Archive for the 'White House' Category
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
After 9/11, Rove pressured the entertainment industry ‘to produce propaganda.’»
The New York Times reports today that shortly after 9/11, the White House met several times with “a delegation of high-level media executives, including the heads of every major studio,” in order to discuss how “the entertainment industry could play a part in improving the image […]
Posted in Television, Movies, Rove, Music, World, White House, Broadway |
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
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Palin Hopes God Will ’show her the door’ To The White House
Huffington Post Nicholas Graham | November 10, 2008 10:00 PM
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Palin refused to say whether she was planning a run for the White House in 2012, but the devoutly faithful governor said she would wait for a sign from God, and that she is confident […]
Posted in Holier Than Thouists-Conservative Evangelical Arm, Fox Channel, White House, Sarah Palin |
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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Images: (Broken) via holdensmith.com; (Watergate) via thefunkstore.com; (Conservatives) via image.barnesandnoble.com
Posted in Congress, administration, Constitution, Republicans, Books, USA, Neo-Romanovs, Ukraine, White House, Watergate, John Dean |
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Certainly some days can be shorter than others and there should be some time spent out of the city, but a working vacation should not mean sweating while clearing brush. It is highly doubtful that W ever spent seven days a week doing anything except riding his bike, so the idea of needing […]
Posted in Bush, White House |
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Waxman: White House Blocking Release of Plame Investigation Docs
By Paul Kiel - December 3, 2007, 11:17AM
Another test for Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
In a letter to Mukasey today, House sleuth Henry Waxman (D-CA) said that the White House has prevented former Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald from turning over records of his interviews during the Valeria Plame […]
Posted in C.I.A. Leak, Cheney, Plame, Libby, White House |
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
The following excerpt is from the November 20, 2007 POLITICO story about Scott McClellan’s book’s revelations about the deceit used during the Plame affair.
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“Shortly after news of the McClellan excerpt broke, Politico caught up with Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper, two reporters who received information about Valerie Plame’s identity and were caught up in […]
Posted in Bush, Cheney, Television, Books, 2004 Election, Rove, Andrew Card, Plame, White House, Scott McClellan |
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
LESSON 5 — The Creation and the Fall of Man
48. What is man?
Man is a creature composed of body and soul, and made to the image and likeness of God.
{And God created man to his own image. (Genesis 2:7)}
Baltimore Catechism
I lay no claim that your god is not as legitimate as mine. Competition […]
Posted in administration, Religion, Movies, Health, Books, Science, Roman Catholics, White House |
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
October 4, 2007
Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations
By SCOTT SHANE, DAVID JOHNSTON and JAMES RISEN
This article is by Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 — When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent” in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited […]
Posted in administration, Torture, CIA, Condoleezza Rice, Gonzalez, Department of Justice, White House |
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Transparency Begins at Home: Notes on What We’re Up To
Presidential Records In the Dark
It’s interesting to watch what happens in Congress when “because that’s the way we’ve always done it” no longer becomes an option. For years, Senators have put secret holds on bills they wanted to block. These anonymous objections have been used by […]
Posted in administration, Law, Republicans, Bush, Cong-SENATE, White House, Jim Bunning |
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
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Cranking up the pain on Burma
Blake Hounshell
Tue, 09/25/2007 - 11:13am.
President Bush concluded his remarks several minutes ago, and I just got my hands on the text of his speech. Several of the foreign names in the draft include handy phonetic pronunciations. Want to talk like the president? Here’s how to do it:
* Kyrgyzstan [KEYR-geez-stan]
* Mauritania […]
Posted in Bush, United Nations, Three Stooges, White House |
