Category: long story short

Dick Cheney may be hiding out in an undisclosed location unavailable to answer questions from the public (just as his boss ended the practice of holding press conferences back in February of 2001), but you can ask a simulation of Dick Cheney anything you like. My question: Will Halliburton benefit from the reconstruction of Iraq…

Republicans hauled out “class warfare” talking point this week as they do every time one of their “tax relief” plans is challenged as extremely tilted toward the superrich. It must poll well for them. If you’re tired of hearing this feint or disappointed with the timid rigidity of the Democrats’ response, Matthew Miller of Tribune…

Hey, why are we letting out-of-staters choose our California Quarter Design? Some of these are hilarious. Apparently Davis will pick one from the top 5 vote getters.

I got to wondering why the voices raised in opposition to Paul Krugman’s series of columns about the Bush presidency always seem to go for the ad hom argument, at times resorting to coordinated smearing and so rarely seem to engage with the substance of his (coherent, by way of contrast) lines of argument. When…

This August, 2000 Austin Chronicle article (The Candidate From Brown and Root) connects the dots on Brown and Root, LBJ, Halliburton, and Dick Cheney.

Too lazy to pad out to my front drive and pick up the Sunday Chronicle, I’ve been reading New York Times op eds and now skimming Slate. There’s a tight little William Saletan article from Thursday, Wise Counsel: Edwards copies Clinton’s message—in invisible ink, that makes the point that John Edwards has mastered the Clinton…