According to a tweet from CNBC, Ruppert Murdoch is reportedly considering stepping down as CEO of News Corp. It’s interesting this tweet came on the even of Murdoch’s much anticipated testimony before the U.K. Parliament today. In other News Corp news, Rudy “9/11” Giuliani has decided to throw 9/11 victims under the bus to support […]
Us on the left have been saying this all along and now the man in the spotlight of the “War Against Labor” has admitted it – eliminating collective bargaining does not save money! Like a dog going at a bone, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, didn’t stop until he got the answer he was looking […]
From the Party of Family Values: LEXINGTON – Former state Rep. Steve Nunn had pornographic images of girls between the ages of 10 and 12 on a hard drive recovered after his ex-fiancee was found murdered last fall, a Lexington police detective said Thursday. The external hard drive was found in a box that Nunn, […]
I keep thinking back to the Bush years and every time someone in Congress wanted someone from the Bush administration to testify the Republicans would give cover to Bush by arguing about “executive privilege”. At that time so many of us on the left kept thinking “I wonder if they will do the same when […]
NPR: “The Salahis’ testimony is important to explain how a couple circumvented layers of security at the White House on the evening of a state dinner without causing alarm,” Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman, said in a statement released by his committee last night. “If the Salahis are absent from tomorrow’s hearing, the […]
During Petraeus’ testimony on the Hill, he constantly referred to the terrible state Iraq was in during 2006, and even went as far as referring to it as a “civil war”. Last night Dan Abrams took us down memory lane to 2006 and showed how many times Bush, along with the rest of the administration, […]
Officials are looking at keeping the next Iraq assessment a “secret”: A new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq is scheduled to be completed this month, according to U.S. intelligence officials. But leaders of the intelligence community have not decided whether to make its key judgments public, a step that caused an uproar when key judgments […]
That is what is needed now: Attorneys for imprisoned former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman on Monday called for a special prosecutor after a key government witness claimed that he was forced to write out his testimony to get his story straight. Vince Kilborn, an attorney for Siegelman who contends Republican politics was behind the Democrat’s […]
Kind of sounds like it: The CIA official who gave the command to destroy interrogation videotapes apparently acted against the direction of his superiors, the top Republican House Intelligence Committee member said Wednesday. “It appears he hadn’t gotten authority from anyone,” said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., speaking to reporters after the first day of closed […]
Who Would Jesus Lie To? A Roman Catholic priest was arrested on perjury charges Wednesday, accused of lying about his relationship with a mobster in testimony to a grand jury investigating a casino owner’s possible ties to organized crime. The Rev. Joseph Sica, 52, was arrested outside his home in Scranton and taken to a […]