Subject: Donald H. Rumsfeld

• Decoding the Times' cry for help

  As R. Scott Moxley observes at the end of his dissection of Dana Parsons' attempt to slap a coat of whitewash on the lazy and error-filled reporting of the Haidl rape case Parsons has filled his L.A. Times column with, the Times has a new slogan for its Orange County advertising: Now More Than Ever. As Scott notes, it's a recycled slogan– Now More Than Ever was the slogan for Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign. "The paper craves conservative readers," Scott explains. True, but I won

  March 20, 2006

• Massively Penetrating in Vegas

  Looking for something new to do in Vegas? Something that involves breathing in massive amounts of particulate matter blown in from the desert? Something that involves watching yet another bit of idiotic Bush administration defense planning go up in smoke (literally)? Something a little mushroom cloudy? Well, you're in luck. Agence France-Presse reports that during the first week of June your tax dollars will be hard at work setting off a 700 ton explosion at the Nuclear Test Site just north of

  March 30, 2006

• Rummy "Slimy", Not "Slimmy"

  While discussing his new book, Conservatives without Conscience, on Firedoglake's Book Salon, John Dean, who first gained fame as the most honest man in the Nixon White House (which admittedly is a little like being the best ice skater in the Sahara), reminisced about the role of a young Donald Rumsfeld in the administration of Yorba Linda's favorite son (and current leading roadside attraction). Long before he became the guiding light of our adventure in Iraq, Rummy was already showing signs o

  September 5, 2006

• Numbers (Five Years Later)

  From a list compiled by the UK newspaper, The Independent: 2,973 Total number of people killed (excluding the 19 hijackers) in the September 11, 2001 attacks 72,000 Estimated number of civilians killed worldwide since September 11, 2001 as a result of the war on terror 2 Number of years since US intelligence had any credible lead to Osama bin Laden's whereabouts 2,932 Total number of US servicemen and women killed in Afghanistan and Iraq since September 2001 0 Hours of intelligence training

  September 11, 2006

• Odds and Ends

  Well, it was quite a weekend in Washington D.C. In a previous post, Alex did a fine job of spelling out the facts in the case of ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Predator). The only thing that can be added is that Foley has now headed down a familiar path-- as Josh Marshall puts it: "Ahhh, once again, the last refuge of the disgraced House Republican: rehab." Foley's checked himself into rehab for alcoholism, perhaps in preparation for blaming his personal demons on the Demon Rum. (Is it a Church of S

  October 2, 2006

• Does a Bear Shit in the LA Times?

  If you read Monday's Los Angeles "By God" Times Business section (and why would you?), you might've choked on your French Roast when you came on C3's three-quarter page advert announcing the California Bear is missing from the state flag. The gloomy gray gus informed that the Grizzly "grew tired of special elections and old promises," that it "went into hibernation waiting for progress to alleviate high taxes and high business costs," that "changes were too few and too slow." Make no mistake, B

  January 24, 2006

• Dollars and No Sense

  March 27, 2003

• The Kids Are Not All Right

  May 8, 2003

• Stop the War

  September 1, 2005

• To Your Corporate Health

  June 26, 2003

• Bushies Order Takeout

  February 6, 2003

• Letters

  May 1, 2003

• Who Wants to Be a Figurehead!?

  May 1, 2003

• Rock Em, Sock Em

  Giant robot fights look better than ever in Transformers

  July 5, 2007

• True Lies

  The rise of the bunkumentary

  November 2, 2006

• Suburban Jungle Boogie

  August 3, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 18, 2006

• Live Review

  April 20, 2006

• Commie Girl

  March 23, 2006

• The Kevlar Anniversary

  March 16, 2006

• Commie Girl

  Make Levees Not War
  We go a-visiting at the Nixon Library

  February 23, 2006

• Letters

  January 12, 2006

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 18, 2005

• A CLOCKWORK ORANGE

  August 18, 2005

• Memorial Day 2005

  May 26, 2005

• Call Me Irresponsible

  December 30, 2004

• Diary of A Mad County

  December 23, 2004

• Diary of A Mad County

  December 16, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  December 9, 2004

• So Now What?

  November 11, 2004

• I Wonder When Youll Miss Me

  July 8, 2004

• The NASCAR Nazi

  May 27, 2004

• Profane and Ass-Shaking

  May 20, 2004

• Jailhouse Iraq

  May 13, 2004

• Diary of a Mad County

  Diary of a Mad County

  April 8, 2004

• Empire Falls

  March 18, 2004

• Thats Our Bush!

  September 11, 2003

• Checklist, Please!

  August 7, 2003

• Dancing With Myself

  July 17, 2003

• Force Of July

  June 26, 2003

• This War Was Just Like a Movie

  May 1, 2003

• Colonial Capitalism

  May 1, 2003

• Our Man In Baghdad

  April 24, 2003

• Slick Talk

  March 13, 2003

• War College

  March 6, 2003

• Shuttle Diplomacy

  February 13, 2003

• Of Ants and Men

  January 16, 2003

• Dazed and Amused

  March 28, 2002

• The Snake of the Union Address

  January 31, 2002

• Cypress College Recognized for Muzzling Free Speech

  Photo by Gregory MiguelA hand-cuffed activist is led away from an anti-abortion protest at Cypress College last year.The independently funded Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression cites the administration of Cypress College on its 18th annual list of the "best" Muzzlers of Free Speech.Officials at the northern Orange County community college campus land at No. 6 "for calling police to arrest members of the pro-life group 'Survivor' claiming that they were creating a distu

  April 10, 2009