Hillary Clinton claims to have played an important role in encouraging the Bosnian government in 1996 to open its border to refugees. However, the border re-opened the day before Clinton arrived to meet with government leaders. Hillary has suggested even just flying into Bosnia was…
(photo credit: Desert Vu) Republican presidential nominee John McCain likes to trash talk earmarks. It’s good politics and I recognize he’s got a fair point to make: the earmark is indeed is a problematic way for Congress to dispense money. Via WaPo: McCain, who has…
(image credit: Stephanie Gray; h/t Matthew Yglesias) Strange Maps: “I’m a female and a feminist. I dislike the usage of the word ‘ho’. However, as a geography major, I find this song hilarious, and had to map it,” says Stefanie Gray, referring to ‘Area Codes’…
Time: During the complex debate two years ago over whether President George W. Bush had acted illegally in authorizing a secret domestic-wiretapping program, Mr. S was sitting in his office at the Xxxxx Xxxxx law school when the telephone rang. It was ________. “I never…
Via TPM (AP): Speaking to radio station WJZD-FM in Gulfport, Miss., the former first lady said the comments she made about the state in the run up to the Iowa caucuses “were not exactly what I said,” even though they came directly from an interview…
Tough to see Samantha Power resign from the Obama campaign (or maybe it’s good to see her go?). I happen to agree with her characterization of Hillary, so I guess it’s clear I’m not cut out for high flying campaign adviser status, either. The Clinton…
(photo credit: boxchain) Via The Washington Independent: Following scant debate, the Senate last week approved an amendment to an Indian health care bill that would permanently prohibit the use of federal dollars to fund abortions for Native Americans except in rare cases. The move has…
A couple weeks ago G Bitch posted a book meme (“My Own Damn Book Meme 2“) and here were the rules: My Rules: 1. I [g]rab the nearest chosen book. 2. I [o]pen the book to page 123. 3. I [f]ind the fifth sentence. 4….
Let’s see if we can square what Hillary says now: “I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think…
From the WaPo: Clinton goes into today’s crucial primaries in Texas and Ohio with her candidacy on the line, and (Marion) Wagner (a regional director for NOW) believes it is ignorance and bigotry that undermined it. As Wagner and other NOW executives toured Ohio last…
I’d like to see John Stewart play the first part of the clip for her to explain tonight. It’s so blatantly dishonest, downright Bushian in its denial of reality. I know you like to be polite to your guests and all, Jon, so be polite,…
Paul Krugman is at it again. He makes some bizarre assumptions in today’s column. He correctly summarizes the present political landscape thusly: “the public appears fed up not just with President Bush, but with his party.” So far, so good. But then he follows up…
On Feb. 10, George W. Bush offered up this truncated, garbled summary of Barack Obama’s foreign policy: The only foreign policy thing I remember he said was he’s going to attack Pakistan and embrace Ahmadinejad. On March 2: (photo credit: David Furst/Agence France-Presse — Getty…