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The Fraud of Voter Fraud
2007-04-13 00:00:00 After five long years of searching and searching, the Bush Administration couldn't come up with anything near the amount of voter fraud that they've been claiming all along: Although Republican activists have repeatedly said fraud is so widespread that it... More About: Fraud , Vote , Frau , Voter Fraud
Iraqi bloggers record life of fear...
2007-04-09 00:00:00 What the Wall Street Journal will never report: Iraq i bloggers, who have come to be seen as alternative sources of news and information on the war-ravaged country, believe foreign media is failing to ask the right questions. BT, a journalist... More About: Life , Blogger , Blog , Bloggers
Unable to prosecute terrorists because they've been tortured
2007-04-02 00:00:00 Andrew Sullivan posts from the Wall Street Journal: When the Pentagon needed someone to prosecute a Guantanamo Bay prisoner linked to 9/11, it turned to Lt. Col. V. Stuart Couch. A Marine Corps pilot and veteran prosecutor, Col. Couch brought... More About: Cute , Terror , Prose , Rose , They
Presidential authority to arrest U.S. Citizens without review
2007-04-02 00:00:00 Since the presidential campaign has already started (9 months early), one question the press should be asking each candidate is: Does the president have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens without review? It seems that two of the three top... More About: Residential , President , Presidential , Arrest , Review
Buh-buh, Gonzales
2007-03-27 00:00:00 Documents Show Gonzales Approved Firings: WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in a November meeting, according to documents released Friday that contradict earlier claims that he was not closely involved in the... More About: Zales
The FBI's National Security Gag Order - by one who received one
2007-03-27 00:00:00 This is America today, from the Washington Post: Three years ago, I received a national security letter (NSL) in my capacity as the president of a small Internet access and consulting business. The letter ordered me to provide sensitive information... More About: Security , National , National Security , Nation , Order
Why the firing of U.S. Prosecutors is such a big deal
2007-03-27 00:00:00 Josh Marshall lays it out pretty clearly why Gonzales must go, but even more importantly, what line has been crossed, and why this is dangerous: For all the intensity and hostility awash in our politics, there are some lines we... More About: Prose , Rose , Ring , Deal , Such
Only 5,000 Troops in Iraq by December 2006
2007-03-20 00:00:00 OK...here it is: When Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his top officers gathered in August 2002 to review an invasion plan for Iraq , it reflected a decidedly upbeat vision of what the country would look like four years after Saddam... More About: December 2006 , Troops , Only , December
Frank Rich Unmasks Bush Yet Again
2007-03-20 00:00:00 Frank Rich , of the NY Times, has done it again (as he is so often able) in this week's column. His ability to pick apart the Bush Propaganda Machine, as it were, is uncanny. For instance, as we're watching the... More About: Rank , Frank Rich , Fran
Bush: The Most Secretive of all Presidents
2007-03-20 00:00:00 In December 1989, one month after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Malta and, in the words of a Soviet spokesman, "buried the cold war at the bottom of the... More About: Secret , Most , Presidents
How Partisan is the Gonzales Justice Department?
2007-03-20 00:00:00 If you haven't been following the developing USA-Gate Just ice Dept. Purge, whereby the Bush Administration has fired US Attorney Generals accross the country, you can catch up with this recent article in the NY Times: Senator Charles E. Schumer, a... More About: Justice Department , Department , Men
In terrorism fight, diplomacy gets shortchanged
2007-03-20 00:00:00 Priorities, Priorities, Priorities... What do you think the Bush administration's are when it comes to protecting us from the evildoers? It's all-military alll-the-time: "Our long-term strategy to keep the peace is to help change the conditions that give rise to... More About: Terrorism , Terror , Mac , Change , Fight
Bush's interview with Jim Lehrer
2007-03-20 00:00:00 LEHRER: Let me ask you a bottom-line question, Mr. President. If it is as important as you’ve just said - and you’ve said it many times - as all of this is, particularly the struggle in Iraq, if it’s that... More About: Bush , Inter , Interview , With , View
How the Bush Administration is sidestepping Congressional Inquiries
2007-03-20 00:00:00 With the Democrats back in control in the House and the Senate, everytime you turn on CSPAN you see oversite happening. What an amazing concept! Congress is finally exerting some sort of push-back on the Administration, be it in relation... More About: Bush , Bush administration , Sides , Mini
U.S. sent giant pallets of cash to Iraq...$4 BILLION worth of cash
2007-03-20 00:00:00 The Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraq is, lawmakers said Tuesday. The money, which had been held... More About: Lion , Giant , Worth , Cash
More Diebold Incompetence
2007-03-20 00:00:00 Further news from the "Let's Privatize the Commons - i.e. voting machines" front: According to published reports, nearly all the Diebold machines deployed around the country use the exact same physical key to lock up their machines. Up to this... More About: Comp , More , Incompetence , Compete , Pete
NYC Subway Hero Saves Teenager
2007-03-20 00:00:00 From here in the Big Apple, an amazing story: A New York City construction worker has been hailed as a hero after rescuing a student who had fallen onto the tracks at a New York subway station. Wesley Autrey jumped... More About: Subway , Hero , Save , Teenager , Teenage
Failed Republican Revolution
2007-03-20 00:00:00 With the Democrats retaking Congress this week, it's notable to go back to a recent Op-Ed by Paul Krugman, which he basically hits out of the ballpark: The truth is that the movement that took power in 1994 -- a... More About: Evolution , Republican , Public , Revolution , Republica
Syria in secret talks with Israel
2007-03-20 00:00:00 From Haaretz: In a series of secret meetings in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006, Syria ns and Israel is formulated understandings for a peace agreement between Israel and Syria. Here you have the potential for a huge breakthrough to the... More About: With , Talk , Secret
Hidden Provision in the Patriot Act allows Bush to appoint U.S. Attornies w
2007-03-20 00:00:00 Check this out: In order to replace several U.S. Attorneys with handpicked successors, the Bush Administration has relied on a tiny, obscure provision tucked into last year's USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act. How did it get there? Former Senate... More About: Patriot , Point , Patriot Act , Sion
Then and Now (2003 vs. 2007)
2007-03-20 00:00:00 From Kevin Drum's Washington Monthly blog: THEN AND NOW... February 2003: While diplomatic maneuvering continues over Turkish bases and a new United Nations resolution, inside Iraq, U.N. arms inspectors are privately complaining about the quality of U.S. intelligence and accusing... More About: Then
More on Saddam's final moments
2007-03-20 00:00:00 What a telling ending to Saddam's death and apt commentary on the state of affairs in Iraq that his last moments would be so filled with derision and confusion. From the NY Times: A new video that appeared on the... More About: Men , Final , Moment , More , Moments
U.S. sent giant pallets of cash to Iraq...$4 BILLION worth of cash
2007-03-18 00:00:00 The Federal Reserve sent record payouts of more than $4 billion in cash to Baghdad on giant pallets aboard military planes shortly before the United States gave control back to Iraq is, lawmakers said Tuesday. The money, which had been held... More About: Lion , Giant , Worth , Cash
How the Bush Administration is sidestepping Congressional Inquiries
2007-03-18 00:00:00 With the Democrats back in control in the House and the Senate, everytime you turn on CSPAN you see oversite happening. What an amazing concept! Congress is finally exerting some sort of push-back on the Administration, be it in relation... More About: Bush , Bush administration , Sides , Mini
Only 5,000 Troops in Iraq by December 2006
2007-03-18 00:00:00 OK...here it is: When Gen. Tommy R. Franks and his top officers gathered in August 2002 to review an invasion plan for Iraq , it reflected a decidedly upbeat vision of what the country would look like four years after Saddam... More About: December 2006 , Troops , Only , December
Frank Rich Unmasks Bush Yet Again
2007-03-18 00:00:00 Frank Rich , of the NY Times, has done it again (as he is so often able) in this week's column. His ability to pick apart the Bush Propaganda Machine, as it were, is uncanny. For instance, as we're watching the... More About: Rank , Frank Rich , Fran
Then and Now (2003 vs. 2007)
2007-03-18 00:00:00 From Kevin Drum's Washington Monthly blog: THEN AND NOW... February 2003: While diplomatic maneuvering continues over Turkish bases and a new United Nations resolution, inside Iraq, U.N. arms inspectors are privately complaining about the quality of U.S. intelligence and accusing... More About: Then
Bush: The Most Secretive of all Presidents
2007-03-18 00:00:00 In December 1989, one month after the fall of the Berlin Wall, President George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Malta and, in the words of a Soviet spokesman, “buried the cold war at the bottom of the... More About: Secret , Most , Presidents
More Diebold Incompetence
2007-03-18 00:00:00 Further news from the "Let's Privatize the Commons - i.e. voting machines" front: According to published reports, nearly all the Diebold machines deployed around the country use the exact same physical key to lock up their machines. Up to this... More About: Comp , More , Incompetence , Compete , Pete
Bush's interview with Jim Lehrer
More articles from this author:2007-03-18 00:00:00 LEHRER: Let me ask you a bottom-line question, Mr. President. If it is as important as you’ve just said - and you’ve said it many times - as all of this is, particularly the struggle in Iraq, if it’s that... More About: Bush , Inter , Interview , With , View 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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