While the media has been strongly focused on the Middle East, a bombshell was set off last week with Hurricane Katrina. I posted about FEMA not allowing citizens in their trailer parks access to reporters. The only way they can talk to reporters is if a FEMA official is with them (sounds like the old […]
Today, Nancy Pelosi released the following statement regarding U.S. citizens in Lebanon having to pay for evacuations: Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on news reports that American citizens who are trying to leave Lebanon must agree to repay the U.S. government for the cost of their evacuation: […]
Nice to see how well we do take care of our citizens. This is from the Canadian Embassy in Beirut: The Canadian Government has arranged for sea vessels to assist Canadians wishing to depart Lebanon. All costs related to the evacuation of Canadians citizens from Lebanon will be borne by the Government of Canada. Now […]
Historically voter turn out has decreased every year in our country. Mid-term elections have taken even a harder hit on participation then presidential elections. So why should this year be any different? Well first off, the last time there was a spike in a mid-term election turn out was in 1994, when the Republicans had […]
I got to say this is big. I said in my Sunday Line Up post that “This Week” looked promising and indeed it was: In an exclusive interview on “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold called on the Senate to publicly admonish President Bush for approving domestic wiretaps on American citizens without […]
If you ever had any doubt that one reason for going to war in Iraq was to help boot Halliburton then this story from the Post Chronicle might change your mind: Pentagon Spied on Houston Anti-Halliburton Activists by Houston Global Awareness Jan 24, 2006 A Houston-based anti-Halliburton group was spied on by a top-secret Pentagon […]
The NSA spying story has just gotten worse: WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 – In the anxious months after the Sept. 11 attacks, the National Security Agency began sending a steady stream of telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and names to the F.B.I. in search of terrorists. The stream soon became a flood, requiring hundreds of agents to […]
In a speech ignored by cable news networks today, Al Gore sounds the alarm about our constitution being in crisis and the dangers our nation faces by an executive branch that is out of control and power hungry. Excerpts follow: [..] During the period when this eavesdropping was still secret, the President went out of […]
Here is a prime example of how different wording in a poll can alter its outcome. Should the National Security Agency be allowed to intercept telephone conversations between terrorism suspects in other countries and people living in the United States? Yes 64% No 23% That was Rasmussen’s poll released earlier this week. Notice the poll […]
It turns out in the days following September 11 that Bush tried to get extraordinary powers granted to him through Congress but those attempts failed. This new information comes from an article appearing in today’s Washington Post: The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority “in the United States” in negotiations over the joint […]