Politics

The Weekly Standard derides the top liberal weblogs as far-left and shrill: What's more, the blogs take numerous positions that would strike all but the most passionate Democratic partisans as patently preposterous. For example, several of the left-wing blogs recently ran an advertisement that referred to West Virginia Senator and former Ku Klux Klan Kleagle Robert Byrd as an "American Hero." The Drudge Retort was one of the liberal blogs that ran the ad, which was bought by the Friends of ... (read more)

2005/07/15

Political Site Slow to Disclose Credit Card Theft

There's an ongoing dispute between the right-wing group ProtestWarrior and a left-wing "hacktivist" accused of breaking in to their servers and accessing the credit card information of 5,000 customers of the group's online store. While that allegation is under investigation (no charges have been filed), ProtestWarrior makes an unusual admission: They discovered the possible theft of customer credit cards in February, but didn't tell any customers until July 5. The reason we haven't made this ... (read more)

2005/07/14

President George H.W. Bush in a 1999 speech: We need more human intelligence. That means we need more protection for the methods we use to gather intelligence and more protection for our sources, particularly our human sources, people that are risking their lives for their country. Even though I'm a tranquil guy now at this stage of my life, I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of our sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of ... (read more)

2005/07/13

The defenders of Bush's leaky brain are getting desperate: My only comfort is that probably about 80% or more of the American people don't know who Karl Rove is. And probably 90% or even more don't know who Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are. Remember, only about 20-25% can name even one Supreme Court [justice]. This was written by Betsy Newmark, an Advanced Placement teacher of U.S. government and politics at a North Carolina high school. How many Americans knew Archibald Cox's name in 1973, ... (read more)

2005/07/12

This morning's Washington Post reports that the military has corrected a decline in recruiting: The Army has exceeded its monthly nationwide recruiting goals for June, stopping a four-month slide and giving recruiters hope as they try to make up a significant deficit in the remaining three months of the fiscal year. Unless I'm overlooking something, this appears to be Enron accounting. In May, the Army reduced monthly recruiting goals by 17 percent. ... (read more)

2005/06/30

Wired News follows the discovery of Bram Cohen's technological agenda declaring "digital piracy" as one of his goals, which he describes as a work of parody. Anybody who thinks that they might produce technology at some point in the future that might be used for piracy has to watch everything that they say. I suspect this will continue to be true until a file-sharing technology gets a slam-dunk victory in the courts. ... (read more)

2005/06/30

Meet Sunsara Taylor, the media's favorite young communist blogger and hardest working running dog in prole business: Sunsara Taylor has emerged as an important leading voice of a new generation dusting off the dream of revolution and picking up communism as it is being creatively re-envisioned by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party. She fiercely believes humanity is capable of a morality flowing from principles which guide an ongoing struggle to uproot all vestiges of ... (read more)

2005/06/25

One Nation Divisible by Zero

A State Department employee recalls how liberals reacted after the 9/11 attacks: I remember President Bush coming to our agency to make a speech about three weeks afterwards. Although, as is common with federal workers in DC, many people were Democrats and liberals who had voted against him, you would not have known that from the tumultous applause he got. He was the Commander-in-Chief, and we put aside politics to support him. Some conservatives are cynically proud of Rove for exploiting 9/11 ... (read more)

2005/06/25

In Case of Emergency, Dial 9/11

"9/11 changed everything" is the context by which everything follows. No speech about homeland security or Iraq should being without a reference to 9/11. -- GOP advisor Frank Luntz President Bush had a 90 percent approval rating in the Gallup Poll conducted Sept. 21-22, 2001. He has 47 percent approval in the same poll today. As the White House flounders for reasons to explain the record lows in the president's public support, perhaps they should consider the corrosive effect of their repeated ... (read more)

2005/06/24

Liveblogging Talk Radio

A cool thing happened Monday night during the experiment to promote the Alan Colmes Radio Show on the Drudge Retort. As the show broadcasts from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. weekdays, I post live links plugging the next hour. I wanted to see if the site's night owls would tune in and talk about it in real time. On Monday, Colmes interviewed Cindy Sheehan, a mother who began Gold Star Families for Peace after her son died in Iraq. On the Retort, we discussed her desire for an impeachment inquiry, and I ... (read more)

2005/06/22

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