If there is any way to make a disaster worse, it happened last night. I went to bed listening to the general euphoria of Rita Crosby as she interviewed family members, and woke up this morning and listened to those same family members dealing not only with tragic loss, but anger and a sense of …
Archives for January 2006
Will Jack Abramoff Open The Seventh Seal?
Via a WaPo rundown, WSJ reports that Abramoff may have the goods on a whole lot of people: “It remains unclear which lawmakers prosecutors are looking at, and also how persuasive Mr. Abramoff could be in helping to make potential cases against any of them stick. A onetime chairman of College Republicans — a close …
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The NSA Writes Its Own Guidelines
This morning’s New York Times reports that 9/11 spurred the NSA to shrug off its institutional safeguards without any direction from the president, based at least in part on declassified correspondence between Nancy Pelosi and Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, then head of the N.S.A. One step that the agency took immediately after the Sept. …
Excellent News
Twelve of the miners are alive. Such fantastic news.
No More Tin Foil Hats!
Excellent! I was tired of the deflector beanie mussing up my hair.
All Alito, All the Time
We are about to enter the silly phase of the Alito nomination: Moving beyond Judge Alito’s judicial record, a coalition of liberal groups is preparing commercials attacking his integrity and credibility instead, several people involved in the effort said Monday. They spoke only after being granted anonymity because the plans are supposed to be confidential …
An Open Thread
Discuss: Rep. John Murtha, a key Democratic voice who favors pulling U.S. troops from Iraq, said in remarks airing on Monday that he would not join the U.S. military today. A decorated Vietnam combat veteran who retired as a colonel after 37 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Murtha told ABC News’ “Nightline” program that …