Russ McBee

I've often thought that President Bush probably read ''The Trial'' and ''1984'' at some point and mistook them for how-to manuals. Today's signing of the FISA bill tends to support that theory. On the heels of yesterday's capitulation by the Senate on telecom immunity and warrantless spying, President Bush wasted no time in signing this abrogation ...

Jann Wenner interviews Barack Obama in this week's issue of ''Rolling Stone.'' After Obama enumerated the contents of his iPod, he said this (via Blah3): When Mr. Wenner asked how Mr. Obama might respond to harsh attacks from Republicans, suggesting that Democrats have ''cowered'' in the past, Mr. Obama replied, ''Yeah, I don't do ...

In addition to the 47 million Americans with no health insurance, the ranks of those considered underinsured are growing at an alarming rate. A new study by the Commonwealth Fund has found that the number of Americans with inadequate health insurance coverage mushroomed from 16 million in 2003 to 25 million in 2007. That's a jump of 56 percent ...

Yesterday, President Bush delivered a speech in Israel in which he called ''appeasers'' anyone who advocates talks with Iran. He even drew an explicit parallel to 1930's-era Nazi appeasers: ''Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all ...

Number of Google News hits on Obama's ''bitter'' remark: 2006 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same remarks: 3757 Number of Google News hits on Rep. Geoff Davis (R-Kentucky) calling Obama ''boy'': 64 Number of Google Blog Search hits on the same remarks: 112 ''Liberal'' media? Draw your own conclusions.

Barack Obama said this yesterday: ''In a lot of these communities in big industrial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, people have been beaten down so long. ... The jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, and each successive administration ...

Dear Mr. Hobbs: Your slimy insinuation that a man can be inferred as sympathetic to terrorists because his middle name is ''Hussein'' is just as idiotic as suggesting a man is a cocaine-addled imbecile merely because his name is ''George.'' Every day that you remain an apparatchik of the GOP in Tennessee is one more day the Democratic Party ...