Monthly Archives: February 2006

Logan Ferre reads the New York Times so you don’t have to, & shares with us the following: New projections, buried in the Interior Department’s just-published budget plan, anticipate that the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth … Continue reading →

The following will be all I’ll say about that: -it served to bump serious issues aside in the media, so even if it was accidental it was beneficial to the administration. -Dick Cheney seems like the type of person who … Continue reading →

independance!” Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald should investigate Vice President Dick Cheney and others in the CIA leak probe if they authorized an aide to give secret information to reporters, Democratic and Republican senators said Sunday. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., called … Continue reading →

We all know that this is about more than some drawings. It’s actually about a concept we’re familiar with to an extent in the US: the idea that religious belief requires you to enforce your values on people who do … Continue reading →

all over it, as usual… Y’know, as common as it is for people to portray libertarians as being “paranoid”, the gradual uptick in this kind of stuff suggests to me that “they” are more woried than we are. I mean, … Continue reading →

“monthly” surplus, despite that not being the number that matters: The federal government ran a $21 billion budget surplus last month, the best January showing in four years, as both spending and tax receipts set records for the month. The … Continue reading →

maybe that should change: More than half of the US “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba prison camp never committed any “hostile acts” against the United States, two lawyers said in a report. Based on an analysis … Continue reading →

ToonGate: The president spoke out about the controversy for the first time, signaling deepening White House concern about violent protests stemming from the publication of caricatures in Denmark’s Jyllands-Posten and reprinted in European media and elsewhere in the past week. … Continue reading →

“Hmm…gee, that’s a toughie”… tags: Alberto+Gonzales, Bush, War+on+terror]]>