Bush's assertion that "Wall Street got drunk" ignores the role of the Federal Reserve, as well as how much he benefited from its loose credit policies.
Salmonella outbreak argues against claims we're safer after 9/11; President Clinton calls on governors to experiment more with what states are capable of.
The White House refused to listen to early word from the CIA that many Guantanamo detainees didn't belong there; revisiting the 55 MPH speed limit; fake speed bumps.
McCain advisor Phil Gramm calls America a nation of whiners, but there are many reasons to complain about the economy; McCain holds Obama to standards which he, himself, doesn't meet.
The "lie of silence" is being deployed over Iraq; a female suicide bomber's success is taken as a sign of insurgents' desperation; Zimbabwe turmoil demonstrates the limited effects of the Iraqi invasion; T. Boone Pickens qualifies his "debunk the Swift Boaters" challenge; James Wolcott chastises a conservative commentator for his yardstick of Tim Russert's even-handedness.
Iraqi lawmakers cite US demands for 58 bases, and fear being drawn into a war with Iraq; Jack Abramoff's firm complains about a state department negotiator, who proceeds to lose his job; Guantanamo interrogators destroyed notes for fear they'd come out.
Hillary Clinton touches a third rail when mentioning RFK's assassination and political uncertainty; will John McCain's interest in more efficient government extend to cutting out the waste in Iraq?
When people care about whether or not John McCain's wife has genuinely personal recipes, and ABC's debate anchors ask all the wrong questions, we have to ask ourselves who is being served by the current discourse.
AG Mukasey's staff tries to clarify issues surrounding whether or not they could wiretap before 9/11, but in doing so show they still don't understand the law.
Lenders are exercising their contractual rights to cut off lines of credit, but aren't refunding fees based on the size of the credit line. And those who planned on those credit lines have to make other plans.
James Carville compares Bill Richardson's endorsement of Obama to Judas Iscariot's betrayal of Jesus; 3,996 US troop deaths in Iraq; do owners of Internet networking sites owe royalties to the community when the big sale is made?
An editorial cartoon compares Pelosi to a whore, selling out American security as a freebie; the US study of over 600,000 documents showing Saddam Hussein had no relationship with Al Qaeda is out on CD; Josh Marshall questions press treatment of John McCain.
The iPod porffered Elvis' "One Night of Sin" after a discussion of Governor Spitzer, but does the history of GOP cheaters argue against Fitzgerald's narrator's claim that there are no second acts in American lives?
In Philip Shenon's book on the 9/11 Commission, the extent to which the White House tried to stonewall on the PDB's is clear. But Zelikow doesn't like the book for its scrutiny of him.
The Army buries a report from the Rand Corporation, ostensibly because its scope was broader than desired. But Rand found a lot of blame to place for the way we blew Iraq.
Republican Congressmen not running for re-election approaches a record, because it's no fun to be a statesman while in the minority; Tom Friedman was indispensible?
Movie musings while we wait for Super Tuesday results which we all know won't decide anything; I voted for John Edwards even though he no longer contends.
More security for the NYC subways, but is it only election year fear mongering? Plus, the NFL cracks down on church prayer greetings surrounding big screen showings of the Super Bowl.
Edinburgh's "Royal Mile" endangered by modern construction; an Australian attorney is forgiven for leaking details of how the police were railroading his client as a "terrorist."
A tally of 935 pre-war falsehoods on Iraq and al Qaeda from the Bush Administration gets the brush-off from spokesperson Dana Perino; a former Bush official comes down with a tummy ache when she learns a speech she will give be on the public record.
Arianna Huffington foolishly says that the answer to bad polling is to stop answering pollers' telephone calls; a US appeals court says that Guantanamo detainees should have expected they'd be tortured; further thoughts on racism regarding polling surveys and voter behaviors.
Representative Jane Harman's letter protesting torture has been partially declassified; Iowa caucuses, and we wonder if Obama has been elected President yet.