Fraud / No Fraud: A Modest Proposal
The anger and irritation in our ranks over the question of fraud in the election just passed is wasted energy. I think we can all agree on that. After some mulling, I think I've figured out a way of...
View ArticleHappy FDR Day! (w/poll)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on this day in 1882. I think it's a damn shame that January 30 was never christened a national holiday. It should be one, lest we forget. May Democrats everywhere...
View ArticleMy Letter to Time
I doubt it'll see print, but what the hell: As a regular reader of Time for nearly 30 years, I was stunned to find the hateful image of Ann Coulter on the cover this week. Worse still was John Cloud's...
View Article(Poll) Rove to be Indicted Under the Espionage Act?!
Yesterday, Mark Kleiman posted a remarkable analysis of Judge Hogan's remarks to the media after yesterday's hearing. If Mark is reading the tea leaves correctly, Rove (or whomever the target might...
View ArticleJudy Miller: Reporter, or Propagandist?
[reprinted , with edits, from Southpaw, home of liberal Texans and other impossibilities] Last night, SusanG lectured those who applauded the jailing of Judith Miller with this story of journalistic...
View ArticleWhy Cooper and not Miller?
By now, hopefully everybody has seen the story in the New York Times detailing Matt Cooper's decision to testify after Rove's attorney let his hubris get the better of him: "If Matt Cooper is going to...
View ArticleValerie Was Covert and They Knew It
At the time of the leak, Valerie had a day job that was no secret: she worked for Brewster-Jennings. Discount for now whether the leaker should have known that Brewster-Jennings was a CIA front --...
View ArticleOur Narrative Has Arrived
Insofar as one can find a silver lining around a cloud as dark as the Katrina catastrophe, such a lining exists for us now. It's the same one we found in 1930 and further defined in 1932, and it's very...
View ArticleDelicious Irony: Cheney is Indictable
With today's big news about Cheney being Libby's source in mind, it's now time to fully ponder what happens next with ol' Dick. Many voices in left blogovia have already expressed skepticism that...
View ArticleCheney: Caught In a Vise
I'm not blessed with the time to assemble exhaustive compilations of evidence complete with appropriate links, but there is an angle to the Libby-Cheney drama that I haven't seen mentioned anywhere in...
View ArticleRude Pundit on the Air Tonight!
For five years, I have co-hosted an idiosyncratic radio show in Fort Worth called The Good Show, specializing mostly in underappreciated music of many flavors, but dabbling also in original comedy and...
View ArticleNever Surrender, But Enough is Enough
God bless Meteor Blades. Blades is right -- we cannot stop to feel sorry for themselves. But God bless Maryscott as well. She's right, too -- there is no party in Washington that represents the...
View ArticleUse the 25th before they use the nukes
I assume by now everyone is aware of Seymour Hersh's story that the White House neocon cabal is making plans to nuke Iran. This diary is meant as a suggestion for one way to pressure Congress to stop...
View ArticleThe Italian Connection: What I Didn't Know About Neocons
[Crossposted, with minor edits, from Southpaw:] In the course of researching other things, I recently came across this interesting little nugget at Wikipedia about Strategia Della Tensione -- the...
View ArticleCalling Out Markos: Diary of a Blogofascist
I've got my clipboard, text books Lead me to the station Yeah, I'm off to the civil war I've got my kit bag, my heavy boots I'm runnin' in the rain Gonna run till my feet are raw -- Peter D. B....
View ArticleLieberman Hacking Story Improbable: A View from Up Close
My company's servers live in the same building as Lieberman's, at The Planet in Dallas -- or, at least this was true before they moved their hosting to another company this afternoon. (Traceroute to...
View ArticleToday, our government betrayed these people
American Casualties Revolutionary War: 50,000 War of 1812: 7,800 World War I: 360,000 World War II: 970,000 Other wars, including Iraq and Afghanistan: Uncounted but not forgotten This country was...
View ArticleShifting of the Zeitgeist: Texas
Greetings from Fort Worth, seat of Tarrant County, recently the most strongly Republican county of its size in the United States. I'm a lifelong resident of 41 years, having seen this blue collar town...
View ArticleFDR as Howard Dean: The Past is Prologue
In college all those many moons ago, I was assigned to read Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in developing a historical...
View ArticleTakin' It to the Streets: Independence Day Beckons
[UPDATE: madame defarge suggested in comments that everyone as disgusted as us wear black armbands to July 4 parades and other observations on Wednesday, with signs calling for justice for Scooter...
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