legacy

Despite CM Charlie Tygard's disconcerting history of self-serving patronage to Habitat for Humanity, reporter Nate Rau merely describes Tygard as a "longtime supporter" of the charity in a story on an attempt to win favorable zoning for Habitat.

If you want to have a good laugh/cry today, I highly
recommend the George W. Bush "Legacy Booklet" that the White House recently
posted on its website.

The 52 page document claims to enumerate "Hi...

Continue reading "George Bush's Legacy Reduced to a 52 Page Yearbook" >

Yet another legacy of the Bush Years is headed for the door: the dreaded news crawl:

After rolling it out on 9/11, 22 minutes after Fox, CNN is retiring the crawl to give its screen "a less cluttered look," reports the Times.

Unfortunately, the article goes on to state that the “crawl” will be replac

The voice of the City Paper suggests that organized labor may have outlived its usefulness:

More of the Bush legacy…
A 513 page federal history on the Iraq reconstruction was compiled by the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, led by Stuart W. Bowen Jr., a Republican lawyer who regularly travels to Iraq and has a staff of engineers and auditors based there.  Here are some of the [...]

"I would hope that when it's all said and done, people say, 'This is a guy who showed up to solve problems,' " Bush said at the forum. "And when you have somebody say there's a pandemic that you can help, and you do nothing about it, then you have frankly disgraced the office."

In his new book about the Bush administration Karl Rove plans to prove the great president was submarined by people with closed hearts and evil intent. "I've got behind-the-scenes episodes that are going to show how unreceiving they were of this man as president of the United States," Rove said, adding: "I'm going to name names and show examples."

The other day I mentioned an article that put traces the dominant Republican lineage back through Bush and Nixon to Joe McCarthy.

Bill Frist discusses the fight against AIDS:

By Erick D. Snider (link)

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