Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s […]

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In a remarkably weak post on Huffington Post entitled: Scrubbed: Edwards Filmmakers Deleted Website Raises Questions author Sam Stein (de)posits on the controversy he apparently invented specifically for himself regarding a “mystery website” that *gasp* disappeared from the internet, inferring some vaguely nefarious but entirely unspecified conspiracy about presidential candidate John Edwards and the non-political, […]

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Surprise! White House Investigator Comes Up Short on Funding
In the department of who didn’t see this one coming, Scott Bloch’s Office of Special Counsel investigation was launched with great bravado and no dough…
Equally shocking is the notion that Mr. Bloch is not highly regarded by his peers:
Ex DOJ wrote on September 17, 2007 11:56 PM:
Scott […]

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Doesn’t anyone remember Kenneth Starr?
The White House has indicated no willingness to move beyond Bush’s initial offer to let Rove, Miers and their deputies to speak to committee members in private, without being sworn. Conyers , meanwhile, has signed a contract with the law firm Arnold & Porter worth up to $225,000 through the […]

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The reason this is worth our time is that it’s part of a much larger winger campaign of desperation to seize on isolated nutty and despicable acts to shore up the rapidly collapsing GOP argument that the Antiwar Majority’s opposition to the war is anti-troops. This campaign relies on everything from lies like today’s edition of AWOL to evoking cultural memories of allegedly spat-upon Vietnam veterans. Gotta knock it down every time it pops up.

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So, to hear Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tell it, he planned, executed and organized every major terror attack in the entire war on terror. So, hey, we can all just pack it in and go home now, right?
There is growing buzz about the release of KSM’s confession because it dovetails so conveniently with all the bad […]

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Daily Kos: Of Lawyers, Guns and Money: GOP DOJ Guts Justice for All
Even in the upside down, black is white world of Bush-America, a “correction” is inevitable; AND Warren Zevon was an underappreciated genius.

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What a surprise. It’s shocking, really. Just shocking…. (shake head)
The White House acknowledged on Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove served as a conduit for complaints about federal prosecutors as House investigators declared their intention to question him about any role he may have played in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
White House spokeswoman Dana […]

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Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com’s Managing Editor tries desperately to spin Ann Coulter’s self-targeting verbal IED at this year’s CPAC by employing the weakest defense on Earth: “But they did it too…” .

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