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A Catered Affair
by Gail Collins
Back in 1881, when U.S. Senator Thomas Platt of New York was visiting Albany, word went around the State Capitol that he had rented a hotel room for a tryst. According to The Albany Argus, Platt’s political enemies quickly got hold of the adjoining room, brought in “a stepladder, some whiskey, some crackers and cheese and cigars” and spent the next several hours taking turns peering over the transom. | He goes Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
by Ed Naha
Back in the late 1930s, songwriter Harold Rome penned a satirical song "(When I Grow Up) The G-Man Song," wherein a barely pubescent protagonist sang: "Gee, but I'd like to be a G-Man and go Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! I'd be a brave gang-busting he-man and go Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! I'd put on disguises of all different sizes and would I win prizes for telling who spies is!" | Barack Obama's Smart Speech "A More Perfect Union": Did It Reveal Him To Be Too Intellectual To Be President?
by John W. Dean
By way of disclaimer, I do not have a favored candidate in the 2008 Democratic nomination contest. But I do appreciate the new (or perhaps simply long-forgotten) and higher levels to which Senator Barack Obama is taking political discourse. His historic speech on race this week, for example, was as smart as they come. | Gender bias remains alive and strong
by Jaime O'Neill
My 82-year-old mother is bereft. Mom was born just six years after women got the right to vote in this country, and she thought for awhile there that she might live long enough to see a woman become president. Now it looks as though that won't happen. | How Will Hillary's Bosnia "Whopper" Play in the Media?
by RJ Eskow
If you're Hillary Clinton and you've just been caught in a "whopper," the only thing to be grateful for is that it's Good Friday and people are distracted. How bad could this story be for her? When you tell the American public you faced gunfire, and it turns out all you really faced was a little girl with flowers - well, that's as bad as it gets. When you dramatically say you made a journey that was too dangerous for the President, only to have it revealed that he made the same trip two months earlier - and that your teenaged daughter was by your side - that only makes it worse. | New Housing Crisis, Old Isms
by David Sirota
For many folks, the term "The Fed" (ie. The Federal Reserve Bank) induces drowsiness. It sounds like such a boring institution, dealing in stuff like interest rates and basis points that seem so academic. But as I explain in my newspaper column out today, while The Fed's instruments may be esoteric, its power is enormous - and it is using that power to cut Wall Street a huge check in what is a public embrace of four isms that have taken over our government. | Winding Up Bear: Paulson's Gift to His Bankster Buddies
by Mike Whitney
One picture tells the whole story. It's a photo of five grim looking men in gray suits staring ahead blankly like they were in the dock with Saddam awaiting sentencing. Every one of them looks downcast and dejected; shoulders rounded and jaws set. This is what desperation looks like, which is why the photo was kept off the front pages of the leading newspapers. | Happy Anniversary, America! How Lethally Stupid Can One Country Be?
by David Michael Green
Watching George W. Bush in operation these last couple of weeks is like having an out-of-body experience. On acid. During a nightmare. In a different galaxy.As he presides over the latest disaster of his administration (No, it's not a terrorist attack - that was 2001! No, it's not a catastrophic war - that was 2003! No, it's not a drowning city - that was 2005! This one is an economic meltdown, ladies and gentlemen!) bringing to it the same blithe disengagement with which he's attended the previous ones, you cannot but stop and gaze in stark comedic awe, realizing that the most powerful polity that ever existed on the planet twice picked this imbecilic buffoon as its leader, from among 300 million other choices. Seeing him clown with the Washington press corps yet once again - and seeing them fawn over him, laugh in all the right places, and give him a standing ovation, also yet once again - is the equivalent of having all your logic circuits blown simultaneously. Truly, the universe has a twisted and deeply ironic sense of humor. Monty Python is about as funny - and as stiff - as Dick Nixon, by comparison. | About the "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq"
by David Swanson
Several Democratic House candidates have backed what they call the "Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq."The downside of this, as I see it, is as follows:There is no "war" in Iraq, which is something that can be won or lost between two armies. There is a permanent illegal hostile occupation of a people by a single army. It can never be won or lost and should not be called a "war." It should be called a crime. | Sold! Cornflake goes for $1,350
by AP
Two sisters from Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped cornflake on eBay Friday night for $1,350. "We were biting our nails all the way up to the finish, seeing what would happen," said Melissa McIntire, 23. "There's a lot of relief involved."The winner of the auction, which lasted more than a week, is the owner of a trivia Web site who wants to add the cornflake to a traveling museum. | McCain’s Gaffes Reflect Bush’s Iran-Qaeda Myth
by Gareth Porter
Sen. John McCain’s confusion in recent allegations of Iranian training of al Qaeda fighters in Iraq is the result of a drumbeat of official propaganda about close Iran-al Qaeda ties that the George W. Bush administration and neoconservatives have promoted ever since early 2002.0322 02 | Will Joe Lieberman be John McCain's Assisted Living Caretaker and Vice-President as They Bomb Iran?
by Buzzflash.com
In case you've been so caught up in the battle royale of the Democratic primaries, Joe Lieberman has been escorting John McCain around Iraq and Israel, acting as his assisted living caretaker.Not only has Lieberman once or twice bailed McCain out of his confusion between Sunnis and Shiites, he most recently saved McCain from his equating the Jewish Holiday of Purim with Halloween [1] while jaunting around Israel. | US ad bashes McCain as 'hero of France'
by AFP
A liberal American group Friday released an advertisement that rails on Republican White House nominee John McCain for backing a US Air Force decision to award a huge contract to Europe's Airbus."A message of thanks to John McCain from the French people," says the video ad, which is in French with English subtitles and was issued by the Campaign for America's Future, a self-described "progressive" think tank. | Obama has money; Clinton is almost broke
by Jim Kuhnhenn
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lived hand to mouth during the rush of presidential primaries while Democratic rival Sen. Barack Obama outspent her and put money in the bank.New Federal Election Commission reports show Obama raised at a clip of nearly $2 million a day in February, an open spigot of money that left him with $30 million in the bank for March. | Last Tangle in Persia
by Allan Uthman
“Just as Fallon took over Centcom last spring, the White House was putting itself on a war footing with Iran. Almost instantly, Fallon began to calmly push back against what he saw as an ill-advised action. Over the course of 2007, Fallon's statements in the press grew increasingly dismissive of the possibility of war, creating serious friction with the White House. | Roadside bombing pushes US death toll in Iraq to nearly 4,000
by AP
A roadside bomb killed three American soldiers north of Baghdad on Saturday, pushing the U.S. death toll in the five-year conflict to nearly 4,000.Also Saturday, Iraqi authorities reported that a U.S. airstrike north of the capital killed six members of a U.S.-backed Sunni group - straining relations with America's new allies in the fight against al-Qaida. | NY Times: Obama speech on race fuels Easter sermons
by Raw Story
Senator Barack Obama's speech on race is fueling Easter sermons, according to an article in Sunday's New York Times."This Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the Christian calendar, many pastors will start their sermons about the Resurrection of Jesus and weave in a pointed message about racism and bigotry, and the need to rise above them," Laurie Goodstein and Neela Banerjee write for the Sunday Times. "Some pastors began to rethink their sermons on Tuesday, when Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., gave a speech about race, seeking to calm a furor that had erupted over explosive excerpts of sermons by his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr." |
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