This is ironic; all those things you thought no Republican, let alone a decent American or honest person, would do. Stuff like stealing elections and going to war under false pretences.
Offered with minimal comment. Which is- academic tenure isn't really defensible, but still. In the realpolitik of our society, it's the closest thing we've got to guaranteeing freedom of expression, truly free and truly expressed. I also think that it's plain and clear that a fellow of one institution should have no special say in the appointment of another at another institution. Alan's head is clearly too big for his shoulders, regardless of his objections. Read below the fold...
Monica Goodling, Justice Department "aide", announces she will resign effective tomorrow.
Breaking CNN so no link.
UPDATE: Ah, here we go: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Justice Department official Monica Goodling, who had raised controversy by invoking the 5th Amendment in her refusal to testify before Congress, resigned her job as counselor to the attorney general late Friday.
In a brief letter to Alberto Gonzales, Goodling gave no reason for her resignation but said it was effective April 7th.
In general, here at Corrente we don't make invidious assumptions about the personal qualities of individuals we don‘t know, so no, we don't think you are soulless. Speaking for myself, I welcome your explanation, late though it was, and I appreciate its friendly tone. Read below the fold...
The U.S. Constitution gives no one in the executive branch the power to defy Congress as it is doing in Ms. Goodling's case. Members of the executive branch are in office to carry out the president's orders, and the theoretical presidential powers are derived from his office, in which he/she is sworn to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. Read below the fold...
Okay, I was not completely hallucinating: John Seigenthaler really did sign off tonight with the announcement that he was leaving NBC news. Or more precisely that "this was his last broadcast" for the network, with no new assignment or plans mentioned. Read below the fold...
It's not a secret that the cretin in chief doesn't care about us common folk. That there has been no outcry about his plan to remove tax breaks for employer health insurance is pretty amazing.
The natural effect of making it more expensive will mean most employers will eliminate employee health plans and leave it in the lap of the individual employee. Read below the fold...
Wow. You should read this Salon story about the "election fraud" stuff being pushed by the Missouri GOP since 2000. You remember that night, don't you? The night that John Ashcroft lost to a dead man -- and Republicans insisted that it only happened because of election fraud?
BTW, among other nuggets in this story, did you know that the first attorney appointed using the new Patriot Act powers was much earlier -- in March 2006 -- in the western district of Missouri?: Read below the fold...
Sometimes we're as bad as the mainstream media we criticize, jumping from one Scandal du Jour to the next and then forgetting the one we were so outraged about last week. Read below the fold...
Money. It's always at the heart of these things, and the Justice Department scandal is no different. Bush and Rove ordered the Justice Department to back off, change testimony, lower the punitive damage amounts, and basically throw the case that had gained real momentum during the Clinton era. The reason why is simple: Read below the fold...
This is pretty damned astonishing. W's all in now boys. If he loses, he loses big. And I mean REALLY big.
If he fights them, Congress is likely to respond by bringing every one of his advisors before them. They're also likely to start asking Rove other questions -- like about the Valerie Plame case.
There won't be a rock big enough to hide under if he loses. He'll actually make the presidency much weaker if he loses. Read below the fold...
Which brings me back to sex with horses. The story last summer about the man who died from a perforated colon while having sex with a horse in Enumclaw was by far the year's most read article.
What's more, four more of the year's 20 most clicked-upon local news stories were about the same horse-sex incident. We don't publish our Web-traffic numbers, but take it from me — the total readership on these stories was huge.
