Hacking John McCain - This is fantastic. McCain's myspace page was deeplinking images from this dude's web server, so the dude replaced the image with a great new message: Dear Supporters, Today I announce that I have reversed my position...
Headline: Bush demands war bill with no strings Yeah? Tough shit. The Bush administration seems to have difficulties with the BASIC tenets of the US Constitution. It's almost like this whole thing is make believe for President Bush. But...
I bought a new shirt a few days ago. Oxford pinpoint cotton. Good material. Nicely sewn. When removing the pins and plastic and cardboard, I glanced at the tag that indicates where the shirt was made. Vietnam. And it reminded...
We give the Snowman a lot of shit here at POLJUNK, but it can't be easy defending this administration day in and day out. Just the same, we're sorry to hear his cancer has returned and spread to his liver....
CNN is reporting that Iranian military has seized 15 British sailors in disputed waters off the coast of Iraq. The reports says that Royal Marines and regular sailors were captured by up to six Iranian naval vessels after the British...
After blustering on and on about what a phoney Al Gore was during the Vice President's testimony in front of the Senate Environmental Committee, resident global warming dunce James Inhofe got a smack down from Committee Chairperson, Barbara Boxer. "Would...
Smart Democrats should be able to make plenty of political hay from the White House's offer to allow ONLY unsworn testimony, not under oath--behind closed doors, and no transcript would be permitted—from Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. Obviously they're not...
"They've made no bones about the fact that once they've been able to establish a firm base in Anbar, or Iraq more broadly, that they intend to try to destabilize the neighbors and eventually attack the United States. They've not...
As the war that was supposed to take "weeks, not months" rolls into its fifth year, President Bush is pleading with the American public to be patient. With support for the war plummeting and Democrats moving to put limits on...
"No, seriously, dude. We want you to stay. But I mean, if you like HAVE to go or something, that's totally cool too." --Tony Snow...
The GOP story line says that the fired US Attorneys are "political" appointees and serve at the pleasure of the President. So who cares if they were fired for not doing their President's political will? Speaker of the House Nancy...
The Plame leak investigation is heating up with the victim herself testifying before congress this morning and Dr. James Knodell, Director of the Office of Security for the White House, testifying this afternoon. Plame confirmed that her status at the...
Asked a simple question, McCain seems to get confused about his own position on whether he supports tax payer funding of contraception in Africa where AIDS is devastating an entire generation. Suddenly the straight talk became halting and confused. "We...
"At this juncture, people have hazy memories." --Press Secretary Tony "Snowman" Snow on whether the President himself may have suggested firing all the US Attorneys and not Harriet Miers, as had been explained....
Classic. John McCain, stumbling as a neo-con and Bush lackey, rolls out the old Straight Talk Express for what used to be known as barn storming. Despite trailing Rudy Giuliani by double digits and failing to win ANY social conservative...
Has the countdown on Big Alberto begun? He says he won't resign and that his continued service is in the President's hands. As a member of his cabinet, of course he serves at the President's pleasure, so why make such...
Anyone wondering what might be the fatal flaw in Don't Ask, Don't Tell need look no further than the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. In a surprisingly candid remark regarding the ridiculous Clinton compromise on gays in the military, Peter...
Big Alberto wants to take responsibility, he really does, but it's not HIS fault 8 US Attorneys got sacked for political reasons. No, the buck stops just short of HERE. "My pledge to the American people is to find out...
In a bit of editorial faux pas, Salon had to edit a headline to an article on going negative against Rudy Giuliani. Originally titled "Swiftboating Rudy," the article details all the missteps in Rudy's record and personal history with which...
The calls for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's head are growing louder and more confident. The AG's Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, has already taken the walk of shame and today, Chuck Schumer cranked it up a notch and assured that...
Andrew Sullivan nails it again with his response to a reader who paints the Iraq War as a Western film in which the US is sheriff and needed to go into the Mideast "to knock heads," the risk being what...
There's a lot of hullabaloo surrounding Halliburton's reported move to Dubai. While there's plenty to hate about Dick Cheney's old employer, is this really a big deal? There are mixed reports that the move will alter their US tax burden...
Former deputy assistant secretary of the Navy, decorated former swift boat skipper, and combat veteran drops some science in an op-ed attacking President Bush's nomination of Sam Fox to be ambassador to Belgium: "And as a military man, it doesn't...
And so it begins...the honeymoon is well over for Barack Obama. Headlines today include stories about questionable investments and 17 year old parking fines. We'll now see if Hope can survive under a microscope. The digging has begun, as well...
Apparently, American Christian conservatives are so fed up with living in an environment that doesn't mold itself in strict accordance with their views that they have embarked on a mission to literally redefine every aspect of the world we all...
Andrew Sullivan sees a gathering storm that could not only sink this administration, but dismantle the modern Conservative movement. Add them up. We witness another horrifying suicide bombing in Iraq, murdering dozens of Shiite pilgrims. There is damning evidence that...
Libby was convicted of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and two counts of perjury and faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a fine of $1 million. The question now is will he be pardoned?...
Jurors have reached a verdict in the Scooter Libby trial. Patrick Fitzgerald's office says it will be announced at noon. Stay tuned......
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines "waste" as: a. to spend or use carelessly : SQUANDER; b : to allow to be used inefficiently or become dissipated... How better to describe the madness in Iraq? But politics on both side say any utterance...
