Rice Watch Day 4 Guest-blogging for Altercation, David Sirota has a post, ”The Amazing Stories of Condoleezza Rice” (scroll down), that documents some of the inconsistencies in Rice’s statements, dating all the way back to the spring of 2002. AB

On a Roll Is it just me, or is Dwight Meredith on a roll lately? I can explain the deficit in a clear and perhaps even convincing fashion, if you can stay awake throughout the entire post. Dwight makes it fun to read. And, while I’m plugging, the non-evil Roger Ailes has a novel idea. […]

DeLay Peace DeLay is on his way to the Middle East to do what he can to prevent Palestinian statehood–even if the plan is acceptable to the hawkish prime minister of Israel, Ariel Sharon. Why? Apparently God wants him to: As an evangelical Christian, he [DeLay] is the most prominent member in Washington of the […]

Bush and Pelosi As you may recall, the latest expansion of the child tax credit excluded low income families who pay little or no income taxes (although they pay payroll taxes). The Senate tried to extend the credit to all families, but the House blocked it. Bush is giving lip service to the Senate plan, […]

Uday Qusay Hussein Dead Jokes Skimming my traffic logs, I see that I’m getting a lot of hits from morbid people searching Google for “Uday Qusay Hussein dead jokes”, even though this site sin’t particularly relevant for that. The problem is that I’ve got jokes about the Green Party (e.g., here), and I have a […]

Rice Watch Day 3 Via Josh Marshall, this from Rice’s top aide Stephen Hadley in a Tuesday, July 22, 2003 White House Q&A: Question: But as of memo number two, certainly Dr. Rice was aware of the concerns, the CIA — Hadley: What we know is, again, a copy of the memo comes to the […]

Ouch There’s some language that reflects rather poorly on FBI Director Freeh (emphasis in original): …Rule 6(e) restricts the disclosure of information actually revealed in the confidence of the grand jury chamber. This prohibition, however, does not actually reach other information in the possession of law enforcement entities… …Sadly, however, Rule 6(e) increasingly came to […]

9/11 Report If you have a lot of time on your hands, the full 950 page report is available here. For a pdf of the summary, click here. AB UPDATE: I’ve read the summary now. Some of the findings in the report are fairly disturbing. The report explicitly avoids saying that 9/11 was preventable, but […]

Must-Watch Daily Show You should probably be watching the Daily Show anyway, because Jon Stewart is more informative than Larry King any day of the week. In any event, tonight’s Daily Show guest is none other that Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who first outed the SOTU deception and whose wife was apparently outed as a CIA […]

Look! Over there! Photographs of Quday and Usay! That didn’t take long (warning: if you follow the link you’ll see fairly graphic pictures). From Fox News, Uday, Qusay Pictures Released: WASHINGTON — The Pentagon released pictures Thursday of the bodies of Saddam Hussein’s (search) much-feared sons. The extremely graphic photographs were distributed on CD- ROM […]