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Got news for you, Sully: Coulter IS the conservative movement

Andy Sullivan bemoans the suggestion that right-wing freakshow Ann Coulter is a "leader of the conservative movement.""Ann Coulter is owed an apology from those outlets, including NBC’s Nightly News,...

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The Bush Wit

The British had their Oscar Wilde. We have our George W. Bush.Always dignified and presidential, sophisticated and smart, Mr. Bush distinguished himself recently with a demonstration of the razor-sharp...

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There.  Will.  Be.  No.  Draft.  Period.

I expect some serious walkback from the administration on War Czar Douglas Lute's suggestion to NPR today that the administration has not ruled out conscription to relieve the enormous strain that the...

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Now, Petraeus won't even PRESENT the report!

When is "The Petraeus Report"not"The Petraeus Report"?When he has, apparently, nothing to do with it.  Literally.We learn now that Gen. David Petraeus might not even be the one who reports to congress...

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Seven-year-old boy held as terror suspect

Javaid Iqbal shares the name of someone on a government terror suspect watchlist.  Recently, while on holiday to the United States with his family, Iqbal was detained for several hours at airports in...

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The Revolving Door - Yet another Thompson aide bolts

Well, that didn't take long.Fred Thompson's new campaign spokesman is already his old campaign spokesman.Jim Mills, the former Fox News producer who joined the campaign only weeks ago, has resigned due...

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The 'Underwhelming' Fred Thompson and GOP Desperation

Freddie K-Street continues to leave 'em snoozing in the heartland.A campaign speech in Iowa failed to impress.Fred  Thompson’s announcement speech Thursday in Des Moines was underwhelming.The former...

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Is Dick Morris smoking crack, or drinking rubbing alcohol?

Either way, he should be arrested for OUI (opining under the influence).Without citing any empirical evidence whatsoever, Morris, blogging for The Hill, insists that a Bush Bounce is right around the...

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MoveOn steps it up - Now Bush himself is the 'betrayer'

After its now-famous "Betray Us" ad appeared in the New York Times, MoveOn.org endured savage, sustained criticism from the Right Wing Outrage Machine.  Fox "News" and its crew of miscreants denounced...

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'Motherf***er, I want more iced tea!'

Stop me if you've heard this one.Bill O'Reilly and Al Sharpton walk into a restaurant in Harlem.No, that's not the opening line of a joke. Okay, it is the opening line of a joke, but not an intentional...

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FEMA staff portrayed reporters at phony press conference [UPDATED]

UPDATEDThis gives a whole new meaning to the expression "Faux News."The Bush administration has taken news manipulation to a new low.  The Washington Post's Al Kamen reveals that the "reporters" who...

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Chuck Hagel urges *gasp* DIPLOMACY with Iran

Sen. Chuck Hagel had better have his big-boy boxers on, and they had better be fire-retardant, at that.Steve Clemons, of the Washington Note, has come upon a private letter from Hagel to President Bush...

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Bush administration fails to condemn Saudi rape case outrage

A Bush administration spokesman has offered the mildest critique imaginable of a Saudi court's decision to have a 19-year-old rape victim flogged and jailed for having ridden in a car with a male...

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Dems should embrace any SCOTUS 2nd Amendment ruling

The United States Supreme Court has agreed to debate the meaning of this sentence:A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear...

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LA-Sen: Challenger announces against Landrieu

U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) can expect a challenge from Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy, who changed his party affiliation recently from Democrat to Republican.A message on Kennedy's...

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Richardson asks NM state employees to help with campaign

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is asking public employees in his state to assist him with his primary campaign in Iowa [h/t TPM].  State employees were invited to the lunch hour meeting by the...

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Bush inspires young Americans... to become Democrats

George W. Bush finally managed to do something to help his country, although he took a tragically circuitous route.A new survey indicates the radical policies and rank incompetence of the Bush...

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Rasmussen: Huckabee takes lead in Florida

First Iowa, where Romney was counting on winning; then South Carolina, where Fred Thompson was counting on winning; now Florida, where Rudy Giuliani was planning to rack up his first primary victory:

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Bob Kerrey apologizes to Obama

In what is emerging as a pattern for supporters of Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey says he didn't mean any harm when he suggested that Barack Obama has a unique ability to reach out to the...

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Global warming deniers silence Nobel laureate

The forces of ignorance and Big Oil have conspired to deny high school students in one Montana town the opportunity to hear from a world-class, Nobel laureate expert on climate change.Professor Steven...

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