Eight months after the American electorate in their collective wisdom saw fit to install divided government in Washington DC, the investor class seems to be enjoying it more and more.

Check this craziness out…
The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.�
HAHAHA! I’m sorry, but how [...]

NY Times has the scoop:
WASHINGTON, June 20 � The announcement by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an independent was made after nearly two years in which his aides had laid the groundwork for a potential independent run for president.
They collected technical data on the [...]

The meme is catching on…wonder where they got it from… :)
From Politico:
Few in the political world are more keenly interested in the ramifications of “Mike’s Big Move” — as New York’s Daily News proclaimed Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s decision to sever his ties with the Republican Party — than former Carter White House official Gerald [...]

The lowest approval ever for Congress.
From USA Today:
Just 14% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in Congress.
This 14% Congressional confidence rating is the all-time low for this measure, which Gallup initiated in 1973. The previous low point for Congress was 18% at several points in the period [...]

Does he say no? Of course not. He says stuff like…
“My intention is to be mayor for the next 925 days and probably about 10 hours,� he said. “I’ve got the greatest job in the world and I’m going to keep doing it.� [...]
“If everyone in the world was dead and I was the only [...]

Seriously, this is just getting ridiculously old, not to mention just plain sad.
Jack Bauer is a fictional character on a fictional show that has become terror-porn for torture apologists everywhere. “See, Jack Bauer got the information out of the terrorists by shooting him in the leg and he saved the world! He saved the [...]

Oh, it’s on.
With all his talk yesterday about this country being in serious trouble and now him basically giving the finger to both major political parties, he’s seriously considering a run for the White House…and don’t let him convince you otherwise.
From the Wash Post:
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is changing his party affiliation [...]

So if he talks like a candidate and walks like a candidate…is he a candidate?
Not yet obviously, but that’s the question the NY Times is essentially asking in a piece about Bloomberg today…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 18 � Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, sounding every inch the presidential candidate he insists he is not, brought his [...]

That’s how many Donklephant has had in just under 2 years (we started on July 13, 2005). So then, I just wanted to thank all of you for coming here day in and day out and helping us grow.
Keep reading, keep commenting and keep us on our toes.
Here’s to the next 1,002,812!
-Justin

The Oversight Committee has been digging into the email scandal, and so far they’ve uncovered…
There has been extensive destruction of the e-mails of White House officials by the RNC. Of the 88 White House officials who received RNC e-mail accounts, the RNC has preserved no e-mails for 51 officials. [...]
There is evidence that the Office [...]

Did you know…

Ethanol has a negative energy balance. Ethanol from corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass requires 29%, 50%, and 57% more energy, respectively, to create the ethanol than the energy contained within the fuel.
Because ethanol production requires a significant amount of energy, and most energy in the US is produced from coal, the small [...]

We owe our soldiers nothing less than the best health care in the world, but sadly that’s not the reality.

So how to combat PTSD? Well, 60 Minutes had an interesting story on last night about a pill that loosens people’s memories of particularly traumatic events…
(CBS) Pitman figured he could block that cycle by giving trauma [...]

Somebody messaged me on MySpace because I have Ron Paul as a “friend.” Actually, I’ve added any candidate who has a MySpace page as “friends” so I can keep track of what they’re doing. Ever once in a while I get a message from one of their supporters, but, by far, the most messages come [...]

That’s what Reed Hundt is saying over at TPM Cafe:
For these reasons, among others, an independent Presidential candidate hasn’t had this good a chance since Teddy Roosevelt ran as the Bull Moose candidate. Congress and the President are running neck and neck for the public’s disfavor, which speaks of a very widespread impulse to “throw [...]

Hop over here and check out the interview with Seymour Hersh about his new article in the New Yorker. In it he reveals the man behind The Taguba Report, former Major General Antonio M. Taguba, and new information that the torture was much more severe than we were told…
I learned from Taguba that the first [...]

In response to a piece this week by Ezra Klein on “liberal hawks,” I asked whether or not the hawkish liberal was a genuine phenomenon, or in fact just the creation of the progressive isolationist (I think I should trademark that):
I think the progressive isolationist has in fact created a convenient strawman of their own. [...]

He was in my stomping grounds recently and somebody took video of his speech. Presented here in four parts.
PART ONE

PART TWO

PART THREE

PART FOUR

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So first we have an interview from the Columbia Tribune, a paper from my alma mater Mizzou.
Paul explains pretty succinctly why he thinks he’s gaining traction online:
Q: Your presence on the Internet has been a prime topic of conversation. You’re a 71-year-old physician from Texas, but on one site you’ve become a more searched-for name [...]