Republicans may change the rules allowing former senators to attend weekly GOP luncheon meetings after retired Sen. Lauch Faircloth attended a session while lobbying a bill pending on the floor. He attended Tuesday‘s luncheon, just hours before a crucial vote on the bill, which would end decades of lawsuits against manufacturers and their insurers, potentially […]
Remember when Howard Dean made his statement on a radio station about how we are losing the war in Iraq? The right was up in arms calling him a traitor. Pundits came out from everywhere on the right to try and discredit him. Well here is something new for them to get up in arms […]
Remember when Bush had his little biking accident last year? Well more details have been released about the incident: HE MAY be the most powerful man in the world, but proof has emerged that President George Bush cannot ride a bike, wave and speak at the same time. Scotland on Sunday has obtained remarkable details […]
Compliments of the Washington Post FOX NEWS SUNDAY (WTTG), 9 a.m.: White House homeland security adviser Francis Fragos Townsend , Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) and Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs . THIS WEEK (ABC, WJLA), 9 a.m.: Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) and actor […]
When Rumsfeld addresses Iraq he talks about their military ‘standing up’. The opposite appears to be more true according to CNN: The only Iraqi battalion capable of fighting without U.S. support has been downgraded to a level requiring them to fight with American troops backing them up, the Pentagon said Friday. The battalion, made up […]
The site will be down from about 12:00 midnight est to 1:00am est tonight. I will be using that time to move all the entries from here to the new system which requires a temporary template rewrite.
A little bit from the “Duke” files: A defense contractor admitted Friday that he paid a California congressman more than $1 million in bribes in exchange for millions more in government contracts. Mitchell Wade pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring with former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham to bribe the lawmaker with cash, cars […]
It looks like Bush’s Dubai deal is starting to pay off – for the Democrats: Just 17% of Americans believe Dubai Ports World should be allowed to purchase operating rights to several U.S. ports. A Rasmussen Reports survey found that 64% disagree and believe the sale should not be allowed (see crosstabs). Just 39% of […]
IRS exams found nearly three out of four churches, charities and other civic groups suspected of having violated restraints on political activity in the 2004 election actually did so, the agency said Friday. Most of the examinations that have concluded found only a single, isolated incidence of prohibited campaign activity. In three cases, however, the […]
Think Progress has all the details. With Dubai and this there is no doubt our White House does not give a damn about national security.