From Cincinnati’s channel 5: A woman accused of using a dietary supplement to drug the children in her care has been found guilty of child endangering. During the trial Wednesday, parents who took their babies to the Covenant Church Day Care in Springfield Township last year took the stand to say they noticed something wasn’t […]
Boehner admits that we torture: While cable news outlets and major newspapers continue to use euphemisms such as “harsh interrogation tactics” to describe the Bush administration’s approach to intelligence gathering, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) used a more succinct term Thursday: “torture.” “Last week, they released these memos outlining torture techniques. That was clearly […]
September is getting closer and closer, while our goal of “success” in Iraq is getting further and further: Sen. Richard Lugar, a senior Republican and a reliable vote for President Bush on the war, said Monday that Bush’s Iraq strategy was not working and that the U.S. should downsize the military’s role. The unusually blunt […]
Perhaps this from the WSJ Blogs gives a good reason: If there’s any doubt about the importance of getting a record of Senate investigative interviews, consider the case of J. Steven Griles. Griles, the former deputy Interior secretary, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Washington today to lying to Senate investigators when he […]
After 6 years you think we would all get used to “Bush speak”: Six of the eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Justice Department ranked in the top third among their peers for the number of prosecutions filed last year, according to an analysis of federal records. In addition, five of the eight were among […]
Last week, two election workers in Ohio got sentenced to 18 months in prison for rigging a recount in the 2004 presidential election. Now our new Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner has asked the election board members to resign or be fired: All four election board members for Cuyahoga County, troubled by recount rigging charges […]
About time justice gets served here in the Buckeye State: A prominent GOP fundraiser at the center of an Ohio political scandal changed his plea to guilty Wednesday on federal charges that he illegally funneled donations to President Bush’s re-election campaign. How many illegal activities have to occur and result in convictions before we can […]
This right here should be enough to spark an investigation into every single election since Bush was appointed President in 2000: Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced […]
Theres an interesyting debate opened up here in the UK (see report from Yahoo News below). It is over guidelines and proposed changes to the law regarding rape. The guidelines say that a man must get consent from a woman prior to having sex. This is due to the increase in cases where women have […]