On Sunday, the New York Times outed the Pentagon's "military analyst program," an extensive effort to cultivate retired military officers as "message force multipliers" or "surrogates" spouting Bush administration talking points on Iraq and other hot-button issues. We've compiled a
In addition to helping research the "Pentagon's pundits" on SourceWatch -- those retired military officers who took part in the Pentagon program to promote Bush Administration talking points on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Guantanamo detention center and wiretap surveillance
According to the Politico, a "prominent Republican" says McCain will get an extra 15% of the vote in a race against Barack Obama, I was talking the other day to a prominent Republican who asked me what I thought John...
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Over at the Daily Kos, the wailing and gnashing of teeth over Hillary's victory in Pennsylvania have been truly glorious to behold. Here are two of my faves... The first was a variation of a post that you will see...
A friend calls in from a polling station in rural white west Pennsylvania, where he's following a local Republican primary. He tells me that the Obama poll-worker passing out literature has been getting worked over all morning. Here's a small,...
If you can't afford it, you don't deserve it." -- Anonymous I was a little surprised -- scratch that -- a little disappointed to see a newspaper bemoaning how unfair it was that many people who are poor got that...
From an interview over at NRO: Lopez: What is al-Qaeda's view of masculinity and how does it differ from the American military's? Yon: Al-Qaeda models a street gang notion of masculinity in which the cruelest, most destructive and bullying are...
During the 2004 election, when the Democrats had a Vietnam vet running for the Presidency against George Bush who had just served in the National Guard, we heard quite a bit about "chickenhawks." For example, here's Frank Lautenberg taking a...
John McCain has tabled an economic program that won’t rescue the economy from its mess but Senators Clinton and Obama offer little more. McCain advocates tax cuts for parents and corporations and mortgage relief for distressed homeowners, paid for by
President Vladimir Putin and Italian Prime Minister-elect and the richest man of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, on 18 April 2008 rekindled ties by talking up a possible new bid by Aeroflot for troubled airline Alitalia and hinted that a gas deal
The Bush administration announced plans on Tuesday to require the nation's airlines and cruise ship operators to collect digital fingerprints of all foreign visitors on departure, contending that as many as 1 million remain unaccounted for in the U.S. each
President Bush and the leaders of Mexico and Canada wrapped up a two-day summit Tuesday by vowing to do more to keep the continent economically competitive and to streamline ways to assist each other in times of chemical, biological or
If you've ever bought a cell phone, hired a company to monitor your alarm system or subscribed to satellite television, you'll probably understand Sherri Boyter's frustration.
PERHAPS ESPN got what it wanted out of its ambush of Miguel Tejada. What's a little criticism when there is publicity to be gained? How many of you had even heard of E:60 before reporter Tom Farrey virtually threw a
Kaz Matsui's two-run single in the eighth lifted the Astros to a home victory. Cy Young winner Jake Peavy, meanwhile, allowed four earned runs, and the bullpen let him down after his teammates managed to tie the score late.
