Novakula, Prince of Darkness, appears to be petulantly nursing a grudge like Phil Anselmo nurses a 40 of Jack Daniels: I’d go full speed ahead because of the hateful and beastly way in which my left-wing critics in the press and Congress tried to make a political affair out of it and tried to ruin...

(1) So we had another development in the ongoing Subpoena Shadowboxing Soap Opera starring the Bush administration and every meaningful oversight committee in Congress. The House Government Reform Committee had issued a subpoena to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey for the report of an FBI intervi...

One of the benefits of saturating the American people with scandal is that folks eventually stop paying attention. That’s certainly the case with Plamegate, which is still being investigated despite the president’s best efforts to the contrary and a public that has generally moved on. Ge...

Straight off the AP wire from 6:29pm EDT: President Bush invoked executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing the FBI report of an interview with Vice President Dick Cheney and other records related to the administration's leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity in 2003. The House Oversig...

In lieu of impeachment proceedings, how about a select committie? A House committee has issued a subpoena for FBI reports from interviews with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney in the CIA leak investigation. The subpoena to Attorney General Michael Mukasey from the House Oversight and Go...

You know, it doesn't say anything that many of us didn't already know.  It's just nice to see someone on the inside of the Bush Administration admit that these things went on: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The incidents that first left then-White House press secretary Scott McClellan "dismayed and d...

Scott McClellan was one of George W. Bush’s most loyal aides, so it is surprising to learn that he savages the president and his administration in his new memoir. Among other bombshells, McClellan refers to the administration’s “propaganda campaign” to sell the war and accuse...

Ex-chief of staff to Dick Cheney, known perjurer and wuss jail-dodger I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has been disbarred, according to a D.C. Court of Appeals ruling. The cut-and-running court explained: "When a member of the Bar is convicted of an offense involving moral turpitude, disbarment is mandatory...

Great comment in David Mamet's piece (although I think he misconstrued Mamet's intent in rehashing all the liberal bds talking points), Why I am No Longer a 'Brain Dead' Liberal, in Village Voice last week: Gregg Calkins on Wed Mar 12, 2008, 13:21, says: David Mamet's actually come a long way, but I...

Penny Walsh checks the damages in the local library following a powerful earthquake in Gisborne, New Zealand. The 6.8 quake flattened buildings and caused widespread damage. Gisborne Herald - AFP/Getty Images I used to love reading fiction- from classics like Les Miserables and The Three Musketeers;...