I miss Monday Night Football: Just a couple more months.
Oh For Goodness Sakes
Tom Maguire: He’s prepared to call “bullshit”, but not to my face – what’s missing in his response to my argument is any link at all to me. He’s a bold one! At issue is I apparently forgot to include Sullivan’s link to Maguire in this post I made the other day about the fauxtrage …
Of Course It Goes Without Saying
It goes without saying that Newt Gingrich is a complete and total idiot. Of course our Presidents frolicked around with Russian and Soviet leaders. Almost as funny today was when the worst spokesperson/analyst/whateveritisthesepeoplearepaidfor ever, Brad Blakeman, tried to trot out that nonsense over at the Politico story DougJ linked to earlier: The answer is a …
The Facts and Captain Ed
The Facts (via): The aim of the FBI’s effort with the Defense Department, which was rolled into the Vigilant Eagle program, is to “share information regarding Iraqi and Afghanistan war veterans whose involvement in white supremacy and/or militia sovereign citizen extremist groups poses a domestic terrorism threat,” according to the Feb. 23 FBI memo. Michael …
Crackheads
I seriously do not understand Wall Street: Investors are back to worrying about banks. Long-present unease about soured loans bubbled over on Monday after Bank of America (BAC) said it set aside $13.4 billion to cover lending losses, even as it posted a profit for the first quarter, and as anxiety grew about the results …
Wanted: Opposition Party
Yesterday, in his taped message to the nation, Obama gave the Republican party an opportunity for relevance: Every program, every entitlement, every dollar. An opportunity to catalog all the spending Republicans and conservatives think is useless and bring it up for a hearing, and be part of the dialog and have a say in the …
A well-deserved Pulitzer
I’m very happy to see this: Times reporter David Barstow won the Investigative prize for his report on the relationship between the Pentagon and TV military analysts. Yeah, Jon Mecham won one this year too and Tom Friedman has won a total of three in his career, so the award is a bit of a …