Check out this article on the latest in the CBS memo battle. CBS apparently didn't do very much research into this story after all..

"powerful and extremely well-financed forces are concentrating on questions about the documents because they can’t deny the fundamental truth of the story." -Dan Rather last night The blogsphere is many things but well-financed is not one of them. Note to Dan: Doesn't take a lot of money to open up Microsoft Word, type the same document with default font, spacing, settings, scan it and then overlay it with your "memos from 1973" to see that they match perfectly with the memos. If CBS ...

Things keep getting worse and worse for CBS as the evidence mounts that the memos they used to try to make George W. Bush look bad were simply cranked out on MS Word using its default settings rather than in 1973. The denials from the left are really almost..sad at this point. Can you imagine if criminal investigations were this partisan? "You can't trust that finger print, sure it matches exactly but if you can't prove that someone else in the world doesn't have that same finger print you mu...

Sometimes I ask, rhetorically, what is the right-wing equivalent to Democratic Underground? The far left of the US population seems to be foaming in angst and hatred that I find quite disturbing. I surf the web a great deal and there are no right wing sites of anywhere near the scale of DU that top this sort of thing in virtriol and hatred. 

At this points, anyone even remotely interested in this story who is on-line has seen the compelling evidence that the memos CBS used to prove that Bush was getting special treatment in the National Guard were in fact forged. Here's an animated GIF from LGF that shows the CBS received memo vs. a 2004 Windows XP MS Word document with all the default settings.  The evidence is pretty conclusive. You can't even get this close using a different word processor let alone using a type writ...

Been hearing a lot of Cheney's "outrageous" statement about making wrong choices and terrorist attacks? That's because he's not just being quoted out of context but actually having a sentence cut off. Here is how the sound bite runs: Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we’ll get hit again, that we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States. Big problem with that quote - it's incomplete. There should be no period after...

So now Kerry is trying to make an issue that Cheney got a deferrment for going to Vietnam? Are they seriously? Wasn't the last Democratic President an outright draft dodger? Since when is Vietnam war fighting experience a big deal to Democrats?

Next time someone argues there is no liberal media bias, point out the attention Zell Miller's speech has gotten and compare it to the speeches given by Gore and Sharpton at the DNC.

This past week the 2003 report on the poverty rate for the United States came out.  The poverty rate grew slightly for the third straight year from its its all time low in 2000 (right when the stock bubble about about to burst).  It is now back to where it was during most of the 90s -- 12.5%. In addition to the link below, you can also find out more on this from the US census bureau: http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html The problem with the poverty rate is that it seems ...

So how are you liking the results of Campaign Finance Reform? Swift boat ads. MoveOn.org. OutFoxed. Wonderful stuff eh? Yep, Campaign Finance Reform has really clenaed up politics...

CNN has a really nice article on The Political Machine, the game I worked on this past Spring/Summer.  Check it out.

I find it amazing that the group of people most identified with worshipping the first amendment seem to be the ones most intolerant of opinions other than their own. For months we've seen left wing groups like MoveOn.org creating anti-Bush commercials that are only vaguely factual.  Celebrities have lent their voices to unseating George W. Bush.  Bruce Springsteen, for example, is currently doing a "Get Bush Out" concert tour (John Mellencamp wrote a song called "Bush is just another t...

When you're dealing with the lower end of the intellectual spectrum, Democrats and Republicans tend to become pretty similar.  Their reasons for voting are often equally uninformed or irrational. At the higher end though, there is a distinct difference based on what I've seen.  Democrats tend to rely much more on third party analysis for their political opinions.  It's pretty rare to see the "stats freaks" arguing for liberal or Democratic positions.  Instead, the Democrat...

Fahrenheit 9/11's success or failure will provide a good measure of the political temperature of the United States. In my mind, Michael Moore is a villain. An unscrupulous opportunist who brings new meaning the to the phrase "the end justifies the means".  The end, of course, being the ouster of George W. Bush.  The means, in his own small petty way, is his new smear movie, Fahrenheit 9/11. This review at Slate takes the movie apart bit by bit. I highly recommend reading it. If ...

What is it with left-wing zealots and the word "lie". It really gets under my skin. For liberals, it seems, conservatives never make mistakes. Oh no. Conservatives aren't, you know, actually human. And so whenever a conservative makes a statement that turns out to be wrong, it isn't that he was mistaken, it is that he lied. Al Franken has made this into a mini-career with books like "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them". Sure, other zealots on the left like him will eat...