Who? George Bush’s lightning-quick nomination of Steven Preston to replace retiring Hector Barreto as head the Small Business Administration may have many folks wondering who the heck he is and why Bush picked him. But “Businessweek” notes that the self-described “committed Republican” from Chicago can expect a rough time in his confirmation hearings.
What’s the […]

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
– Gerald R. Ford (1913- ), 38th President of the United States

Only in Bushistan does it make sense to waive air pollution laws because gas prices are high. WTF does one have to do with the other? Yeah, I know, some obscure connection between cleaner “summer gasoline blends” and something something. Whatever. It’s just another flimsy excuse for Georgie to do what he wanted all along.
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His Majesty was not in a good humor today when he introduced his new press secretary, rightwing radio personality and former journalist Tony Snow, to the White House press corps :
[Snow is] not afraid to express his own opinions. For those of you who have read his columns and listened to his radio […]

Because if you were down, he would kick you.
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Karl Rove’s recent demotion was not attributed to his need to “spend more time with his family” but rather his need to spend more time thinking up ways to trick the common folk into voting for Republicans again this November. We cynical types were a bit suspicious that the real reason was that he was […]

Keeping it public: In an effort to fend off Draconian budget cuts by Congress, public broadcasters have banded together and launched a Web site called TellThemPublicMatters.com. The site provides one of those nifty on-line response mechanisms whereby you can send a message in suppport of public broadcasting to your elected representatives.
Congress is considering cutting […]

The toleration of heretics is more injurious than the devastation of the provinces by the barbarians.
— Gelasius I (?-496), Pope from 492

One of the ironies of the Watergate scandal was that undoing of President Nixon was triggered by the revelation of crime about which he had no prior knowledge — a bungled reconnaissance mission by GOP operatives at Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C. In fact, it’s fair to say that […]