Donald Rumsfeld will be speaking at Collin County Community College on November 18th out here in Plano, Texas. He’s here to promote his new book, ‘How I Killed Thousands of Innocent Iraqis and Got Away With It.’ (That’s not the actual title, but it’s the basic gist of it.) I’m at this school just about [...]

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Circumventing the Senate confirmation process, President Obama has installed 15 appointees while Congress is out on spring recess. Pundits are spinning it as a sign of Obama's renewed willingness to defy Republican obstructionism. The biggest bone of contention is the appointment of union lawyer Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board. Becker was blocked [...]

“Like Obam’ss healthcare plan, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s proposal for Social Security was met with an outpouring of overblown conservative rhetoric. In addition to claiming that the program would destroy private pensions, conservative lawmakers tarred the plan as “socialist” and even claimed it smacked of dictatorship. Sen. Daniel O. Hastings, R-Del., declared that Social Security [...]

“THERE were times when last Sunday’s great G.O.P. health care implosion threatened to bring the thrill back to reality television. On ABC’s “This Week,” a frothing and filibustering Karl Rove all but lost it in a debate with the Obama strategist David Plouffe. A few hours later, the perennially copper-faced Republican leader John Boehner revved [...]

From: Bush Administration’s First Memo on al-Qaeda Declassified. “Former President Bill Clinton on Fox News, September 22, 2006: CLINTON: And I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans, who now say I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was too obsessed with bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neo-cons thought I was too [...]