Blogging of the President Tonight on NPR from 9-11 Eastern, a bunch of bloggers (Atrios, Andrew Sullivan, Gary Hart, Jerome Armstrong, Frank Rich, Josh Marshall, Garance Franke-Ruta, Ed Cone, Jeff Jarvis, Kevin Phillips, Richard Reeves) will be talking politics). You can find the list of participating stations here. Or you can listen to the webcast. […]

Another Speaks for Itself Statement Colin Powell: One day after David Kay, the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, said he believes Hussein had not stockpiled unconventional weapons for years, Powell told reporters that his prominent Feb. 5 argument was based on “what our intelligence community believed was credible.” However, neither Powell nor Kay has […]

No Annotation Necesary Usually, I feel that I should add something to statements that I quote, but this speaks for itself: Asked directly if he was saying that Iraq did not have any large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the country, Dr. Kay replied, according to a transcript of the taped interview made […]

Hitting the Nail on Its Head Slate’s Michael Kinsley on the administration’s philosophy (hint: it’s not actually compassionate conservatism): So, to sum up: Talk loudly. Carry a big stick anyway. Spend money. Borrow to pay for it. Fiddle the books. I guess that’s a governing philosophy of sorts. Via Mark Kleiman. AB

Roach Describes the “Frothy” 2000’s Stephen Roach (chief economist at Morgan Stanley) is attending the annual World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland right now. He sends back this report: I conceded the near-term outlook to the momentum crowd, [but] I dug in my heels on what I continue to believe is the key bone of […]

Best N.H. Dem Debate Performance In my opinion, the award goes to Peter Jennings, who displayed masterful control of himself by maintaining a perfectly straight face while asking the following: JENNINGS: Reverend Sharpton, I’d like to ask you a question about domestic policy, if you don’t mind… [G]ive us a little bit about your views […]

Membership Has its Privileges Especially when you’ve been around for a while. Earlier, I pointed out that the per capita earmark is only slightly higher for Red states than Blue states. At the time, I speculated that the Republican districts within states were getting the majority of the pork. For example, perhaps Sugarland (Tom DeLay) […]

100,000 There’s a slight chance that Angry Bear will get its 100,000th visitor sometime today; more likely, the meter will turnover sometime this weekend. 100,000 is not too bad for a bit under a year. If you’re excited by Angry Bear history, my first post was on 2/14/03 (my girlfriend was out of town then; […]

Public Service Announcement Scammers get better all the time. Everybody knows not to answer an email with their account information. But many might think it’s safe to visit PayPal’s website in response to an apparent email from PayPal. In any event, in the latest scam, the actual link is to pcypal.com, but the text is […]

Surprising In the last post, I mentioned that “I’d like to see a break down by district and party.” So I got the state-by-state data from Taxpayers for Common Sense and then aggregated to get a Red/Blue state breakdown of the earmarks: Surprisingly, the difference is actually very small, about 2.4% more per capita for […]