Boehner spins like a pendulum do

I never had a lot of hope for John Boehner.  Turns out that "not a lot" was too much.

File Under "Duh, But Proof Is Always Nice....."

I love bits like this, really. Neat story with former Nixon White Slum counsel John Dean........

Journalism, the Novak and Fox way

So Fox ballyhoos that Bob Novak says "No Bush Administration Effort to Discredit Joe Wilson.  That's a relief, 'cause that would have been one doozy of an example of dirty politics.  And since so much publicity has been focused on Wilson, Plame, Novak and the other players in the lengthy Fitzgerald investigation, Novak wouldn't say that without being pretty certain of his conclusion, right?  Right?

Posting slowdown

Things are likely to be quiet around WTW this week as both Six and I will be away most of the week.  I'll be back Thursday.

Spying (NSA), lying (the President) and Peter Hoekstra's contradiction

Wayne Madsen claimed way back in December of 2005 that the NSA had begun serious spying/eavesdropping before 9/11 ever occurred.  While I've never seen confirmation of Madsen's particular claim, there's a new allegation reported by Bloomberg (among others) that the NSA asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.

So the Pentagon can't track its own property or finances. Is that a bad thing?

A group called Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities has issued a report concluding that "No One is Accountable" for financial management in the Department of Defense.

Pope: moral ambiguities = less kids

In a rather mystifying analysis of why so many Western nations have declining birth rates, the Pope has fingered secularism.

What Pitch Would Jesus Throw

Sports seem to be an absolute magnet for religious people and concepts.  We've all seen the winning athletes credit their success to God's will and God-given talent, while the losers are strangely silent on God's sudden dislike of them and their own sudden lack of God-given talent.

Now there is a report that a major league baseball team, the Colorado Rockies, have embraced "a Christian-based code of conduct they believe will bring them focus and success."

Duck! Here comes the "American Values Agenda"

Having already used up the concept of a "Contract with America," what would a group of unscrupulous, politically ambitious but intellectually bankrupt far right politicians come up with to try to preserve their elected butts?

Say, Betcha Neo-Nazis and Skinheads Would be Good in the Military

Remember the difficulty the U.S. was having filling its military recruitment quotas?  Betcha can't guess one likely reason that they've been doing better lately.