Dick Cheney may have appeared calm and collected during his interview with Brit Hume on Fox News Wednesday night, but reports from those closest to the vice president paint a picture of a man who has spent the past week in extreme emotional straits. The New York Times quotes Ben Love, a West Texas rancher […]
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Running on Katrina, not Wiretapping
Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Via Political Wire, a new Marist Poll shows that the Bush response to Katrina upsets a significantly larger percentage of the public than the warrantless wiretapping story. As the election approaches, blogospheric activity will become more and more expressly political. It’s important to remember that one of these […]
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My Pet Wingnut Bites
By Pepper of the Daily Pepper And you can read that title however you want. Apparently My Pet Wingnut James Lileks has been too busy to Screed. All Lileks has up on his Screedblog page this week is a bare Quicktime player and a few words. The Quicktime file is of Medved taking down a […]
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Fair Schmair
Angelica here. Yes, I am the vicious Battlepanda. According to the RIAA, you have no right to rip your own CDs to your own iPods, or even to make backup copies. They’re letting you, because they’re such sweethearts, but they just want to make it clear that they think it is their legal perogative not […]
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Coultergeist
by Ben Adler, CampusProgress.org Those of you weren’t privileged to read our undercover blogging from the Conservative Political Action Conference missed out on a lot of fun, but most especially hearing about Ann Coulter’s racist wit. Fear not! Rather than write two screeds in one week Coulter put the entire speech, almost verbatim, into column […]
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Not So Positive Feedback
By Brian Here’s evidence of a positive feedback problem, something that’s pretty common scientific vernacular, but has–thanks to bloggers like Kevin–begun to merge into popular discourse. Elizabeth Kolbert’s forthcoming book, Field Notes from a Catastrophe, frames the problem in exquisite detail. The idea will be intuitive to anybody who–because it’s their favorite shirt, and it […]
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Freddy Hits Back
“There was a time when I thought I could win,” Fernando Ferrer is saying. “It was immediately after the primary. Sense of momentum. Our own internal polls had led me to believe it. The very quick coming together of the Democratic Party … .” A few moments later, he adds: “It felt very good.” Ferrer […]
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SecDef in JPEG
By Brian Thanks to some intrepid reporting, it can now be told in full. What follows is a brief photo essay tracing the long, jagged arc of Donald Rumsfeld’s political career:
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The Democrats must not allow a biography gap
By Lance Mannion. Accidents will happen, but as any Freudian will tell you, there are accidents, and then there are self-destructive moments when you unconsciously conspire with Fate, circumstance, a few beers, and a shot gun to reveal the whole of your twisted inner psyche to the world as if seized by a heavenly desire […]
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What To Do With the Briefing Room?
Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math In addition to agreeing with, well, little ol’ me that the hunting accident may have been a better A1 story than the Iraq war, the Medicare bill, or the budget, Jay Rosen hits on the key point on display during Cheneyshotaguyintheface-gate. The Bush approach to press relations is […]