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

Six Through Ten 6. Benedict Arnold. This, from his actual letter to the British, is truly low, and readily explains his inclusion in my twenty worst list: “On the 13th Instant I addressed a letter / to you expressing my Sentiments and expectations, viz, that / the following Preliminaries be settled previous to cooperating. – […]

Rice Watch Day Twenty-Two From a must-read piece in today’s Washington Post (Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence): Answering questions Thursday before the National Association of Black Journalists, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said she is “certain to this day that this regime was a threat, that it was pursuing a nuclear weapon, that it […]

Guest Blog for Angry Bear Angry Bear traffic is growing at a healthy clip; nothing kills traffic like taking off for a week and not posting. I need unique IPs to flourish. (When I went to Europe in the spring, it took months for my traffic to recover). Nervertheless, intrepidly placing my personal life before […]

The Smog Thickens I recently plugged Bob Park’s shedding of light on the scientists behind the no-global-warming study that he aministration recently foisted into an EPA report. Morat of Skeptical Notion reports that the administration may be involved in a few other shenanigans to discredit the science behind global warming. AB