The right wing rhetoric continues to stoke violence: A 64-year-old Yakima County man has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Patty Murray over her support of the National Health Care Reform Act. The FBI and local police arrested Charles Alan Wilson at his Selah home early Tuesday. Wilson was scheduled to make an […]
While going on about Tiger Woods again this morning, Joe Scarborough started defending Woods from the onslaught of media coverage and said it reminded him of balloon boy. What’s interesting is that this is happening on the very morning when Scarborough could only take 10 seconds to talk about the slaying of the Washington police […]
Image by caribb via Flickr The New York Times is reporting on a new alliance forming against the Justice Department and criminalization over all in our country. That alliance is the right and left. Generally the right has always supported the aggressive position of the federal government when it comes to prosecuting crimes, but given […]
Look at this headline on ABC’s World Newser Blog: Gift Certificates for an Abortion? Sounds like something to really get the religious right up in arms – don’t it. The story they are talking about is this one, which I posted about last week. The network of 35 clinics across the state announced it is […]
President Bush is bracing for what could be an onslaught of investigations by the new Democratic-led Congress by hiring lawyers to fill key White House posts and preparing to play defense on countless document requests and possible subpoenas. Bush is moving quickly to fill vacancies within his stable of lawyers, though White House officials say […]
In a few hours, Iraqis will be taking to the poll to either approve or reject their new constitution. Historical in the sense of it being their first constitution, the biggest story behind this vote will be the work done by the Bush administration. Is the constitution does pass, then we can be sure to […]