From Andrew Sullivan’s mailbag… Looking forward to the new site. I stumbled across your site, I believe as a link from Josh Marshall’s in the winter of 2001, and the two of you have provided me with much sanity and enjoyment during the last four-odd years. What’s impressed me with your blog and writings is [...]

With Alito’s nomination hearings appearing to be coming to a fairly anti-climatic conclusion with expected Congressional approval, the focus is now instead being directed toward this year’s mid-term elections. Democrats and Republicans say Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s confirmation to the Supreme Court is all but certain, yet the fight over his nomination heated up [...]

The former Republican Rep. and the former VP/presidential candidate are looking to question Bush on his WOT policies… Gore is teaming up with former Rep. Bob Barr, a Republican, for the policy address, which is endorsed by MoveOn.org and sponsored by the American Constitution Society and Liberty Coalition. Barr is an outspoken critic of Bush [...]

Looks like Murtha is getting the Swift Boat treatment from a right-wing “news” source… A Cybercast News Service investigation also reveals that one of Murtha’s former Democratic congressional colleagues and a fellow decorated Vietnam veteran, Don Bailey of Pennsylvania, alleges that Murtha admitted during an emotional conversation on the floor of the U.S. House in [...]

This could be a big deal… Jan. 13, 2006 â€â€? Today, according to Pakistani military sources, U.S. aircraft attacked a compound known to be frequented by high-level al Qaeda operatives. Pakistani officials tell ABC News that al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s top lieutenant, may have been among them. U.S. intelligence for the [...]

His words, my thoughts… Both Bremer and Powell – let’s call them the Sanity Chorus – were insistent that an occupation that couldn’t even control Baghdad was woefully under-manned. Powell emerges as a real hawk in arguing to take out Moqtada al-Sadr. Rumsfeld seems absolutely indifferent to reality on the ground, contemptuously unresponsive to Bremer, [...]

Taegan Goddard has launched a new site that gathers hot political stories into one place and allows people to rate them. It’s pretty much an exact copy of a site called Digg, but since Digg wasn’t doing politics, I see no problem with Taegan taking the format and plugging his preferred flavor into it. In [...]

In case you haven’t see it yet, somebody has ripped off the original Million Dollar Homepage to bag on Bush. Basically, buy advertising one pixel at a time to cover up Bush’s picture. Each pixel costs $1. Oh, and the site’s tagline? “Cover the lies and advertise.” Jeezus… But upon visiting the site, what I [...]

Alaska opened up 389,000 acres to new oil exploration. Surprised? WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 – The Interior Department has decided to open 389,000 acres of Alaskan lakes, tundra and shoreline to oil exploration, reversing an eight-year-old compromise intended to protect the habitat of hundreds of thousands of migratory birds and the hunting grounds of Inupiat natives [...]

Just read this and tell me you don’t feel the same. Truly insane.

Hey all… So it looks like we’re still having some issues after the transfer over to the new host. As you may have noticed, some of the template won’t show up below the header and some people can’t leave a comment. We’re working on getting this fixed, but we’re having a hard time figuring out [...]

That’s the projected deficit, per the White House’s estimates… Driven by the cost of hurricane relief, the federal budget deficit is expected to balloon back above $400 billion for the fiscal year that ends in September, reversing the improvements of 2005, a White House official told reporters yesterday. And here’s a nifty little trick the [...]

But if you do…well, there could be trouble. Check out this logic from the NSA: Renee Seymour, director of NSA special access programs stated in a Jan. 9 letter to Russ Tice that he should not testify about secret electronic intelligence programs because members and staff of the House and Senate intelligence committees do not [...]

Heartbreaking stuff. MINA, Saudi Arabia (CNN) — At least 345 people have been killed in a stampede during a symbolic stoning ritual at the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, according to the country’s Health Ministry. Health Minister Hamad al-Maneh told Saudi TV that 289 others were injured in the stampede near Mecca and taken [...]

A guy started with one red paper clip and he’s traded up from there. Now somebody is offering him a big cube van that could hold half a house’s worth of stuff. Amazing. Curious how he did it? Check out the website. (h/t: The Glittering Eye)

Apparently AMERICAblog bought some of Wes Clark’s phone records from a website and all they needed was his cell number, a credit card number and a little patience. To ensure that we actually had General Clark’s correct cell phone number, we called the number this morning and the voice mail recording that answered said: “Hi, [...]

…is on the front page of USA Today this morning. Congratulations again Drudge. You are indeed the one true agitprop master. And may I congratulate Samuel Alito on his new position as our new SCOTUS justice. Yeah, I know he isn’t in yet, but when your wife is on the front page of a major [...]

With all the media hoopla regarding the reaction of Samuel Alito’s wife to Ted Kennedy’s “Hail Mary” pass involving guilt by association with the now infamous CAP membership, shouldn’t the key question be … “What have you done for (or against) me lately?” Case in point … Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) read aloud the [...]

Sometimes Drudge just makes me furious. Usually I give him a pass, and to report that Alito’s wife left the hearing crying is just so typically Drudge…but COME ON. Yes, let’s not focus on the issues. Let’s not focus on the facts. Instead let’s focus on a fight that Kennedy and Specter got into and [...]