Politico is reporting that the National Restaurant Association is going to decide this afternoon if the worker in the sexual harassment claim against Herman Cain can be released for the gag order. That should make for an interesting weekend round of news if it does happen.
In 2008 three employees of the city of Cincinnati wanted to volunteer for the presidential campaigns, two for Obama and one for McCain. None of them could though. It turns out that Cincinnati had a law on the books for the past 80+ years that prohibited any political involvement by city employees. The law was […]
I decided to start a new post on this. You can read my early posting here. One of the big questions surrounding today’s revelation that the Justice Department had issued a subpoena against the website indymedia, including a gag order, is what for? It’s apparent that the Justice Department was working on some auspice of […]
(Updated below the fold) The Justice Department has subpoenaed indymedia.us for it’s visitor logs for a certain date. While this raises big flags regarding online privacy, something else happened with this action that is very odd. They recipient of the subpoena was told she could not talk about it unless authorized by the Justice Department […]
While the media has been strongly focused on the Middle East, a bombshell was set off last week with Hurricane Katrina. I posted about FEMA not allowing citizens in their trailer parks access to reporters. The only way they can talk to reporters is if a FEMA official is with them (sounds like the old […]
John Bolton is met with even more opposition in the U.N. now. This time he has lost support for the U.N. reform he has been pushing and the loss this time is a big one – Great Britain. This from today’s Telegraph: Britain has angered John Bolton, America’s combative ambassador to the United Nations, by […]
Earlier this week reports broke in the U.K. the Tony Blair had to talk Bush out of bombing al Jazeera. Since then the British Media has been gagged by Downing Street from reporting further on the memo. Channel 4 news in London has reported that the gag order came from pressure by the White House. […]