I’m watching Joe Biden on C-SPAN. He’s giving a speech at the Galavants Ferry Stump Meeting in South Carolina so he’s speaking about religion. A choice quote:
The Republicans use religion as an organizing tool, we see it as the road to redemption. That’s the difference between us.
Clever.
James Poniewozik wrote Wednesday that the Colbert speech is becoming “the political-cultural touchstone issue of 2006.” So it seems that thanks to the Internet, this speech may end up getting the attention it deserves. Maybe. Poniewozik writes for TIME, but this piece appear on his Tuned In blog for TIME.com. So while Poniewozik uses the […]
It looks like some other people, some of them from mainstream media outlets, noticed the lopsided coverage of the White House press correspondents’ dinner. Since I wrote my previous post, a number of other bloggers, followed by a number of web sites associated with newspapers and TV shows (as well as major online magazines like […]
Steven Colbert gave a dark and bitingly funny speech at last night’s White House press correspondents’ dinner. Colbert spoke after President Bush himself, who appeared with Bush impersonator Steve Bridges acting as the President’s internal monologue as the two delivered a speech. The Bush/Bridges duo was innocuous but uproariously funny. Colbert’s speech was much more […]
Democratic and Republican lawmakers, led by New York’s own Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, are opposing a deal in which a Dubai-based shipping company will acquire a British company that administers a number of east coast ports. In a fit of anti-Arab hysteria, the legislators are claiming that we cannot trust a […]
I’ve been doing this irregularly for a while now (though I also buy gas at Stewarts because they support local businesses, have good hiring policies, and treat their workers well), but now TrueMajority is officially calling for Americans to boycott ExxonMobil, Shell, Gulf, and all the rest, and to drive up to Citgo, the only […]
I recently posted that Rene Preval had won Haiti’s presidential election, linking an article that credited him with winning 60% of the vote. Apparently I wrote to soon:
With about 90 per cent of the vote counted, Preval was leading with 48.7 per cent, Haiti’s electoral council said on its website. His nearest opponent was Leslie […]
Susan Collins and Joe Leiberman’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held hearings today on the Response to Hurricane Katrina, and took testimony from former FEMA Director Michael Brown. This has been some of the most exciting testimony I’ve ever seen.
In the run up to the hearings the White House declined to seek executive privilege […]
Today was a fascinating news day, with new information emerging about many of the scandals/wars in which the Government is embroiled. Bush recounted new details about a supposed foiled terror plot to strike a Los Angeles skyscraper with a jet liner. His details are supposed to stem the flow of bad news about how the […]
I’m watching Bill Frist giving a speech at the Lincoln-Reagan Dinner in Rockingham County (NH). He led off the portion of his speech about activist judges not with gay marriage, not with abortion (though he later did return to abortion), but by coming out against activist judges that allow government to “seize land and give […]