This follows a typical line in Republican thinking – ignore the facts and they don’t exist: The Bush administration is clamping down on scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey, the latest agency subjected to controls on research that might go against official policy. New rules require screening of all facts and interpretations by agency scientists […]
President Bush said Tuesday that democracies only reach their potential when women are allowed to fully participate in society, singling out Iran, North Korea and Myanmar as nations that are suppressing women’s basic rights. “America will help women stand up for their freedom, no matter where they live,” Bush said at a White House celebration […]
This week, President Bush decided to once again show his family values. While walking away from reporters, he did something that is starting to become a trade mark, he flipped them the middle finger. I am not a prude by any means, but for the leader of the most powerful nation in the world to […]
So what exactly is spin? The word it’s self has many different meanings, but there is only one meaning that will concern us today. That meaning is; “twist and turn so as to give an intended interpretationâ€ÂÂ. Now you hear the term spin used to describe news and press statements on a daily basis. The […]
On Monday, Al Franken talked to David Phillips, an ex state department employee who knows a thing or two about Iraq. In 1998 when the United States first decided that Saddam was going to have to be removed from power eventually, the government started preparing for how to deal with post-war Iraq. The State Department […]