Mike Allen and Susan Schmidt write, on the front page of today’s Washington Post: [White House telephone] logs indicate that several White House officials talked to columnist Robert D. Novak shortly before July 14, when he published a column quoting “two senior administration officials” saying that Plame, “an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction,” …
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I gotta get in on this fix.
It’s neat that President Bush has created this commission to determine why we went to war with Iraq over weapons of mass destruction and found, once we got there, that there were no WMDs. The shame of it is that this commission isn’t allowed to determine if the White House lied. This commission isn’t given …
Don’t eat one.
Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry’s) has started a new organization, called True Majority, “in order to compound the power of all those who believe in social justice, giving children a decent start in life, protecting the environment, and America working in cooperation with the world community.” The cool bit is the Flash animation (broadband …
Here’s a few of those 1,000 new jobs.
How bad is unemployment? India is outsourcing manufacturing jobs to the U.S.
VA Republicans still closing in on birth control.
I’ve been accused of being alarmist for saying that Virginia Republicans want to ban birth control. For anybody who is not convinced that this is the case, see yesterday’s Washington Times, which interviews Del. Richard Black and Del. Bob Marshall. [A] leading anti-abortion delegate said he opposes birth control, including the emergency contraceptive “morning-after pill.” …
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VADP is the party of business.
It’s become quite obvious in the past few years that, in Virginia, the Republican party is no longer the party of business. That role has been taken over by Democrats, and it seems that few Democrats and even fewer Republicans yet realize that. State Republicans are completely opposed to any sort of tax increase, ever, …
Virginia open source bill.
HB 842 More on this later.
9/11 was preventable.
Wow. This is a Very Big Story™: “For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston. […] “Appointed by the Bush administration, Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, is …
In case you had forgotten.
Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein, December 20, 1983.
If only we could tax sex…
The two-year-old Virginia Republican eavesdropping case just keeps getting better and better. As if the criminal conviction, the resignation of several prominent Republicans, and the new embroilment of the attorney general in all of this wasn’t good enough, the news just got better for Democrats. It turns out that at the meeting in question — …