Flashback: From Angry Bear on 6/8/2003 Hopefully, Mr. McGruder won’t mind. It’s the perfect final take on the Franken/O’Reilly debate on CSPAN. (click to enlarge) ( AB

Rounding Out the List 16. Justice Henry Billings Brown: For authoring the majority opinion in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which not only lead directly to the “separate but equal” doctrine, but played a major role in enshrining Jim Crow.p>17. John Adams: For signing the Alien Act of 1798 and the Sedition Act of 1798. Partly, […]

That’s Nice Washington — The White House quickly backpedaled Thursday on Pentagon plans to cut the combat pay of the 157,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan after disclosure of the idea quickly became a political embarrassment. The Pentagon’s support for the idea of rolling back “imminent danger pay” by $75 a month and “family […]

Be Angry Bear for a Week Contest Update We have our first contest winner, an economist specializing in macroeconomics and international trade. But there’s still room for more. Get those entries in soon. AB

God in The Courtroom, Not in Tax Policy One Alabaman, Chief Justice Roy Moore, refuses to take a Ten Commandments display out of a state courthouse, saying “We have a federal judge saying we can’t recognize who God is, yet that’s the basis of our justice system. They have the audacity to come into our […]

Eleven Through Fifteen Again, I reiterate that this list is not ordered. While tomorrow’s list-makers will be the least “worst”, those in spots 1-15 on my list are just plain terrible and I didn’t try to make any distinctions based on the degree of loathsomeness. 11. Timothy McVeigh, terrorist–For killing 168 Americans. 12. Herbert Hoover: […]

If He Wasn’t Going to Run Before… …this should do the trick: After all, his likely candidacy is all about ego, not about getting any policy he could possibly support enacted. AB P.S. I like Conason’s take: The San Francisco Examiner reports that Nader “hurled the pie back, striking a bystander,” which serves as a […]

Rice Watch Day 24 Rice recently made a direct analogy between the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and the current efforts to create a self-governing and democratic Iraq (“The view was wrong in 1963 in Birmingham, and it is wrong in 2003 in Baghdad and in the rest of the Middle East”). The Wyeth […]

Interest Rates, Deficits, and Unemployment Likely to Rise Do I have some exciting new data or theory to back up this claim? No. It just seems to be the natural consequence of every gathering like this: Treasury Secretary John Snow, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, budget director Joshua Bolten, Bush’s top economic […]

Great Line of the Day From TBogg: As I have said before, some people choose abstinence, others have it thrust upon them. Get the context here. And while you’re there, scroll up to this post for a brief sojourn into the surreal. AB