Tom Friedman gets it and, in a what-if speculation, predicts a new political party. Of course the American people have to get it too, which is what is worrisome. … [Keep reading >>]

Antonia Juhasz, an arrest companion of friends of ours in the opening days of the US invasion of Iraq, has a new book out. She’ll be speaking … [Keep reading >>]

Living With War

[Hint, don’t listen to this late and just before trying to sleep. It won’t come. You’ll be up and pacing at 2 a.m. with a bottle … [Keep reading >>]

Cunningham scandal takes sordid turn

I like it that “sordid” refers to prostitution and not millions in bribes, but moving on… The Wall Street Journal is reporting that it has … [Keep reading >>]

Be sure to watch David Shuster in the first segment of Olberman’s Countdown on MSNBC tonight (Thursday.)

The Raw Story | MSNBC reports Rove believes he is in legal jeopardy
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I wanted to post this Maureen Dowd column the other day but was put off by the Times pay-wall. So, courtesy of topplebush.com, enjoy!

It’s taken over five years, but … [Keep reading >>]

The Charleston (WVA) Gazette reacts to the latest disclosures that the president knew that MWD claims were bogus long before launching an invasion: “Democratic legislators in Illinois, California and elsewhere … [Keep reading >>]

Friedman has a good column in the Times. (Pay-wall of course.) If you can’t grab a copy let me know.

China and California have a lot to talk about. … [Keep reading >>]

Pinch me, I must be dreaming!

Karl Rove, the senior counselor to President Bush, is expected to appear this afternoon before a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a Central … [Keep reading >>]

“I’ve been lobbying for the Truman Commission on War Profiteering to be re-convened for a long time. Dick Durbin has been promoting it (with no success, small wonder) but … [Keep reading >>]

Think Progress » Tony Snow On President Bush: ‘An Embarrassment,’ ‘Impotent,’ ‘Doesn’t Seem To Mean What He Says’
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Larry Johnson, ex spook, meditates on good leaks and bad leaks in the case of Mary McCarthy, fired just days before retirement apparently as a warning to others… Along … [Keep reading >>]

I was thinking about loyalty again as I read this article about unimaginable cheating, falsification and abuse of tax monies. Since I was asked to take a loyalty oath … [Keep reading >>]

I finally get it! Bush, guided by God, knew that global warming was coming, oceans were rising, weather was changing and that Floridians, Manhattanites, Galvestonians and others would need … [Keep reading >>]

You sure got to like CREW and the work they do. … [Keep reading >>]

The Houston Chronicle’s Cragg Hines can’t see much progress resulting from the ‘reshuffling’ at the white house: “At another point, Bush made clear he is ultimately responsible, such as in … [Keep reading >>]

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch crticizes the administration for its ready adoption of Nixonian logic in dealing with the requirements of law: “The suspicion grows, however, that, as with President Nixon, … [Keep reading >>]

The Decider — Listen! Do!
[thx Don]

If you can stand it, here’s another boffo piece.
White House Easter Egg Roll
(Audio and Visual in WMV format (Mac-sters need a plug-in.)
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It’s pretty hard these days to keep our attention on the slow strip-tease of the truth when it has been standing naked for all the world to see lo these … [Keep reading >>]

Our friend Ed Mainland recommends Brzezinski’s talking points on Bush’s Iran Folly.

Talk of a US strike on Iran is eerily reminiscent of the run-up to the Iraq war. … [Keep reading >>]