Baltimore You can’t find this piece in the Journal, Times, or Post. Soon it will show up in more conservative blogs with appropriate conspiratorial references and asides. Count on the misquotes and false attributions being numerous, but reading the decision by U.S. Federal Judge Nina Gershon, one cannot miss the decision’s clarity or thinly veiled …
Category: Ideas and Issues
New Issa Report, Too Many Corps
New Orleans Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is the ranking Republican on the U.S. House Committee on Governmental Reform and Oversight. Wanting to make a splash and get in the press at the annual gathering of the right wing at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC), Issa seems to have come up with a 60+ page …
Killing the Tea Party with Guns
New Orleans The New York Times pumped a couple of rounds into the Tea Party in a front page story today. They missed the heart, but they were probably aiming more to cripple, than kill. Despite the palpable anger so clearly motivating a vast national, though embryonic, movement, David Barstow, the reporter on the story …