Defense officials, on top of them Rumsfeld, failed and so did the American ambassador. Changing Rumsfeld should have happened a year ago because their work in Iraq did not achieve any results.

Or, let's put it another way: What about today's news just fails to add up?........

I won't be posting anything tomorrow--I'll be chauffering voters who need a ride to the polls from 9 am to 7 pm.  If you haven't already, give your party headquarters a call tonight or tomorrow morning and offer your time doing whatever needs to be done.

The Republican conga line to the courtroom recently gained one more dancer: recently resigned Palm Beach County Commissioner Tony Masilotti.

Ah, such fickle (and feckless) sorts, these D.C. Republicans.  Remember how they--especially the White House--really didn't know Jack Abramoff----until the White House visitor logs and loads of pictures of Big Jack at the White House hit the news?  Well, they're at it again, with Ted Haggard.

Okay, I'm sick to death of the election.  I'm sick to death of politics in general, where all statements have ulterior motives for engines, and the only truth is that everyone's lying to some degree. So lets get right to the nuts & bolts.

All excited about the drop in the unemployment rate?  Thrilled that it's the "Lowest in 5 Years" reported in conjunction with the fact that "employers added 92,000 new jobs" in October??????  

I'm sure you've heard by now that the government managed to publish on the internet a series of Iraqi documents that essentially tell you how to engineer a nuclear bomb.  But have you noticed the tendency to diminish the story via headlines emphasizing the partisan nature of criticisms?

Joseph Stiglitz does not toe the party line on the doings of the IMF, despite serving as chief economist and vice president of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000 (when, according to some pretty good evidence, he was dismissed under pressure from the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, for failure to follow the program).

While Republicans and extreme right commentators love to portray criticism of the Iraq war as a recruiting tool for terrorists, they rarely mention the recruiting value of things like Abu Ghraib or the many absurdly inflammatory remarks from their own kind (such as Coulter's "invade their countries, kill their rulers and convert them to Christianity").

Read Older Articles