Two interesting pieces of news concerning the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay: The first is a report from the Pentagon that about one in five detainees who have been released from Gitmo have joined (or are suspected of joining) militant groups like al Qaeda. This includes two released prisoners who went on to help plan […]
Finally, a simple explanation as to how Republicans are claiming that we had no terrorist attacks during the Bush administration.
Conservative Ted Olson makes a strong case for why gays should be allowed to marry, and he does a better and more eloquent job of it than many liberals. He and David Boies are arguing the case in federal court that is attempting to overturn California’s Proposition 8. While acknowledging that many conservatives are strongly […]
A few nights ago, Todd Harris, a top Republican strategist appeared on Hardball to talk about Republicans winning Congressional seats in this year’s midterm elections. Chris Matthews invites him to give a rundown of the accomplishments of the Republican Party in the last fifteen to twenty years. Watch what happens: Harris doesn’t seem to be […]
Way back in September, we reported on wing-nut Michelle Bachmann telling people to not participate in the census, saying that she didn’t trust ACORN with her personal information (never mind that ACORN has never collected census data), and that the government was trying to gather information about people’s mental health. But now, the largest newspaper […]
© August J. Pollak Or maybe they just have Institutional Alzheimer’s disease.
Are you upset about the Wall Street Banks that are “too big to fail”? You know, the ones that brought our economy to the brink of financial disaster and then sucked up our tax money in the bailout? Yes, the bailout that was sold to us as a way to increase credit in order to […]
“Well, the story about the 23-year-old Nigerian man, who put the explosives in his underpants still continues to dominate the news. Boy that shows you how time can change, you know? When I was 23, the only thing I ever put in my underpants was a rolled up sock.” – Jay Leno “I was reading […]
Andrew Sullivan reprints a great question from one of his readers that really makes you think about how stupidly the US is responding to terrorist acts. The (paraphrased) question is, if the Christmas day underwear terrorist really wanted to blow up the airplane, why did he go back to his seat where he had to […]
[In case you are wondering — I’m continuing to post new stories, they appear after this one.] When I first started this site, I never expected it to become so popular. In fact, I thought people would lose interest after the election, but instead readership has kept going up (and up!) I list total visitors […]
The propaganda technique of the “big lie” requires two things: that the lie be so outrageous that people don’t bother to rebut it, and that you keep repeating it so that people with impaired senses of reality start believing it. And indeed, when former Dubya press secretary Dana Perino claimed that there were no terrorist […]
Who knew that John Yoo — the Dept. of Justice lawyer who wrote the infamous memos that claimed that Dubya was legally entitled to ignore laws prohibiting torture — has a sense of humor. In an interview in the NY Times, Yoo gets off some surprisingly funny self-deprecating lines: NYT: Were you close to George […]
“Well, the good news — you know the Nigerian underwear bomber? He is now in custody. Remember the good old days when the only threat from Nigeria was spam email? From the prince. He had a thousand dollars. What happened?” – Jay Leno “But I think the thing that’s still bothering people — there’s a […]
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