Another mine accident: Rescue is a least three days away for six coal miners who are trapped inside a shaft deep within the earth, according to the president of the company that owns the mine. It is not known whether the miners are still alive. “It will take three days if everything goes right,” said …
Archives for August 2007
I Know When I Am Beat
I was going to write a snide and condescending post (why stop now?) about the continuing absurd reactions to the latest Beauchamp revelations, but then I read this at the NRO: At this point, if TNR’s defenders engage this story at all — and providing they don’t simply accuse military investigators of coercing Beauchamp into …
Open Thread
Koan of the day: Democrats are afraid of losing, Republicans are afraid of looking weak. Discuss.
The Daily Beauchamp Comes To An End
I have a full day tomorrow and won’t be able to blog, so I better get this in before I am accused of avoiding the controversy. Via the Memeorandum, the Weekly Standard is reporting that Beauchamp recanted and has signed a statement recanting: THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned from a military source close to the …
The Looming Financial Collapse?
This certainly seems like bad news, especially sine people have been warning about this (kevin Drum in particular) sort of thing for quite a while: American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. became the second-biggest residential lender to file for bankruptcy protection this year, adding to signs that late payments have spread to homeowners with good credit …
The Huckabee Factor
As I was lying down to sleep last night, I was trying to think of which candidates appeal to me as people. The reason for this is not because I am going to vote that way, but because I find so many of the candidates repellent. I really just do not like John Edwards- he …
You Don’t Cross the Corleones
Ever: The controversy over President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant, raided the suburban Washington home of a former Justice Department lawyer. The lawyer, Thomas M. Tamm, previously worked in Justice’s Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR)—the supersecret …