Seymour Hersh put it out there last night, in a matter-of-fact way in response to a question at a University of Minnesota forum: Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Minnesota that the military was running an "executive ass...

Via Brad DeLong, I see that Bruce Barlett, a Reagan advisor and treasury official in GHWBush's administration, suffers from a profound case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. The only vote I have ever cast for president that I regret is my vote for Bush in 2004. That is because I knew better at the time....

Several items for discussion tonight: Obama sends another 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, even before he figures out what his strategy is, at a time when Pakistan has given over a significant part of their country to terrorists. Until we realize that the border area between the two countries needs to ...

Frankly, I don't care about accusations of tin-foil hattery here. It is more than a little suspicious that Mike Connell suddenly dies in a solo plane crash months after he and his wife were threatened by Karl Rove to take the fall for the GOP's 2004 election theft in Ohio. As Brad Friedman of BradBl...

A small but determined group of Senate Republicans want the United Auto Workers to suffer greatly before the Big Three car companies can get a measly $15 billion in loan guarantees from the federal government, in order to avoid a national economic problem. And yet these same Senate Republicans never...

AP image - added by Deacon Blues It’s a Michael Douglas line from The American President, right, and it was the only reference to presidential footwear I ever expected to retain, but our gallivanting King George, the Terrible Texan, our DC Dumbass, Mr. President Mondo Fucko shoehorned his way into...

Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) said he was “confounded� at Treasury’s obdurate refusal to dole out a mere pittance of $25 billion right now to help distressed little people homeowners about to default on their mortgages. Hundreds of billions have gushed forth from Treasury for banking, insurance, f...

How horrendous has the Bush Administration been? Forget foreign policy, for a moment. Let's think about how we treat ourselves. How the Bush Administration treats us. If you wanted to give a people the greatest natural and human resources in the world, no imminent or proximate threats, and tell them...

Which is more alarming about the stories surrounding Dick Cheney/Halliburton spinoff KBR's work in Iraq? 1. They engaged in massive fraud and poor work in Iraq. 2. They managed to get an Army overseer fired for blocking payments. 3. KBR and the Pentagon never fixed the shoddy work since 2004. 4. Thi...

Regrettably lost in the various Supreme Court-sparked uproars in the last week in what is for permissible in American’s behavior in killing each other was the stupid, regressive, juvenile, and infinitely offensive sanctioning of the US-Mexico border “fence,� another sad racist chapter of stupi...