My Very Own Juror
When the Scooter Libby trial ended, the media was found guilty. By the media. Which likes to obsess on itself. In the media.
The press gave short shrift to poor Scooter, whose downfall came from doing Dick Cheney’s bidding with “canine loyalty,” as Chris Matthews told Don Imus yesterday morning. Scooter’s facing hard […]

Two words…subpoena power!
PAUL KRUGMAN: Department of Injustice
In the months ahead, we’ll hear a lot about what’s really been going on these past six years. And I predict that we’ll learn about abuses of power that would have made Richard Nixon green with envy.
 
 

Well FEMA aka Bush has thrown Dumas and Arkansas to the curb for not being politically “correct”? Let us hope that in 2008 when some Republican tries to run for anything…including dog catcher we remind the people that even though through our tax dollars we’ve been funding FEMA for years, that the Republican Party and […]

The lottery scam
The Halter Lottery and Scholarship Scheme has a long way to go before the voters get a chance to knock it down. Officially labeled House Joint Resolution 1005, it’s first got to get through the Ledge. And it’s not a good sign when the guy who technically runs the state Senate has no […]

 A welcome addition
Our state is in a strange situation; a good one, but unusual. Because of conservative budgeting and a state economy that has performed well beyond expectation over the last couple of years, state government has the luxury of an $ 845 million pot of money to spend. Debate over what to spend the […]