Hersh Denial If everything Hersh wrote is true, this sounds exactly like what the Pentagon would say. On the other hand, it also sounds exactly like what the Pentagon would say if everything Hersh wrote is false. AB

Where’s the Blogroll? It’s to the right, along with the Rumsfeld Wire, hit counter, RSS feed, and the Archives. Now everything that runs a script is in the right panel and will be brought up after the center panel. Everything in the left panel is hosted directly on the Blogger servers and requires no scripts. […]

At Least He’s Not Joe Lieberman I’m still pondering the merits of McCain as a veep choice, though I’m pretty sure that I’m against it. Basically, it still seems so unlikely that it’s not worth considering too carefully. Besides, Mark Kleiman’s done some of the thinking for me so I don’t have too. But there […]

In Good Company The following is a screenshot of the Rumsfeld Wire from Sunday afternoon and evening: Angry Bear, Atrios, CalPundit, Josh Marshall, and the DCCC’s blog: birds of a feather. AB P.S. Alert or suspicious readers may note that it appears I pasted two different shots from the Rumsfeld Wire. The break in the […]

Ambassador Atrios Atrios is running a pledge drive this week. Meanwhile, by way of Mark Kleiman, I find this in today’s Washington Post: Of the 246 fundraisers identified by The Post as Pioneers in the 2000 campaign, 104 — or slightly more than 40 percent — ended up in a job or an appointment. A […]

Rumsfeld Should Go By now, you’ve probably read or read about Seymour Hersh’s latest for the New Yorker, The Gray Zone, in which he writes that the events in Abu Ghraib were the result of a slippery slope that began with the creation of a hihgly targeted Special Access Program: Rumsfeld reacted in his usual […]

Wow Bush’s poll numbers keep sinking. From the latest issue of Newsweek: May 15 – As his administration grapples with the fallout from the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal, President George W. Bush’s approval ratings have dropped to 42 percent, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll, a low for his presidency. Fifty-seven percent say they disapprove […]

Minor Changes I’ve moved most slow-loading scripts (e.g., sitemeter) to the right panel, which should mean that the page will load the center panel before running them (which sometimes causes the page to hang for a while before loading). If this works then you will be able to read the hot fresh content while the […]

New Data: Everything’s Up The CPI was up in April, with the core rate rising 0.3%. The 12-month change in the core CPI is therefore up 1.8%, another sign that the US inflation rate is still rising. Just a few months ago the 12-month core CPI inflation rate was only 1.25%. (By the way, the […]

Postcards from Old Europe – In debt we trust The FOMC’s recent change in the wording of their statement has clearly shown that the times of E-Z financing are coming to an end. The recent past has seen the Fed engineer a near-rational bubble in asset prices which has served to push household wealth up […]