No Exit, No Strategy
[ny times, free, registration required]
This was the week in which Americans hoped they would get straight talk and clear thinking on Iraq. What they got was two exhausting days of Congressional testimony by the American military commander, hours of news conferences and interviews, clouds of cut-to-order statistics and a speech ( Read more... )

we know one anniversary that is honored on this day. i have a few connections with those sad events including passing through those towers some several times but this is not about my credentials to respect or mourn ( Read more... )

i don't know how much it's worth but i gotta start somewhere. i gotta run up on the miserable failure a few different times in a few different ways 'cause i'm so sick of him and his minions that i can't stand it anymore ( Read more... )

enough, for now, to advise you to catch keith olbermann on countdown if your time zone and television service permits!
...The twists and turns of Plame-Gate, of your precise and intricate lies that sent us into this bottomless pit of Iraq; your lies upon the lies to discredit Joe Wilson; your lies upon the lies upon the lies to throw the sand at ( Read more... )

via salon, from the ny times [free, registration required]:

Best-Informed Also View Fake News, Study Says
Americans may have more news outlets today than two decades ago, but they still don't know much more about current events than they did then, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press ( Read more... )

how deep could this go?

and, if you haven't been following the fuss about the justice dept. you might should be concerned:

Critics: Justice Dept. used as political tool
[miami herald, free]
Under President Bush, the Justice Department has backed laws that narrow minority voting rights and pressed U.S. attorneys to investigate voter fraud -- ( Read more... )

...good morning! would you like a nice constitutional crises to go with that cup of coffee?

Senate votes to authorize subpoenas for top Bush aides

[usa today, free]
WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary committee voted today to authorize subpoenas of top aides to President Bush in a growing showdown between Congress and the White House over the ( Read more... )

okay, what the hell is this?

Yanks pitcher presumed dead in NYC crash
[yahoo! news, free]
A small plane carrying New York Yankee Cory Lidle slammed into a 50-story skyscraper Wednesday, apparently killing the pitcher and a second person in a crash that rained flaming debris onto the sidewalks and briefly raised fears of another terrorist attack ( Read more... )

as i said to my friend cryfordawn, i've had trouble taking keith olbermann seriously. i remember him as sidekick/stooge to chris berman on espn's first edition of sportscenter and his move to msnbc, hardly a bastion of international journalism, didn't add to my esteem ( Read more... )

yesterday, the u.s. congress passed the "Military Commissions Act of 2006"

it allows the resident to establish the military tribunals he has long sought.

"It also would prohibit the severe abuse of detainees, like mutilation and rape, but grant the president leeway to decide which other interrogation techniques are permissible...." [emphasis mine ( Read more... )