The Continuing Assault On Reason by digby A few years back Al Gore wrote a book called "The Assault on Reason." I'm sure many of you read it. We were in the middle of that bizarroworld period after 9/11, when post-modern "conservatives" were openly admitting to creating their own reality: The aide s...

Wednesday... what's in store today? Sam Stein: Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood hit back hard on Monday to charges from White House critics that President Barack Obama's economic policies -- focused on leveraging government spending to stimulate demand -- had exacerbated the recession and cons...

I'm troubled over the lack of calm, clear analysis on the Obama administration's views of defense programs and what is within the realm of possible to get defense on the right track. To read some newspapers and bloggers, the Obama administration is winding up to put some hurt on defense cont...

The post I made last week about McCain being antiscience has made quite a splash, more than I expected (and I expected quite a bit). As usual when I post on politics I have been lauded as a voice of reason, told I am a political moron, had my arguments backed up by others with evidence, and attacked...

Me neither.  I'm not that old.  What I remember is that people used to believe that lawyers were stodgy and conservative.   At some point they must indeed have been conservative (at least in some sense of that term).  Tocqueville famously called lawyers and judges &...

Why Obama Won: The Making of a President 2008 By Greg Mitchell Sinclair Books, New York $16.99, 222 pages Usually, I'm not a big fan of compilations of previously published work, and contemporary political events are even more subject to an accelerated expiration date than other forms of columns re-...

Friday, March 6, 2009.  Chaos and violence no doubt continue (it's Friday, forget getting a violence report on today's violence out of Iraq), Amnesty documents the violence targeting Iraqi women, a Feb. 23rd press conference contained all sorts of details about Iraqi prisoners but US ...

Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe started off her column on March 6 with the exact same feeling about the current Obama/Limbaugh feud that I at first had: I wasn't going to talk about it either. But after reading her column of distortions and outright lies about Limbaugh -- as well as the ever prese...

Rush Limbaugh claimed during his February 27 morning radio update that "[t]he Obama budget ... funds the relentless drive toward socialized medicine" -- a statement that is neither accurate nor original. In fact, as the Urban Institute wrote in an April 2008 analysis, "socialized medicine involves g...

Colorado Media Matters: Repeating EFCA falsehood, Independence Institute's Oliver attacked Rep. Markey for "pay(ing) back" labor donors Colorado Media Matters: KHOW's Boyles falsely described federal gun bill, fabricating government home inspections and ad hoc mental exams Colorado Media Matters: Ro...