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TAP talks to a former police chief who thinks drugs should be legal about new efforts to ban a pot substitute....
Tumblr, a relatively new blogging platform, just might be the future of the social Internet....
The latest drama over the White House's chief of staff and its record on national security is much ado about nothing....
Penn just announced they would use admissions data about sexual orientation to recruit gay students. But does that really open the door for true diversity?...
Obama, Congress Wink at Massive Surveillance Abuses
This week's reauthorization of the Patriot Act comes on the heels of the revelation Obama's Office of Legal Counsel granted fresh retroactive immunity for Bush-era telecommunication lawbreaking....
How a smearing of Justice Department lawyers as "terrorist sympathizers" traveled from the conservative media to the United States Senate....
The Washington Independent
Ron Paul Snaps Up Tickets for Southern Republican Leadership Conference
In the wake of his somewhat surprising — and very soft-peddled — victory in the CPAC straw poll, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is gearing up for a big showing at the next GOP cattle call. Paul’s Campaign for Liberty is going to purchase hundreds of tickets for the event, held...
Banks Seek to Head Off Regulation With PR Offensive
After President Obama called the heads of 12 of the largest banks into his office to lecture them about not lending enough to small businesses, the message was clear: It’s time to get to lending, or the government will get to regulating. So while banks are busy lobbying themselves out...
We’re ‘Weeks Away’ From a KSM Decision
Reports Major Garrett: A senior administration official deeply involved in White House deliberations about the future location and judicial venue of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 conspirators told Fox a decision on the case is “weeks away” and will not be made or announced...
The Jobless Recovery Trudges Joblessly On
Economy cheerleaders erupted today at the news that only 36,000 Americans lost their jobs in February, as compared to the 50,000 American jobs expected to be sacrificed to the Snowpocalypse gods. Of course, that means 15 million Americans remain unemployed, and 40 percent of those people have been unemployed for...
The rapid implosion of Rep. Eric Massa’s (D-N.Y.) career will end with his resignation from Congress on Monday, less than a week after he announced that he had terminal cancer — and the Ethics Committee announced that he was under investigation. “I am a deeply flawed and imperfect person,” said Massa...
John Bedell and Ludwig von Mises
ThinkProgress points to a strange item on the Bazpedia page of Pentagon metro shooter John Patrick Bedell, buried below the incomprehensible kookery (”I have posted the image to the right in order to illustrate the use of cannabis as a monetary system using digital financial instruments“) and a brief appreciation...
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
Hedges Talks Capitalism in Michael Moore Interview
In a newly available interview, Truthdig’s Chris Hedges sits down with filmmaker Michael Moore and poignantly argues that capitalism is driving humanity’s downfall. Moore conducted the interview for his latest movie, “Capitalism: A Love Story,” but eventually cut it from the documentary....
U.S. Airports Expand Full-Body Screening
Igniting criticism by privacy advocates around the world, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is in the process of installing 450 full-body X-ray scanning machines in the country’s airports. The machines show images of hidden objects, as well as passengers’ bodies through their clothes. —JCL Reuters: Airport officials on Friday showed off...
Despite the fact that Washington has forcefully discouraged investment in Iran for the past decade, the federal government has given more than $107 billion in contract payments to companies that dealt with Iran or are doing business there. A New York Times analysis of federal records and other financial documents shows...
Chile may be way better off economically than Haiti, but many survivors of the Feb. 27 earthquake in the South American country are still awaiting government help a full week after the fifth-strongest temblor ever recorded. —JCL Reuters: Some survivors were still waiting for government aid on Saturday in south-central Chile, a...
9/11 Trial Site Is Up in the Air
After the Obama administration said it would try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a Manhattan civilian court, and after Republicans shrieked about the threat of a terrorist attack, President Obama is back to the drawing board amid speculation that he may pull the civilian option and go with a military commission...
After being passed in 2008 by almost 60 percent of voters, Washington’s “Death With Dignity” program allows citizens of the state to petition for their own doctor-assisted suicide. In the first 10 months since the law took effect, 36 terminally ill people have taken their own lives. The Washington law is...
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Dueling Post columns on Rahm Emanuel
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Virtual candidates, on the sidelines
Not running is all the rage....
Virtual candidates, on the sidelines
Not running is all the rage....
There it was, on morning television: a debate over whether David Paterson or Eliot Spitzer was more reprehensible....
Both parties to blame for capital dysfunction
California is a terrific place to visit, but in the realm of politics, it's unable to get anything done....
The cameras were there. The reporters were there. The object of worldwide scorn clearly didn't want to be there....
AmSpecBlog
Rep. Barney Frank: A Limit to Taxpayer Largesse?
Say it ain't so! After doing so much to create the housing bubble and ensuing crash, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, suggested that there ... ...
Boehner's Fundraiser for Griffith Sparks Bipartisan Alabama Protest
Party-switcher Parker Griffith was handpicked to deliver the GOP's response to President Obama's radio address today, but House Minority Leader John Boehner may be surprised at the... ...
Sharing the Love--and Money--with Rep. James Moran
How northern Virginians love Rep. James Moran. Especially employees at defense contractors, it seems. Alas, Rep. Moran is merely one member to benefit from contributions from people... ...
The Dutch Prepare to Make Politics Interesting
Tolerant wimps no more. That appears to be the lesson of local elections in the Netherlands. Reports the EU Observer: Early results suggest the hard-right anti-immigration... ...
Things ain't looking too good for poor ol' Harry Reid. He lost his 60th vote in the Senate in January, the number of potential GOP election pick-ups just keeps rising, and he is one of... ...
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) is suggesting that separate legislation could be adopted to address the concerns of pro-life Democrats and the sole Republican vote for the health... ...
Ezra Klein
What I Told The Singaporeans About Obama and McCain
On Monday, I and an ally gave 10-minute speeches to an audience at a Singapore public library against two McCain speakers. I'm really happy about how it went -- the kids were nodding throughout my speech and looking kind of......
This post is mainly for those of you on RSS readers, as the homepage should, quite soon, be redirecting everyone. But so you know, this blog has moved to: http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/ezraklein For those using RSS, the new feed is: http://blog.prospect.org/blog/ezraklein/index.xml Copy......
Tomorrow, this blog moves to The American Prospect. It's a big deal for me. I remember setting up on Typepad, terrified that my decision to leave Pandagon was an insane mistake that would destroy my audience and doom any hope......
Oops. By Stephen of Cogitamus. I'm usually not that good with titles; the one for this post, however, encapsulates perfectly what I feel and what I owe To Ezra, of course, for the opportunity to be associated with one so......
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf Faithful readers know Nicholas, Litbrit, Stephen, Ankush, John, and myself from our weekend posts on this blog. (While you've known me as 'Neil the Ethical Werewolf' here, I've decided to switch back to my human......
This Has Been The Most Awesome Thing Ever
By Neil the Ethical Werewolf It's been an awesome two and a half years guestblogging for Ezra. I've never stopped appreciating the awesomeness of being able to write for an audience of thousands, and I have him to thank both......
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The Back Forty
Posted by Miryam Ehrlich Williamson [Note from Miryam: I thought you should see this post on Health Affairs Blog by Chris Fleming. If you are a parent or grandparent and what you read here strikes a bell, you could make a huge difference in a child's life by stepping in with...
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson John Kerry, who until Teddy Kennedy’s death was my second favorite Massachusetts senator, has some important things to say about Republican obstructionism — important enough that I’m not going to make you go to the source, Talking Points Memo — although you can if you want to,...
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson If Arkansas Community Theater (which I just made up) ever puts on The Wizard of Oz, I nominate Blanche Lincoln as the Wicked Witch of the West. If they time it right, I’ll bet she’ll accept the call – and totally miss how appropriate she is for...
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them. —Albert Einstein Al Gore, in an op-ed piece in the February 28 New York Times, gives us a briefing on climate change. If this doesn’t brace you for the phone calls...
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson Bipartisanship cannot mean simply that Democrats give up everything that they believe in, find the handful of things that Republicans have been advocating for and we do those things, and then we have bipartisanship. —Barack Obama, at a news conference Feb. 9, 2010 On Thursday, February 25, the President...
Hungry for a Better School Lunch? Pick Up the Phone
By Miryam Ehrlich Williamson While school is in session — and, in some places, through summer vacation, too — about one-third of the energy a child takes in during the day should come from the lunch he or she eats at school. And the food that provides that energy shouldn’t be...
Splendid Marbles
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the infamous, but still fabulous Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest. Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the...
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the extremely famous, highly excellent Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest. Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the...
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the almost famous, super-fine Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest. Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to the Splendid...
Frankenatra Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the famous, super-excellent Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest- so kneel (please). Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to...
Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the Most Famous and Highly Excellent Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest- so bow in awe (please). Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached...
Text Therapy Cartoon Caption Contest
This is the World Famous Splendid Marbles Cartoon Caption Contest- so dig it! Type a clever caption and place it in the comments section, along with a valid email address, and you could win a signed copy of the cartoon, with your caption and name attached (and you’ll be added to...
democracyarsenal.org
To Military Commission Advocates: Ye of Little Faith in American Strength
There's a lot to say about the potential shift of the KSM trial from the civilian courts to a military commission, and a lot that's been said. First off, the good people at Human Rights First tell us not to......
The American national security case for forging Middle East peace
The U.S. has more than 200,000 troops engaged in conflicts across the Middle East and Southwest Asia, has grave concerns about the spread of weapons of mass destruction there, depends heavily on oil exported from the Persian Gulf and is......
Andy MCarthy’s uses a common argumentative technique in his response to the news that Obama advisors may recommend to hold military commissions for the 9/11 plotters. He dismisses what is perceived as the debate at hand as a foregone conclusion......
In what has to be the most depressing/least surprising news in recent memory the Obama Administration appears to be very close to relenting to Congressional and public pressure and reversing the decision to prosecute Khalid Shiekh Muhammed and 4 other......
How Does This Win Us Respect on National Security?
I think it's safe to say that the Obama administration is aware that by deciding to try KSM using a military commission, they will piss off a lot of progressives. What I'm not sure they understand is that the choice......
Is America Becoming a Banana Republic Watch - The Tom Coburn Version
Courtesy of Matt Yglesias comes our latest Banana Republic entry - Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn. It turns out that Tom Coburn has a rule: if any legislation comes before the United States Senate that isn't fully paid for, he'll block......
Nukes & Spooks
Ever since Adm. Michael Mullen told Congress that in his personal view, gays and lesbians should be allowed to openly serve, it’s been hard to find a vocal dissenting view. The chairman’s voice is a powerful one indeed. The highest-ranking......
Diplomatic memo: China to skip nuke summit?, ME peace talks on horizon
We're hearing that China may decide to skip next month's Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, an Obama White House priority. Two sources say that Chinese President Hu Jintao may elect not to come, which would be a blow to the......
Another Israeli bombing target?
Before our readers get their feathers in a ruffle, that's a tongue-in-cheek headline up there. Still, an item from Persia House, the excellent Iran-watching cell at Booz Allen Hamilton, caught our eye. They report that this weekend, Iran will hold......
For as long as we here at N&S can remember, the US Embassy in London--with whom the United States has a "special relationship," it is said--has been at Grovesnor Square in downtown Mayfair. But the 1960s-era building is getting old......
Iran has just sent a letter to the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, repeating its request for fuel to run a research reactor in Tehran that produces nuclear isotopes for medical purposes, according to U.S. and European......
Hard to believe this guy once sat behind First Lady Laura Bush during the State of the Union address. Iraqi politician and invasion booster Ahmed Chalabi and the United States are locked in an increasingly bitter war of words and......
The Fix
Eric Massa to resign from Congress
New York Rep. Eric Massa said Friday that he will resign from the House on Monday afternoon. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Updated 5:26 p.m. New York Rep. Eric Massa will resign his House seat on Monday at 5 p.m., he said in a statement Friday, a move that comes...
Opportunity knocks in Senate races
Ask any successful politician the key to success and, if he/she is being honest, they will -- to a person -- say timing. Timing is everything in politics. Picking the right race against the right challenger or incumbent in the right national environment and you drastically improve your chances of...
Delahunt retirement ends a bad week for Democrats
1. Massachusetts Rep. Bill Delahunt's retirement late Thursday night was the latest in a series of difficult blows for House Democrats this week. Delahunt's 10th district is not exactly Republican territory -- President Obama carried it with 55 percent in 2008 -- but Sen. Scott Brown (R) did carry it...
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Massachusetts Rep. Bill Delahunt will not seek reelection this fall, the 18th Democrat to step aside in advance of the 2010 election and the second in as many days. "It's got nothing to do with politics," Delahunt told the Boston Globe. "Life is about change. I think it's healthy. It's...
The Fix's list of the best political movies ever
Following our list of the best political books -- fiction and non fiction -- there was a demand from Fixistas to put together a similar list of the best political movies. We asked for your suggestions -- and you, as always, responded. The two leading vote-getters were "The Candidate", the...
NYT > Columnists
The Up-or-Down Vote on Obama’s Presidency
We face the alarming prospect that Barack Obama’s presidency could be toast if he doesn’t make good on a year’s worth of false starts....
As long as we're scrutinizing our health care system, we also need to look at the way modern agribusiness madly overuses antibiotics....
The Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, laments the need for less talk and more peace in the region....
The Tea Party’s raging against the machine echoes an older radicalism from the opposite end of the political spectrum....
It’s no coincidence that Yemen is home to child brides including Nujood Ali, who fought for and won a divorce at 10 and terrorists....
Saudi Arabia dips a toe into modernity, even as it questions whether Israel is taking a step back....
BobGeiger.com
Not Disappearing… Just Not Back Yet
Being a political blogger would be an amazing way to make a living -- if only one could make a living doing it. Hell, I would probably settle for a partial living, a pittance even. Alas, it pays nothing, while also consuming almost as much time as a...
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Happy Holidays… And a Short Break
I will be taking some time off over the holidays to spend time with family, relax, reflect on our tremendous victories in 2008 and look forward to the coming year. I hope you do the same. Happy Holidays to all of you and thank you for your support.BobGeiger.com...
The U.S. Senate is in recess and will be back in session on January 6, 2009, when the 111th Congress will convene....
* * * * *Here's Mark Fiore with a timely version of 'Twas The Night Before Christmas -- "Corruption Christmas."Click on the screenshot above or go here to see it.* * * * *Our friends at Headzup show us Dick Cheney admitting to war crimes on national television:* * *...
A Reader Asks That I Reconsider Obama-Warren
I stopped publicly answering reader mail quite some time ago -- I generally only did it years ago to make fun of right-wingers sending me hate mail -- but I got a note from Michael Rapaport of Brooklyn, New York who had some interesting comments on me and much of...
Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire
Limbaugh In The Oscar Spirit: Health Care Reform Is "The Terminator," And "Sauron Getting The Ring"
By Christine Schwen Rush launched today's Open Line Friday edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show with an old-man-style tirade about the number of switches in his office. No word yet about those kids who won't get off his lawn. Then he launched the "good news" of the February unemployment numbers, saying they would...
Limbaugh: "Obama Uses Doctors Like Tiger Woods Uses Pancake House Waitresses"
By Kate Conway As today's edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show got going, Rush's listeners were left to wonder if his promised analysis of President Obama's health care speech yesterday would be as exciting as Rush suggested. Sure enough, after two brief digressions -- a mention of the RNC's fundraising campaign that...
Limbaugh Previews His Response To Obama's Health Care Speech: "It's Hiroshima Time"
By Kate Conway Rush kicked off today's edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show with the news of the hour: Charlie Rangel's decision to step down as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Criticizing Rangel's rationale for stepping down -- that he didn't want to jeopardize his colleagues during their...
Limbaugh: "Jim Bunning Is A Hero To People"
Incredibly, he ran out of things to say... By Christine Schwen Rush opened today's show by highlighting Newsweek senior Washington correspondent Howard Fineman's new column, in which Fineman discussed how getting sick during a recent trip to Argentina gave him new insight into the U.S. health care debate. Limbaugh added that if Fineman...
Limbaugh Calls Pelosi "Mullah Nancy Bin Pelosi"
By Christine Schwen "Hey, hey, hey!" Rush said as he welcomed us to today's spastic, rapid-fire edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show. Rush spent most of the show jumping wildly from topic to topic, seemingly daring us to keep up. Well, it wasn't easy to keep up with his truly dizzying...
Rush Returns to Death Panels, "Barack The Magic Negro"
By Adam Shah It's open-line Friday, but Rush Limbaugh told us he has less help than usual because engineers couldn't make it in because of the snow. Rush also said he stayed up late the night before with a lot of revelry, so it's gonna be "one of those days." Limbaugh began...
Riehl World View
Kansas City Wastes $2 Billion, May Close Half Its Public Schools
Contemplate this as one of Obama's big initiatives is throwing $4.3 billion more into notoriously failing schools across the nation. Kansas City alone was awarded $2 billion in a desegregation case. Money gone, they're left with an Olympic-sized swimming pool......
Reconcile This: The Week In Blogs
The week in blogs, text edition, via Vodkapundit at PJTV. The video version here. The video picks up on a quote from an earlier post of mine that seemed to resonate with many people. Reconcile this, you distasteful, malevolent little......
Adam Gadahn Bust: al Qaeda Net Infiltrated?
Given the timing, it's quite possible that Pakistani intelligence agencies managed to get inside the al Qaeda video production and dissemination loop. h/t Instapundit. A good take down, certainly. My hope is that it wasn't simply a solid gesture but......
Consent Of The Governed: This Schlitz Has Got To Stop!
In a much less vituperative column, though perhaps of far more concern than my recent popular half-rant, Glenn Reynolds aka Instapundit expresses his deep concerns over the current state of American politics - especially as regards the consent of the......
Update: Glenn Beck Gets Religion, Wrong
Update: With more history on the mis-quote. Right up front, for the Beck Heads who have already dismissed the importance of this before even reading it, you're wrong, too. Beck claims George Washington as a passion of his. He has......
If the back story to why tenor Ronan Tynan lost his Yankee's gig and is now leaving New York due to lack of work is accurate, than some people in the Jewish community really need to chill out. His comment......
Dependable Renegade
"Creamed herring, my favorite!
Thank you, Jesus!" GLOS NEWS...
the first time that fucking racist email made the rounds: "I don't care who you are, ... this is funny." Thus began an e-mail that Walt Baker, CEO of the Tennessee Hospitality Association, sent to to a few friends, the......
Don't give me that old-time religion. Please.
I don't know which story pisses me off more: 1. The goddamned U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops directly involving themselves in the Senate's deliberative process on health care reform (assuming you can call it that); 2. "Christian" home-schooling textbooks; or......
Rogue Wave - "Good Morning (The Future)" Okay, maybe not so random. It was playing on the iPod while I was doing laundry....
Michael Moore's got a point. You're such a good guy, Mr. President. You came to Washington with your hand extended to the Republicans and they just chopped it off. You wanted to be respectful and they decided that they were......
the buck stops here: In the three days since the leak of a confidential and crude Republican fundraising pitch, the party's leaders have scrambled to distance themselves from the 72-page PowerPoint depiction of President Obama as a socialist Joker --......
First Read
Week Ahead: Happy Birthday to us
A look at the Week Ahead in politics. FULL VIDEO HERE: The Week Ahead turns 1 year old. We celebrate with a First Read After Dark Party at the manor, Obama pushes health reform outside the Beltway in Philadelphia and St. Louis, Bidens to the Middle East, Scott Brown campaigns for...
From NBC’s Ali WeinbergThe Washington Post's report today that "President Obama’s advisers are nearing a recommendation that Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, be prosecuted in a military tribunal" instead of civilian court has both sides of the blogosphere criticizing the White House for...
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroTwo House aides confirm to NBC News that Upstate New York Congressman Eric Massa will resign Monday at 5 pm ET. [EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this post incorrectly noted that Massa was resigning today.] *** UPDATE *** Here's a statement from Massa's on his House Web site: Two...
Brady declared IL GOV GOP winner
From NBC's Domenico MontanaroA month after the Illinois GOP gubernatorial primary date, state Sen. Bill Brady was declared the winner today. Election officials declared "that he edged state Sen. Kirk Dillard by a margin of 193 votes," CQ reports. Dillard is expected to concede at a 2:30 pm ET press conference....(read...
Obama talks jobs, energy in VA
From NBC's Athena JonesARLINGTON, Va. -- President Obama used a trip to a company that promotes energy savings to tout his proposals to boost job creation and accelerate the country's recovery from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. His remarks came on the same day the Bureau of Labor...
First thoughts: Dems' rough week
The Democrats experience a pretty rough week, although a better-than-expected jobs report lessens the bad news… Republicans convince Nathan Deal to postpone his retirement (increasing the Dems’ magic number on health care to 217), while Democrats continue to herd cats… Is the Obama administration changing its mind on the KSM...
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The painful limits of localism | Julian Glover
As the high-speed rail plans prove, the latest Tory attempt to distinguish between the national and the local is essentialEvery field of endeavour produces its classic conundrums, the tough nuts it never quite cracks. For centuries, engineering sought the secret of perpetual motion. Applied physics keeps looking for an efficient...
Cuts rhetoric won't boost Labour hopes | Madeleine Bunting
This is territory long colonised by Thatcherite Tories, and would really draw blood among women and the low-paidA collective delusion seems to have taken grip. Turn a radio on and the politicians are indistinguishable. All the talk is cuts, cuts, cuts. Listen to people talking and it's already an assumption...
Michael Tomasky: Understanding reconciliation
Happy Sunday. I'm actually just writing this post as an experiment, because I bought a new computer at home, and I really am just testing to make sure the new machine works with the Guardian tools.But since I'm at it, let's do just a little substance. I see from some...
Tough on crime? Jail's not the answer | Chris Huhne
Locking up more people is a populist ploy that doesn't cut crime. We would focus on rigorous community sentences insteadYou wouldn't run the NHS without testing the effectiveness of drugs. No sane economist would let you run the economy without elaborate modelling to test fiscal and monetary policies. It should...
Galileo in a spin | Andrew Brown
If Galileo had trusted his instruments, he would have realised that Copernicus was wrongGalileo was right. We know that now. But was he right to be right? There is a small, but respectable literature which argues that on the best scientific evidence available to him, he should have been a...
Housing in London: the debate rages | Dave Hill
Both Labour and Tories accuse the other of shaping policy to fit electoral ends, while citizen resistance growsHere is some old news. Both London Labour and London Conservatives accuse the other of shaping housing policy to fit electoral ends. Thanks to Dame Shirley Porter, that borough-level Thatcher, Labour has lately...
FactCheck.org
A Practically Fact-Free Attack on Reid
Former Nevada state Sen. Sue Lowden, who is running for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in November, goes after Reid in a new ad for trying to force "one-size-fits-all government health care" on all Americans. Maybe "one-size-fits-all government health care" is a plausible description of...
The president made another push for health care legislation March 3, while being flanked by physicians and nurses in the East Room of the White House. Much of what he said in describing his proposal was correct, but he went a bit overboard with a few of his statements. In a...
Q: Has Nancy Pelosi spent $100,000 on food, booze and "partying" during her air travel? A: No. Pelosi’s congressional delegations do eat well and drink pricey alcohol. But the costs are not as high as critics claim, and they’re comparable to those of her Republican predecessor, Dennis Hastert. FULL QUESTION I have received e-mails...
Voting for a Health Care Takeover?
A relatively unknown conservative group called the League of American Voters has launched an ad attacking Democratic members of Congress for, in the words of the TV spot, voting in favor of “Obama and Pelosi’s health care takeover." But the ad is filled with misleading claims. The group’s Web site says...
FactCheck Mailbag, Week of Feb. 23-March 1
This week, readers sent us a comments about reconciliation and health care, premium costs, and the danger of clicking on links in chain e-mails. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the e-mail we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length. Reconciliation Responses You’ve done...
The premiere edition of our podcast features a look at the factual malpractice that took place during the president’s nearly daylong health care summit. ...