I happened to catch the replay on C-SPAN this morning of Attorney Gen. Michael Mukasey’s address to the American Bar Association in which he laid out the case for granting immunity to giant telecom companies that allowed the Bush administration to spy on their customers.
“[The] specific identity of those who assist us with […]

Borowitz explains what really caused the fire in the Vice President’s office of the White House.
According to White House aides, the blaze started shortly after twelve noon, minutes after Mr. Cheney slipped out of a cabinet meeting, saying that he had to “hit the head.”
But rather than using the bathroom as he had stated, the […]

A JibJab Year in Review

The cluelessness of Republicans about their own racism never ceases to amaze. Remember back in 2002 when Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was caught on tape at a 100th birthday celebration for Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), yearning for what life could have been if Thurmond had won the presidency in 1948 on a single-plank platform of […]

A big “Amen, Sister!” to Ruth Marcus in the Washington Post, who asks the question so many Floridians and others would like to know, “Who Elected Iowa?”
The caucuses draw a small, unrepresentative sample of a small, unrepresentative state…
…[M]ost Iowans view the caucuses as an obscure art practiced by an elect few. “Usually I don’t go, […]

According to an Associated Press report, more than 7 million letters to Santa Claus will be sent this year by hopeful little children. Those letters are likely to be answered by demented postal workers bent on perpetuating the myth of Santa in a worldwide conspiracy that includes more than 150 countries.
The bearded gentleman — […]

On Monday we learned that Mike Huckabee has been accused of covering up his son’s brutal killing of a stray dog years ago. Now there is word that handlers of security service dogs employed by Blackwater, the paramilitary mercenary group with exclusive, high-level and pervasive ties to the Republican Party — and that has received […]

Current and former White House officials have admitted — though not for attribution — that senior Bush officials were deeply involved in discussions about whether to destroy videos of CIA agents torturing terror suspects:
This brings us back to an increasingly familiar question: What did Bush know about the destruction of the tapes, and when did […]

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
— Thomas De Quincy (1785-1859) English author and intellectual