The military has pulled The Ed Schultz Show from its planned debut on Armed Forces Radio today. Note that earlier today this site ran this exclusive interview HERE (also chain linked below) with Schultz pegged to today's expected debut of his show. But we learned, this morning, that there was a hitch so we wrote a special note to readers and revised it. Our extensive interview … [Read more...] about Military Yanks Ed Schultz Show From Debut On Armed Forces Radio

IMPORTANT NOTE TO READERS: At 2 a.m. this morning we posted a version of this post below with the headline that progressive talker Ed Schultz would begin to be carried today on Armed Forces Radio. The peg to our post was that his debut on Armed Forces Radio mean that there would be a countervailing voice to Rush Limbaugh, who is basically the main political talk show host … [Read more...] about TMV Interview with Progressive Talker Ed Schultz

This time he's HELPING someone in the water:HYANNIS, Mass. — U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy attempted to rescue six men who had become trapped by high tide on a jetty off Hyannisport on Sunday. The Massachusetts Democrat eventually left the rescue to Hyannis firefighters, The Cape Cod Times reported Monday. Kennedy was walking his two dogs on the shore at 11:15 a.m. when he … [Read more...] about Ted Kennedy To The Rescue

(Cross-posted at The Reaction.) Yes, yet more on Harriet Miers. Bear with me. Time is reporting that the White House will re-spin the Miers nomination by re-marketing Harriet Miers herself: Get ready for a whole new Harriet. After a disastrous two weeks, White House officials say they hope to relaunch the nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court by moving from what … [Read more...] about The new Harriet Miers (is the same as the old one)

As some of you know, I do an occasional series at The Reaction called "Signs of the Apocalypse" — signs that our civilization is slip-sliding into self-destruction and oblivion. The series is a break from all my political blogging, but, in the end, the consequences of this decline and fall may be even more dire that the latest hot story coming out of Washington. Well, … [Read more...] about Tomkat to welcome Tomkitten in “silent birth”

Does that get your attention? Honestly, I don't know enough about Apple to be able to judge it either on its own or in relation to PC companies. I use Dell. That's pretty much it. Apple's products look cool, but... so what? But could it be possible that Apple, that ahead-of-the-curve purveyor of cool, isn't quite everything it's cracked up to be? Could it be that Apple's … [Read more...] about Why Apple sucks

(Cross-posted at The Reaction.) At The Weekly Standard, that bastion of occasionally intelligent conservative commentary, Bill Kristol examines the ongoing investigations into the allegedly illegal or otherwise unethical behavior of four prominent conservatives: Tom DeLay, Bill Frist, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby. Here's Kristol's assessment: What do these four men have in … [Read more...] about Bill Kristol’s culture of conservative victimhood

I noted recently that there apparently are job opportunities at al Qaeda in such fascinating areas as video production and international reporting. Well, it's now being reported that al Qaeda is setting up shop in the U.K. Zarqawi's behind it, but I'm sure the Bush Administration would deny that the Iraq War has had anything to do with it. … [Read more...] about Al Qaeda in the UK

But you COULD view writing opinions on a website (blogging) a bit different from what he'll be doing....which is the real, non-cyberspace world... … [Read more...] about A Blogger Says Goodbye

I wonder who Jim Carrey plays in this? … [Read more...] about A GREAT New Topical Movie

...I have written, as someone who is a self-described moderate but who does have strong, definite opinions and deeply held beliefs. Actions versus words... The lesson taught was not the one intended Not everything is linked There are patterns in the white noise of the endless media deluge, if we are willing to take the time to think, instead of merely react. … [Read more...] about A few thoughts…

Getting to the root of Al Qaeda in the war against combovers terrorism. No joke. … [Read more...] about Catching Terrorists By A Hair

But did she leave out a central argument, one which the adminstration used to the American public, Congress and the United Nations to go into Iraq, ENTIRELY? It sure sounds this way but watch THE VIDEO YOURSELF. Our view? Why is this administration losing independent voters and being left with just its staunch supporter base? This quote from Rice is a prime example. Rather … [Read more...] about Condi Rice Explains The Iraq War

Michael Totten is living in and reporting from Lebanon, which makes his always thought-provoking weblog more interesting than ever. And he has a post that sparks some feelings of deja vu all over again in TMV:Okay, it isn’t funny anymore. Let’s just get this out in public and out of the way once and for all. I am not a spy. Got that? I. Am. Not. A. Spy. Almost every … [Read more...] about “I Am Not A Spy”

A ton of columns and posts have been written on the controversial nomination of President Bush's decision to nominate his lawyer Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court — but there is one that stands out. First, we admit: we were negligent. We read the column in the post linked below and bookmarked it, and never did a post on it. Perhaps it's because we find this commentator … [Read more...] about A “Surprising” Take On The Miers Nomination

Here's an interesting take on the (likely soon to be former) New Times' Judith Miller and Plamegate from The All Spin Zone:Back in the summer of 2003, a month before Joe Wilson publicly debunked the Niger yellowcake claim made by the Bush administration in the New York Times, the Scottish Sunday Herald published an expose on Operation Rockingham. It was the UK equivalent of the … [Read more...] about An Interesting Twist On The Judith Miller Plamegate Story

The votes have yet to be fully counted in the vote on Iraq's constitution and you can see some confusion already setting in — as pointed out by Oxblog's David Adesnik:WaPo VS. NYT: WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN IRAQ? Was turnout high or low? Were the voters subdued or celebrating? It's hard to figure out even that much if you read both the NYT and WaPo.He then gives you the two … [Read more...] about The Iraq Constitution Vote Turnout: Subject To Interpretation?

Once again New York Times (perhaps soon FORMER New York Times?) reporter Judith Miller is at the center of headlines — but in a way she would not have wanted. She released her version of events in the Plamegate case involving the outing of a CIA operative — and you can read it here. Then the Times did its wrap-up of Miller's involvement in this long story here. … [Read more...] about Judith Miller’s Account In Plame Leak Case: Confusion Amid A Potential Political Tornado

By DAVID YONKE, BLADE RELIGION EDITOR It's the end of the world, take three. The third in a series of apocalyptic films based on Tim LaHaye's and Jerry B. Jenkins' blockbuster novels, Left Behind: World at War, will bypass Hollywood's standard operating procedures when it opens Friday in more than 3,000 churches instead of movie theaters... [snip] There are 127 churches in … [Read more...] about Toledo Blade: Apocalyptic ‘Left Behind’ to open in 3,000 churches

Political discourse drops yet another notch as the Virginia gubernatorial race heats up. Is it too much to ask that when a politician wishes to invoke the Holocaust (something they should be cautious about doing in any case), they take the time to ensure that they aren't offending the bulk of the Jewish community in the process? This was a really low shot by the Kilgore … [Read more...] about Hitler in Virginia