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Category Archives: Politics
Documenting Democracy.
Aaron Mahler, down at Sweet Briar (a fellow geek and bad-ass MAME hacker), has set up a Virginia Democrats blog. I’m not thrilled with the site name (Documenting Democracy), but as a concept, it’s long overdue. I say that because I meant to set up such a site a year ago, and I still haven’t …
Facts is facts.
Michael Moore now has a full sourcing of the facts presented in Fahrenheit 911, and they’re quite meticulous. For every contestable fact presented, he provides several sources, right down to the French linens on the bed in which he slept on the night of September 10, 2001. He doesn’t rely on just a few sources, …
Gay marriage flip-flop.
At the Republican Presidential Debate in Columbia, S.C. on Feb. 15, 2000, the following exchange occurred: Gov. George Bush: I’m going to appoint conservative people in the Cabinet. It’s none of my business what somebody’s — now when somebody makes it my business, like on gay marriage, I’m going to stand up and say I …
All Iraq invasion evidence wrong or exaggerated.
The Senate Select Intelligence Committee report on the Iraq intelligence failure (23.4MB PDF) is quite damning. It’s 500 pages long, so I won’t be done with it for days, but the analysis has started to appear in the popular press. Writes Newsweek: Taken together, the facts in the report show that virtually every major claim …
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VA eavesdropping suit to proceed.
A federal judge has decided that Virginia Democrats can go ahead with their lawsuit against the Republican Party of Virginia in the still-developing two-year-old eavesdropping scandal, the AP reports. It was last September that the already-convicted Ed Matricardi fingered four other Republicans, including the office of Attorney General / 2005 Gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore (R). …
The credibility gap.
What I don’t like about President Bush — and I have never liked about President Bush — is that I know that he is a liar. He lies on issues big and small, important and unimportant, and the whole of his administration does the same. It is this that divides me and my fellow liberal …
Rumsfeld, on hiding prisoners.
From today’s DoD press briefing: Q: General Taguba has criticized this practice in his report, calling them ghost detainees. SEC. RUMSFELD: I recall that. And as I say, that’s being investigated. This — this individual, this Ansar al-Islam individual I think should be looked at separately from that. […] Q: How is this case different …
Treason.
Last week, Attorney General John Ashcroft was called to testify before a congressional committee on the matter of the torture that took place at Abu Ghraib. The Bush administration, of course, is saying that the torture and various violations of the Geneva Conventions were just the act of a few bad apples. The preponderance of …
Just like the drug war.
From CNN: President Bush on Tuesday claimed victory in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and announced what he called five new initiatives to strengthen the links between that country and the United States. […] “Coalition forces, including many brave Afghans, have brought America, Afghanistan and the world its first victory in the war on …