by Eric Lotke | Jul 12, 2007 | Blog
Purely by chance, I was in the middle of reading Katharine Graham’s autobiography when President Bush commuted I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s sentence. I had just reached the part where Graham, the publisher of The Washington Post during the Watergate era, was despairing...
by Bill Scher | Jul 12, 2007 | Blog
Yesterday, MoveOn.org announced that former Sen. John Edwards won the straw poll following its Virtual Town Hall Meeting on the Climate Crisis (co-sponsored by Campaign for America's Future and others). And by a considerable margin. Edwards won 33% of the vote, while...
by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2007 | Blog
Michael Moore and CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta faced off yesterday on Larry King Live, following Moore's on-air criticism of Gupta's anti-SiCKO piece which accused Moore of "fudg[ing] some facts." Moore, on his website, is ably taking Gupta to task on the factual points....
by Bill Scher | Jul 11, 2007 | Blog
A new bipartisan global warming "cap-and-trade" bill is being unveiled today by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. and Arlen Specter, R-Penn., and the sponsors are succeeding in getting the media to christen it with the coveted "middle ground" and "compromise" labels. But...
by Bill Scher | Jul 10, 2007 | Blog
Yesterday, Michael Moore slapped CNN silly. CNN's The Situation Room ran a piece taking inaccurate shots at Moore's SiCKO right before having Moore on to be interviewed. Moore proceeded to rip CNN's credbility, and later, posted a point-by-point rebuttal on his...
by Isaiah J. Poole | Jul 10, 2007 | Blog
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has lately been taking a tough line on ending the Iraq war. That comes in the face of weeks of stubborn Republican opposition to any attempt to bring the troops home or to even curb President Bush’s imperial use of power to keep the...
