Archive | June, 2006
Congressional Quarterly’s Take on the Debate
Congressional Quarterly has a thoroughly mystifying take on the Tester-Burns debate, headlined by the opinion of “Craig Harris”, Montana State University political science professor. (What are the odds that both the Washington Post and CQ would misidentify the same person, in the same way?) Wilson (known in the article as Harris) suggested the debate was a [...]
Continue reading...Conservative War Heroes At It Again
29. June 2006
Clarence Thomas offered this analysis of Justice Stevens and his decision today in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case: But this suggestion betrays the plurality’s unfamiliarity with the realities of warfare and its willful blindness to our precedents. According to the Wikipedia, John Paul Stevens served: in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945 as an intelligence officer [...]
Continue reading...New West targets Tester’s personality…
29. June 2006
New West (what is New West, anyway…a blog? a news site?) has an interesting article up on Tester’s personality and how it might influence this election. I have two thoughts: I am tired of hearing from Craig Wilson, who seems like he is the pundit of choice in Montana political writing. I was stunned by his [...]
Continue reading...Obermann on O’Reilly again…
29. June 2006
Crooks and Liars has another amusing rant where Obermann goes after O’Reilly. I don’t know what numbers are right but I hope Obermann is correct that Fox is finally losing viewership…
Continue reading...Has Anyone Noticed Israel is at War?
29. June 2006
So betwixt all the wrangling of the American political apparatus, has anyone noticed that Israel has started another war? The pretext is the kidnapping of a single young Israeli soldier by Palestinian forces. Because of this Israel has invaded the Gaza Strip, destroyed the electrical grid, and angered regional powers. Now, the emptiness of [...]
Continue reading...The IR Applauds Burns’ Transparent Ploy on the Rocky Mountain Front
29. June 2006
Look out, Missoulian! The IR editorials are starting to move into your territory. Today, the IR says this of Conrad Burns’ change of heart about the Rocky Mountain Front: It isn’t necessary to speculate about election-year motivations in order to offer up a big thank you to U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns for working to do the [...]
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