Blog Archive: March, 2008

Director of National Intelligence Admiral Mike McConnell on the recent Senate debate on electronic eavesdropping (page 11 of pdf file):

We had a bill go into the Senate. It was debated vigorously. There were
some who said we shouldn't have an Intelligence Community. Some have that more »

Ah, the strange saga of the snooping State Department workers who looked in on Barack Obama's passport files—to find what? That the "young, ambitious mulatto boy by the name of Barrick O'bam" (see the parody video here) spent his 1974 Occidental College spring break surfing in North Korea? more »

Bear Stearns has been rescued, and its shareholders have been placated. Wall Street has several invigorating injections of billions of tax-payer dollars. Now that a great deal of public wealth has gone to prop up private wealth, maybe some of that public wealth can be used to help, well, the public. But only if the free market fundamentalists in the Bush administration stay out of the way, or trip over themselves while hurrying to offer their idea of a remedy.

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From Newsday

An 80-year-old church deacon was removed from the Smith Haven Mall yesterday in a wheelchair and arrested by police for refusing to remove a T-shirt protesting the Iraq War. more »

And Mickey Kaus was not pleased.

Permanent bases? Destroyed videotapes of harsh interrogations? You won't hear about that on the Sunday shows. more »

Will super surge backers Lieberman and Graham be asked the tough questions regarding the latest sectarian violence in Iraq's multi-faceted civil war? more »

Is Jeremiah Wright right about racism? more »

By Rob Johnson and Robert Borosage

The world has changed.  The market fundamentalism that has dominated our economics over last three decades has been unmasked as a sham, deemed useless by the guardian of the integrity of finance itself, the Federal Reserve. 

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Newly released data by the Department of Education illuminates the educational landscape of America. more »