links for 2007-03-27
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This pie chart brings in more traffic than lengthier articles I write—and who am I to argue with success? The chart below is an update, using the latest estimates from the Treasury. (To make it easier to dispel the popular-but-false rumors about China
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For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the conventio
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Investor recoveries from American class-action securities lawsuits hit an all-time high last year of nearly $17.2bn, including a $6.6bn partial settlement that went to the investors in Enron.
Even without the Enron deal, the 2006 settlements reached an
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Helped by the push of a coalition of 200 organizations here in southern California – including twice-daily pleas from the leading Latino TV station and full-page ads in La Opinion, the leading Spanish-language newspaper – a 150 percent increase in app
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Rated R rant on the miscreant failures in the White House from Bill Maher
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The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is likely to remain open for the remainder of the Bush presidency despite Bush’s stated desire to close it, the administration said yesterday.
“It’s highly unlikely that you can dispense with all those
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WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congress, eager to do something that would be popular with voters, is moving to provide healthcare coverage to millions of uninsured children this year, but there’s a catch: Senior citizens enrolled in a popular Medicare prog
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I want to return to the video clip of the jovial and dismissive discussion of the U.S. attorneys scandal on yesterday’s Chris Matthews Show (embedded below). In one sense, this clip is completely typical of how our national media thinks and talks about po
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WASHINGTON (Map, News) – The White House stood by Alberto Gonzales on Monday, even as support for the embattled attorney general erodes on Capitol Hill amid new questions about his honesty.
Three key Republican senators sharply questioned his truthfu
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Even though the internet tag NSFW (Not Safe for Work) is assumed to have something to do with sex, it is more about class, politics, and how much money you make.
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Outgoing US ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad has said he held talks last year with insurgent groups to try to bring them into the political fold.
He told the New York Times he had talks both before and after the bombing of a Shia shrine in February
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As we shall see, Rumsfeld was first and foremost a politician, though not always a successful one. The weeks before the attacks had been one of the unsuccessful phases, with rumors spreading in Washington that he would shortly be removed from his post. On
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Witnesses have told congressional investigators that the chief of the General Services Administration and a deputy in Karl Rove’s political affairs office at the White House joined in a videoconference earlier this year with top GSA political appointees,
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Propelled by the obesity epidemic and the drive for more sustainable economies, an urban agriculture movement is flowering across the U.S.
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New Mexico hopes to break ground soon on the world’s first commercial spaceport, which state elders envision as a 21st-century departure point for thousands of paying space tourists.
New Mexico’s governor Bill Richardson worked with the southwest dese
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As I type this, I am supposed to be in San Diego, delivering a workshop at the ETech conference. But I’m not. I’m at home, with the doors locked, terrified. For the last four weeks, I’ve been getting death threat comments on this blog. But that’s not what
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