Barack Obama on Rural and Working Class America, Circa 2004
via Talking Points Memo
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You are currently browsing the archives for the Government category.Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union” speech
Hopefully, we’ll be telling our grandkids about this one.
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Bush’s abstinence-only hack linked with prostitution service
I haven’t written in awhile but the kids are gone and the wife is asleep so I thought I’d mention this story that’s probably going to get buried since it released over the weekend.
Another one of Bush’s top people has resigned after being linked with a DC prostitution service. This time it is Deputy […]
SUV Magnet Sales Plummer
Obviously due to this brilliance (first mentioned here):
From the Financial Times:
For three years after the invasion of Iraq, it was difficult to drive more than a few miles through middle America without seeing a car displaying a magnetic yellow ribbon.
The magnets, bearing the slogan “Support Our Troops”, became a symbol of patriotism for millions of […]
Home Truths
I should be going to bed but I wanted to direct whatever little bit of audience I still have to two related articles. The first, from The Nation (subscription required, but here’s the interesting bits) regarding a new Unicef report, Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries:
Congratulations: Children in […]
Olbermann gives Condi a history lesson
While I’m posting videos from Countdown, here’s Keith Olbermann giving our Secretary of State a little history lesson on WWII.
On Sunday morning on Fox News, the Secretary of State said that if Congress were now to revise the Iraq authorization, “it would be like saying that after Adolf Hitler was overthrown, we needed to change, […]
Is Bush funding groups linked to Al Qaeda?
via Alternet:
Seymour Hersh’s latest piece in the New Yorker reveals that the Pentagon is accelerating plans for an attack on Iran, that ex-Iran-Contra figure John Negroponte is moving to the State Dept because he’s “too ethical” for the Pentagon and that the president is pushing the “absolute limit” of his authority in bypassing Congress and […]
Civil rights, etc.
via TPM:
You’ve probably already seen some of the news about the Bush White House engaging in a seemingly unprecedented spree of firings of US Attorneys across the coutry. Conveniently, they’re being replaced without senate approval under a provision of the Patriot Act. We’re digging into now and we’re finding a bunch. More soon.
– Josh Marshall
[edit]Here’s […]
Bush: We’re escalating the war no matter what Congress does
via The Raw Story:
In an interview set to air on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes, President George W. Bush vows to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq “no matter what” the Democratic-controlled Congress tries to do.
“Do you believe as Commander in Chief you have the authority to put the troops in there no matter what […]
