R.I.P. (Run In Peace) Bradley Schlozman

Bradley Schlozman, a one-man example of partisanship in action, has tendered his resignation in order to join a law firm in the Midwest. The DOJ and Congressional investigations of him probably have nothing to do with it. Really. R.I.P.

Crazy Critics, Krauthammer, Noonan and the Death of BDS

Do you have to be crazy to really be bothered by President Bush's actions, attitudes, and policies? Charles Krauthammer seemed to think so, when he apparently coined the phrase "Bush Derangement Syndrome" to describe people who were rabidly critical of Bush.

Why Exactly Do We 'Need Another 9/11' in Order to 'Save America?'

Stu Bykovsky, a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News recently wrote a column on the fractured state of the U.S. today. After lamenting our divisions, he offers up this, in a column titled "To save America, we need another 9/11."

Conservative Group Calls for Bush Dictatorship

A writer for a national security group set up by a conservative think tank has called on President Bush to declare himself "President for Life" and remove all Arabs from the Middle East so he can "repopulate the country with Americans."

As Home Values & Mortgages Crash, Guess What Consumer Credit is Doing?

According to a report in Business Week, consumer credit debt--especially revolving credit such as credit card debt--is mushrooming:

The Making of 'A War We Just Might Win'--Hats Off to Glenn Greenwald

At the end of July, Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack published an Op-Ed in the NY Times and elsewhere headlined A war we just might win. Its optimistic view of the current state of things in Iraq made war supporters ecstatic and caused mainstream media to pass on the observation that these were war critics, see, and even they think things are looking up. Of course, all was not what it seemed.

Major D.C. Charter School Fraud

As WTW discussed not that long ago, Charter Schools seem ripe for the defrauding. Now the District of Columbia's former chief of the Office of Charter School Oversight has pled guilty to almost exactly the kind of fraud I was hypothesizing:

The Politically Incorrect Guide to....Blatant Propaganda

From Regnery Publishing, that bastion of intellectual rigor and commitment to truth and objectivity, comes the amazing new series that explains everything you wanted the ignorant public to think on just about every current politically controversial issue:

Blogger Jerome Armstrong Settles Stock-Touting Suit with SEC

Influential liberal blogger Jerome Armstrong, the founder of MyDD and an originator of the netroots movement, has agreed to pay $29,000 in fines and penalties to settle a 2003 SEC suit accusing him of touting a stock on Internet message boards without disclosing his financial interest in the company.

Rising Republican Accused of Deviate Sexual Conduct

Glenn Murphy Jr., who has been credited with reviving the Republican Party in in his Indiana county, and was recently elected president of the Young Republican National Federation (YRNF), has been accused by a 22-year old male of performing an unwanted sex act on him while he slept.