It’s going to be a long, hot summer, especially if you’re Barack or Michelle Obama. It seems like somebody gave the signal that attacking Mrs. Obama could be the best way to take down her husband. A string of attempts to catch the possibly future first lady saying or implying things outside the so-called mainstream […]

Steven Reynolds at All Spin Zone has a bit of Friday fun going:
Larry Craig is writing a book about energy, but he’s going to discuss those little adventures in airport restrooms as well. I’m thinking this guy needs a catchy title for his book. Maybe our readers can come up with good ones.
My suggestion […]

As has been widely noted, critics of Scott McClellan’s new memoir, “What Happened,” are trashing the book’s author, not his writing, because they can’t dispute his accuracy. Karl Rove hurled a particularly nasty epithet at Scott. He compared him to a “liberal blogger.” Harsh.
After his book was released, Stephanopoulos was called “turncoat,” “backstabber,” “ingrate,” […]

A portent of things to come for Scott McLellan, via the Fox News website:
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Wednesday that it’s clear former Press Secretary Scott McClellan is “disgruntled” about his time working in the Bush administration.
Perino was responding to McClellan’s new book, which slams President Bush on domestic and foreign issues, such […]

McClellan’s book offers another indication that George Bush used cocaine over a period of at least 20 years
In his new tell-all book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs), former Bush flack Scott McClellan says the first time he caught George Bush lying was during the 2000 campaign […]

Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement, by Carl Oglesby; Scribner; 2008.
OK, I’m a sucker for the 1960s, those halcyon hippie days of political foment, social struggle, free love and good music. I missed them, mostly, being just a kid at the time, though I did my best during late […]

“American Torture,” by Michael Otterman; Pluto Press, 2007.
For most Americans, the disturbing images released in 2004 from Abu Ghraib, the notorious United States-run prison in Iraq, were the first evidence they had seen that their country conducts systematic, highly organized, brutal torture. But the fact is, as Michael Otterman so thoroughly documents in “American Torture,” […]