By Denis Campbell
Matt, Tom and Oreo (not their real names and as far as you will get) are data gathering wonks that have been anonymously producing the best political blog of the last 18-months. Want to know who is getting what cabinet position? Need a department scorecard? They have it and it can all be [...]

 
by Charley James
In a devastatingly critical examination of the narco-state formerly known as Afghanistan, the New York Times’ Dexter Filkins today documents case after case of wide spread corruption on a massive scale in the Afghan government, including officials ranging from low-level, local bureaucrats right up to the brother of President Hamid Karzai. Filkins shows [...]

 
by Charley James
I detest the Top 10 lists sprouting up daily: Newspapers, magazines, television, cable, blogs, whatever. One acquaintance in New Mexico sent a mass e-mail to everyone in her Outlook directory asking each of us to submit our own Top 10 list of whatever we want to rank. 
By December every year, these rankings appear [...]

by Charley James
By now, no one should be surprised that the White House is taking its usual, uneven and heavy-handed approach in reacting to the gargantuan Israeli shock-and-awe bombing of densely populated areas of the Gaza Strip. 
Rather than using American influence – if there is any left in the region after eight years of Bush [...]

 
by Charley James
Last Saturday, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus came up with an unusually convoluted bit of punditspeak about forgiving Dick Cheney his self-admitted war crimes and crimes against humanity including lying the country into war, illegal wiretapping, outing Valerie Plame-Wilson, torturing prisoners of war and – oh, right – telling Fox News’ Chris Wallace [...]

 
 By Denis Campbell
Your campaign of fear and hate? It didn’t work. Your attempts to portray our next President as a “lying Muslim socialist with no experience who hates our flag and Constitution and what this country was founded on.” It will put you further on the fringe than you already are. I’m really just sick [...]

The New York Times and AP are reporting that Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of John F. Kennedy and keeper of an American political dynasty, has decided she will pursue the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a person told of her decision said Monday.

by Gayle Furr
(Ed. Sometimes the comments here are so good and well thought out, they deserve their own byline.) You don’t have to tell us our Parliament’s a mess, eh!  We’ve having to live through it, eh? As a Canadian I feel I must correct a couple of points, and offer some further explanation as to the events.
First [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
As Chancellor of the Washington DC Public School system, Michelle Rhee, 38, has tipped public education on its end in Washington, DC gaining a lot of high-powered fans and a few enemies. She was an unwitting reference during the 3rd Presidential debate as John McCain and Barack Obama disagreed on whether or not [...]

 
by Charley James
George Bush is leaving the White House the same way he entered: On a lie and a prayer.
He took office on a lie that he won the 2000 election and a prayer no one would object. Now that he’s finally – finally! – leaving, Bush is lying about his disastrous presidency and praying [...]