Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
—Charles Caleb Colton
Bush’s Tuesday night speech was, as many have noted, long on platitudes and short on substance. This shouldn’t come as a surprise—the administration has a talent for […]

Following is the full text of the speech delivered tonight (6/28/05) from Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The sections in bold type are as received from the White House press office. Our commentary on the speech is here.
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Subject: REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE WAR ON TERROR
From: “White House Press Releases”
To: WH Press Releases
THE WHITE […]

There were other things in the speech but they weren’t in boldface so we didn’t read them. Haha. Just kidding. We’re not really journalists here; we read the whole thing.

Have you ever wanted to ask the president or his press secretary a question? Now’s your chance: BTC News is soliciting questions from our readers and we’ll send the best of them to the press room with Eric Brewer, our White House correspondent. We can’t guarantee that your question will get asked and even if it does the answer may not be entirely comprehensible, but we’ll give it our best shot.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don’t it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions.
–Jessamyn West
I watch with increasing dismay the way that we consistently see the triumph of style over substance on the issues. The thing that bothers me the most about this is that […]

Whether he meant to or not, senior Bush advisor Karl Rove challenged Americans to pick a side when he accused Democrats, and in particular Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, of deliberately endangering the lives of US troops. On one side is Rove and the White House he speaks for, with a dark vision of a […]

The wingers are having a very hard time trying to make up their minds.
On the one hand, political hate speech is bad. What Democrats say about George Bush etc. is just reprehensible and antithetical to a well-functioning democacy. Just look what they did to poor Dick Durbin.
On the other hand, liberals are all appeasing […]

Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist, scam artist and political fixer who is about to die for the sins of a corrupt Congress, is the victim of a wicked parody in the neoconservative flagship magazine, The Weekly Standard.
Among the Abramoff documents that surfaced this week is an email from Abramoff to to Rabbi Daniel Lapin […]

Although the damage to US interests from the spectacle of a baker’s dozen CIA agents arrested by a staunch ally and standing trial for kidnapping a foreign national off the streets of Milan and delivering him to Egypt for torture may be somewhat less than that done by Senator Dick Durbin’s insistence that the US hold itself to a higher standard than the worst despots and totalitarians of the twentieth century … it isn’t going to help.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
–Eric Hoffer
In the wake of a compromise cut by the Senate moderates and the Minority leader that curiously cut out majority leader Frist, the House passed legislation to expand federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Bush, for his part, […]