Robert's Stochastic thoughts

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Is Bill Frist really that dumb or is he trying to paralyse Democrats with laughter ? Via Hunter at the Daily Kos . Rather than allow votes ...

The Hill claims that the President accused moveon dot something of unfairly competing with the sugar industry "The president told the a...

Mista Kurtz he read ? Good article In the Washington Post On Plame blame. I notice that "staff writer" Howard Kurtz contributed...

Ari is the main character in this story in the New York Times yesterday The key sentence and a half "Among those asked if he had seen t...

Does the Washington Post Editorial Board Read the Washington Post ? Many bloggers have suggested buying a subcription to the Wall Street Jou...

Out Roving Rove. I have argued below that any possible arguably legitimate purpose of Rove's leak to Cooper could have been achieved eq...

Out Luskining Luskin ? Today I read in the NY Times (and the WaPo ) that Rove was Novak's second source. The source of this informatio...

Totally pointless post on Plame and Wilson Ted at Crooked Timber is convinced that Joe Wilson told a lie. Like Ted I don't think this ...

Melma means Slime in Italian so Ken Mehlma means Ken Slimeman Nomnia sunt consequentia rerum.

Valerie Plame and "Valerie Plame" Turns out that Robert Lusking and Matt Yglesias went to the same college. However, Matt seems t...

From Comments: I'm picturing the dialogue. Rove: Believe me, Cheney didn't ask Wilson to go to Niger. Cooper: You say that, but how ...

Leak investigation leak in the Post Several people familiar with the investigation said they expect Fitzgerald to indict, or at least force ...

This isn't shooting fish in a barrel. Bob Somerby argues there is something to the Luskin/Mehlman defence of Rove. I am not convinced...

Dumb and Dumber I hate to disagree with Brad DeLong but I'm not sure that Donald Luskin is the stupidest man alive . I'm not sure h...

The MSM are such mushmouthed sissy munchkins. Take this Op Ed in the WAPO By Harold Meyerson You can go pretty far with this kind of modus o...

Dan Froomkin asks a question "Here are some questions for my fellow journalists: [snip] · Will any of you ever grant Karl Rove confiden...

Shooting a fish in a barrel It doesn't need doing and has been done many times already (see here and here) but I can't resist RNC Ch...

It's all in the Timing CAPITOL HILL Senate leaders expect 50 (b) billion dollars in cuts in transit security funds, which came just thre...

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