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Archive for March, 2004

Please, Not That!

The Packers are apparently going to trade for Tim Couch: The Packers are reportedly close to acquiring quarterback Tim Couch from Cleveland. …snip… He would provide the Packers with the best backup to Brett Favre that they have had in a long time. Favre is expected to play at least one more season, after which [...]

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At least, that’s Dwight’s story and he’s sticking to it

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Why Not Tell The Truth?

Kevin Drum wonders why the Bush Administration simply won’t admit that they made mistakes before 9/11: In retrospect, of course we wish we had paid more attention to terrorism. Everybody in the U.S. government does. After all, 3000 people died. It was a terrible misjudgment and a wakeup call for all of us. (I’m sure [...]

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BUMPED FOR NEW INFORMATION This is scary: It’s a groundbreaking court decision that legal experts say will affect everyone: Police officers in Louisiana no longer need a search or arrest warrant to conduct a brief search of your home or business. Leaders in law enforcement say it will keep officers safe, but others argue it’s [...]

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Somebody Spiked Daschle's Wheaties

Another powerful speech As Atrios is fond of saying, reward good behavior. More importantly, I wonder how much of this the Bushies have brought upon themselves. Daschle, after all, has hardly been a fire brand. He was practically a Republican for the first couple of years of the Bush Administration. Part of the change, of [...]

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Telling the Truth is Hard to Do

This is beyond a normal lie — this trips over the line into outright idiocy: The RNCC wasn’t quoting an editorial. They were quoting a correspondent’s column! (A correspondent is like our other columnists such as Sowell, Will or Novak, or feature writers such as the comics, Dear Annie or opinions page cartoons). The TV [...]

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This is disgusting: U.S. officials told NBC News that the full record of Clarke’s testimony two years ago would not be declassified. They said that at the request of the White House, however, the CIA was going through the transcript to see what could be declassified, with an eye toward pointing out contradictions. That is [...]

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This is amazingly tone deaf, and highlights the complete disconnect that are well paid punditry seems to exhibit far too often: Twenty years before, Prescott notes, it was the Europeans who worked more. Data gathered for 1970 to 1974 show that the French and the Germans each worked an average of 5 percent more than [...]

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Rice to Testify

In public, and under oath. The pressure, apparently, finally got to them.

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Here

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