(This is Karma, my new kitten. She is a three month old bobbed-tail) Finally Congress is working on some decent legislation: WASHINGTON (AP) — A television shot of a little boy losing his dog during Katrina rescue operations was the catalyst for the House to pass legislation Monday that would require pets to be considered […]
Here is a story that really makes you wonder: An unusual FBI raid of a Democratic congressman’s office over the weekend prompted complaints yesterday from leaders in both parties, who said the tactic was unduly aggressive and may have breached the constitutional separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches of government. Rep. William […]
Stories like this are just way to common anymore: Thieves took sensitive personal information on 26.5 million U.S. veterans, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, after a Veterans Affairs employee improperly brought the material home, the government said Monday. The information involved mainly those veterans who served and have been discharged since 1975, said […]
Raw Story has uncovered this little piece about the DNC going after Drudge: The Democratic National Committee consulted its attorneys Monday after a story posted by online heavyweight Matt Drudge claimed that DNC chairman Howard Dean intervened in New Orleans’ recent mayoral race, RAW STORY can reveal. In an exclusive Sunday evening, The Drudge Report […]
Ted Koppel has sounded off about the current state of our military and he brings up some excellent points: Little known to the American public, there are some 50,000 private contractors in Iraq, providing support for the U.S. military, among other activities. So why not go all the way, argues Ted Koppel in a New […]
The Dixie Chicks new album, Taking The Long Way is due out tomorrow and along with it comes a nice article in Time about the controversy that put the Dixie Chicks in the national spolight as a strong anti-war voice (excepts from Huffington Post): “I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President. But I […]
Richard Viguerie is not a well known name unless your into politics. Here is a little background on him from Dkosopedia: In an autobiographical note, Viguerie wrote that in 1961 he became executive secretary of the conservative youth group, Young Americans for Freedom. “Since 1965, owner of direct marketing/advertising companies such as American Target Advertising. […]
Every time Bush talks about our “robust and strong” economy, I just want to puke. He acts like if he says it enough then it must be true. Of course we all know Bush doesn’t read the papers to see articles like this: If you want to measure the strength of the city, you might […]
Since John Murtha became outspoken against the Iraq War last fall, conservatives could not wait to “swift boat” him. Now we are finding out one of the examples he used as a problem in Iraq is in fact true: US lawmaker and former Marine colonel accused US Marines of killing innocent Iraqi civilians after a […]
Russ Feingold has issued the following statement regarding his walk out of today’s hearings on the Constitutional Amendment on Marriage: “Today’s markup of the constitutional amendment concerning marriage, in a small room off the Senate floor with only a handful of people other than Senators and their staffs present, was an affront to the Constitution. […]