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Dick Morris: Bush is a Republican Jimmy Carter
Via Kevin Drum, Dick Morris is comparing George W. Bush to Jimmy Carter — a comparison I made back in June 2005: George W. Bush is a one- term president now serving deep into his second term. Like his father, he shot his bolt during his first four years. Unlike his dad, he was able
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Two Duke lacrosse players arrested
From the News and Observer: Duke University lacrosse players Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty were charged today with first degree forcible rape, first degree sexual offense and kidnapping in connection with a reported rape at a Duke University lacrosse party, according to George Naylor, director of the jail. Bond was set for each player at
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NoIndictments issued in Duke lacrosse caseOther than going to the bathroom, Mike Nifong didn’t make any news today — no indictments were issued: A Durham grand jury issued a list of indictments this afternoon that did not include members of the Duke University lacrosse team. District Attorney Mike Nifong had been widely anticipated to seek charges today from the grand
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Mike Nifong goes to the bathroom
No word yet from the grand jury in Durham. In the meantime, the press corps is recording Mike Nifong’s visits to the courthouse bathroom for posterity: Masses of reporters came to the Durham County Judicial Building today expecting grand jury indictments in the Duke lacrosse rape scandal. No indictments had been announced by 12:30 p.m.,
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Duke lacrosse update: Indictments imminent?
I was out of town for a Passover celebration with my wife’s family, so I haven’t been following the Duke lacrosse story over the last few days. Today is a big day, however, with observers expecting indictments from the grand jury. As we wait for further news, here’s a roundup of the latest developments in
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Sad real estate cocooning
Today’s Washington Post features a disturbing article on how developers are sorting people into developments by “values.” Here’s the most dystopic passage: Before a shovel ever hit the dirt at Ladera, Warrick sent out more than 20,000 surveys to people who had called after reading billboards advertising the community or who had been shopping for
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National Review bizarro world
National Review does not live within the reality-based community — check out the parenthetical at the end of their subscription-only editorial on immigration: We are constantly told that the American economy depends on the arrival of more than a million new low-skilled workers every year — that they fill “jobs Americans won’t do.” Thus we
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Duncan Hunter mixes metaphors
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) makes his high school English teacher weep while defending Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on CNN’s “Late Edition” today: And the fact that we’re in a — that this is a tough time and a tough point in this progress toward a free Iraq doesn’t mean that you change horses because
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Ninja apprehension at UGA
Talk about begging the question: Running through the University of Georgia campus as a ninja can elicit a prompt response from authorities, a UGA sophomore learned. Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents, on campus for a community training project, detained Jeremiah Ransom of Macon Tuesday as a “suspicious individual” when they spotted a masked figure
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More Bush “biological laboratories” deception
Disturbing but not surprising: On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, President Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile “biological laboratories.” He declared, “We have found the weapons of mass destruction. “The