Barry Schochet, the ultimate Washington insider, returns to “Con Games with Michael Conniff” in a heated discussion about former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan, John McCain’s medical... Read more →
Its gonna be close for some folks
SOURCE: Pitkin County Higher than average snowpack has emergency management officials in Pitkin County, the city of Aspen and the towns of Snowmass and Basalt gearing up for possible flooding this runoff... Read more →
CON GAMES: Socket To Me
In a land of plenty, the worst thing you can become is that guy—that nerdy guy who runs around turning off lights and (worse) telling everyone he knows to turn off the damn lights or the air conditioner... Read more →
Fly With The Angels
“You, me, and everyone else must have the flexibility to fly with the angels,” writes Star Eagle in comment #53, “or dance with the devil, as needed, and at a moment’s notice….” Read More →
Mitch Mulhall @ Ground Zero
“I can’t really tell you where we got on the New York subway, nor where we got off, but at one point on the trip, the train slowed, and the wheels on the carriage began to squeal, and the carriage... Read more →
CON GAMES 24/7: Orwellian White House ‘Propaganda’
The Con Man was planning to talk about Orwellian newspeak–and that was before he found out Presidential spokesperson Scott McClellan had accused the Bush Administration of at best a glancing relationship... Read more →
CON GAMES 24/7: Orwellian ‘Progaganda’
The Con Man uses the revelations from Presidential spokesperson to go Orwellian on us in a discussion of the many perversions of language in politics. Click here for “Con Games with Michael Conniff”... Read more →
Cortlandt Street Station
I’ve got to write about this before it becomes a distant target of REM sleep. A week ago I traveled to Manhattan. I hadn’t been there since before Clinton was elected—I was staying at the Hilton... Read more →
In Country For Our Country
“I’m always in awe around veterans who were ‘in country,’ writes Post blogger Hugh McCormack in comment #1, “almost like they’ve come back from Dante’s 7th rung... Read more →
The Deadly Kennedy
Post blogger Frosty Woolridge uses Senator Teddy Kennedy’s illness as a launching pad for an excoriating attack on the Democrat. “Instead of a rich legacy bequeathed upon the United States... Read more →