Why We Fight, Part 37 (I Like Ike Edition)
Guess who? At Huffington Post, Miedzian and Ferdman remind us to “follow the money”:
Bruce Jackson founded the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq in 2002, a few months after retiring from Lockheed Martin [as vice president]. In 2001, he and other members of the neocon Project for a New American Century wrote to President Bush [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“As low as to thy heart through the false passage of thy
throat thou liest.” –Richard II, 1.1.124-25
Minibar Key Opens Diebold Voting Machine
Daily Kos has the frightening story.
Paper ballots, anyone? Canada manages to count them overnight in every election. Are we really so lazy that we can’t ensure that citizens get to vote on actual ballots, which can be recounted as necessary? Are we really content to have a private corporation with nakedly partisan ties tell us [...]
Not a Trace of Cognitive Dissonance
Wingnut columnist Michelle Malkin has developed a sudden crush on terror suspects. Though she’s previously equated concern for the legal rights of accused terrorists with terrorism itself. The article titled “The Terrorists’ Little Helper” calls Judge John Coughenor:
….a Reagan appointee who is an embarrassment to conservatives and an impediment to winning the War [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.” –Macbeth, 5.5.26-28
Gratuitous Video Feed
Tom Waits. “What’s He Building?”
Very unsettling imagery. The rhymes lurch and stop like…like…like whatever it is he’s building in there!
Don’t Ask a Question if You Don’t Want an Answer
The Bush Administration is as well known for its pro-executive deregulatory fever as it is for its suppression of dissent, so another cover-up should come as no surprise. This time it’s a two-year-old report just come to light which senior FCC management ordered hidden, presumably because the report shows the inevitable end result of the [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” –Macbeth, 1.7.83
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Let me see his eyes,
That when I note another man like him
I may avoid him.” –Much Ado About Nothing, 5.1.253-255
On the Other Side of the Aisle
The case against Lousisiana Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) is outlined in impressive detail (part of the FBI affidavit here). How can this man possibly escape indictment, when he’s on tape accepting the bribe he solicited from an FBI informant, and most of the money was found in his freezer? That he hasn’t yet [...]
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