Here is an interesting story from the Israeli newspaperHaaretz Israelis evacuated from Amman hotel hours before bombings By Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondent A number of Israelis staying on Wednesday at the Radisson hotel were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel […]
In some good news, well at least for the time being, the House has done away with the ANWR drilling tonight. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives abandoned, at least temporarily, a drive to open Alaska’s National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling after concluding on Wednesday the initiative was threatening […]
MSNBC has just released the details of the latest NBC/WSJ poll and it still isn’t good for Georgie Boy. Approval rating – 38% Economy approval – 34% Foreign policy approval -35% Terrorism approval – 39% Iraq approval – 32% 57% now believe the President deliberately misled the people into war while only 35% believe he […]
Here’s a new exciting low to the ethical level the White House will go. It appears as though they are now changing the transcripts of the press conferences. This viewThink Progress: There is a brewing controversy about what exactly was said at the White House press conference on October 31. Everyone agrees NBC?s David Gregory […]
It was a sad defeat for Reform Ohio Now yesterday. The following are the results on the four issues that would of changed the way Ohio votes. Yes No Issue 2 36.53% 63.47% Issue 3 33.04% 66.96% Issue 4 30.22% 69.78% Issue 5 29.83% 70.17% These results are really sad. I expected at least […]
In the first of what is hopefully many good signs to come tonight, Tim Kaine defeated Republican Jerry Kilgore for the top job in the state of Virginia. This was one heavily watched race by analysts as they feel it will set the stage for next years mid-term elections. Kaine got his victory with 51.2% […]
Just to give an update to a story I reported on here last week about some big wigs in the local Republican party getting into a bar fight, it now appears charges maybe likely: Via the Hamilton Journal: GOP members may face charges following bar fight LIBERTY TOWNSHIP ? A late-night bar fight last month […]
By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer The recent indictment of Vice President Cheney’s top aide has struck a nerve with the American public. Four in five, 79 percent, said the indictment of former Cheney aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on perjury and other charges is important to the nation, according to a poll by the […]
For those that still don’t believe the Republicans are perfect examples of hypocrites then perhaps this article from Reuters will change your thinking. Congress may probe leaks in CIA prisons story Top Republicans in Congress are considering a investigation into leaks of information used by The Washington Post in an article on a covert global […]
According to today’s New York Daily News, the relationship between George Bush and Dick Cheney is very bad. WASHINGTON – The CIA leak scandal has peeled back the veil on the most closely held White House secret of all: the subtle but unmistakable erosion in the bond between President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Multiple […]