Robert's Stochastic thoughts

A double F.U. FISA Cave I'm glad that progressives blocked Steny Hoyer's assault on the first amendment for a couple of days, but th...

Taking Advantage of Medicare Advantage Accounts As part of the [subsidize insurance companies] I mean the medicare prescription drug benefit...

All the ducks in a row The White House illegally stopped secure archiving of e-mails because they switched to microsoftware The National Sec...

The Pantomime Horse of the Stupidocalypse Echo chamber er er Over at Sadl No Gavin M has some fun with Johah Goldberg . Goldberg claimed tha...

Willard [Mitt] Romney explains how the market system works He opposes the expansion of SCHIP [subsidised health insurance for children in fa...

Paul has more links but I have more n's I am currently suffering from acute link envy as I find m self [at best] the third most importan...

It's not as bad as it seems Google He who knows not and knows not that he know not..... and get sent straight here ! I am not the world...

Not only a crime a mistake The fact that the USA decided to emulate the ussr in it's approach to torture should remain shocking. The gu...

Wow Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several i...

Iraq invasion advocate Jeffrey Goldberg really did get a pony ? Golberg wrote The administration is planning today to launch what many peop...

Less Horrible News from Iraq The number of civilian casualties in Iraq was much lower in September than in August. Kevin Drum has a nice gra...

A the Return of the Killian Memos Dan Rather has sued CBS for wrongful dismissal . He claims, among other more interesting things that the ...

A Daily Howler Howler Somerby is good, but his eagerness to attack sometimes causes him to over reach. Here http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh08...

Rambling Man Why Don't You Settle Down A Samefacts reader has one question and Three hypotheses I have a question that’s been bothering ...

The Battle is Joined. May the People of Burma be victorious.

The End of an Era Someone has accused Bill Clinton of being insufficiently political ! That someone is the usually acute Matthew Yglesias w...

Being the Worlds Leading Bush Hater is Getting Hard For example, I think I have some fierce competition from all Republicans in Congress aft...

I find myself in disagreement with Ahmedinejad (check) Matthews (check) and Greenwald (Hu waaaaht ?!?) and I agree with Pat Buchanan (make ...

Excellent Post by Quixote at Shakespeare's Sister I have nothing to add or subtract

I'm older than Adam ......................... B of dailykos who wrote "This provision, passed in 1996, is a relic of the pre-Inter...