Did You Hear the One about the Oklahoma City Bombing and Eric Holder?

Maggie's Notebook OKC Bombing and Eric Holder: The Story That Went to Newsweek’s Trash December 26, 2011 If you live in Oklahoma, you know the angst over the Oklahoma City Bombing, and the disturbing feeling that not everything we heard about the story was true, or at least, some was distorted or not complete. The families of victims and those on the premises that day have written about it, … [Read more...]

Barack Obama’s Timothy McVeigh Moment in Iowa, on Video

Yesterday in Iowa AP Video: "Obama's Heated Exchange After Event" Great politely confrontational politics, Tea Partiers. Seems you are more talented than nearly all the White House press corps. Oh the heat, Associated Press! Three points: You may want to listen two or three times, to take in all the nuance. This is the United States (Putative) President, ladies and gentlemen. Isn't threatening to … [Read more...]

‘Mistress Of Disaster’ Mired in BP Mess – Jamie Gorelick

It did not surprise me to learn—and hats off to blogger Johnny Cirucci for the tip—that former Clinton Deputy Attorney General, Jamie Gorelick (at left), the well-labeled “Mistress of Disaster,” has been enlisted by BP to represent the company before Congress on the subject of the Gulf disaster. In reporting the move for Politico, an allegedly non-partisan journal, Abby Phillip ingenuously notes that Gorelick, now … [Read more...]