Denny’s Man Denny’s Man
Yesterday the House Ethics Committee issued four dozen subpoenas but declined to appoint an outside counsel to investigate a possible cover-up of Mark Foley's conduct by the House...
Oct 6, 2006 / The Nation
N.J. Pride At Risk N.J. Pride At Risk
As someone who was born and raised in New Jersey I can assure you with some authenticity that New Jersey pride is often under-appreciated and overlooked. Personally, I've always ...
Oct 6, 2006 / The Nation
The Blame Game The Blame Game
Republicans have finally found the causes and culprits of Foleygate: political correctness and George Soros. First, political correctness. On Tuesday the Arlington Group, a coali...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
Big-Brother Software Big-Brother Software
Read Wednesday's New York Times article about how software is being developed to monitor negative opinions of the US or its leaders in overseas newspapers and other publications. ...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
Premature Celebration Premature Celebration
The President and his speechwriters have, these last years, fallen in love with "victory." Back in November, 2005, for instance, promoting his administration's "National Strategy...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
Hastert Under Mounting Pressure Hastert Under Mounting Pressure
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Illinois, has scheduled a press conference this morning in Chicago. What will Hastert, who faces mounting pressure to quit over his mishandling of...
Oct 5, 2006 / The Nation
The Circle Fires The Circle Fires
The fallout from Foleygate keeps increasing. Just when it looks like Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert might be shoring up his support among conservatives, another bombshell dro...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation
Stale Peanuts Stale Peanuts
All hands are on deck, and scrambling desperately, as the administration tries in vain to get its story straight regarding a July 10, 2001 meeting between then-National Security a...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation
Tipping Point? Tipping Point?
Sometimes, the proximate cause of an unraveling, even an implosion, may catch everyone by surprise. This week the "tipping point" (to borrow a Bush administration phrase from the...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation
Hastert Lies Again, Gets Caught Again Hastert Lies Again, Gets Caught Again
This whole Denny Hastert scandal is moving beyond parody. Apparently, the Speaker of the House thinks that no one who actually follows the news listens to conservative talk radio...
Oct 4, 2006 / The Nation