Crediting Wonkette As I MUST. She’s got the right take on Wolfowitz’s testimony yesterday: Paul Wolfowitz fesses up on why Iraq isn’t going so well: “We had a plan that assumed we’d have basically more stable security conditions than we’ve encountered.” Among those assumptions: That Iraq was a magical country, where lollipops grew on trees […]

Almost Missed This One Via TBogg, this story from the Washington Post: The House would not only make permanent the $1,000-per-child tax credit enacted as part of the 2001 tax cut but would dramatically increase the income limits for eligibility. Currently, married families with incomes of up to $110,000 receive the full credit; the bill […]

RSS, Revisited (yet again) It was down for a few days, either due to my messing with the template or Google’s makeover of Blogger. I think it’s fixed now, but if not, let me know in email or comments. I’ve also changed the settings so that permalinks point to individual posts, rather than entire pages. […]

Take two Viagras and call me in the morning Childless couple told to try sex: The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it after examining the couple who went to see them last month for fertility tests. Doctors subjected them to a series of examinations and found they […]

Texas A few months ago, I wrote this: At some point, can we just move Austin and its residents to some other state, give Texas over to the fundamentalists and evangelicals, and then let Texas secede? Maybe we could bring Houston along too, but not Dallas. Patrick Hayden has now seconded the motion in a […]

Abu Ghraib Summary Kevin’s got a good, but depressing, overview of what we know to date about the events in Abu Ghraib. AB

Alan Greenspan: “The Maestro”? Yesterday Bush formally nominated Alan Greenspan for his fifth four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In his written statement accompanying the nomination, Bush said that “Alan Greenspan has done a superb job as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and I have great […]

Josh Marshall on Kerry’s Strategy Josh Marshall has a good piece on TPM about Kerry’s strategy of more-or-less lying low while Bush’s popularity falls. The punch line: Here’s the point I’d like to discuss in a bit more detail: the fact that Kerry can’t get a lot of attention to himself right now or that […]

GOP Logic I understand that the Republicans’ campaign strategy is to portray Kerry as inconsistent. But today’s talking point seems pretty weak, even by the low standards of the Bush campaign. As you probably know, the Bush administration (true to form) is bull-headedly sticking with a plan that was originally devised in 2001 to fill […]

Do Gas Prices Make a Difference? A study released today by the Travel Industry Association of America indicates that Americans plan more summer travel than last year. Some media outlets are misinterpreting this as evidence that high gas prices may affect travel less than some people have expected. The reason that it’s a faulty inference, […]