Sully notes that Laura Bush was “the most decent person in the White House for eight long years” and proffers this quote as evidence: In 2004 the social question that animated the campaign was gay marriage. Before the election season had unfolded, I had talked to George about not making gay marriage a significant issue. …
Archives for April 2010
Still Looking Forward, Not Backwards
The National Security State is relentless in the pursuit of enemies: The Obama administration is seeking to compel a writer to testify about his confidential sources for a 2006 book about the Central Intelligence Agency, a rare step that was authorized by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. The author, James Risen, who is a …
Nothing To Snark About
I can’t even come up with a clever headline: The estimated amount of oil leaking from a sunken rig in the Gulf of Mexico has increased to as much as 5,000 barrels a day — five times more than what was originally believed, a Coast Guard official said. Rear Adm. Mary Landry told reporters late …
Unsurprising News
In addition to being expensive and compromising privacy, the new full-body scanners that the TSA is installing don’t work. “I don’t know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines. I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747,” Rafi Sela told parliamentarians probing the state …
Early Morning Open Thread
Okay, this made me laugh. The NYT needs to take Gail Collins off her Bobo-Brooks-WATBabysitting detail, so she can do more like this: […] Both Arizona and Oklahoma passed bills exempting state residents from gun registration rules and background checks. Governor Henry vetoed his state’s version. Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, seems to sign …
Late Evening Open Thread
Because y’all asked for one. We live to serve.
Confederate History Month: Prone to Violence
An effort to help the Republican Confederate Party celebrate Confederate History Month would be incomplete without noting how these folks tend to embrace violence as the preferred way to solve problems–especially when they feel that they are losing at the ballot box.
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