Entries tagged "Politics"

  1. Politweets mixes Twitter and Election ‘08

    Twitter, the micro-blogging/status web app, has been the subject of a lot of chatter lately on the ol’ Internets (and, by no coincidence, a top time-suck for me). Equally loved and reviled, Twitter lets you post a short, 140-character-or-less message informing the world of what you’re up to at that moment. Like most, I balked [...]

  2. Bill Moyers interviews Jon Stewart

    I found this over on Ryan Gantz’s site. Bill Moyers sat down for an interview with Daily Show host Jon Stewart, who is quickly becoming the news-bearer for my generation. Unfortunately, we live in an era where 24-hour news channels are more interested in sensationalism and ratings than they are in reporting real, actual news.
    Stewart [...]

  3. Thank you, Commander Obvious

    Presidential adviser Karl Rove blamed the war in Iraq on Monday for dragging down President Bush’s job approval ratings in public opinion polls. “People like this president,” Rove said. “They’re just sour right now on the war.”

    “I think the war looms over everything. There’s no doubt about it,” Rove said during a question-and-answer session after [...]

  4. Incomprehensible

    In The Worst President In History?, Rolling Stone’s Sean Wilentz reports the following:
    According to the Treasury Department, the forty-two presidents who held office between 1789 and 2000 borrowed a combined total of $1.01 trillion from foreign governments and financial institutions. But between 2001 and 2005 alone, the Bush White House borrowed $1.05 trillion, more than [...]