Many months ago when I was writing something about health care I ran across a blog that had a number of entries on the subject, one of which I used in my piece. That web page and 70-some others are still open in my browser, which in retaliation is now consuming most of my computer’s […]

In only 72 hours, the movement to draft billionaire vanity candidate Michael Bloomberg has amassed more than 1,000 signatures, many of them from people other than friends and family of the New York mayor and his backers. At the current rate of nearly one signature every three minutes, the movement will have garnered one million […]

Friday’s Wall Street Journal [sorry, can’t link] reported on 34 foreclosures in New Orleans, foreclosures by subprime lending companies which, it turns out, were invested in by the hedge fund (Fortress), which in turn John Edwards has been invested in — and which has hired him as advisor — all fully disclosed, never hidden, but […]

Threatening letters to Judge Walton are counterproductive.

Two British men suffer for Bush’s sins…

If at first you don’t succeed, lie, lie again…

The U.S. military’s demonstration of “Iranian” weapons in Iraq fails to convince…

There’s a revealing tidbit in a “Sporting Scene” article in the current New Yorker that sheds some light on today’s front page Washington Post story about how the Bush administration wants American troops to start killing Iranians in Iraq…

Media Bloggers Association president Robert Cox has secured press credentials to be shared among members of the organization during the upcoming perjury trial of Dick Cheney’s top assistant, Lewis “Scooter” Libby. BTC News White House correspondent Eric Brewer is tentatively scheduled to participate in the coverage.
The witness list for the high-profile trial is expected to […]

The Washington Post had a front-page article yesterday on the major surge in Iraqi civilian deaths that occurred during the second half of 2006. The article pins the blame for the surge on sectarian strife stirred up by the bombing of Samarra’s Golden Mosque in February.

But I was puzzled by the graph that accompanies the article…