I have to highlight this. At Tailrank, the most active story is that Scooter Libby destroyed a memo from Cheney that would have implicated the VP in the Plame fiasco, led by Thinkprogress. This, according to Maguire, who’s the only guy I know who seems to understand the story in its entirety, is bullshit (link and ff.). It’s curious that this should be alleged just when House Republicans are pushing

”Kelly Leak…?!”* A fan can dream, can’t he?

***Now About Buck Owens*** Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, whose new book has been attacked as slanted against Israel, received two standing ovations as he answered critics during a much-anticipated talk at a historically Jewish college. The former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner acknowledged to an audience at Brandeis University on Tuesday that “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” has “caused great concern in the Jewish community,” but noted that it

As Jeff recently returned to the argument that racial categorizations tend to collapse under the weight of their own logical incoherence, the tale of freshman Rep. Stephen I. Cohen (D-TN) should not pass unnoticed at PW. Rep. Cohen, who won his seat in the 60 percent black district vacated by Harold Ford, wanted to join the Congressional Black Caucus, but dropped his bid after several current and former caucus members

Sometimes when I’m feeling down and I need a little pick-me-up, I’ll go up to a fat chick and say, “So……when’s the baby due?”

         pre-speech anal   Hume, Mort                          not fuc   g workin                   when I figure this stupid                                      ***** up     :               Madame                           classic powersuit, and ap  ars to have had her latest round of inj       new congress, but same respons                       unemployment low; budget deficit cut ahead of schedule; no need to raise taxes (at this, Pelosi visably                 eyebrow twitch. ****      dent makes case for social security reform and school choice—both of which have about as much chance

Well now.  This is an interesting attempt to override the Constitution by way of an easy emotional appeal.  From The Houston Chronicle, “Mayor wants Brazoria to outlaw the ‘n-word’”: Brazoria Mayor Ken Corley wants offensive use of the “n-word” to be punishable by a fine of up to $500 in his town. “It’s not a particular problem in Brazoria,” Corley said, “but it’s a national problem.” —Ah.  That makes sense.

proteinwisdom: Say, you’re in Iraq, right?  indcbill:  i hope so, otherwise the soldiers over here are shooting at the wrong brown people proteinwisdom:  Do me a favor, then, would you?  See what you can find out about this Maliki memo? indcbill: sure.  when i’m not going on night time raids through raw sewage with the iraqi army indcbill:  and taking headers into rivers of shit indcbill:  crap up to my

Bob Owens at Conferedate Yankee has received, from an anonymous tipster claiming to be inside Bagdhad’s Green Zone, a memo purportedly from the office of PM Nouri Al-Maliki directing “official speakers or the media advisors” within the Defense and Interior ministries to freeze out the media with respect to security questions. Owens has scanned copies of the memo available at his site, both in the original Arabic and in an

Regular readers of my posts certainly know that I’m a big fan of Jeff Goldstein at Protein Wisdom.  He’s insightful, funny, experimental and challenging.  Recently, he’s been experiencing difficulties stemming from his activities as a blogger, though, and clearly has his priorities right when he says that he needs to take care of his family first. When, after a hiatus of several months, he recently returned to full time blogging,