I’ve decided that I’m going to point out tweets from prominent politicians today like this one: Over 2,200 veterans died last year because of a lack of healthcare. Will Mike Huckabee support a robust public option that would provide care to not only to the millions of uninsured citizens, but also our veterans?

While we take a day to honor those who have served our country so selflessly Harvard releases a new study with a number that should send shock waves through anyone who supports our veterans: A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because […]

CBS had posted this update earlier today: Update 1:59pm E.T.: A Justice Department official familiar with this subpoena just told me that the attorney general’s office never saw it and that it had not been submitted to the department’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. for review. If that’s correct, it suggests that U.S. Attorney Tim Morrison […]

Ok – I can except this. Of course it has to come with a condition. There can be no federal funding for boner pills. Given the nature of our new public option it will mostly be used by people who aren’t that financially off. Do they really need to be reproducing anyways? Wouldn’t these pills […]

It was only a matter of time until we heard a story like this: A Marine reservist armed with a tire iron beat and chased a man he thought was an Arab terrorist and even called 911 to say he was detaining the man, police said. But the man he assaulted was actually a Greek […]

The New York Times is reporting that Blackwater Executives started paying Iraqi officials around $1 million in 2007 to silence them about the shooting death of 17 Iraqi civilians. The information was provided by four former Blackwater executives in interviews. You can read the entire article here.

I decided to start a new post on this. You can read my early posting here. One of the big questions surrounding today’s revelation that the Justice Department had issued a subpoena against the website indymedia, including a gag order, is what for? It’s apparent that the Justice Department was working on some auspice of […]

And they came out already, starting with Hannity, who is claiming that President Obama knew about Maj. Hasan. As Cesca reminds us: After 9/11, everyone — everyone — supported President Bush. But it’s clear that the wingnuts and Republicans will never give our current president the same deference. But what about George Bush – did […]

(Updated below the fold) The Justice Department has subpoenaed indymedia.us for it’s visitor logs for a certain date. While this raises big flags regarding online privacy, something else happened with this action that is very odd. They recipient of the subpoena was told she could not talk about it unless authorized by the Justice Department […]

There has been a lot of talk today about Murdoch wanting to have Google stop indexing his news sites. I’m not going to go into the piss poor business decision this is, but I do need to highlight this: Mr Murdoch also indicated that he would use legal methods to prevent Google and other search […]