Monthly Archives: April 2008

Senate candidate Bob Schaffer went to the Mariana Islands in 1999 on what he called a fact finding tour in which he claimed he was going to investigate some of the nations notorious sweatshops, others have called it a Abramoff funded … Continue reading →

The right wing has been making a big deal about an alleged attack by hispanics on a white teen. Turns out the white student made the whole thing up. An eighth-grader lied when she claimed a mob of angry students … Continue reading →

The New York Times has a lengthy article on McCain and his Neo-con friends The concerns have emerged in the weeks since Mr. McCain became his party’s presumptive nominee and began more formally assembling a list of foreign policy advisers. … Continue reading →

John McCain doesn’t need to know the difference between Sunni and Shiite groups because he has been to Iraq? at least that seems to be his latest spin on his recent gaffes regarding the two sects of Islam. Sen. John … Continue reading →

Looks like Bill Clinton is a big supporter of free trade agreements and has lobbied for the same Columbian orginizations that Mark Penn worked with before he was “fired” from the Clinton campaign. On Sunday evening, Sen. Hillary Clinton’s chief … Continue reading →

I am not a nutritionist but this all sounds like really bad advice McDonalds is the big winner in this “health food” comparison, suggesting that an egg McMuffin is a good way to start the day seems almost criminal.

One of the highlights Crocker/Petreus hearings, via washingtonmonthly.com Obama was able to hit Petraeus and Crocker very hard….He got Petraeus to agree with him that the total elimination of Al Qaeda is an impossible standard for withdrawal. Next he goes … Continue reading →

John McCain’s nic name in high school was Mcnasty, and he has a few names for his wife, trollop and cunt.  In the next month or so everyone will be able to read about the straight talker in a book … Continue reading →

Looks like mad cow disease might be coming to a cranium near you.

This article talks about the hazards of blogging and compares the working conditions of bloggers to sweatshops. I have never worked in a sweatshop, but I do spend a fair amount of time trying to be a blogger and I can … Continue reading →

Hillary is claiming that she apposed the Iraq war before Obama Of coures that is not exactly true: In Eugene, Ore., Saturday. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., attempted to change the measure by which anyone might assess who criticized the Iraq … Continue reading →

Unfortunately not by Clinton, but by the Columbian government. Looks like the Columbian government has better judgement than Hillary.

I just heard a little bit of Hillary Clinton talking at the site of Martin Luther King’s shooting.  She said something about wearing a black armband at her school and working to recruit minority students after the shooting.  I am … Continue reading →

Digby is one of the smartest and best writers on the web. With that said, I think she has  unintentionally figured out what is wrong with the baby-boom generation and perhaps given an example of the problem with the lamest generation. … Continue reading →

TPM election central has the details: In what could become Hillary Clinton’s own version of the NAFTA-Gate controversy that caused Barack Obama so much trouble a month ago, top Clinton strategist Mark Penn reportedly met on Monday with the Colombian … Continue reading →

In a lengthy piece by Spencer Ackerman He shows why foreign policy would be very different with Obama as president than either Hillary Clinton or John McCain. These two paragraphs provide a nice summary of the differences between Obama and … Continue reading →

I did not know that Imus was back on the air, more importantantly it appears John McCain was happy to fellate him back to life: John McCain told Don Imus this morning that he has begun “getting together a list … Continue reading →