Hell he already taps our phones, why not everything else? The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned. That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a […]
This is hilarious. The right-wing site olbermannwatch.com has officially shut down. It says this on their front page: There is no disguising the fact that we have been extremely unhappy with the recent decision of NBC Universal to not only retain Keith Olbermann for four more years but to elevate him in an unprecedented fashion. […]
This is a pretty big one. The Secretary of the Army has just resigned in wake of the scandal: Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey resigned Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The surprise move […]
Next week the House will hold hearings on the firing of federal prosecutors. John Conyers issued the first subpoenas since the Democrats took over in this case. He subpoenaed the fired prosecutors to testify before the Judiciary Committee, which Conyers chairs. It has also come out now that Heather Wilson and Pete Domenci were the […]
This is great. A picture of Tony Blair has emerged showing him doing an obscene gesture on camera in the 1970’s while attending college. Considering how much Bush likes to flip off the media, it is no wonder these two are so close.
That is Bush’s latest approval rating according to a new New York Times/CBS poll. Most damage is also coming from within his own party now: In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. Mr. Bush’s […]
There was a lot of talk this week about Al Gore’s utility bill. When a right wing smear machine released a statement that Gore’s utility bill was $30,000 last year, the typical vultures jumped on it. Their support of the claims was nothing more than a picture: This picture was spread around the right wing […]
When news broke of the attempt on Dick Cheney’s life this week, the Huffington Post had a few reads make comments that they were upset that the attack missed Cheney. Arianna has responded to the right wing smear which has since emerged: On Tuesday morning, The Huffington Post linked to an AP news story on […]
I haven’t posted on the firing of the federal prosecutors lately, but there has been some real interesting developments in the case. Yesterday, we received this news: The controversy flared up early Wednesday afternoon after David Iglesias, the departing U.S. attorney from New Mexico, told McClatchy Newspapers that he believes he was forced out because […]
Well it only took 4 years, but the general in charge at Walter Reed has been relieved of his command. There still needs to be more heads rolling on this one though.