Remember the TV docudrama depicting the assassination of George W. Bush? Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated. Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunned down by a sniper following an anti-war demonstration But rather than a repeat of JFK’s shooting or Ronald Reagan’s

Excitable Andy relays — without the slightest hint of skepticism — an anonymously sourced piece from PressTV claiming that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly objected to a ‘security accord’ between the US and Iraq. PressTV is an arm of Iran’s state broadcasting apparatus.  As Michael Goldfarb notes, it is an outlet that seriously reports on claims that the Holocuast was “scientifically impossible.”  While it is possible that Sistani is

For all that has been written over the years about the supposed political genius of Karl Rove, the real man of genius in this cycle has to be former Pres. Jimmy Carter, who is valiantly waging a one-man campaign to make Barack Obama’s foreign policy positions (whatever they are today) seem moderate by comparison. Jimmuh, currently at the Hay-on-Wye festival, is claiming that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal. 

RCP’s Jay Cost has a series of bar charts reviewing Barack Obama’s voting coalition.  Most of these review Obama’s performance versus Clinton, which makes them of limited interest in the context of the general election.  The final chart, however, addresses the contribution of blacks, wealthy voters and young whites to Obama’s voting base — statistics which may say something about a general election.  Eyeballing the chart suggests that blacks made