As many know I am a Twitter freak. What’s really interesting is the insight you can gain into a person in 140 characters or less. Take Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA): Interesting how he has these concerns today. He claims they have been on MMS for “years”, but I wonder if he tried this push 4 […]
I am really curious to hear how the wingnuts spin this one: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents. Al […]
The GOP leadership is trying to get Dick Cheney to go back into his hiding hole: Congressional Republicans are telling Dick Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location and leave them alone to rebuild the Republican Party without his input. Displeased with the former vice-president’s recent media appearances, Republican lawmakers say he’s hurting GOP […]
The EPA has finally started to undo the raping of the land that George Bush allowed: Dozens of mountaintop coal-mining permits are being put on hold until the projects’ impacts on streams and wetlands can be reviewed, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. Announced by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the move targets a controversial practice […]
Andrew Sullivan raises a great point by asking that very question. The right is in a frenzy over the article I posted earlier about the released Gitmo detainee that was involved in the U.S. embassy attack in Yemen. What they are trying to do is create a strawman here. If our prisons are so at […]
This is a Bush administration official with direct knowledge admitting that we torture detainees: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with […]
What do you get when you cross the ideological dangers of DIck Cheney and the poor work ethics of George Bush? Sarah Palin: The Washington Post recently reported that, in her first 19 months as governor, Palin billed the state of Alaska per diem charges for 312 days she spent at her home in Wasilla. […]
John McCain speaking about oil prices: “I don’t think it’s going much lower, and it could go higher,” Really? Not even with Bush/Cheney running things? Not even with the Republican obstructionists in the Senate? So we are stuck with more of the same, and that is being said by the man who is running as […]
This time it’s Boulder Colorado. I wonder if a majority of cities voted for the same thing then would Nancy Pelosi put impeachment on the table – or will she ignore the will of the American people?
That is is from the Army Times: Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media. “Some soldiers believe this is […]