Josh found this article: The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was […]
John McCain was saying yesterday how safe Baghdad is now and that even General Petraeus can walk down the streets of Baghdad without security or armor. Of course Michael Ware quickly debunked this latest round of lies from McCain, saying Petraeus travels the streets in a heavily armored Humvee, complete with snipers, other vehicles and […]
A number of right wing bloggers are speaking out about Ann Coulter and are even telling the CPAC they do not want her to appear again. Here is the letter that they are sending. Ed from Captain’s Quarters has more: Conservatism treats humans as they are, as moral creatures possessing rational minds and capable of […]
This is very interesting and it will be even more interesting to see how the wingnuts try and spin it: Just before noon today, a petition signed by about a thousand members of the military will be delivered to Congress by about 50 active-duty officers. The petition calls for the withdrawal of all troops from […]
So images should be illegal, but someone actually pursuing a minor for sex shouldn’t? Millions of commercial Web sites and personal blogs would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000, if a new proposal in the U.S. Senate came into law. The legislation, […]
You can tell McCain is really starting to worry about his chances for a White House run in 2008: Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a staunch defender of the Iraq war, on Tuesday faulted the Bush administration for misleading Americans into believing the conflict would be “some kind of day at the […]
Heading into the primary home stretch in Connecticut, Ned Lamont gets some more good news: A novice anti-war candidate seeking the Connecticut Democratic Party’s nomination to run for the U.S. Senate has extended his lead against three-term incumbent and 2000 vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman, a poll showed on Thursday. Ned Lamont, a millionaire businessman […]
This really seems like the Bush/Gore debacle all over again: Mexico’s conservative presidential candidate Felipe Calderon declared victory on Monday in a bitterly contested election result as official returns showed him ahead of his left-wing rival. Calderon said his lead was now “irreversible” because he had an advantage of more than 400,000 votes over Andres […]
The New York Times has a great write up about YearlyKos today: If any more proof were needed of the rising influence of bloggers — at least for the Democratic Party — it could be found here on Friday on the Las Vegas Strip, where the old and new worlds of American politics engaged in […]
McCain is doing what he can to whore himself to the Christian right in order to gain votes in 2008: Potential presidential candidate John McCain says he longer considers evangelist Jerry Falwell to be one of the “agents of intolerance” that he criticized during a previous White House run. The Republican senator from Arizona will […]