one night I dreamed about the waterfalls - in reality they were a mile away, visible from my yard - as they had been in real life for many weeks, the dream falls were just narrow threads of white falling three thousand feet down the vertical face of the mountain, their usual summertime state, barely […]

Veteran CBS News reporter Mark Knoller interviewed Dick Cheney at the White House today. He asked few substantive questions and religiously refrained from following up on the vice president’s shallow responses to the ones he did ask. One question did stand out, though.
What do you make about the extent to which you and the President […]

For those who don’t watch Fox News or read Daily Kos, the 800-pound gorilla of Democratic blogging communities, a brief recap is in order. Daily Kos consists of a few regular writers, who get front page exposure on the site, and thousands of diarists, who get to post their own thoughts and chat amongst themselves. […]

If you haven’t yet seen this last Saturday’s LAT lead editorial, it’s a real winner and sign of just how much the Emperor’s Clothes Era is still with us.
What a sad and embarrassing editorial, embarrassing for those of us who have been LA Times readers all our lives [There’s a photo of me […]

It’s classic MBA Presidency stuff (btw, Why aren’t all the MBAs in the nation rising up and calling for Bush’s impeachment? Hasn’t he singlehandedly devalued the stock of an MBA sheepskin forever?): “What’s good for GM is good for the nation.” When was the last time that flag got hoisted in public? […]

70 House Democrats have told the president that they will not support any appropriations bill that includes funding for military operations in Iraq other than “for the protection and safe redeployment of all our troops out of Iraq before you leave office.” The Congressional Progressive Caucus informed the White House of their decision in a […]

As calls for the Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney are growing louder and more common, opponents of impeachment are getting louder and more impassioned on their own behalf.
At the center of the largely intramural argument is House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s pronouncement, echoed by other top […]

Democrats got the headlines they wanted from Tuesday’s Republican filibuster of an amendment aimed at restricting US troop commitments to Iraq, but Republicans got near unanimous support for an amendment that recommends against the passage of any such legislation.
Only six Democrats didn’t vote for the Cornyn amendment to the defense appropriations bill, a “sense […]

Rudy Giuliani and Fred Thompson top the list of named candidates in the latest Associated Press poll on GOP presidential preferences, but they’ve both fallen behind “none of the above.” The AP story on the poll says that “23 percent [of Republicans] can’t or won’t say which candidate they would back, a jump from the […]

Susie Madrak at Surburban Guerrilla neatly illustrates the educational clout blogs bring to the masses when she links to this post at Boing-Boing, which explains the genesis of the Bush-Cheney policy toward Iran. The vice-president, under the bedsheet, with a flashlight …

The Guardian published a story on Sunday detailing concern about Afghanistan among Britain’s military, […]