The hero. The idol. The man they set up on a pedestal for the entire conservative movement is now implicated in the Jack Abramoff scandal: Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, “perpetrated a fraud” on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a […]
Not just resign as speaker, but leave Congress all together. I got a feeling this will get much worse in the coming days/weeks as the investigation continues.
In the last decade we have seen our political climate severely changed by the Christian right. Motivating them has been the greatest accomplishment that the Republicans have pulled off. During the 1994 Republican take over of Congress, Newt Gingrich helped construct this new powerful base. While the now infamous “Contract with America” did not specifically […]
The forums will be down for a couple of hours tonight while I update the software and fix some problems. I noticed new users were unable to register due to some software errors. I apologize for that and it is being corrected now. I have not promoted the forums much, but now that I have […]
OMG. I can’t believe it. FOX News had at the bottom of their ticker today the big story of Bush being informed that a plane hit a building in New York. Good to know we have a President so involved as to be notified of such trivial news. After seeing that, I decided to have […]
It’s no secret that privacy has been under serious attack this year. I have documented numerous cases here, and now we have a new one for the files: In a breach of privacy, the Republican National Committee erroneously e-mailed a list that contained the names, races, and Social Security numbers of dozens of top Republican […]
Bush’s administration not only rewrites history, they also try to erase it. Something from 35 years ago would seem like old news, but not today. The following chart was declassified in 1971. It shows the number of U.S. nuclear missiles during the Cold War. 35 years later and the Donald Rumsfeld administration has decided to […]
Atrios: If someone smarter than me can figure out the though process behind this I think we’d understand our preznit quite a bit more than we do: I am, you know, amazed that this is a society which so wants to be free that they’re willing to – you know, that there’s a level of […]
A new study has estimated the Iraqi death toll at 655,000 since the start of the invasion. This study was conducted using a new method: Researchers used household interviews rather than body counts to estimate how many more Iraqis had died because of the war than used to die annually in peacetime. “We estimate that […]