Five years after terrorists killed nearly 3,000 Americans, “Today” show anchor Matt Lauer talked to then President Bush about 9/11. Among the topics: How the attacks have changed his presidency, rumors of torture of detainees, and the threats still facing the U.S. You can see President Bush pretty much acting like a crazy person in […]
MSNBC’s Up with Steve Kornacki reports that “A big step forward was taken in the effort to declassify the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on what the Bush administration did in the wake of the September 11th attacks in the name of gathering intelligence.” During Sunday’s program Senator Angus King (I-ME) was highly critical of former […]
Attack ads are as American as apple pie as you can see from this video documenting actual attack ads from around the year 1800. If anonymous political speech, the other widely decried villain of this political season, helped found the United States, attack ads are as American as apple pie. If you fancy yourself a […]
Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie sat down for an extended chat with noted documentary film-maker Errol Morris who claims that Donald Rumsfeld’s success as Secretary of Defense of George W. Bush was not based on his brilliance – rather it was due to the fact that the American people are “morons.” Reason TV reports “Donald Rumsfeld’s […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: I am guessing, but obviously cannot say for sure, that the timing of all this was planned to coincide with the Hobby Lobby birth control case, currently being considered by the Supreme Court. Tea Party favorite Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) claimed Monday that the Constitutional mandated separation between church and state meant “the […]