Month: July 2009

What is the GOP Thinking?

Unless something unexpected crops up, Judge Sonia Sotomayor is going to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice in the Senate, and by a comfortable margin. Knowing that, you would think that the Republican leadership (if not...

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Cyber War with N. Korea?

So it seems: WASHINGTON (AP) — A widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of the Treasury Department, the Secret Service and other U.S. agencies, and South Korean government sites also came...

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Rahm’s Balloon Shot Down

As Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is unquestionably the most liberal member of the Senate, I don’t think it pays to put too much stock in what he says as a predictor of what is going to happen with the public option. It’s no...

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Mini-Step Towards a Frog-March

It’s funny, I watched quite a bit of cable news tonight and I saw no mention of the fact that Karl Rove was deposed for eight and a half hours by the House Judiciary Committee today. I guess that is in part because the...

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Attack Iran? Maybe not a good idea.

A comment from the Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which he never would have been allowed to utter if Cheney was still in charge of our foreign policy: WALLACE: A report in the Washington Times this week said that you believe...

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