Steve Ersinghaus

The Veracifier video of Gonzales testimony here is just outrageous.
Josh Marshall is right on here, too:
Without going into all the specifics, I think we are now moving into a situation where the White House, on various fronts, is openly ignoring the constitution, acting as though not just the law but the constitution itself, which is [...]

Citations of Contempt.
I need more categories.

Bizzaro World i a pretty well known concept, especially by fans of superman.
Anyway, the unbelievable events of the past week have shown the worst of political commentary and news programming. I’ve seen administration supporters just stammering like fools. Unbelievable.

Spazeboy has published his Guide to Political Video Blogging.
There are a few reasons why I undertook this project:
* Videoblogging is a powerful way to document local government
Take, for example, MattW’s video of a recent Energy Policy Forum featuring State Representative Steve Fontana. Not everyone could [...]

These days it seems that politicians must choose a narrative and stick to it. I don’t think they want to do this, but, then again, they may. Here’s Sam Brownbeck explaining himself
The heart of the issue is that we cannot drive a wedge between faith and reason. I believe wholeheartedly that there cannot be any [...]

I have not and will not be following any of the debates for so-called president, but I read that three grown men didn’t get the memo on evolution.
Three of the candidates indicated that they did not believe in it.
None is a front-runner but even so there will be American scientists who will feel [...]

I’m an advocate of open borders. I’d like to see gates and walls come down and any plan to maintain and build structures along the US Mexico border cease. This is, of course, a position of hypothesis that asks: what would happen if border gates, walls, and barriers were removed? And why would a particular [...]

Emily Gertz has this to say about future investment in clean tech, which bring back to mind Connecticut’s plans for the future.
Are clean technologies the investment opportunity of the 21st century? That was the breathless question at the panel I went to on Thursday, the second day of the “Advancing Sustainable Prosperity” conference in Boston. [...]

It’s good to have Bill Moyers back online at PBS after some pretty crude political shenanigans and yet another example of cultural conservativist hypocrisy about the “marketplace” of ideas. Nice interviews too with Josh Marshall and Jon Stewart. Moyers’ MO has always been to provide space for people to speak, a kind of media space [...]

“The last thing we need is more tax increases,” said House GOP leader Lawrence Cafero of Norwalk. “We have a realistic, responsible budget. I didn’t want to stand up here and talk just in terms of charts, rhetoric and one-liners.”
This sort of statement is pretty point blank. It sounds good. But it’s meaningless. We can [...]

One of the problems with this commentary by Leslie Wolfgang is that it insults fathers. Another problem with it is that it misinterprets the state’s influence on the lives of people “in specific.”
Let’s first start with the strawman:
But now that I have children and realize the importance of Daddy in the lives of families, [...]

In this article yanked from the Hartford Courant, we have examples of the wonderful world of the language of politics
Gonzales and the White House made the final decision to proceed with the plan, Sampson said. “I don’t think the attorney general’s statement that he was not involved in any discussions about U.S. attorney removals is [...]

Currently, Battlestar is driving into the core.
How does justice look when everything changes? How delicate everything is.
This same question has a lot to do with Rome.

“I was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on,” Gonzales said.

Maybe he just doesn’t remember. Anyway, this would seem to indicate otherwise. Which brings me back to the scruple: why can’t these guys just stand up? Again, I just don’t get it.
I miss the old [...]

The TV press keeps misrepresenting Walter Reed. WR is not run by the Veterans Administration.