Month: September 2007

and maybe I’ll follow… Russert: As you well know you voted to authorize this war, voted to fund this war at lest ten times. Are you now saying that you will not vote one more penny for the war in Iraq. Clinton: And...

An editorial in the NYT Sunday morning alerted me to the fact that Al Gore was expected to speak at the hastily convened UN summit on climate change today, and I posted the following in the Monday Newsbucket early this morning:...

I know, that’s not what the Times of London breathlessly reported on Sunday, when they told a tale of secret Israeli commando raids to confirm Syria had nuclear material from North Korea (based on the ever popular...

The Blackwater story, instead of falling away into the memory hole, instead is now getting far worse.  The Bush Administration’s expected move to pressure the Iraqis into dropping the case and moving on is instead...

One interesting side of the SCHIP bill is its funding source (yeah, shrub plans to veto it, so this post is mostly irrelevant). The bill would pay for children’s health care by raising the tax on cigarettes by $.61 per...