Odd how those judgmental right wing values seem fine to people who aren't the targets of the disgust, but seem kind of...wrong when the right winger becomes the target.  Take Mary Cheney (please).

I know Dick Cheney is an easy target, but come on, this borders on the ridiculous!

If you work for, or are beholden to, a gigantic oil company, how do you go about attacking the climate report issued Friday which finds global warming to be even worse than previously thought?  Easy, you just offer a "financial incentive" to scientists to attack the report.

Yet another one.  The Bush-appointee heading the General Services Administration is now under investigation by two bodies for her actions in handing a $20,000 no-bid contract to her personal friend who, just by coincidence, wasn't eligible for a no-bid contract.

According to the Learning and Skills Council, one teenager in seven hopes to become famous by appearing on reality television.

[Given the rate at which these damn shows are proliferating, is that expectation all that unrealistic?]

Mona Charen finds the Libby case "a farce and an outrage."

Hey, if Neil Cavuto can pen an ode to the unappreciated rich, then why can't National Review's Rich Lowry wax eloquent about the poor, unappreciated CEOs of the world?

The White House's idea of health insurance reform--the $7,500/$15,000 "standard" tax deduction for having health insurance--certainly isn't intended to be the answer to rising health care costs, if you believe The Economist magazine.

As if we didn't need to be told, but bless those independant souls at The Guardian for reminding us of The President Who Cried Wolf....

Ever since the White House started to seemingly backtrack on its prior zealous insistence on warrantless surveillance--announcing that the FISA court now oversaw the NSA program, agreeing to turn over some documents to the Congress (see the preceding post), I've been wondering what the odds are that they really are backtracking, as opposed to simply playing another shell game.

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