The Transportation Security Administration will soon extend the Advanced Passenger Information System to cover domestic flights, instead of just international flights. Passengers will have to provide their full name, gender, date of birth, nationality, country of residence, and travel document type and number to the TSA.
The travel industry seems to be welcoming the replacement […]
McCain was responding to Obama’s criticism of his support for the invasion of Iraq. Have you ever seen a presidential candidate so eager to run away from his own record?
Also, Bush criticized Obama for saying that he would meet with new Cuban dictator Raul Castro. According to Bush, meeting with Castro is the wrong thing […]
Hillary Clinton made this attack ad Friday morning. The subject? Vote for me or the terrorists will rape your daughter. Although from what I understood of the ad the first time, it was more like “Hillary Clinton will phone your daughter at 3AM”. I dunno how many million dollars she paid for that crap, but […]
The future of Palestine?
From the Times (UK):
An Israeli minister gave warning today that the Gaza faces a “holocaust” if Islamist militants there do not end their daily barrages of home-made Qassam rockets, and their increasing use of Iranian-built Grad missiles.
“The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon […]
Obama is once again having his patriotism questioned because he doesn’t wear the right jewelry
Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) says that Barack Obama is unpatriotic because he doesn’t wear an American flag lapel pin. So imagine how surprised MSNBC’s Dan Abrams was when Kingston showed up for an interview about Obama’s patriotism and didn’t wear a […]
While visiting Florida, Janice Langbehn of Olympia, Washington, was denied visitation rights at the hospital for eight hours when her partner of 18 years collapsed suddenly . When her partner died, Langbehn tried to get her death certificate in order to get life insurance and Social Security benefits for their children. She was denied both […]
The Children’s Defense Fund ranks McCain last in the Senate on issues that affect children.
Staying classy!
Edit: By the way, here’s what conservatives had to say about Buckley.
“Aren’t you embarrassed by the absence of these weapons?” Buckley snaps at Podhoretz. He has just explained that he supported the war reluctantly, because Dick Cheney convinced him that Saddam Hussein had WMD primed to be fired. “No,” Podhoretz replies. “As I say, […]
The GOP is going to try to be less obvious this year
From Politico (emphasis added):
The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the boundaries of attacking a minority or female candidate, according to people involved. The secretive effort underscores the enormous risk senior GOP operatives see for a party often criticized […]
Just days after a former colleague revealed that he had insisted that there be no acquittals in the upcoming Guantanamo show trials, William Haynes resigned from his position as General Counsel to the Defense Department. Since Haynes is the primary architect and overseer of the show trials, his insistence that no-one be acquitted made the […]