This is the mess in Iraq that the Democrats, especially Jack Murtha, have been warning about: Iraq will ask the United Nations to end immunity from local law for U.S. troops, the government said on Monday, as the U.S. military named five soldiers charged in a rape-murder case that has outraged Iraqis. In an interview […]
This is really big and a justifiable law suit This afternoon, a federal lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Kentucky entitled Mark Nickolas v. Governor Ernie Fletcher, Secretary John Farris and Secretary Robbie Rudolph over the recent targeting and censorship of BluegrassReport.org. (click here to see verified complaint). The suit alleges that the […]
With Bush out on a new “PR” push, we are learning more about how bad things really are in Iraq: A mob of gunmen went on a brazen daytime rampage through a predominantly Sunni Arab district of western Baghdad on Sunday, pulling people from their cars and homes and killing them in what officials and […]
And now you can forget Poland. This shows how Bush’s “staunchest allies” think of him now: ONE of America’s main allies, Poland, believes so many mistakes were made in the war in Iraq that any military intervention in Iran would be highly unlikely and the world would have to learn to deal with Iran having […]
AWWW Congress is now feeling like they haven’t done enough this year: US lawmakers returning today from a weeklong break will resume work on a long list of unfinished — and possibly insurmountable — tasks that could help decide whether voters will reelect them in November. Action or inaction on contentious issues including immigration, pensions, […]
Our military presence in Iraq is a major problem – period. People try to argue the “stay the course” line over and over again, but look at these stories from today alone: Four more U.S. soldiers have been charged with rape and murder and a fifth with dereliction of duty in the alleged rape-slaying of […]
There is a really interesting article in the Kansas City Star today, which talks about some state candidates that have recently dropped the Republican Party and joined the Democrats. In this article, they highlight three candidates who have recently made the change and give the reasons why. What is interesting is the reason two of […]
Remember when there was all the outrage by the right because Howard Dean said the Republican party is “pretty much a white, Christian party”? You would have thought he called them the Klan or something. They were outraged. So why was it so bad when he did that, yet this is how the party acts? […]
While the Republicans continue to stall on the Voting Rights Act, we are starting to see a new era of demand for equality. This time it is coming from the Latinos: Two Latino radio hosts credited for mobilizing hundreds of thousands this year in pro-immigrant protests said on Friday they would join the drive to […]
This outcome is not shocking to any of us who have been patriotic enough to question this war: A U.S. military report passed to the commander in Iraq on Friday found Marine officers failed to respond properly to conflicting reports of the killings of up to 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last year, an official […]