Paul Martin on the grassy knoll

Long ago, I adopted the principle that, in politics, you should never assume malice, conspiracy or purpose when incompetence can provide a better explanation. Let the record show it has served me well. Yet Pogge makes a compelling case that Paul Martin may have thrown...

Employer of the Year

Wow. If the folks in Natural Resources ever run low on coal, they could always check out that motherlode at one end of their minister’s aorta: Federal cabinet representative John Efford has been accused of political meddling in a case involving a former staffer...

Alastair Campbell… or is it?

There’s an entertaining if foul-mouthed blog out there, titled Alastair Campbell – the name of Tony Blair’s former Dark Lord of the Sith spin supremo. Is there even a chance that this is really him, with such tempered and reasonable posts as this?...

Viagra for graphs

Three minutes to deadline, and you’ve got a turkey of a story: an opinion poll that shows a minor difference – barely outside the margin of error – in the way Democrats see the Terri Schiavo issue, and the way Republicans see it. What to do…...
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