Michael Bloomberg has a post up at the Huffington Post that addresses something very important in this age of terror: It’s amazing but true: we can prevent terror suspects from boarding an airplane, but the FBI doesn’t have the power to block them from buying dynamite or an AK-47. I believe strongly that they should. […]
Following the shooting at the Holocaust Museum this week the right has been in defense mode. They are trying everything to pain James Von Brunn as some lefty or just a plain old loon. The problem with that is he isn’t. Just like in lefty liberal land there are extremes of right wing/neo-con land. James […]
The Ap-Ipsos put out a new poll featuring elections and terrorism. It has some really interesting results (Full survey here – PDF file). First, the Democrats still hold a lead in the way of national security Who do you trust to do a better job of protecting the country? Democrats 37% Republicans 32% Both equally […]
During the 90s, we constantly read articles about Congress investigating the White House. The most infamous was the investigation of Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. That was not the limit of investigations though. Questions got raised into who was on the Clinton’s Christmas card list, who was sending mail to the Clinton’s dog, Clinton […]
Looks like things could get even more heated between the White House and Capital Hill this week: Hurricane Katrina exposed the U.S. government’s failure to learn the lessons of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as leaders from President Bush down disregarded ample warnings of the threat to New Orleans and did not execute emergency […]
Looks like things could get even more heated between the White House and Capital Hill this week: Hurricane Katrina exposed the U.S. government’s failure to learn the lessons of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, as leaders from President Bush down disregarded ample warnings of the threat to New Orleans and did not execute emergency […]