Greens Via Joe Conason: [Nader friend Robert McChesney speaking] “I don’t think Ralph should run. It would be bad for him personally; I doubt he would get half the number of votes he got in 2000. And it would be bad for the Greens … Core elements of progressive constituencies, exactly the groups that the […]

God Dammit, this Pisses Me Off Where are my libertarians at on this one? I can’t really even blame Bush, because it was just about as bad under Clinton. That is, things are in fact worse now than under Clinton, but it seems like the result of following a linear trend that started in the […]

And Reagan Became President of the United States in 1981, and It Was Good. The End. Education in Iraq: The first indicator of what a Saddam-free education will look like is arriving this month, as millions of newly revised textbooks roll off the printing presses to be distributed to Iraq’s 5.5 million schoolchildren in 16,000 […]

Imminent Threat Winner Josh Marshall’s been running a contest in which he asked his readers to submit the best quotes showing that the Administration did in fact state that the threat from Iraq was “imminent.” The competition was fierce, as exemplified by the various quotes in Marshall’s post. I won’t give away the winner, but […]

Bishop Takes Reverend … members of the church’s executive committee were told Thursday night that Bishop Douglas Thuener had removed the Rev. Don Wilson. Wilson opposed the consecration last weekend of Bishop V. Gene Robinson, as do many of the church’s roughly 60 members. AB

Good Job News, at least Assuming it’s not revised downward, it’s a vindication of massive Keynesian spending (demand side stimulus), not supply side economics. From Forbes: Just a day after Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan expressed hope the labor market would start to improve, the October payrolls report showed a 126,000 gain, more than double analysts’ […]

6 Soldiers Die in Helicopter Crash in Iraq 2 Others Killed in Separate Attacks in Mosul.

Blog Highlights I’ve been too busy to blog much for the last few days, but now I have a little time to catch up on my blog reading. Here are some highlights: Via The 18½ Minute Gap, I see that Howard Dean “secured a critical endorsement from the most diverse labor group in the country, […]

Voter Turnout Everyone knows that voter turnout is down, and that it’s due to increased apathy. As often as not, when “everybody knows” something, it’s actually not true. I just heard a commentator on NPR claiming that voter turnout, when computed in the usual fashion (as a percentage of the voting-age population) is in fact […]

Where’s the Filter? The media should be bringing us the happy news from Iraq. Instead, we get this: Last weekend, Penisten, 28, had just begun his long journey home from Iraq for a two-week furlough. He was going to marry Loia, 25, this Friday in Pueblo, Colo., her hometown. Then the couple would travel to […]