Kos-ites on Strike. Web a Better Place?
by How could the answer to that question be anything but a resounding "Yes!", you ask? Well, it seems it’s the more sane writers at Kos …
Month: March 2008
House FISA Bill Denies Telco Amnesty
The House of Representatives today voted to pass a Democratic plan to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, defying President Bush’s demand that telecom companies …
No Defense for Consumers
If you’re in the mood to get good and hacked off at Congress for failing to live up to its responsibility to ensure that citizens’ …
Too Thin Political Skin
James Carville, one of Bill Clinton’s campaign advisers back in the day, wrote this dead-on piece as a post-mortem to the sad little affair of …
Obama Condemns Wright’s Statements
Barack Obama, undoubtedly stunned by the outcry that followed the popularization of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s racist and anti-American statements, has "strongly condemned" his pastor’s teachings …
David Mamet, Former Liberal
One would suspect David Mamet, author of Glengarry Glen Roll and screenwriter of Wag the Dog, of having a liberal’s view of the world. Indeed, …
Spitzer’s Last Crusade?
Yesterday Eliot Spitzer admitted that he was a client of a prostitution ring, today he’s said to be considering whether or not to resign as …
Testing John McCain, Pork Buster
Robert Novak brightened my day by writing that John "I’m the Sheriff" McCain and his Republican colleagues will be at odds this week over the …
Smearing John McCain
For reasons known only to himself, Robert Farley compares an ad by John McCain to the Nazi propaganda film Triumph des Willens and wonders aloud …
Obama Adviser Favors Telecom Immunity; Barack Demurs
ABC’s Justin Rood reports that John Brennan, Barack Obama’s intelligence adviser, has gone on-record as being strongly in favor of granting immunity to telecoms that …