apart. It is because of these aspirations that the airlift began. It is because
Barack Obamas speech at Berlins Tiergarten Park in front of the 226-foot high Victory Column is scheduled to begin at 1:00. A crowd of 100,000 to 1,000,000 is expected...and kudos to whoever went out on a limb on the estimate.
So history reminds us, that walls can be torn down, but the task is never easy. True partnership and true progress requires constant work and sustained sacrifice. They require sharing the burdens of development and diplomacy, of peace and progress.
And the speech has started. Although tonight I speak to not as a candidate, but as a citizen. A proud citizen of the United States and a fellow citizen of the world. Watch the livestream here. Update: Some images:
Via TPM, John McCain surrogate Nancy Pfotenhauer: Barack Obama and his supporters can try to litigate what came first or what was crucial, but thats really an attempt to undermine the significance and the impact of the American troops and
Ad Age: Its official. Sen. Barack Obamas campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universals Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a
Last night, on Glenn Beck’s CNN Headline News program, Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) falsely claimed that wildlife in Alaska are not affected by oil operations in Alaska. Animals “couldn’t care less whether…the pipeline was there, or the oil company was
A new poll put out by U.S. News and World Report asked respondents, “You just rented a vacation home on Martha’s Vineyard where the political and media elite go. Who is the last person you want as a summer neighbor?”
Last week, the New York Times reported that the three major network news anchors — Brian Williams, Charles Gibson and Katie Couric — would be accompanying Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on his current trip overseas. Immediately, the conservative Media Research
Cenk Uygur notes that “the media missed” a false statement from Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) recent CBS interview where he incorrectly claimed the surge “began the Anbar Awakening.” When asked by Kate Couric about whether the money spent on the
Yesterday, rap star Nas delivered a petition to Fox News’s Manhattan headquarters, calling on the network to “stop its racist smears against the Obamas and other Black Americans.” The petition, which was organized by Color of Change and Move On.org,
Today, the ACLU released a series of memos exchanged between the Justice Department and the CIA from 2002 through 2004. According to Raw Story, the memos effectively say that “as long as CIA agents could convince themselves they were not
While chatting with reporters on his press plane this week, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), noting that many of the televisions at army bases in Iraq and Afghanistan were tuned to Fox News, jokingly asked, “Is this the commander in chief’s
Dan Froomkin reports that the latest list of White House staffers and their respective salaries has been released. Among the highest-paid White House staffers: Press Secretary Dana Perino, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Counsel Fred Fielding, and Counselor Ed Gillespie.
Yesterday evening, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) denied that he was wrong in claiming the “surge” policy in Iraq “began the Anbar Awakening.” Pressed by a reporter, McCain argued that the “surge” actually began before more troops were added to Iraq:McCAIN:
Last night on Fox, Hannity & Colmes co-host Alan Colmes noted that CBS News chose not to air a portion of its interview with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in which McCain falsely claimed that President Bush’s “surge” policy in Iraq
In 1997, conservative anti-tax activist Grover Norquist initiated the Reagan Legacy Project, which sought to “name something — a stadium, a stretch of turnpike, anything — after Reagan in every state in the union.” Another proposal favored by the group
The number of Americans filing first-time claims for unemployment benefits rose last week “to the highest level in almost four months.” The number of workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week to 406,000. The filings exceeded
Last year, House investigators revealed that Vice President Cheney exempted his office from an executive order designed to safeguard classified national security information by claiming that the Office of the Vice President is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
Conservatives are losing the new-media war, the Politico notes. As the 2008 campaign progresses, “it’s becoming increasingly clear that the absence of any websites on the right devoted to reporting — as opposed to just commenting on the news —
Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon, Iraq surge architect Fred Kagan criticized direct talks with Iran and made his case for attacking Iran, claiming it is the only means to “force” the country to halt its nuclear program: Well, there’s nothing
This morning on CNN, anchor Kiren Chetry discussed Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) current trip to the Middle East with fellow CNN host Glenn Beck. Asked for his thoughts on the trip, Beck said there is never going to be “peace
Ret. Gen. John Abizaid, the former commander of the US Central Command from 2003-2007, told a meeting of the Pacific Council on Monday that if the people of Iraq want the U.S. to leave, the U.S. should leave. “We can’t
Today, TPMmuckraker obtained the written answers from Karl Rove to questions posed to him by Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) about former Alabama governor Don Siegelman’s allegedly politically-motivated prosecution. In the letter, Rove denies involvement in Siegelman’s prosecution, contradicting an affidavit
ThinkProgress received a statement from Amb. Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame Wilson on Robert Novak’s collision today, in which he “was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in downtown Washington, D.C., Wednesday morning.” From
Some interesting testimony from an FBI interrogator in the trial of Osama bin LAden’s driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan.GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, July 23 — Osama bin Laden’s driver witnessed the al-Qaeda leader being briefed on the day of the Sept. 11,
A team of Japanese and Mongolian researchers announced an rare find today: a very well-preserved complete fossilized skeleton of a young dinosaur known as a Tarbosaurus, discovered two years ago in the Gobi desert. This type of theropod was related
Ibrahim Hooper of the Saudi-funded radical Islamic front group calling itself CAIR was just on Fox News, discussing the issue of Imam Siraj Wahhaj and his involvement in a pro-Islam subway advertising campaign in New York.Hooper denied that Siraj Wahhaj
Barack Obama’s speech in front of Berlin’s Victory Column is about to begin.The history of the Victory Column makes it a rather peculiar choice for this speech.The Victory Column originally stood in Königsplatz (now Platz der Republik), at the end
Despite the depraved content of the Arabic version of Al Jazeera, which openly supports terrorism, the municipally-owned cable system in Burlington, Vermont will continue to carry the slicked-up, sanitized English versionVermont Cable System To Continue Carrying Al Jazeera English -
Melanie Phillips on the perfect fantasy politician: Swooning over Princess Obama.On both sides of the Atlantic the media are swooning over him. Like Berlin and Paris, he is expected to receive a rapturous reception here.Labour MPs are urging Gordon Brown
Before we get to the real point of this post, here’s some background information on the Creation Museum in Kentucky:The Creation Museum is a 60,000 square foot museum in the United States designed to promote young Earth creationism. The museum
John at Power Line notices another in a seemingly endless series of gaffes from the Naive Messiah: The Fine Line Between Pandering and Lying.Obama continued:Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don’t have to just look at my words,
This depraved show alone should prevent Al Jazeera from ever being picked up by US cable channels, as the Arab “news network” throws a birthday party for released terrorist Samir Kuntar—who shot a child’s father in front of her, then
Here’s an open thread for a specific topic: who do you think would be the best Vice President for John McCain? I have to admit it’s difficult for me to get excited about any of the names currently being tossed
Barack Obama is in Israel, telling everybody what he thinks they want to hear—except the journalists he continues to shun: Obama: I’m here to reaffirm special US-Israel relationship.After a series of meetings with Israeli officials and a visit to Israel’s
As we noted yesterday, Imam Siraj Wahhaj (named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) is planning a series of subway train advertisements in Manhattan—during September—proselytizing for Islam.The organization behind this effort runs the web site
As we noted yesterday, Imam Siraj Wahhaj (named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing) is planning a series of subway train advertisements in Manhattan—during September—proselytizing for Islam.The organization behind this effort runs the web site
An interesting presentation from the National Center for Science Education on the part they played in the Dover School District creationism case, and their analysis of differing drafts of the book Of Pandas and People. The smoking gun moment was
Serbian nationalist Radovan Karadzic, one of the most wanted men in Europe, has been arrested in Belgrade working as a doctor.“Karadzic used false documents with the name Dragan Dabic,” said Rasim Ljajic, the minister
As Barack Obama prepares to visit the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, a Palestinian artist sketches Obama among his other portraits of Jesus, Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh, and Che Guevara.With a peace dove, of course. You couldn’t make
Rick Warren snagged Obama and McCain to attend a leadership and compassion forum in CA:Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain in August will be on the same stage for the first time in the 2008 presidential campaign.
It may only be July, and Election Day may still be 104 days away, but we’ve reached the point at which the McCain campaign is even willing to attack Barack Obama’s remembrance of the Nazi Holocaust.Speaking today at Yad Vashem, Obama
Hip hop star Nas joined forces with grassroots organization Color of Change and yesterday delivered over 620,000 petitions to FOX News, demanding an end to the daily on-air racism. Last night he joined Stephen to talk about the fight against
And he’s supposed to be a lefty pundit. Sometimes I think we need to clean out the whole crew.As for his substantive views, they do (now) closely resemble Bush’s. Yet the upside to a candidate who changes his philosophical orientation
Senator Obama delivered a soaring speech today in Berlin before an estimated crowd of over 100,000 in which he called for a renewed trans-Atlantic — indeed, trans-global — alliance to fight the common threats we all face. Appealing the
In Berlin today, Barack Obama capped his European tour with an address to an audience whose numbers reached tens of thousands. But while the media will focus on Obama’s call to strengthen America’s trans-Atlantic alliance with France and Germany, no
BillO’s peeps sandbag Rep. Wexler. Nice going Bill. Not everyone can handle it like Bill Moyers. Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Bill W)BillO’s act of sandbagging people with a camera crew who he disagrees with where they live is unseemly. He’s such a
Prometheus 6: This is pure evil and McCain will love it! FP Passport: Europe is Obama countryThe Cunning Realist: Growing Gills Threat Level: Anti-Robocall crusader pushes for a crackdown on political phone droidsEach week until the election the producers of
It seems hard to imagine a presidential candidate, running in the midst of two wars, openly speculate about cutting back on veterans’ healthcare. And yet, here we are.Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain appeared Tuesday to suggest rationing of veterans’
Our friend (and C&L fan) Richard Lewis returns to Countdown Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather)We love you, Richard, but Amato wants to know if it would kill you to mention C&L when you’re on Countdown. C’mon, throw the guy a bone. You
It’s stories like this that really are incredible. I know it’s been around for a while, but I never saw it before. A couple raised a lion cub in the UK and eventually he got too big to handle so
When Joe Lieberman agreed to headline John Hagee’s Christians United For Israel Washington Summit, it was some months ago, before the political controversy over Hagee’s radical worldview, and before even John McCain decided Hagee is a little too nutty to
As we reported earlier today, Senator McCain was caught reinventing the Anbar awakening time line during an interview with Katie Couric Tuesday — an interview CBS inexplicably edited to cover up for McCain. Well, today HuffPo’s Seth Colter Walls
UPDATE: John Amato will be on the radio with Rachel Maddow at 5:30 PST/8:30 EST to talk about Blue America’s project against Rove’s Freedom’s Watch on Air America.Video and transcript from Daily Kos:(Wild Cheers)Nightline: Monday night in Baghdad, Barack Obama
Hurting an innocent person and then moving on as if nothing happened? Are the DC Police sure it wasn’t Valerie Plame? Download | Play Download | Play Politico:Syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak was cited by police after he hit a pedestrian with his black Corvette in
Wow. There is so much hackery in this short clip that it’s hard to know where to begin. While reporting on McCain’s Anbar gaffe, the “Morning Joe” squad not only fails to acknowledge how serious and unprofessional it was
After John Ashcroft’s testimony last week in which he bobbed and weaved his way around answering every question about what he did during his time in the White House, Jon Stewart and John Oliver compare Bush and his merry band
As I reported earlier, CBS violated their own Sandards when it aired the heavily edited interview of John McCain with Katie Couric. A CBS spokesman tried to defend their behavior and told TV Newser:Of the 14-minute interview, a little less
I love everything about my new state of Virginia so far, except for Gerry Connolly, the mosquitoes, and the absurdly molasses-like speed limits. Read the rest »
My syndicated column today spotlights the upstart candidacy of Republican newcomer Bill Russell, who is challenging corruptocrat John Murtha in Pennsylvania. Read the rest »
MORE ON WATER....The mysterious Froude Reynolds, who carried pipe in tomato fields, walked along canals, and studied water in California universities in preparation for current employment that makes a pseudonym a reasonable precaution, responds to David Zetlands suggestion that the...
YET MORE McCAIN....As the sun was setting in Berlin on Barack Obamas big speech, John McCain stepped out from Schmidts Sausage Haus in Ohio to rebuke his opponent:I would rather speak at a rally or a political gathering any place...
OBAMA AND TERRORISM....The Cornerites are in such an apoplectic frenzy over Barack Obamas Berlin speech that Im almost afraid of being hit by a barrage of spittle flecked pixels if I head over there again before theyve calmed down. In...
IMMIGRATION....Via Tyler Cowen, heres a new paper about the effect of immigration on wages of native workers. Nickel version: among workers with no high school degree, wages go down 0.7% in the short run and up 0.3% in the long...
TOO AWESOME....Candy Crowley on CNN: Barack Obama was, indeed, awesome in his Berlin speech tonight, but watch out! Americans might decide he was a little too awesome. Yeesh. They just cant help themselves, can they?...
IMPROVING OUR SCHOOLS....Bob Somerby reminds me today to comment on Emily Bazelons article about school integration in this weeks New York Times Magazine. Its basically a review of many decades of research showing that the most important way to improve...
OBAMA vs. McCAIN....For some reason, there seems to be endless chatter among liberals right now who are worried about how Obama is doing against McCain. Why is the race tightening? Why hasnt there been a bump from Obamas overseas trip?...
DRUDGE....From Times Karen Tumulty, traveling with Barack Obama in the Middle East:Some of the reporters traveling with Obama were surprised upon landing to discover their editors in something of a frenzy. The reason: Drudge is using terms like chaos and...
ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ....Blake Hounshell interviews McClatchys Baghdad bureau chief, Nancy Youssef, about facts on the ground in Iraq:FP: Theres been a debate in the media about how much credit should be given to the surge for what youre...
THE EMPTY SUIT MEME....For those of you who dont keep up with the conservative blogosphere, one of the memes theyve been trying to push for the past couple of weeks is this: Barack Obama gives a good prepared speech, but...
EAST COAST BIAS WATCH....The Wilder Effect? I thought it was the Bradley Effect. LAs guy was first, after all. POSTSCRIPT: Google backs me up: 3,820 hits for Wilder Effect compared to 44,900 hits for Bradley Effect. Take that, Virginia. POSTSCRIPT...
THE WILLIE LOMAN DEMOGRAPHIC....I suppose this campaign poster for John McCain is mockable on a lot of different levels, but if you want to know what it reminds me of (and you do, dont you?), its those Successories™ themed motivational...
MORE CAMPAIGN MUCK....Chris Orr suggests that John McCain ought to quit whining about the amount of press coverage Barack Obama is getting:The truth is that, while the inordinate coverage of Obama hurts McCain in some ways, it also dramatically decreases...
BUSINESS TRAVEL....In recent decades, the cost of air travel has decreased and so has the service. MattY sees dark forces at work:But whats missing from this analysis is the executive suite. This is where folks have been able to give...
2010 OR BUST....The Washington Post editorial page has been the target of plenty of chin scratching over the past few years from people who wonder just whats going on in Fred Hiatts shop, but todays effort really outdoes itself. If...
OIL SPECULATION....Yesterday the Senate voted 94-0 to proceed with debate on a bill designed to reduce speculation in the oil futures market. Megan McArdle calls the bill monstrous, which, admittedly, would be my first guess too for any bill that...
McCAINS CAMPAIGN....Was the troop surge in Iraq responsible for the Sunni Awakening? Of course not: the surge wasnt even a glimmer in George Bushs mind until several months after the Awakening started in Anbar province and was already showing strong...
BIN LADENS SOFT SUPPORT....After the imam leaves and the conversation lingers into the small hours of the morning, what do young Islamic radicals talk about? In Bin Ladens Soft Support, in the current issue of the Monthly, Kenneth Ballen writes...
NOT SO LOST IN TRANSLATION....Did Der Spiegel, in its interview with prime minister Nouri al-Maliki published this weekend, correctly translate his endorsement of Barack Obamas timetable for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq? We now know it did, but CJR reporter...
DISCRETIONARY SPENDING WATCH....Has domestic discretionary spending really skyrocketed on George Bushs watch? John Cogan and Glenn Hubbard say yes, and they have a chart to prove it — but they measure spending in dollars, not percent of GDP, which is...
JIM GIBBONS DIVORCE INSANITY: Americas worst governor and alcoholic adulterous sex-assaulter crook Jim Gibbons and his power-crazed wife Dawn are finally getting the divorce everybody always knew...
Ooh looky its another Kustomized Kampaign Trinket for you, the reader! For just $250, you can show the world that YOUR NAME totally supports JOHN MCCAIN. But are there any names or phrases that...
The great George W. Bush delivered the commencement address at Colorados Air Force Academy today, the same day that his former hobbit slave was publicizing mean books about him. Here he is this...
We usually dont like to encourage the comedy YouTube jokes because none of them are funny, or its something you can watch on the TeeVee, later, on your sofa or whatever, eating your carry out....
SEE WHAT EVERYONES SAYING ABOUT SCOTT MCCLELLANS NEW #1 BOOK, GEORGE BUSH JR. MADE VAGUE ERRORS!I would think if he harbored such deep feelings about things he wouldnt have and shouldnt have...
Hello Peoples! Remember that whole thing about your Wonkette getting a new home, and all that? Well, it is still true — and tonight, Wonkette will suffer the miracle of transmigration. What...
Ever since John McCain pissed all over Mitt Romney in a debate, and even before then, Mormons havent taken kindly to the foul-mouthed, unhandsome, twice-married atheist grumpus. So its no surprise...
Wonkette comical typos operative Ron sends us this screen shot of a CNN.com article in which Karl Rove lets slip a revelation of his own about terrible snitch Scott McClellan. McClellans syntax in...
BARRY OBAMAS RACIST POETRY: Under water grottos, caverns/ Filled with apes/ That eat figs./ Stepping on the figs/ That the apes/ Eat, they crunch./ The apes howl, bare/ Their fangs, dance,/ Tumble...
Hillary Clinton continued the Enfranchisement Tour 2k8 today in South Dakota, which is fully franchised and will likely go for Obama on June 3 but doesnt matter. While there she visited the only...
Remember when those nuts on the right, Michelle Malkin and Charles Johnson, condemned beloved fast food bakery Dunkin Donuts for letting teevee chef Rachael Ray wear a Palestinian scarf in this ad?...
The White House has issued a Papal Bull in response to former press secretary Scott McClellans new book, in which he makes bland accusations about the Bush administration like they may not have...
Heres Barry Obamas latest pitch to the Puerto Ricans, which he delivers in their native language. He seems to be mentioning, once again, that he was born on an island too. And then he says that...
Way back in the early 1990s, America learned the hard way that strange e-mails from people with AOL e-mail addresses like krazi hott lucey are not hott even if they are krazi. In other words,...
John McCain is doing his best to romance The Hollywoods, but he has found few wealthy gay liberals willing to listen to his uplifting message of war without end. As a result, he has only been able to...
Hey people, if you are in the Fort Wayne, Indiana area, you might stop by Studio 13 Creative Skin Design and ask Ryan Hadley for one of these sweet Barack Obama tattoos. Now GO GO GO, FIND US PHOTOS...
Things havent gotten much better since we last checked in on Kwame Kilpatrick, the comical mayor of Detroit and a leading contender for Barack Obamas black vice presidency. You may recall that his...
Remember Barry Nolan, the cable news guy who courageously took a stand against some backwater TV organization giving Bill OReilly a prize for working once in the greater Boston metropolitan area?...
New regulations make it harder than ever to go bankrupt these days — but that hasnt stopped many hard-working Americans from rising to the challenge. A U.S. businessman says...
Scott McClellan, one of approximately 200 Bush Administration spokesmen since 2001, left the White House a few years ago. During his tenure, he lied about Iraq, Katrina, Terror, and whatever else was...
Offending phrase highlighted ...And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you,
Tomorrows the deadline for applications for our Fall internship. If I dont say so myself, its a good gig. Certainly a lot of hard work but TPM interns work in the core functions of our operation pretty much from day
We dug into the internals on the latest Fox News poll, and some of the questions might surprise you (or might not, since its Fox). Example: Have you heard any of your friends and neighbors say there is something about
Okay, this ones just for fun. You know, John McCains been having a rough few days on the image and message front. Had to cancel the visit to New Orleans and the Gulf Oil rig because of the recent oil
Former CIA Director Porter Goss has been appointed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) as co-chairman of the new Office of Congressional Ethics.
If youre desperate to be John McCains vice presidential nominee, you better get on TV and start talking up the Surge as the single most important issue in this years presidential campaign. And if youre serious about getting picked it
Looks like some of our favorite wingers are set to have their hearts broken by the good folks at BMW Direct.Yesterday in the New York Post, Michelle Malkin was positively giddy at the jaw-dropping political miracle may be on the
As youll recall, 2007 was the first year of the annual Golden Dukes to recognize great accomplishments in muckiness including acts of venal corruption, outstanding self-inflicted losses of dignity, crimes against the republic, bribery, exposed hypocrisy and generally malevolent governance.
Ive hesitated to touch on this incident with Bob Novak running over a pedestrian and apparently speeding off as though nothing happened. Hes a controversial figure and the case is so weird that its sort of speaks for itself; blogging
The whole thing is good. But this is my favorite graf from Fred Kaplans Slate article about McCains foreign policy experience ...It may be time to reassess this narratives premise--or to abandon it altogether and simply examine the evidence before
In the past week John McCain and his surrogates have done their best to focus the entire McCain-Obama debate on the question of which candidate was right about the troop surge in Iraq. So it was a little surprising to
DO NOT TROUBLE HIM WITH FACTS!In his interview with NBCs Kelly ODonnell, which will air on NBCs Nightly News tonight, McCain questions whether Obama should have given a speech in Berlin before becoming president.I would rather speak at a rally
MSNBC:McCain campaign is criticizing Obama for being overseas while voters at home are struggling.Apparently, since July 4 not only have we suddenly won the Iraq war, but the economy has soured so much that its inappropriate for presidential candidates to
Finally someone noticed that Saint McCain might have a hard time winning his own state.But a variety of factors have made Mr. McCain’s chances in Arizona less assured than they ordinarily would seem, which his campaign has acknowledged.The number of
Published letter to Philadelphia Daily News:Attacking IranNuclear war with Iran is coming! Israel must strike Iran now, before they launch their missiles. All this taunting back and forth is a forerunner of WW III. Whoever makes the first move wins.
As many others have observed, its an odd thing about political journalists that they hate much about the subject they cover, specifically the messy business of politicians actually doing things to attract supporters and voters. While one can certainly hate
Ill leave semantic discussions to others, but lost in all of this discussion is the cost of the surge. Wars have become free, with neither the dollar cost nor cost in lives subject for polite conversation anymore.The troop escalation was
And there are a lot of new lucky duckies. WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) - The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week, government data on Thursday showed, reflecting seasonal volatility typical at this
The local Fox outlet just showed me clips of McCain saying (roughly) Obama wont acknowledge that weve succeeded and Hes in favor of unconditional withdrawal.If weve succeeded why cant we leave? Just who are we at war with and
Well thats an interesting opening statement.But prosecutor Timothy Stone, in an attempt to draw a link between Hamdan and the al Qaeda leadership in the first Guantanamo war crimes trial, told the six-member jury of U.S. military officers who will
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has convened approximately 70 researchers such as ex-Klansman David Duke to discuss their doubts about the extent of the Holocaust,
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent a letter to the American people. Here is your chance to respond.MRB:Dear President Ahmadinejad and Noble Iranians,Thank you for
Even before the election results were final, Republicans began voicing their outrage at the possibility that Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., might become Chairman of
President Bush has mainly been talking about economic and diplomatic isolation, however, the administration is also leaving open the option of military action. The
With the midterm elections behind us now, which candidates are best positioned for a Presidential run in 2008, and whose Presidential aspirations may have
From Josh Orton at MyDD, who knows how things operate in the Senate, comes this analysis of which GOP Senators have been willingly rolled by their obstructionist colleague, Tom Coburn. These are the Republican Senators who will either side with
Funny, I remember the corporate media telling us how Obama was gonna have real trouble with Latinos because Hillary won them by such an overwhelming margin. I recall at the time that Joe and I kept saying that just because
Remember, last month, when McCain gave the campaign speech in Canada? Most of us remember. McCain doesnt:In his interview with NBCs Kelly ODonnell, which will air on NBCs Nightly News tonight, McCain questions whether Obama should have given a speech
When I was in Greek last week attending the Symi Symposium, I got to interview former Greek Foreign Minister, and the current opposition party leader, George Papandreou. We only
You wont like him when hes angry.· McCain Ad: Obama Is Responsible For Rising Gas Prices. McCain is launching a new television ad that blames Democratic rival Barack Obama for rising gasoline prices. The ad, airing on national cable and
Remarks of Senator Barack Obama (as prepared for delivery)“A World that Stands as One”July 24th, 2008Berlin, Germany Thank you to the citizens of Berlin and to the people of Germany. Let me thank Chancellor Merkel and Foreign Minister Steinmeier for
Probably the biggest joke of the campaign was the recent effort by the Republicans to complain about Obamas media coverage. McCain has been getting a free ride from the press corps for months. The so-called dean of the political punditry,
Absolutely hilarious hearing yesterday in the House about the Dont Ask Dont Tell policy that kind of sort of bans gays from serving in the US military. Dana Milbanks coverage is a must-read. Here are some highlights:Donnelly was followed by
A sign that were not through with this, regardless of what Wall Street would like us to believe.The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week, government data on Thursday showed, reflecting seasonal volatility
That headline, CBS Admits to Editing McCains Iraq Answers in the print edition of the Washington Post sure caught my eye this morning. Pretty interesting admission, so I figured Id post it. But, thats not the online title. As you
Good morning.Just heard Chuck Todd say that the RNC is running anti-Obama ads in towns named Berlin and Paris. I know I wasnt quite awake when I heard that little tidbit, so had to check. Susan G at Daily Kos
No matter how hard John McCain tries, he cant break free from the Bush economy. Even yesterday McCain praised Bush for the drop in oil prices, despite a lack of any link. The list of Bush praisers is limited these
As always, war and drought are driving the terrible conditions. And, as always, Europe, US and China keep selling (and giving) more and more military equipment to the region. In the West many like to throw the blame at Africa
Think of it as a little good-bye gift to industry, since they havent enjoyed enough benefits already. Business will look back at these years as the Golden Years when all their dreams came true. For everyone else, not so much.The
I get the need to withdraw from Iraq in an orderly manner that protects our troops and preserves whatever gains weve made. But, isnt it a bit odd that were negotiating with the Iraqi government over whether, and when, were
The chemical industry is not happy because the EU is forcing them to list all chemicals and prove that they are safe rather than the US model where the government has to prove unknown (and unlisted) chemicals are dangerous. As
Because hes one of the best things the Democratic party has - a general who is on our side. A general who was the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. What the Republicans know, and we always manage to forget, is
Lets just give everyone immunity and pretend as though nothing ever happened. Youll have to step over those people that are dying and struggling to breath but thats OK, Congress doesnt have a problem ignoring obvious wrongs. Besides, if we
Bill Bishops book The Big Sort frames a fairly simple question:What happens to political minorities in communities with large political majorities? In many part of the traditional church in the West, what has happened is something called the
What happens to political minorities in communities with large political majorities? They shut up. At book club or in church, they cut short any conversation bordering on politics. A woman in Washington State, a Democrat, told me that
Morning Cafe-ers! Were well into a discussion on Bill Bishops The Big Sort. Be sure to check out the comment threads in this weeks book club, Bill and the other participants have been weighing in regularly. Also intriguing: Dean Bakers
Okay, we all know the argument for bailing out Fannie and Freddie bondholders. If we didnt , then homeowners would be paying much higher interest rates on mortgages for many years to come. But, why are we bailing out the
Heres another potentially big problem with the Big Sort (again, the phenomenon, not the book). Sorting can make the electorate, as a whole, look more radicalized and polarized than it really is. Is the public more politically polarized,
The political segregation of America has nothing to do with politics. This is the paradox of the big sort that has been so thoroughly, so convincingly and so unnervingly documented by Bill Bishop in his book The Big
On ABC World News Tonight, David Wright to John McCain:It sometimes seems, as an outside observer, that both of you guys sometimes get stuck in the past. Senator Obamas kinda stuck in 2003 and whether the war was a good
A demographer at the University of Michigan measured family formation patterns in the U.S. and noticed an interesting correlation. The states with the largest percentage of people who had cohabitated before marriage voted for John Kerry in 04.
Years ago, Frank Sinatra sang a song essentially in tribute to the sense of loss created by the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to Los Angeles. It was about sense of community, sense of being part of a group. Bill
I think I have read every word Barack Obama uttered on his visits to Israel and Palestine and Im struck by his ability to navigate this tricky issue with such dexterity. After all, everybody is just waiting for him to
The Bush administrations decision to move $230 million of the counter-terrorism funding Congress had approved for Pakistan to pay for upgrades to their Air Forces F-16 fleet is beginning to raise hackles in Congress. Since the Pakistanis refuse to use
Rummaging through American history, I just stumbled on this, from Franklin Roosevelts 9th State of the Union Address, January 6, 1942:If any of our enemies, from Europe or from Asia, attempt long-range raids by suicide squadrons of bombing planes, they
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