If there weren’t grounds for impeachment of Dick Cheney, there certainly are now: The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not […]
I’m sure the White House will spin this as being progress: Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in two days of fighting, the military announced on Thursday, as US-led troops continued to press simultaneous offensives in and around Baghdad. The news came hours after a suicide bomber exploded an oil tanker south of Iraq’s oil-rich […]
This one will get you: While the U.S. military searches for a soldier missing in Iraq, kidnapped by insurgents possibly allied with al Qaeda, his wife back home in Massachusetts may be deported by the U.S. government. Army Spec. Alex Jimenez, who has been missing since his unit was attacked by insurgents in Iraq on […]
And it was on the stem cell funding bill. Funny how 70% of this country supports that, but Bush is more worried about himself and his radical friends than he is the people of this country.
Of course he did! No one in their right mind would want to be a Republican. Let the speculations of a presidential run really start now.
That is the rumor with the announcement of Rob Portman leaving the Bush administration: Rob Portman’s announcement Tuesday that he will resign as White House budget director puts the popular former Cincinnati-area congressman back in play as a force in Ohio politics – and as a potential statewide candidate in coming elections. For a political […]
Rudy talks about being so pro-active when it comes to Iraq and terrorism. Well how about this: Rudolph Giuliani’s membership on an elite Iraq study panel came to an abrupt end last spring after he failed to show up for a single official meeting of the group, causing the panel’s top Republican to give him […]
This is becoming an all to common occurrence: U.S.-led coalition jets bombed a compound suspected of housing al-Qaida militants in eastern Afghanistan, killing seven boys and several insurgents, officials said Monday. Clashes in the south killed a Dutch soldier, while dozens of suspected insurgents were left dead, officials said. In the capital, police said they […]
This one from right here in the Buckeye state: A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees, a security procedure that ended up backfiring. The names and Social Security numbers of all 64,000 Ohio state employees were stolen last weekend from a state agency intern who […]
Which brings the monthly toll to 42. This is a little better than last month, but of course that is due in a large part to Iraqi’s targeting each other again. The surge is also now complete. Ironically it is complete with an additional “28,500 troops” in Iraq. Wasn’t it supposed to be 21,500? That’s […]