Bob Schieffer, far from being some member of the “liberal media”, tonight accused Trump’s assertion of bordering on racism: Donald Trump has moved on from the “birther” conspiracy to allege President Barack Obama didn’t get good enough grades to warrant entry to Harvard Law School, an assertion that CBS News chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer […]
McCain campaigned hard against Russia following the Georgia conflict this summer, so its no shock this information comes out after the election: Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist […]
Looks like more trouble happening in our government: F.B.I. agents on Tuesday raided and temporarily shut down the offices of a small federal watchdog agency that is charged with protecting the rights of government whistle-blowers but has been accused of retaliating against whistle-blowers in its own ranks. The raid on the downtown Washington headquarters of […]
Iran is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror That according to our President. Bush made these remarks at a speech in the Middle East. The funny part is that every time this administration tries to tie Iran to terrorist activities, it backfires. The big navy ship incident this week turned out to be as […]
Bush today: The war of words between United States and Tehran continued Wednesday, with President Bush repeating his assertion that Iran is “a threat to world peace.” Yeah so don’t go doing anything stupid like invading a country that didn’t attack your or pose any threat to you. Got it?
Today’s New York Times has an article explaining how torture became a method of interrogation for this administration: When the Justice Department publicly declared torture “abhorrent†in a legal opinion in December 2004, the Bush administration appeared to have abandoned its assertion of nearly unlimited presidential authority to order brutal interrogations. But soon after Alberto […]
I had a feeling the news of Cheney’s saying he is not part of the executive branch would start a fire storm. I just had no idea it would be this big. Rahm Emanuel is showing a pair and ready to really go after Cheney in a way that sounds perfectly legal: Following Vice President […]
We dare not call what is happening in Iraq a civil war, even though this news does support that claim: July appears to have been the deadliest month of the war for Iraqi civilians, according to figures from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue, reinforcing criticism that the Baghdad security plan started in June […]
Arlen Specter is once again holding oversight hearings into the administration: The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, accusing the White House of a ”very blatant encroachment” on congressional authority, said yesterday he will hold an oversight hearing into President Bush’s assertion that he has the power to bypass more than 750 laws enacted over […]
Bush has admitted to the declassification of parts of the pre-war intelligence: Bush acknowledges declassifying Iraq intelligence President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday he ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq to respond to critics. But Bush said he could not comment on an assertion that he authorized Vice […]