COVERING UP:
McCain has had a lot of trouble with his closest advisers, who all seem to have done lobbying work for Jack Abramoff, the Burmese junta, and other assorted villains. McCain is now employing a novel strategy to stop such embarrassing ties from coming back to haunt him.
No, he’s not refusing to hire lobbyists, and […]
Photos like this have made Mohammed Omer unpoplar with Israel’s security services
From the Inter Press Service:
Mohammed Omer, joint winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism, was strip-searched at gunpoint, assaulted and abused by Israeli security officials at the Allenby border crossing between Jordan and the West Bank on Thursday as he tried to […]
Senators David Vitter and Larry Craig are among the co-sponsors of the latest effort to amend the Constitution to ban gay marriages and civil unions.
Really.
You might think it strange for a couple of married guys who were caught soliciting sex to be showing so much concern for the institution of marriage. If they developed a […]
Karl Rove (note the ‘pedo-smile‘)
Here’s the latest anti-Obama atrocity from Karl Rove:
Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He’s the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.
Matthew Yglesias points out […]
ISSUES:
Obama is taking heat from the anti-agriculture chorus in the media’s Eastern establishment because he supports ethanol subsidies. Jesse “The Body” Taylor points out that Obama’s position is virtually identical to that of McCain.
McCain’s energy policy is becoming more chowderheaded by the minute. Now he wants to give a tax credit to people who buy […]
Comedian George Carlin died earlier today at age 71. Mashable has several videos of some of his most famous routines.
I was never a fan of Carlin’s, but his influence is undeniable. At a time when Johnny Carson and Bob Hope were the hottest names in comedy, Carlin gave audiences something that was vulgar, irreverent, and […]
The ‘Lost Amazon Tribe’ turns out to be a hoax:
They are the amazing pictures that were beamed around the globe: a handful of warriors from an ‘undiscovered tribe’ in the rainforest on the Brazilian-Peruvian border brandishing bows and arrows at the aircraft that photographed them.
Or so the story was told and sold. But it has […]
The Taliban and their allies are enjoying a resurgence throughout Central Asia
How badly has Bush failed in Afghanistan and Central Asia? This badly:
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist of the highest narrative and analytical gifts, is baffled by the West’s almost demented indifference and folly towards Afghanistan and his own country. The stakes are huge. If […]
Here’s the latest Heinz mayonnaise ad…
…and here’s Bill O’Reilly’s lunatic reaction.
Seriously, what’s wrong with him? How far out of touch do you have to be to think that Heinz wants everyone to think of them as the Gay Mayonnaise Company? Isn’t it obvious that the real point of this ad is that Heinz mayonnaise will […]
There you have it. Insecurity about the oil supply brought about by war in Iraq, tension in Iran, and unrest in Africa pushed prices up, but the reason they’ve continued to spiral out of control is the deregulated market in energy futures. Naturally, John McCain’s top economic adviser was the person most responsible for deregulating […]