Every once in a long while in this blog, I've mentioned my fondness for the Empire State Building . For as long as I can remember, I've been twisting my neck to look up at it, and have gone up to its observation decks many many times. Over the years, I've come to thin
WF, thank you for your nice comments. Too most of us, it's not at all obvious that strategists would feel free to gleefully boast about how bin Laden's tape was a gift. Can you imagine how shocked we'd all be if Kerry's leading strategists said that deaths in Iraq were a gift? Like I said, most people find this creepy, which is why the articles about this were prominent at sites that sort new stories by reader interest. Ma
"Hm. Between your left scare tactics, blogic, and deadzombies rightie scare tactics...I might just vote Cobb after all..." Thanks for your comment Myrrander, Two responses come to mind: (1) If you decide how you vote based on the tactics of two random writers at JoeUser, you may want to come up with a new way of deciding your votes. (2) You can make generic attacks -- "your left scare tactics" -- or you can disprove
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is probably the deadliest terrorist in Iraq. Analysts think he's responsible for the deaths of thousands. Until recently, his group was apparently acting independently of any larger terrorist organization. A month or two ago he announced that he was now going to start coordinating his actions with al-
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The International Herald Tribune is now reporting that a journalist saw the al-Qaqaa facility being looted . So much for the Pentagon's various contradictory stories.
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I'm always there for Planet of the Apes references. As I've said, the Republicans are doing something unprecedent in trying to challenge tens of thousands of voters in Michigan, Ohio, and Florida. No one has thought of using the law like that before. Now, you may think it's perfectly legitimate, but it's certainly not business as usual. The mass challenges are only planned for districts with high percentages of black voters.
Unfortunately, some of the writers here don't seem to feel the need to link to evidence of the facts they are claiming. People may disagree with my assertions sometimes, but at least I've given readers the power to judge the information for themselves. Thankfully, most of the writers here include links, so we can debate their interpretations of the news, instead of whether or not their claimed news even exists. Of course, the other p
Having subscribed to the The Economist for a couple of years, of course it's conservative on most issues (except for social ones, since Europe, including Britain, is more socially liberal than America). It's also hawkish on foreign policy. The reason they endorsed Kerry is not because they disagreed with the war -- they supported it strongly -- but because they think Bush is incompetent. As sunwukong points out, The Economi
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Thank you for your comment Daiwa, I know specifically that the Civil Right Office of the Justice Department was emphatically non-partisan in how they selected their new recruits, until the Bush administration came in and dictated that Bush political appointees, not career staff, would review the applications. How do I know, because I have friends who work at Justice. I'm not saying that it's right or wrong for Bush to politic
The Bush campaign says its critics are simply gloomy naysayers, and that if you remove the "liberal" media spin, we're actually winning the war in Iraq. Someone might want to get the word to Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to Newsweek, Powell has been confiding to his friends that the
Obviously Bush's handling of the War on Terrorism and Osama bin Laden are relevant to judging Bush's presidency, and I have no real problem with either candidate talking substantively about it. But it's creepy when Bush strategists say things like this: "We want people to t
"This is unbelievable because they (101st) were told to secure the site. For us to believe what is being spouted, we would have to first believe that they didn't do their job. Which I find HIGHLY unlikely!" Only the surrogates of the Bush campaign are suggesting the soldiers didn't do their job. As stevendedalus said, the soldiers did do their job, it was their Commander-in-Chief who didn't. I really wish the Bush campaign would stop
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"Maybe we're finally getting through to you, blogic" Funny, Daiwa. There are things openly linked to the Republicans. For example, the Repubs are perfectly open that they plan to challenge tens of thousands of voters in Ohio and Florida, even though that's an unprecedented use of the "challenge" law -- and not surprisingly they're planning to do nearly all their challenges in urban Democratic districts. It appears that they are deli
The Bush campaign wants to do anything but admit that Bush is responsible for a mistake. First version: Explosives removed before invasion. Claimed evidence: Hussein would have done it, Pentagon satellite photos. Weakness: 'imbedded' <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e
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If you look at my handling of the supposed Bush national guard memos (aka, MemoGate), you'll see I was one of the first to acknowledge that the documents were suspicious, and I covered it as extensively as anyone else at this site. How many of the Bush supporters have made the same effort admitting they were wrong, when they knew it made his or her candidate look bad? Draginol's handling of the di
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Daiwa, thanks for your comment. You're incorrect to say Congress intended this. Perhaps you didn't notice in the article that Bush interpretation of that law goes against decades of of how this kind of law has been interpreted. So far, judges have rejected the Bush administration's interpretation for exactly that reason. Frankly, I don't expect the Bush administration to get anywhere
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Readers, please notice that in spite of the fact that Kerry supporters and Kerry himself hold Bush responsible, Bush supporters keep trying to shift the blame to the troops. As Americans, we support our troops even as they protect our lives, and we see that their Commander-in-Chief has served both them and us poorly.
Hey Daiwa, We agree on something! I completely agree with you that the Geneva Conventions needs to be made more explicit as they apply to the legal questions that have come up in the few years.
The flyer is being distributed in black neighborhoods in Milwaukee. How disturbing is this ? <img src="http://images.dailykos.com/images/user/3/milwaukee.gi
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Daiwa, thanks for your comment, The Economist is probably the most widely respected news weekly in the world, has a larger American readership than its British one, and probably covers the US more than it covers any other country. It also almost invariably supporters Republicans. I was never questioning your ability to make decisions for yourself. I was bringing to my readers attention that yet another typically pro-Republica
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Daiwa, thanks for your comment, I find your arguments more compelling when you don't attack me personally. Let's think through the logic of what Bush said: that Kerry demeaned and denigrated the troops by criticizing Bush's handling of the (now missing) explosives. Kerry was very clear he held George Bush responsible for this. So why does Bush say this is demeaning to the troops? Well, because Bush implies that if the explosives w
Thank you all for your comments. As I've noted elsewhere , ABC News 'imbedded' video appears to show the presence of the explosive HMX, and IAEA inspection seals, at Al-Qaqaa.
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Draginol, thank you for your comment. I read the linked article. Regarding the released image, the Pentagon officials are very direct that they're making no claims about what the trucks are doing. In fact, the article seems to make nearly no strong claims based on that image, other than the facility wasn't hermetically sealed. In fact, even the speculative interpretations made by the D