Karma, Meet Bob Novak: Columnist Breaks Hip
According to Broadcasting & Cable, columnist Robert Novak, 73, "slipped in his Miami hotel room shower and broke his hip." Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy, really. Karma, meet Bob Novak;...
View ArticleKerry Given Nod by Football Gods-- Packers Win Over Redskins!
Many of you have undoubtably seen this Snopes article, which shows that the outcome of the last Washington Redskins home football game before the election has correctly predicted the winner of every...
View ArticleBright Spot: Chafee May Switch to Dems
According to tomorrow's Washington Post, GOP moderate Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R.I.) would not rule out switching to the Democratic Party. This is not the first time he has said this, of course, but...
View ArticleRidge Will Announce His Resignation Today
According to CNN, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge will announce his resignation today. Good riddance.
View Article7 Marines Killed in Iraq's Anbar Province Today
According to the Associated Press, "seven U.S. Marines were killed in two separate incidents in Iraq's restive Anbar province, the military said Monday." The story can be found here:...
View ArticlePrivatization Opponent Rep. Matsui (D-CA) Dead
(From the diaries. Terrible news -- kos) According to CNN, Rep. Robert "Bob" T. Matsui (of the Fifth District of California) is dead. He served as ranking minority member of the Social Security...
View ArticleBush: President Must Have Relationship with the Lord
This scares the absolute hell out of me. Scares. The. Hell. Out. Of. Me. According to the Drudge Report, (see here: http://www.drudgereport.com/flashwt.htm) President Bush granted the Washington Times...
View ArticleDoes Zephyr Teachout Deserve to Be a Fellow at Harvard?
According to both a comment by another on Zephyr Teachout's own blog, Zephyr Teachout "just began a term as a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Technology, where she will...
View ArticleNice-- FCC's Michael Powell Resigns
According to the Wall Street Journal in an editorial today, the announcement should come this morning and follows his father's farewell yesterday. Full story can be found here.
View ArticleCNN: Hillary Clinton hospitalized after collapsing while delivering speech
AP and CNN are both reporting she's en route to a hospital. AP has a story up here. Not a good sign, this space will be updated as developments are announced.
View ArticleSite that Syndicates Talon News Strikes Back, Defends Gannon
MensNewsDaily.com, an Internet "news" site that previously syndicated Jeff Gannon's columns, is striking back with a column entitled ""Jeff Gannon"...One Last Time." In a vitrol-laced column written...
View ArticleEvan Brown: Best Essay So Far on Schiavo
Evan Brown, a East Village-based writer, nails the hypocrisy of the Schiavo case in his column posted yesterday here: http://villagebroadsheet.com/content/view/186/62/ Entitled "Persistent Legislative...
View ArticleCNN Poll: 46% Rate Bush's Speech Tonight "Very Positive"
On CNN's front page tonight, there is a story on the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll done on tonight's speech. No byline is given on the story, was it done by a fellow named "Shoddy Methodology"? Read the...
View ArticleRep. Hayes: "Evidence is Clear" Saddam Linked to 9/11
Via CNN: "A Republican congressman from North Carolina told CNN on Wednesday that the "evidence is clear" that Iraq was involved in the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11,...
View ArticleWarning: Soldiers *May Not* Get College Paid For
According to yesterday's New York Post, a New York National Guardsman -- who has served for almost 6 years, mostly in Iraq -- will not be college paid for, something he was promised when he signed up,...
View ArticleGoogle's IM client is now active
After much speculation, Google Talk is now finally available at http://talk.google.com/ Kickass, been playing with it for the last 20 minutes. It's new communications tool for those who use IM, nice to...
View ArticleIraq lawmakers delay vote on constitution
Surprise, surprise. There is no set date for the vote to happen. In my own way, I am shocked and awed. (Not really.) Ironically, the Washington Post said last night that: "[t]he Bush administration...
View ArticleWH Aides: Bush Considers Picking Roberts as Chief Justice
It's no longer just a theory, folks. According to today's Washington Post, Bush is "considering a plan to install Roberts as chief justice rather than as an associate justice replacing Sandra Day...
View ArticleHarriet Miers To Be Bush Pick for Supreme Court
Per CNN, Bush will make his nomination for Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the Supreme Court at 8 a.m. this morning. The candidate will also speak during the press conference. [Update]: The Associated...
View ArticleMediaweek: Former FCCer W. Kenneth Ferree Out at CPB
Mediaweek is reporting that former federal telecommunications regulator W. Kenneth Ferree has resigned from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, just five months after becoming the corporation's...
View ArticleComents on Tonight's "West Wing" (Uh, Spoilers)
Alternate diary title, for those wishing not to be spoiled on the West Coast: "White House Leaker Fired-- Albeit in Fictional "West Wing"" Tonight's "West Wing" was extremely well done, one of the best...
View ArticleNYU Journalism Prof Rips Judy Miller on "Clearance" Issue
Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at New York University and the noted PressThink blogger, hands Judy Miller (of the New York Times) her head on the journalism website Romenesko today, demanding to...
View ArticleWSJ: Ana Marie Cox Leaving Wonkette
Peter Lattman, the lead writer for The Wall Street Journal's new Law Blog, has this today: "Queen of the blogosphere Ana Marie Cox is said to be handing over the reins at her spicy political blog...
View ArticleOscars-Related: Ann Coulter Apparently Can't Even Do Basic Math
Originally posted at my blog, "Hard, Cutting". I can't stand the extremely shrill Ann Coulter, who has never met an untruth she didn't like. Here's another one. From her column Wednesday (syndicated on...
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