Warrantless Domestic Spying
Terrorist surveillance program
Newspeak

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees …, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. … Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression […]

Nur al-Cubicle: The Victory of Hamas, Without the Hysteria
Nur al-Cubicle has translated and posted a Le Monde article analyzing Hamas’ victory - sans hysterics. The situation is, of course, far more nuanced and complex than many would have you believe. To simply dismiss the entire Hamas organization as “terrorists” does the Palestinian people […]

Bush to give State of the Union tonight…
Remember one shot of for every “terror” reference.
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Alternet| Lying About the State of the Union
Just wanted to give a nod to the occasionally brilliant Molly Ivins for noting the Haiti story in her Alternet prebuttal to Bush’s SOTU. Nothing too great in the article, but I try to notice when big-name commentators discuss the issues I’m always complaining no one […]

Sliming a Famous Muckraker: The Untold Story
From Atrios we learn about a fairly major misstep in the writings of Jonah Goldberg while he attempts to smear and villify both the left in general and the legendary lefty writer Upton Sinclair specifically.
As far as I can tell, there has [typically] been no acknowledgement of wrongdoing, retraction, […]

Hey, I’m not calling Republicans racists. Psychologists are doing that (via Accidental Blogger). But I mean really, is it a surprise to anyone that white people with acknowledged or implicit racial biases vote Republican? Of course, I’m not entirely buying the theory myself, because even if racists didn’t vote Republican the people […]

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Video Dog
This is a great Daily Show clip where Jon Stewart compares and contrasts Oprah’s confrontation with James Frey regarding his fabrications in A Million Little Pieces with/against various television news figures interviewing politicians. Powerful stuff, believe it or not.

Both Powerline and the Malkins (and dozens of other self-important basement-dwelling racists, war celebrators and deviants in the greed-and-hate-party blogosphere) are furious about Democrat Coleen Rowley’s campaign website that has a Photoshopped image of her opponent as Col. Klink from Hogan’s Heroes. (His name is Kline).
What they all intentionally fail to reveal is that […]

State of the Union Watch Parties - Isn’t that a contradiction in terms? By John Dickerson
I don’t think I can sit through the bullshit that is on tap for this evening. Are you going to watch? Sober?

This post is dedicated to a complete list of wrongdoings. A list of lists. Both ridiculously bad mistakes and purposeful crimes (allegedly) comitted by dear leader and that band of desperados and cowgirls commonly known as the current administration. Please add comments, links and thoughts of what you feel deserves to be in the list. […]