Here is an interesting article that doesn’t paint the pretty picture in Iraq that the administration would want us to believe. WASHINGTON (AFP) – Despite US claims of progress in quelling the insurgency in Iraq, it remains as robust as ever and could grow a good deal stronger, according to a new study. The study […]

Diebold is back as a bidder in North Carolina. According to the AP they are amongst three companies trying to win the final bid for supplying election equipment. Diebold is still not in the clear when it comes to the source code. Keith Long, who is advising the elections board with the voting equipment changes, […]

When oil executives took to Capital Hill last month to testify before Senate about their profits, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was outraged that Democrats would want them sworn in. What did he know? As it turns out, these executives lied when asked if they ever met with Cheney about energy policy. In fact they did […]

The White House is now expressing “concern” over the story that our military is paying Iraqi newspapers to print stories written by U.S. soldiers. “We’re very concerned about the reports. We are seeking more information from the Pentagon,” said White House spokesman Scott McClellan. He said Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of […]

I reported on Diebold looking to pull out of North Carolina because of a court order to turn over their source code and list of programmers who helped develop the software that runs their voting machines. Their argument lied within the Operating System which is Windows. They argued they could not give the Window’s source […]

Bush made a big lie yesterday about progress in Iraq. This should come as no shock but still merits attention.Think Progress has the details on it. The progress of the Iraqi forces is especially clear when the recent anti-terrorist operations in Tal Afar are compared with last year’s assault in Fallujah. In Fallujah, the assault […]

A clash occurred between Rumsfeld and the new top military dog Gen. Peter Pace yesterday. The clash happened before reporters and over torture: Via the AP from ABC15 News: Top U.S. military officer contradicts his civilian boss WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s top military man, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, said American troops in Iraq have […]

Here is an interesting story about a blogger who has now found himself not welcomed in the United States: Bloggers have no privacy and should expect none—a lesson painfully learned by a Canadian citizen who was recently turned away after U.S. border guards Googled him and pored over his blog to discover where he lives. […]

It was just a couple months ago that we learned the Bush White House was illegally paying someone to write and publish “puff pieces” promoting the administrations’ education agenda. Today we learn that the military has taken the same course of action in Iraq. WASHINGTON — As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the […]

What a day. We have heard that the President is going to deliver this major speech today about progress in Iraq and lay out a plan for ending this war. Instead we got the same old rhetoric of “more of the same”. The White House has released a new guide entitled “National Strategy for Victory […]