THE VICE PRESIDENT: I usually avoid press comment when I’m up here, but I felt so strongly about what Senator Reid said in the last couple of days, that I thought it was appropriate that I come out today and make a statement that I think needs to be made. Translation: I wanted to go [...]
For the first time ever, Toyota tops GM worldwide sales for the quarter. John Edwards is the first to jump on the issue, but I suspect we will be hearing more about it from the other candidates. P.S.: Mr. Swamp, who just last year traded in our (still running) 1988 Camry for a new one, [...]
A quick tour of the news channels shows CNN reporting on the supplemental, MSNBC on Cho’s escort service dealings and Fox looking at border regulation. No one is currently reporting on the hearing regarding Pat Tillman’s “friendly fire” death in Afghanistan (remember that war?). If journalism is the first draft of history, Congressional hearings are [...]
Tom Hamburger of the LA Times reports a new and potentially significant investigation by a normally obscure federal office, one that is looking at whether the nexus of the various scandals of the day might be at the White House. Hamburger writes: The new investigation, which will examine the firing of at least one U.S. [...]
This was a very good speech for several reasons: 1. It transcended the usual Bush-bashing–though there was plenty of that–and was a reminder that foreign policy is about more than Iraq and the region. 2. It was courageous, calling for more money for foreign aid, which is quite unpopular in the country and easily exploitable [...]
