I like this comment made in a blog post about the recently released National Intelligence Estimate deflating the Bush administration’s rhetoric advocating bombing Iran: It reminds me of that quote from Kurt von Hammerstein: I divide officers into four classes — the clever, the lazy, the stupid and the industrious. Each officer possesses at least [...]

Religious right wingnuts American Family Association are attempting to get the military to stop selling Playboy and Penthouse wherever fine reading material is sold on bases. By law, most skin mags can’t be sold in military stores. Playboy and Penthouse aren’t deemed scandalous enough to fall under those regulations, though. When I was in Air [...]

GovExec.com is reporting that Foreign Service Officers — the folks who work for the State Department at embassies around the world — are upset over a new policy that would force them to serve in Iraq: Several hundred U.S. diplomats vented anger and frustration Wednesday about the State Department’s decision to force foreign service officers [...]

It’s a pissing contest to see who South Carolina’s favorite son really is! As CNN reports: Comedian Stephen Colbert brought his mock presidential campaign to the capital of South Carolina Sunday, where he was declared “favorite son” by the mayor of Columbia and given the key to the city. Colbert, a native of Charleston, told [...]

What if only poor people were allowed to vote? Or only middle-income? Or just the rich? Well, the 2004 election would have looked something like this: [Hotel Tango: Crooked Timber]

The conservative Lone Star Times is reporting that presidential hopeful Ron Paul has received campaign donations from the white supremacist movement. The LST, which I’m certain I’d never agree with otherwise, has been digging up information on the donations, the Web site owned by the contributor, Don Black, and a bunch of other facts that [...]

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that [Stephen] Colbert is preferred by 13% of voters as an independent candidate challenging Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani. The survey was conducted shortly after Colbert’s surprise announcement that he is lusting for the Oval Office. The result is similar when Fred Thompson is the [...]

A new poll looks at the support for Stephen Colbert’s faux presidential campaign among Democrats and Republicans: Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm, recently completed a national poll of 1,000 likely 2008 voters that included Colbert’s name in both the GOP and Democratic primaries. (He has announced his plans to run in both the [...]

PolitiFact.com from the St. Petersburg Times examines politician’s statements and ranks them on their truth-o-meter. Here’s a great Huckabee quote from the last Republican debate in Orlando that got a “Pants on fire!” rating from PolitiFact. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were “brave people, most of whom, by the way, were clergymen.” Politifact’s [...]

What You Missed If You Didn’t Read Today’s NYTimes No need to worry about poor and elderly minorities being disenfranchised by new Voter ID laws. They’re disenfranchised by death before it becomes a problem, according to the Bush administration’s civil rights czar. The Marines get fashion conscious. The Maine Middle School Contraceptive Controversy: “It brings [...]