President George W. Bush has been a riot in Argentina:MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina - More than 1,000 demonstrators angry about President Bush's policies clashed with police, shattered storefronts and torched businesses Friday, marring the inauguration of the Summit of the Americas as leaders began debating creation of one of the world's largest free trade zones. The violence … [Read more...] about Bush Promotes Free Trade Amid Violence In Argentina

Tit for tat... … [Read more...] about A New Way To Protest The War

John Dean, the former White House counsel to President Richard Nixon and a key Watergate whistleblower, now says in a column that after he's read the Plamegate indictment that came down naming "Scooter" Libby he believes the Bush White House faces a far more serious problem than he thought at first glance: Now, however, one indictment has been issued — naming Vice … [Read more...] about John Dean: Plamegate Indictment Portends Trouble For Cheney

...at a (mercifully) nonpolitical blog: Deadwood Blog. If the title reminds you of the great HBO series, it should: Deadwood Blog is created by some of the folks who worked on the show and decided to try their hand at a blog:From the street, the holding area, and our lives with and without Deadwood, this is a blog for Deadwood's background players. We hope to post about … [Read more...] about Take A Peek…..

...when he's asked about his previous hang-ups. … [Read more...] about Dick Morris Hangs Up

Here's a case of someone who should have turned the other cheek:BOULDER, Colo. - Home Depot was sued by a shopper who claims he got stuck to a restroom toilet seat because a prankster had smeared it with glue. Bob Dougherty, 57, accused employees of ignoring his cries for help for about 15 minutes because they thought he was kidding. "They left me there, going through all … [Read more...] about A Lawsuit In A Flash

The words of Michael "Brownie" Brown — former FEMA director, current member of FEMA's payroll. We know that Michael Brown, former FEMA chief, fiddled while Rome burned, that is, ate dinner while New Orleans flooded and people died. But did you know it was even worse? Yes, the title of this post is a direct quote from an e-mail Brown wrote to a high-ranking FEMA … [Read more...] about “Can I quit now? Can I come home?”

There's a lot of discussion in the blogosphere about Bush's astonishingly low approval ratings. I've got more here, including links to some top bloggers on the subject. … [Read more...] about From bad to worse for 43

Lately, I've been doing my bit to bring a dose of civility to the blogosphere. (Some conservatives don't seem to be interested, however, or are at least highly suspicious of liberals and moderates.) There may have been more unity than usual across the spectrum in response to the Miers nomination, but a new poll shows that the Alito nomination has brought back the usual … [Read more...] about Alito and public opinion: The return of polarization

You'll be missed, Aaron Brown. Aaron Brown is out and Anderson Cooper is moving up. I don't mind Cooper, but I've always like Aaron Brown, from the days I first watched him doing the overnight show on ABC. While Cooper showboats in hurricanes and empathizes incessantly with victims of one tragedy or another, Brown brings a quiet, calming assuredness to television news. Where … [Read more...] about Farewell, Mr. Brown

Cross-posted at The Smoking Room How did I miss the bourgeois backlash against the prom? I didn't go to mine - fitting the stereotype of a nerd with low self-esteem and parents barely cracking middle-class - but I had no idea there was a confluence of Catholic moralists and ex-hippie parents spouting anti-materialist shtick to keep their kids out of limos and fully dressed:In … [Read more...] about Prom-hating makes a comeback among secular parents and socialist priests

Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the conservative who said that Public Broadcasting shows had a liberal bias and seemed ready to clean house has quit the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. According to the Washington Post, the resignation came one day after the agency's inspector general delivered a report apparently critical of his leadership. If you follow this … [Read more...] about Public Broadcasting’s Aspiring Conservative Housecleaner Quits

According to one commentator, the answer may very well be "yes." … [Read more...] about Has Sony inadvertently killed its own offspring, the CD?

Some of the email messages sent by former FEMA director Michael Brown have been released. They do not make Brown, who is currently acting as a "consultant" and still receiving money from FEMA equivalent to his salary as chief of the agency, look as if he had a sense of the scope or urgency of the disaster in the wake of hurricane Katrina, nor does Brown come across as the … [Read more...] about Is the price of political patronage now too high?

Even when reporters are chasing a story as important as Judge Samuel Alito there are limits and that's not a lot of crap. … [Read more...] about Reporters Pursuing A Story

Yes, the issues can be interrelated — as Dean Esmay outlines here in a post that is certain to spark a lot of debate. … [Read more...] about Free Speech, Academic Pressure And Abortion

Earlier today, the Senate voted by a 51 to 48 margin to open up the Artic National Wildlife Reserve for oil drilling. But as The Hill's eNews (a free email service) reports, Republicans in the House are not quite ready to embrace the measure. While conference moderates are wary about a number of the possible cuts to federal programs, including food stamps, student loans … [Read more...] about House GOP Not Quite Ready to Drill in ANWR

If so, here's a possible future book you might want to read.... … [Read more...] about Do You Like Prison Dramas?

We're almost at the point where we maybe we should just run one-line links on polls, unless there's some dramatic change in direction...because we have more of the same: yet another poll saying President George Bush is in very serious political trouble. Yesterday it was CBS News. Today it's ABC News:An increasingly unpopular war, an ethics cloud, and broad economic discontent … [Read more...] about Yet ANOTHER Poll Is Not Good For President Bush (UPDATED)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi caused a bit of a ruckus today with this Privileged Resolution on Iraq. Text and commentary by the incomparable Karen Zipdrive of Pulp Friction … [Read more...] about What Nancy Pelosi Did Today