This is the first YouTube video file I have added to the blog. This is a great one. ABC News ran this and it is a full length shot of Bush during Colbert’s “Audition Tape” he showed Saturday night at the Correspondents’ Dinner. The expressions on Bush’s face are priceless. Click the link below or […]
More proof has surfaced that our planet is heading towards disaster: An important wind circulation pattern over the Pacific Ocean has begun to weaken because of global warming caused by human activity, something that could alter climate and the marine food chain in the region, new research suggests. It’s not clear what climate changes might […]
ABC earlier posted a memo that was supposedly leaked from someone in the White House. They did this on their political page “The Note” Maybe leaks are going to be more common in the Tony Snow Era. The man has not even started officially yet as White House press secretary, and already the tightness of […]
Something short of a miracle happened in Senate yesterday. An amendment to the Iraq Supplemental Spending bill was passed forbidding any money be used for permanent bases in Iraq. The amazing part is that this amendment was introduced by a Democrat – Joe Biden. Think Progress points out that the House has also taken a […]
Well they pick the perfect person to lecture Russia: Vice President Dick Cheney, in remarks that caused a stir in neighboring Russia, accused President Vladimir Putin Thursday of restricting the rights of citizens and said that “no legitimate interest is served” by turning energy resources into implements of blackmail. “In Russia today, opponents of reform […]
I am sure in the wake of anything else “news worthy”, this very important anniversary will be overlooked today: MONDAY, MAY 4, 1970 At 11 a.m., about 200 students gathered on the Commons. Earlier that morning, state and local officials had met in Kent. Some officials had assumed that Gov. Rhodes had declared Martial Law […]
Arlen Specter is once again holding oversight hearings into the administration: The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ”very blatant encroachment” on congressional authority, said yesterday he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush’s assertion that he has the power to bypass more than 750 laws enacted over […]
David Ignatius has an interesting OpEd in today’s Washington Post about John McCain. The piece over all paints McCain as a Conservative by all definitions of the term. There is however one part that really struck my curious side: “I don’t want it that badly,” McCain says. “I will continue to do what is right. […]
Wow Bush sure does know how to pick them: Key Democrats denounced Terrence Boyle on Capitol Hill Monday and Tuesday, after a Salon report revealed that the controversial judge, nominated to one of the nation’s highest courts by President Bush, violated federal law on conflicts of interest. As the debate over Boyle heated up, the […]
The Ohio Senate race will be incumbent Republican Mike DeWine against Democrat Sherrod Brown.