Lies to truth: In today’s Miami Herald, Leonard Pitts takes Bushco to task for lying about its lying lies. He draws an eery parallel to George Orwell’s 1949 novel, “1984,” with this quote:
‘The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance […]

Over the past few months, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been pretending to be a Democrat in order to trick Californians into giving him a full second term. As a reminder of the real Arnold, here is a quote from 2003 in which Mr. Schwarzenegger reveals his connoisseur’s technique for assessing a woman’s character:
“When you […]

Irony inside irony: The racist ad that the Republican National Committee put up against Rep. Harold Ford in Tennesssee also has a bit in which a sleazy guy says, with a shrug:
So [Rep. Ford] took money from porn movie producers — I’m mean, who hasn’t?
Hard to say who hasn’t, but now we know who has […]

Do not vote in Florida until you see this video.

A Palm Beach independent weekly has more on the story that a former Katherine Harris staffer was heard by multiple sources to say he is one of the ex-lovers of Florida Republican governor’s candidate Charlie Crist.
The GOP staffer, 21-year-old Jason Wetherington, told friends at separate social functions in August that he had sex with Crist, […]

If you haven’t heard “Girl in the War” by Josh Ritter, do yourself a favor and listen.
Peter said to Paul you know all those words we wrote
Are just the rules of the game and the rules are the first to go
But now talking to God is Laurel begging Hardy for a gun
I got a girl […]

If lying about sex is an impeachable offense, then what is lying about torturing prisoners?
In light of today’s revelations of the particulars of torture techniques used by American interrogators on terror suspects, I conducted a quick search to see how many times President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and their spokesmen […]

Bush’s Amerika:
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Suskind, the Red Cross recently visited all of the prisoners at Guantanamo who had been transferred from secret CIA prisons, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh. Do we know more about these CIA prisons, or “Black Sites” as a result of this visit?
[Ron] Suskind: We know that almost everything […]