Poetic Justice Michael Moore deserves this: The Political ‘Fahrenheit’ Sets Record at Box Office LOS ANGELES, June 27 — Michael Moore’s anti-Bush “Fahrenheit 9/11” became the highest-grossing documentary of all time on its first weekend in release, taking in $21.8 million as it packed theaters across the country this weekend. The movie, mocking President Bush […]

Why Oh Why Can’t We Have a Better Press Corps? Brad asks the question, for the nth time (n>30). As happens fairly often, the trigger is the Washington Post’s Jonathan Weisman. After a fairly thorough explanation of the flaws in Weisman’s piece, Brad throws this at him: Overall, Weisman’s article is like… it’s like… it’s […]

Bush on Irish TV This interview, taped in advance of Bush’s trip to Ireland, is definitely worth watching. Kevin notes that when Bush said that “most of Europe supported the decision on Iraq. Most European countries are very supportive and are participating in the reconstruction of Iraq,” the truth of the President’s words “depends on […]

Cheney: Pants on Fire First, everybody stop saying “F-Bomb”. It’s stupid. Why am I particularly annoyed with the term “F-Bomb” at this exact moment? Because the Vice President, as Kash noted, apparently told Sen. Pat Leahy, “Go fuck yourself!” Second, Cheney says “Fuck” and I get to hear about it on CNN, in the paper, […]

How Does It End? A recent OECD working paper by three economists at the OECD poses the following question: how might the US’s massive current account deficit be reduced? For a decent summary of the paper, you can take a look at a piece in this week’s online Economist. The main conclusions of the paper […]

Revised GDP Estimates The BEA released their final estimates of US GDP for the first quarter of 2004. While their preliminary estimate had been that the US economy grew by 4.4%, their final estimate is that it only grew by 3.9%. This is an unusually large revision, by the way. Part of the downward revision […]

Today’s Rated ‘R’ Washington Post Of course, the only reason they had to move to an ‘R’ rating today was because they were quoting the Vice President. Kash

Postcards from Old Europe – Homeland security Investment A piece of legislation called the Homeland Investment Act is currently winding its way through the legislative process. The act is part of a series of measures which were set in motion to end retaliatory, WTO-sanctioned European tariffs on US exports. These tariffs were put in place […]

Iacocca Endorses Kerry Lee Iacocca campaigned for Bush in 2000, but just endorsed Kerry: “I’m here today because our country needs a change in leadership,” Iacocca said during an appearance with Kerry. “We need a leader who is really dedicated to creating millions of high-paying jobs all across the country.” This probably wouldn’t be much […]

More Veep The latest guest-blogger at Talking Points Memo is Ruy Teixeira, who is one of the people I link most frequently. Ruy follows and understands polls as much and as well as anyone out there, so I trust his judgment when he says this: Who would help the ticket the most? Again, I agree […]