Month: June 2005

Cross-posted from my blog. The astute Juan Cole, who does more to make sense of the waking nightmare in Iraq than most of the media outlets combined, outlines a plan for US withdrawal. The United Nations, he submits, could be...

I keep thinking I’m used to it, and then some little thing comes along that gets me agonizing about the death of reality in America. This time it was in the persona of Cheney. An AP report contrasted the little lie with...

Check out this analysis by Gallup (hat tip to kos).  Now, take a look at when support for the Iraq War flipped–between November of 2004 and March of 2005, shortly after the Iraq War ceased to be resolved by the...

Over at Daily Kos there has been a recent discussion about what it means to be a member of the reality-based community. DHinMI speculates that “Daily Kos has been infiltrated by Republican dirty tricksters.” Why?...

The Bush misadminstration’s motto should be Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive. On June 7, the inJustice Department of Alberto Gonzales made a surprising request in a lawsuit against big...