Heads up! It's hurricane season. Again.
Top Researcher Predicts Major Hurricane Season
The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should be "very active," with nine hurricanes and a good chance that at least one major hurricane will hit the U.S. coast, a top researcher said Tuesday. Forecaster William Gray said he expects [...]
Tags: Hurricanes, Hurricane Forecast, Hurricane Season
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Back on the old blog, I know I posted several pieces about Ethanol. In broad terms, I've never bought into the viability of it, even though I grew up in the Midwest and know it's great to open up another market for farmers. That's about the only benefit I can see. I've never been convinced that the end result is any real energy savings. Now, there's a Canadian report that seems to debunk the entire "cleaner air" argument.
Report You Won’t Hear About: Ethanol Emissions No Cleaner Than Gasoline
An as yet unpublished report from Ottawa, Canada, suggests that there is absolutely no ecological advantage to using ethanol blends in cars versus conventional unleaded gasoline. Think this will make headlines here in America? Regardless of the answer, the Canadian Broadcasting Company [...]
Tags: Ethanol, Clean Air, Global Warming
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If there's a consistent theme among bloggers on the left today, it's the way they picked up on a key statement in the President's speech/news conference this morning.
Bush just spoke to the nation, trying to convince the public to support his Iraq quagmire, and he claimed again that the surge, the escalation, was the idea of his commanders in the field, and he's just following their advice. In fact, all of the Joint Chiefs, the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, ALL opposed the surge. "The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to [...]
Tags: George W. Bush, Iraq War, News Conference
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U.S. News and NBC News share joint credit for being first with the news that Congressional Republicans have some deadlines of their own for the Iraq War.
GOP insiders see Dowd's defection as a possible larger rebellion against Bush
Dowd's defection is causing Republican insiders to wonder whether this is the start of a larger rebellion against Bush by his former supporters. GOP insiders say this could easily happen among GOP members of Congress on the most important issue of the day: Iraq. If Bush's current buildup of [...]
UPDATE: Not all who blog about such things are convinced the GOP members of Congress won't get cold feet, if push comes to shove.
Greg Sargent passes along Andrea Mitchell's version of what moderate Republicans are saying these days:[Petraeus] is telling them that he will report some progress, that he hopes to be able to report some progress by August. And in turn, [...]
Tags: Iraq War, Congressional Republicans, Dowd
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Another day. Another one bites the dust in the Bush Administration.
We surely will miss her steady optimism. "WASHINGTON - President Bush is losing his top day-to-day adviser on Iraq, the White House confirmed Monday. Meghan L. O'Sullivan, who has played a key behind-the-scenes role in implementing Bush's controversial Iraq policies over [...]
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It took a full-fledged news conference for him to say this? Again? Must be enough to make the WH reporters want to skip the next command appearance.
President Bush expressed frustration on Tuesday with the congressional debate on Iraq war spending and accused majority-party Democrats of being “more interested in fighting political battles in Washington than providing our troops what they need.” Bush, speaking with reporters in the Rose Garden of the White House, renewed [...]
Tags: george W. Bush, Congress, Iraq War, Supplemental Funding Bill
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Not hardly. The John McCain Iraq visit over the weekend was frought with problems. From the heavy security needed to keep him safe, to a nonsensical news conference, to the false Michael Ware heckling story, the weekend provided little support to McCain's position that things are rosy in Baghdad. Even the locals weren't impressed.
McCain Wrong on Iraq Security, Merchants Say
A day after members of an American Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain pointed to their brief visit to Baghdad's central market as evidence that the new security plan for the city was working, the merchants there were incredulous about the Americans' conclusions. "What are they [... ]
And an author over at the News Corpse blog makes an excellent point about all of this -
Last week John McCain launched a press offensive to declare that things were improving in Iraq. He told Bill Bennet on his radio show, that... "there are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today." Despite the charm of a romantic outing with John and Bill, hand [...]
Tags: John McCain, Iraq War, Troop Surge
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Numbers I've seen nowhere else. So far. And they're not headed in a good direction.
In the first full month since the "surge" has been implemented, Iraq fatalities have reportedly increased, with 1,861 Iraqis losing their lives in March alone. During that same period, 87 American soldiers were killed. In the last nine days alone, 20 American soldiers have died. Last week, I wrote about how this moment in American history requires unwaivering Democratic leadership. The war may not end today, but [...]
Tags: Iraq War, Iraqi Fatalities, American Fatalities
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I'll give a big, first thing in the morning, pat on the back to this blogger for an upfront and detailed apology for helping spread the Michael Ware story yesterday. And, as a commenter notes, he did it in a much better fashion than many.
As noted in an update to this post, Matt Drudge apparently got April-fooled when he posted a "Drudge Exclusive" that CNN reporter Michael Ware heckled John McCain during a press conference in Baghdad. Video of the press conference shows that [...]
UPDATE: Yesterday's holdouts are still not giving in -
Glenn Reynolds Corrects His Michael Ware Post
Glenn thinks that the video from Raw Story (which I posted earlier) vindicates Michael Ware. I fail to see how that can be true. As I said in my earlier post, Ware isn’t visible throughout [...]
UPDATE 2: Even Powerline says Drudge better apologize...
Tags: Michael Ware, CNN, Matt Drudge, John McCain
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Kudos to the "60 Minutes" crew for pulling off some great journalism last night. In case you missed it, it's simply a marvelous example of the potential of television news.
Under the Influence: How Lobbyists Wrote and Bought the Rx Drug Bill
60 Minutes tells the story of how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists literally wrote the historic Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and twisted arms to get the necessary votes to have it passed in the middle of the night. Correspondent Steve Kroft documents how many of the congressmen and staffers who worked on the bill [...]
Tags: 60 Minutes, Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, Steve Kroft
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