Over the last two days, Atrios has highlighted two examples — one from the Clinton era, one from just a couple of days ago — that demonstrates just how badly broken, completely in the pocket of power, and stunningly insular the press really is. Let us start with the more recent example: David Orkent. Okrent [...]
Archive for May, 2005
The Press is Broken
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics on May 31, 2005 | Comments Off
Deep Throat Comes Up for Air
Posted in Culture, General, Legal Issues, Media, Politics on May 31, 2005 | 6 Comments »
The former second-in-command of the FBI during the Nixon years, W. Mark Felt, now claims that he was “Deep Throat” – the secret Watergate leaker who kept Woodward and Bernstein on the right track during their investigation of Nixon’s dirty tricks. The two things favoring credibility in this case are that he was probably in [...]
Memorial Day History
Posted in Holiday on May 30, 2005 | Comments Off
Memorial Day Memorial Day was officially proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, national commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, in his General Order No. 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868, when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. The [...]
Ohio GOP Knows How to Do Political Corruption
Posted in Politics on May 28, 2005 | Comments Off
Here in Tennessee, we have had four legislators –three dem, one repub — arrested for taking a few tens of thousands of dollars in bribes. Pikers. The Ohio GOP can apparently show them how it’s really done. For nearly a decade, Thomas Noe has been the Republican Party’s man to see in northwest Ohio, a [...]
More TN Corruption to Come?
Posted in Politics on May 26, 2005 | 16 Comments »
SayUncle brings up a good point in the comments of this post: I have a feeling more heads will roll. Including more Republican heads. Corruption? You don’t say. Why else would those folks spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for a crappy job that pays $16K per year? On the one hand, the CA story [...]
Speaking of Corruption
Posted in Politics on May 26, 2005 | Comments Off
One of Tom Delay’s associates just lost a civil case stemming from campaign finance irregularities. Charles Kuffner has the details That’s huge, because the defense in the criminal case is that the money was spent on “administrative” expenses, not “campaign” expenses. A ruling for Ceverha would likely have led to a dismissal of at least [...]
Timing is Everything
Posted in Politics on May 26, 2005 | 20 Comments »
Today, six people — including five politicians — were arrested for taking bribes Federal authorities indicted four lawmakers, a former lawmaker, and two others as part of a corruption probe into the business dealings of state Sen. John Ford of Memphis. Those charged were Ford; state Sen. Kathryn Bowers, D-Memphis; state Rep. Chris Newton, R-Benton; [...]
Democrats Cave, Republicans Backstab, Owen Confirmed
Posted in General, Legal Issues, Politics on May 25, 2005 | 9 Comments »
Under the terms of the “compromise” position brokered by 7 Democratic and 7 Republican Senators over the weekend, Priscilla Owen’s nomination to the federal appellate bench was voted on today. Early reports on the “compromise” suggested that it included an unwritten agreement not only to vote on but to vote against the most reprehensible nominees, [...]
Matt Miller: Fey, Clueless, Self-Absorbed Feminist Hero
Posted in Culture, Economics, General on May 25, 2005 | 5 Comments »
Oy. More and more I miss Maureen Dowd, and not just because I’m hot for her (as I believe I’ve mentioned). Matt Miller, the Times‘s fill-in while Dowd is on leave, has been hit-or-miss – mostly miss – in her place. Today is just embarrassing, however. He has a column that he apparently thinks is [...]
Christianity and Socialism
Posted in Religion on May 24, 2005 | Comments Off
slacktivist reminds us of the reality of early Christian teachings on private property: “They’re pro-free markets, they’re pro-private property. … That’s what evangelical stands for.” — Pastor Ted Haggard “All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.” – Acts 2:44-45 [...]
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