"Test everything; hold fast to what is good."
It's been a rough stretch lately for President Bush. John Kerry is ahead of him in some polls. The Meet the Press session didn't go over any better than the State of the Union did. The Sept. 11 commission won't take "no" for an answer. The Valerie Plame investigation could lead to criminal charges for [...]
Thursday's winning entry in the panicked interviewee category is Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.), who is also a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Reserves, on CNN's Paula Zahn Now. Buyer was intent on reciting a carefully rehearsed statement about how John Kerry "desecrated" his uniform by not continuing the Cold War arms race after the Cold [...]
Associated Press tax reporter Mary Dalrymple tells us that: … congressional investigators found that 27,000 defense contractors owed a total of $3 billion in unpaid taxes. Auditors at the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress, studied taxes owed in the budget year that ended Sept. 30, 2002. The GAO report — available as [...]
"How many home runs did the quarterback shoot?" That's the sort of question 60 Minutes might ask if they began covering sports with the same contextless, ignorant approach they sometimes take on matters of religion. Amy Sullivan of Politicalaims has already commented on how 60 Minutes on Sunday confused evangelicals with fundamentalists, and thus totally [...]
Here's former (and quasi-current) Bush administration official Victoria "Torie" Clarke in high dander on last night's Paula Zahn Now on CNN*: CLARKE: … You think about the kinds of issues this country is facing, this world is facing right now, that ought to be dealt with at a very serious, substantive level, it is not [...]
Back in October, The New York Times' Elisabeth Bumiller wrote a piece the paper headlined "Evangelicals Sway White House on Human Rights Issues Abroad." The article could just as accurately have been titled "White House Courts Evangelicals with Human Rights Issues Abroad." Bumiller describes the various human rights issues that are of particular concern to [...]
This is bad news for Delaware. So is this. And this. This story has our newsroom scurrying around like … well, you know. But if this outbreak of avian flu is not contained, it could have serious, serious consequences for the poultry-dependent economy of lower Delaware. UPDATE: More bad news. The story notes that this [...]
"Politicians are not people who seek power in order to implement policies they think necessary. They are people who seek policies in order to attain power." — Evelyn Waugh Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has a review essay in The New York Review of Books (Cliffs Notes for the intellectual) in which [...]
Brad DeLong points us to this post from Andrew Sullivan in which, DeLong says, Sullivan expresses a "Claude Rains moment" of clarity. Here's what Sullivan writes: BUSH IS OUT OF IT: On the budget, this president is frighteningly unaware of the reality of his own legacy and policies. That's the only conclusion you can draw [...]
I'm just about caught up with The New Yorker, finally reading many of the articles I told myself I would get around to later. One such article was Malcolm Gladwell's "Big Bad" in the Jan. 12 issue of the magazine. It appeared to be another critique of the SUV boom. I already dislike SUVs, for [...]
Spencer Ackerman of The New Republic has begun a new blog on that magazine's Web site. It's called Iraq'd — in a nod to Ashton Kutcher's MTV show "Punk'd." Ackerman, like TNR overall and most of the folks who write for it, was a staunch advocate of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. He's now rethinking [...]
James K. Glassman had the misfortune of co-authoring a book titled Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market. The book was published in 2000. Fortunately, Glassman is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, home of "The Bell Curve," where one can apparently be spectacularly wrong without [...]
John Kerry, John Edwards and Wesley Clark have to be pleased tonight. Kerry's wins in five states were particularly impressive when you consider that Tuesday began with USA Today accusing him of scandalous behavior. USA Today's article itself wasn't so bad — it was headlined "Kerry accuses Bush of caving on prescription drugs." But the [...]
I don't talk about primaries much — that's what we have Daily Kos for, after all. But since I chimed in earlier on Sen. Joe Lieberman's apparent Delaware Strategy, I should probably revisit the subject on primary day. I work in Delaware, but I don't live there or hang out there, and a newsroom isn't [...]
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