According to this report, you were made aware of Foley’s actions and it is apparent you did nothing. Why did you not take action? As majority leader, you should have addressed this situation. Perhaps a better situation for your party would have been vigilance and removed Foley from all positions of power pending an investigation. […]
We heard this past winter about troop reductions. The U.K. even pulled out 1500 troops. Now we are sending more back in: The U.S. military said Monday it was deploying the main reserve fighting force for Iraq, a full 3,500-member armored brigade, as emergency reinforcements for the embattled western province of Anbar, where a surge […]
The vicious attack of Jill Carroll by right wing bloggers has gained national attention and now international attention: Miss Carroll has been under sustained assault from some on the pro-war Right. Bloggers and hosts on the country’s influential talk radio stations have attacked her for stating that she had not been threatened during her confinement. […]
The Planet of Unreality Bush Sees Progress in Iraq, Challenge in Iran Bush: US will not abandon Iraq This is not good. The people running this country sound convinced that reality is whatever they say it is. And if they’ve actually strayed into the realm of genuine self-delusion — if they actually believe the fantasies […]
Remember early in the Clinton years when there was so much being said about his $200 haircut that took place on a runway at LAX. Joe Klein even rehashed it in his smear book “The Truth About Hillary”. There was an FAA investigation into it because of the rumored flight delays, which eventually turned out […]
It had some of the atmospheric sense of the hearings that Rep. Conyers held on the Downing Street Memo. The only difference this time is that it was not being held in a basement room of the Capital. It was being held in an actual chamber of Congress. The hearing was however, only attended by […]
Here we are on another Saturday evening in America. Some people are out having Barbeques, while others maybe out for a night on the town. I myself am sitting at home relaxing to some television and wondering what the Times of London may have in store tomorrow. It has become almost a weekly event that […]
A tiring argument we hear on a daily basis from conservatives is that the liberal left believes that Saddam should have been left in power to rape and kill. The truth is that is a totally false assertion, and, in my opinion, getting rather old. The fact is that we question the timing of the […]
Interesting enough, on the same week that President Bush starts a new campaign to regain support for the war in Iraq, an article comes out in a Turkish newspaper talking about how “Eighty two Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum have pressed for the withdrawal of the US-led occupation troops from their country.â€ÂÂ. The […]
So what exactly is spin? The word it’s self has many different meanings, but there is only one meaning that will concern us today. That meaning is; “twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretationâ€ÂÂ. Now you hear the term spin used to describe news and press statements on a daily basis. The […]