It seems Bill Frist’s sudden selling of stock in his families medical company has drawn attention from the United States Attorney’s office in New York. From the Associated Press: HCA subpoenaed, may involve Senate leader HCA Inc.,HCA.N operator of the largest chain of U.S. hospitals, said it received a subpoena from the U.S. attorney for […]
After we thought lessons would have been learned from Katrina, it seems some were sleeping during class. Today the image of traffic jams filled the airwaves as cars were bumper to bumper on a highway only half full leaving town. It wasn’t until hours later that Texas Governor Rick Perry decided to reverse flow of […]
America is talking but Bush won’t listen. Today he sounded like the usual stuck record while repeating his now infamous catch phrase “We must stay the course in Iraq”. Unfortunately his plan continually calls for more of the same when we are seeing no signs of improvement. A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll just released show […]
Raw Story has gotten their hands on one of the first proposals for budget cuts the GOP has authored. Seems like they are not as much up on public opinion as we would hope. They aren’t targeting the actual pork items, instead they got their sites set on something else. Mostly they are calling for […]
Since the Iraq war started one thing has really gotten under my skin. That is the continuous assertion that we hate our troops because we oppose the war in Iraq. The fact that we want them home protecting their nation and not off in some far away land fighting an illegal war based on lies […]
Via Bloomberg Specter Urges Delay in Replacement of O’Connor at Supreme Court Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he urged President George W. Bush today to delay nominating a replacement for retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said he talked to Justice O’Connor about […]
Every time Ken Mehlman, the chairman of the Republican Party, opens his mouth I just want to cringe. He can hardly make a statement or get through an interview without uttering “the Democrats have no agendaâ€ÂÂ. Apparently in Ken’s little two-dimensional world there should only be two views on the governing of our nation. America […]
US News and World Report is running a small poll to see what readers feel Michael Brown’s new job should be. It is kind of a funny little poll which is why I mentioned it here. The options are Lobbyist for waste management New Orleans street cleaner Publicist for The National Enquirer So far the […]
An interesting story has been developing in Iraq over the past couple days, and its one that does not seem to be gaining attention here in the United States. With the Katrina recovery and Rita steaming forward as a category 4 hurricane, it should be no shock as this information really shows a state of […]
While Rita is the storm of the news reels right now, another storm is brewing. This storm is really on a destructive path and can go right through the White House. That storm is named Patrick Fitzgerald. He is the special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. With his grand jury set to […]