This Just In Controversy over State of the Union claim intensifies. But apparently, CIA director George Tenet is about to try to take the fall: NEWS ALERT CIA director takes responsibility for information in State of the Union address about Iraq attempts to obtain uranium in Africa. Details soon. In fact, it looks like a […]

Yellowcake Hits the Fan Going back to the initial admission that the State of the Union information was incorrect, I speculated that a vaguely phrased statement would only ignite more press scrutiny. Recall the initial statement, as described in the NYT: White House officials issued a statement in Mr. Fleischer’s name that made clear that […]

Programming Update When you change your story after the fact, contradictions and inconsistencies are likely to emerge. Earlier, I pointed out a few in Tony Blair’s testimony before the House of Commons. Today, Rumsfeld said this: “The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq’s pursuit [of weapons […]

The Sky is Blue It’s been a week of pronouncement that the sky is blue: On Monday, MSNBC noticed that noted jackass Michael Savage is a blithering homophobic (and xenophobic) idiot. Of the firing, MSNBC cable spokesman Jeremy Gaines said, “His [homophobic] comments were extremely inappropriate and the decision was an easy one.” On Tuesday, […]

Potions of Mass Destruction In Iraq, attempting to combine these ingredients thusly consitutes a Weapons of Mass Destruction ProgramTM: A woman has set her Madrid home on fire while cooking up a potion in an attempt to imitate the fictional wizard Harry Potter (news – web sites), emergency services say….For want of more magical ingredients, […]

Uranium Hoax Hoax The Capitol Hill Blue story cited below is a hoax–Capitol Hill Blue founder Doug Thompson now alleges that he was intentionally deceived by someone pretending to be Terry Wilkinson for the last 20 years (Thompson: “Erasing the stories doesn’t erase the fact that we ran articles containing information that, given the source, […]

There’s That Word Again QUESTION: Do you still believe they were trying to buy nuclear materials in Africa? BUSH: Right now? QUESTION: No, were they? The statement you made… BUSH: One thing is for certain, he’s not trying to buy anything right now. If he’s alive, he’s on the run. And that’s to the benefit […]

A Reasonable Plan? Due credit to Texas Republican State Sen. Jeff Wentworth for coming up with a reasonable plan that the Dallas Morning News and Autin-American Statesman have endorsed. From the Dallas Morning News: The San Antonio Republican wants his colleagues to create an independent redistricting panel. Republicans would name four members to the body, […]

It’s a Silly Map! From today’s Houston Chronicle: Senators rebuke House on remap, eye own plan. Said Sen. Kip Averitt, R-Waco, “It’s a silly map. I can’t support that. I can’t support splitting my county.” Currently the Texas Senate is not even debating redistricting but rather debating whether to debate redistricting, a process that takes […]

More Programming Earlier, I talked about the administration not so subtly replacing the pre-war allegations of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction with post-war allegations of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs. Apparently, Tony Blair is also with this program. According to a story in The Independent, Blair faced over an hour of questioning by the […]