Pres. George Bush scored his lowest approval number yet in the latest Newsweek poll. Now only 26 percent of Americans say the think he’s doing a good job.
The only true revelation here, of course, is that 26 percent of our fellow Americans are delusional, by which I mean, “Republican.” Nearly two-thirds of Republicans still […]

Rogue Vice President Who Exposed CIA Agent’s Secret Identity Now Refuses Security Oversight That Protects State Secrets
Just when you think you’ve run out of capacity for outrage, comes this:
So does this mean Cheney can’t claim executive privilege?
For the last four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has made the controversial claim that his office is not […]

Of course they are:
Wading into an age-old debate, researchers have found that firstborn children are smarter than their siblings — and the reason is not genetics, but the way their parents treat them, according to a study published today.
The study of 240,000 Norwegian men in the journal Science found the IQs of firstborns were 2 […]

Blogger and lawyer Suzanne Miller with her son, Army Specialist Matthew “Cory” Beard
Michael Bloomberg isn’t the only one discarding the Republican party. A war mom who twice voted for Bush but defines his “stop loss” policy as indentured servitude has also left their ranks.
If, like me, you gritted your teeth when Cindy Sheehan spoke…well, […]

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude with tranquility.
— Kwame Nkrumah (1900-1972), Founder of Ghana

The “If I Did It” manuscript is posted here. It’s just about as bad as we all expected.

Former senator and lobbyist, Joe Don Thompson, with friend
The presidential campaign team of former lobbyist Fred Thompson is either unaware — or does not care — that the Tennessee-born candidate’s bio contains an error about an important historical figure in his home state.
The mistake, which I saw at TBogg’s place and reported on […]

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.
— Ursula K. Le Guin (1929- ), American writer

George Bush famously had no foreign policy experience before he was elected president, and after seven years of bumpersticker slogans and bad, sometimes awful, decision-making, the result of his inexperience has been disastrous by every rational measure.
The fact that Rudolph Giuliani is the GOP frontrunner demonstrates that the Republicans are fully prepared to foist […]