Our media hero, Keith Olbermann, host of “Countdown” on MSNBC, took his anti-Bill O’Reilly antics on the road this weekend. He entertained the summer meeting of the Television Critics Association in Pasadena by holding up a mask of O’Reilly’s face:
During his “Countdown” show on MSNBC, Olbermann regularly tweaks O’Reilly, whose “The O’Reilly Factor” on […]

Let’s just chalk the timing of Israel’s war-making up as an example of the fortunate circumstances that have allowed George Bush to fail ever upward.
If I were a real conspiracy nut, it might occur to me that Israel’s attack on Lebanon was timed just so we wouldn’t be talking about this:
Murray Waas: “It’s surprising the […]

Pam Spaulding, who lives in North Carolina, refers to Sen. Elizabeth Dole as “the empy wig,” and here is one reason why:
[Going] into the most fiercely competitive Congressional election in 12 years, some Republicans say Mrs. Dole is faltering in her latest job, as head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which raises money, recruits […]

Back in the 1970’s, when the Middle East erupted and threatened world peace, Sec. of State Henry Kissinger went to the region and shuttled back and forth between Israel and her neighbors, attempting to broker a peaceful resolution.
Who could have ever predicted we’d one day have an secretary of state who would make Kissinger look […]

We cannot extend our trade further than we are able to defend it. Rivalries that begin in commerce end on battlefields.
— Republican Party national platform 1920

But the president’s recent misbehavior abroad could bring these numbers down:
President Bush’s job-approval ratings have changed little from June, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll.
Of 1,002 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 34 percent said Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as president, up a tick from 33 percent […]

It’s just a matter of time.

Visualize what you want, says the self-improvement lore, and speak it over your life. What you center on will come to pass, so make sure to focus on what you want, not on what you don’t. If only Bush and the neocons possessed a little new age wisdom.
Talk about an axis of evil. This […]

Card-carrying feds: Apparently, it wasn’t just hurricane refugees who were spending federal money like drunken sailors in the wake of Hurricane Katrina — Department of Homeland Security personnel were punishing their purchase cards, too. The cards are issued to DHS employees to buy necessary items while in the field, but the Government Accountability Office red-flagged […]