Do they deserve to lose?

Early on in his term, some conservatives were comparing George W. Bush to Ronald Reagan — saying that he had carried the Reagan Revolution that began replacing FDR’s New Deal mentality and orientation with conservative ideas several steps farther. Bush, it was said, was far closer to Ronald Reagan than his country club Republican father, George Bush I. But then came a host of issues, and some Barry Goldwater/Ronald Reagan conservatives began angrily breaking with George W. Bush, so you...

From David Letterman: 10. Post office wall has several photos of you sleeping 9. Your houseplant occasionally sneezes 8. Domino’s keeps delivering to unmarked van parked across the street 7. Birthday card from your mom has several words blacked out 6. You get nominated for “Outstanding Lead Performance in an NSA Surveillance Video” 5. Your dishwasher functions are “Wash,” “Rinse” and “Record” 4. Local news only reporting things that happen in...

In what some have said has echoes of the Watergate crisis, the nation’s Attorney General and FBI chief reportedly threatened to quit if evidence seized in a highly controversial raid on a lawmaker’s office was handed back to Congress: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI director Robert Mueller signaled they would resign this week rather than give in to Congress in a dispute over an FBI raid on Rep. William Jefferson’s Capitol Hill office, an administration official tells CBS...

Has it divided blacks?

Award-winning former reporter-editor Shaun D. Mullen has them here 4 U.

…but not like this.

The story and photos aren’t pretty.

It has been the stuff of our wildest day dreams: what if objects or man could be invisible? It has been the stuff the played a key role two great books that were made into two great films: the Invisible Man and Harry Potter, with his invisibility cloak. But now here’s good news for teenage boys everywhere who have ever dreamed of being a fly on a girls’ locker room wall: INVISIBILITY and the ability to see through walls — dreams that were once confined to the pages of science...

You knew it had to happen: an American Idol winner got more votes than any American President: The most popular talent contest in America, if not the world, has crowned its latest victor after polling a record 63.4 million votes. The host of American Idol, Ryan Seacrest, announced in considerable excitement that the figure was “more than any president in the history of our country has received”. The show’s phenomenal success has prompted many comparisons with the country’s...

So what’s the big deal? Why did these coaches resign? Why is the Sheriff’s office looking into it? When it saw the unusual expense and the location the Fallbrook high school school booster club thought they were stiffed. But it sounds like maybe the coaches were.

Don’t miss this fascinating list.

Leon Wolf, writing on the Republican-oriented site Red State, suggest he did once — and (from the standpoint of conservatives) may do so again.

President George Bush has periodically proclaims several turning points in the war in Iraq. How is this playing? Good or not?

Illegal immigration is a highly emotional issue, so emotional that some House Republicans want to make it a felony to help an illegal immigrant/alien/undocumented worker (use your favorite phrase according to your political preference). So what does new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow do? He likens illegal immigration to a speeding ticket — proving once and for all that the swap meet isn’t the only place you can find figures with tin ears: The White House on Friday said a Senate...

Military investigators have come to a truly sickening conclusion: some members of a Marine-unit with an excellent reputation killed unarmed Iraqi civilians — big and small — and then tried to cover it up, reports The Los Angeles Times’ Tony Perry. (Personal note: TMV can personally vouch for the accuracy and objectivity of Tony Perry who was his friend and sometimes editor on the San Diego Union before Perry left to join the L.A. Times): Marines from Camp Pendleton wantonly killed...

…and beat two of the Democrats’ top political figures.

It was debunked by a blogger who deserves to get a LOT of credit for her original reporting. READ THIS.

One of the ongoing factoids that has plagued President George Bush for years has been his seeming inability to publicly admit mistakes. Is that due to pride? A refusal to admit he was wrong? Not thinking he was wrong about anything? A quality reflecting steely assertiveness or a flaw revealing an inner petulant child? So yesterday when Bush met with his longtime ally Tony Blair— who has also been politically diminished in recent months — he tried to offer a kind of indirect apology,...

When talk that immigration reform might come up in 2006 began to hit the news media, it said that some key Republicans had planned to raise it as a 2006 “wedge issue” that would put the Democrats on the spot. And it has proven to be a wedge issue: except it has “wedged” the Republican party itself. On immigration reform, the GOP now resembles the classic good cop (Senate version) bad cop (House version) except in this case it isn’t as if the two cops are working together....

From the eye in the sky.

…this time on voodoo dolls.

It was a bad day for Enron bigwigs Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling who will forever leave behind their years of limos and enter a new life where if they travel they’ll be handcuffed and likely ride in a group on a bus with people who aren’t clad in the finest suits. The jury’s verdict: guilty. The likely result: many long years behind bars in a place that won’t resemble a posh Houston country club. Kenneth L. Lay and Jeffrey K. Skilling, the chief executives who guided...

…then think again.

It turns out Iran isn’t quite there (yet): Canadian newspaper apologized Wednesday for an article that said Iran planned to force Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive clothing to distinguish themselves from Muslims…. The story, which included tough anti-Iran comments, was picked up widely by Web sites and by other media. “Is Iran turning into the new Nazi Germany? Share your opinion online,” the paper asked readers Friday. But the National Post, a longtime...