Kal Penn is getting a new gig, and this one isn’t in Hollywood: I understand it was your decision to leave House. True? KAL PENN: Yes. I was incredibly honored a couple of months ago to get the opportunity to go work in the White House. I got to know the President and some of […]
While New Orleans still sits in ruins, we now find out that George W. Bush rejected almost all international aide: As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide. Titled “Echo-Chamber Message” — a public relations term for […]
This is truly disgusting. We send these people over to fight in a war that illegal and based upon fabrications, misinterpretations and flat-out lies, yet our country refuses to do anything for them. Thousands of U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are facing a new nightmare – the risk of homelessness. The U.S. government […]
Well Bush and his cronyism has totally destroyed a federal agency and that is messed up: The nation’s disaster response agency should be abolished and rebuilt from scratch to avoid a repeat of multiple government failures exposed by Hurricane Katrina, a Senate inquiry has concluded. Crippled by years of poor leadership and inadequate funding, the […]
The Family Research Council has released a statement “Thanking President Bush” for his executive order today: WASHINGTON, March 8 /U.S. Newsdesk/ — Yesterday, President Bush ordered the Department of Homeland Security to establish a center for faith-based aid which will be tasked with integrating faith-based groups into federal disaster response efforts. Family Research Council (FRC) […]
The Times (UK) have reported on further details from Amnesty International regarding the detention of some 14,000 people by US and British Military Forces. As I said in an earlier post, it’s about time some independant international board was given the consent to investigate and visit these places without any red tape and report on […]