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American Crossroads Will Focus Funds on Senate Races

By | 08.20.10 | 10:47 am

American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS haven’t met their goals of raising $52 million yet — at least not according to their latest IRS disclosure forms — but the two tax-exempt organizations claim they’re on track and are beginning to give hints as to how they’ll blow their cash:

If Only Hypocrisy Were a Crime…

By | 02.09.10 | 11:57 am

A great piece in The Washington Times today reveals a remarkable degree of hypocrisy from some GOP critics of last year’s $787 billion economic stimulus bill.

More than a dozen Republican lawmakers, while denouncing the stimulus to the media and their constituents, privately sent letters to just one

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A Bad Year to Launch a New Washington Times Digital Project

By | 12.31.09 | 9:33 am

Justin Elliott notices that TheConservatives.com, the Web hub slowly rolled out over 2009 by The Washington Times, appears to be dead. I’ve asked an editor of the Website what the status is, but a cloud hung over the site soon after it officially launched. Weeks after John Solomon More…

‘Skullduggery Alleged’

By | 12.17.09 | 11:52 am

It’s probably a sign of how the struggling Washington Times has lost some influence that its umpteenth editorial on the firing of Bush-appointed Americorps inspector general Gerald Walpin is hitting with a thud today. The key allegation is that “dirty deeds may have been employed to hide extensive involvement More…

Rendition Policy Continues to Depend on Trust and Some Verification

By | 08.24.09 | 12:58 pm

Throughout the Bush administration, Bush officials — including the president, as you can see here – consistently said that “this government does not torture people.” The Bush administration also promised that it doesn’t send prisoners to be tortured elsewhere.

The Obama administration is now saying the same thing. More…

Why Isn’t the Justice Department Enforcing the Convention Against Torture?

By | 06.28.09 | 1:48 pm

Marcy Wheeler made a great point on Friday that’s worth following up on. President Obama’s declaration to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Convention Against Torture tosses the responsibility for developing “effective policies and programs for stopping torture” to the State Department, asking it to solicit information from More…

The Washington Times Gets the Scoop on Obama’s Muslim DNA

By | 06.05.09 | 3:41 pm

I guess I see what Washington Times mainstay Wes Pruden is trying to say here, but there could be a less Cecil Rhodes-ian way of expressing it.

Mr. Obama’s revelation of his “inner Muslim” in Cairo reveals much about who he is. He is our first president without an

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The Washington Times Asks Bill Ayers if He Wrote Obama’s First Book

By | 05.20.09 | 10:36 am

Kerry Picket of The Washington Times trekked to Baltimore to hear former Weatherman Bill Ayers speak yesterday and sparked an exchange that the paper is teasing on its op-ed page with a lot of huffing about Ayers’s terrorist past (“His radicalism and chosen profession bring to mind Oscar Wilde’s More…

Washington Times Op-Ed Page: Sorry For Getting Basic Facts Wrong!

By | 05.06.09 | 6:08 pm

On April 28, I called The Washington Times editorial “Barack’s in the Basement” the worst such column of the day, citing the wrong Gallup Poll number to make the argument that President Obama was in the weakest position after the Hundred Day of any president since Eisenhower. Today,  More…

Worst Editorial of the Day

By | 04.28.09 | 11:49 am

It’s got to be “Barack’s in the basement” from The Washington Times, which argues that “at the 100-day mark of his presidency, Mr. Obama is the second-least-popular president in 40 years.”

The only new president less popular was Bill Clinton, who got off to a notoriously bad start after

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