Much like the presidency that spawned it, the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is heavy on the style and light on the substance. For the most part, the exhibits trumpeting Bush’s supposed successes bear little more than a… Read More ›
Dick Cheney
Sometimes Quickly, Sometimes Slowly: The Obama and Bush Approaches to Disaster Management
One of the hallmarks of the George W. Bush administration was that their realities were oftentimes more absurd than the parodies created to mock them. Nothing Jon Stewart and his boys cooked up in a writers meeting could have been… Read More ›
Torture Me Softly
To members of the CIA, it was known as “The Salt Pit”. For those that were shackled and beaten there, it was simply “The Dark Prison.” In actuality it was an abandoned brick factory north of Kabul that had been… Read More ›
New Reform to be Referred to as “Obamacare with a Side of Roberts”
People, I’m not going to think about the striking down of Medicaid expansion and the fact that the state of Alabama will continue spend more money on Roll Tide banners than healthcare. That’s for tomorrow. Today…we must just be grateful… Read More ›
Same-Sex Marriage: Conservative Edition
On paper, Paul Singer sounds like every other obscenely wealthy conservative voice in the United States. His resume reads like ½ of the New York Times obituaries ever written: Born in metro NYC he received his J.D. From Harvard Law,… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 