Well this is some disturbing information coming from the treasury: Treasury Secretary John Snow has warned that unless Congress raises the national debt limit, the US government will run out of cash to finance its daily work in two months. In a letter to Senate leaders Thursday, Snow said the statutory debt limit imposed by […]
It turns out that Supreme Court nominee Alito wrote in 1985 that he wanted Roe v. Wade to be overturned as being reported by the Associated Press: WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in a June 1985 memo that the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion should be overturned. In a recommendation […]
It turns out in the days following September 11 that Bush tried to get extraordinary powers granted to him through Congress but those attempts failed. This new information comes from an article appearing in today’s Washington Post: The Bush administration requested, and Congress rejected, war-making authority “in the United States” in negotiations over the joint […]
Rep Sensenbrenner, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is now threatening to block the Patriot Act because of the extension: Via Raw Story: Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Frank James Sensenbrenner (R – WI) has rejected a Patriot Act compromise reached by the Senate. The Senate had agreed to extend controversial provisions of the […]
An interesting story from Germany which gives us some insight into how they view our leaders and their use of rendition: German police in 2003 shielded a German national suspected of terrorism by the United States from questioning by the CIA, according to a newspaper report to be published on Thursday. Die Zeit weekly said […]
Now that President Bush has agreed to back John McCain’s torture ban, house rep. Duncan Hunter has some problems with it, leading to another hurdle. Hunter apparently wants some sort of assurances put into the bill that will protect soldiers from criminal and civil penalties if they do engage in torture. This sounds like an […]
Fitzgerald is presenting new information to the grand jury today. Special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald appeared this morning to present information to a new grand jury in the CIA leak investigation. Fitzgerald has been probing for two years what role senior Bush administration officials have played in leaking a CIA operative name to the media […]
Vanity Fair is set to unravel more of the Judith Miller saga in their January edition (on sale December 13). According to Editor and Publisher the piece “reveals new details and complaints from the reporter’s colleagues at The New York Times”. It takes some hard hits at Miller and New York Times publisher, Arthur O. […]
Yesterday the heads of the 9/11 commission were on Meet the Press and told Tim Russert that we were not prepared for another attack. This has sparked a great deal of attention from the media: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is still unprepared for another inevitable terrorist attack after not doing enough to improve […]
Here is an interesting story about a blogger who has now found himself not welcomed in the United States: Bloggers have no privacy and should expect noneâ€â€Âa lesson painfully learned by a Canadian citizen who was recently turned away after U.S. border guards Googled him and pored over his blog to discover where he lives. […]