YesterdayI reported on Deborah Davis who is facing federal charges for not showing her ID to a police officer on a bus during a random check. Today we learn about the Pentagon wanting to expand it’s powers to operate domestically and investigate citizens of this country: This from the Washington Post: The Defense Department has […]
So what is Bush’s definition of “democracy in the Middle East”? Would it involve listening to the leaders of the country we now occupy? Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) — Iraqi leaders, meeting at a reconciliation conference in Cairo, urged an end to violence in the country and demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of coalition troops […]
Bush tried to rewrite history yesterday by saying: “more than 100 Democrats in the House and the Senate, who had access to the same intelligence, voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power” Today in the Washington Post, we find out he stretched the truth on that line. President Bush and his national security adviser […]
Via the Associated Press Sheehan Arrested During Anti-War Protest By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Cindy Sheehan, the California woman who has used her son’s death in Iraq to spur the anti-war movement, was arrested Monday while protesting outside the White House. Sheehan and several dozen other protesters sat down on the sidewalk after […]
America is talking but Bush won’t listen. Today he sounded like the usual stuck record while repeating his now infamous catch phrase “We must stay the course in Iraq”. Unfortunately his plan continually calls for more of the same when we are seeing no signs of improvement. A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll just released show […]
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 […]
A great battle has been one. We are starting to fight back and get our freedoms restored that we once cherished so much. Yesterday the House voted 238-187 to block part of the Patriot Act. The part they abolished was the power given to law enforcement to search library and book store records without a […]
The AP has just reported that a former Bolton Deputy released information regarding Bolton’s actions as undersecretary of state to disrupt weapons inspections in Iraq. In 2002 John Bolton flew to Europe to confront and demand the resignation of Jose Bustani, the head of a global arms-control agency. After that Mr. Bolton then orchestrated the […]
In a push to get answers to the Downing Street Memo, Rep. Conyers wrote a letter to the President demanding he answer for it. As of yesterday, June 3, Rep. Conyers has received over 110,000 signatures on this letter, which can be view and electronically signed here. When asked by members of Congress about the […]