Dept. of Not Getting Over It
Free Press reminds us of the strange phenomena which tipped Ohio toward George W. Bush in 2004, and of the fingerprints on the matter which seem to be the GOP’s:
Numerous tech-savvy bloggers, starting with the online investigative consortium epluribusmedia.org and their November 2006 article cross-posted by contributor luaptifer to Dailykos, and Joseph Cannon’s blog at [...]
Washing Our Hands of the Troops
The Army Times seems willing to report on the mistreatment of soldiers—not the endless and underequipped redeployments into ill-conceived wars, of course, but at least on those individuals lost in the system:
After an hour of bench-pressing a log weighing several hundred pounds during Army Special Forces selection training in February 2006, five soldiers lying on [...]
The More Things Change
It’s all about the money, and the shift in control of Congress means that Democrats are now raking in at least as much as Republicans did, says Ken Silverstein:
Last spring, with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, I wrote an item saying that for corporations and federal contractors looking for favors in Washington, it was [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Why, then you should discover a brace of unmeriting,
proud, violent, testy magistrates—alias fools.”
—Coriolanus, 2.1.49-49
