Bush to Employ "Jedi Mind Trick" Against North Korean Missile

This is the tale of two news stories – one involves the hard facts of REALITY, the other pure FANTASY. The stark light of reality regarding the horrible conditions in Iraq broke through this last week in the form of a leaked memo from the American Ambassador in Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, to the State...

2006-2007 Iraq Troop Rotations

The optimistic case as I have blogged before for US troop levels for the end of 2006 to the fall of 2007 was that the US could drop the occupation force to six brigades, all of which are fairly light brigades, and allow the Iraqi Army and Interior Ministry do the bloody and difficult task of day to day...

Bush & Zubaydah: The "Clear Vision" Problem

Kevin Drum points us today toward this incredible tidbit contained in Barton Gellman’s review of Ron Suskind’s new book: Abu Zubaydah, his captors discovered, turned out to be mentally ill and nothing like the pivotal figure they supposed him to be….Abu Zubaydah also appeared to know...

Watch Bush’s Southern Strategy Supporters’ Heads Explode

Via Cernig and his wonderful readers, I came across the following video put out by the Bush campaign in 2000 in his attempt to woo Hispanic supporters. I’m outsourcing my commentary with full endorsement to what Cernig said, but I am just hosting the feed as a source of record: ...

Impeachment as an appropriate remedy?

Via 2 Political Junkies is the following from a Post-Gazette article : It takes only 20 signatures from registered voters in a Pittsburgh CityCouncil district to launch impeachment proceedings against a council member.According to today’s Post-Gazette, Homewood resident Phillip Martin begancirculating...