For someone who is always out campaigning against federal spending, Rick Perry sure seems hell bent on seeing some federal money: Texas officials filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of Education, seeking to overturn the federal agency’s rejection of the state’s application for more than $830 million in aid that has been tied […]
As a photographer stories like this really get my blood boiling: A few weeks ago, on his way to work, Matt Urick stopped to snap a few pictures of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s headquarters. He thought the building was ugly but might make for an interesting photo. The uniformed officer who […]
It’s amazing. The big media types all jumped on that ACORN video earlier this year, despite it being edited to be taken totally out of context. Now we this story of Shirley Sherrod, someone who has lost their job due to the journalistic malpractice of one Andrew Breitbart. Over at the San Francisco Chronicle, a […]
Sarah Palin talked a lot about education, but let’s look at her own state for some clarification: Alaska’s dropout rate, at 8 percent, was double the national average in the 2005-2006 school year, according to the latest figures available from the U.S. Department of Education. 38 percent of today’s ninth-graders will have no high school […]
Hell he already taps our phones, why not everything else? The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose to investigate, CNET News.com has learned. That proposal surfaced Wednesday in a […]
This shows how bad the Majority Leader is: Rumsfeld’s leadership of the bloody mission in Iraq has become a divisive issue in the Nov. 7 elections. Many Democrats and a few Republicans are calling for his resignation, but President Bush repeatedly has defended him. So did House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, during an appearance […]
Brad Friedman of Brad’s Blog has just broken a huge story. Here is the first part of it. DIEB-THROAT : ‘Diebold System One of Greatest Threats Democracy Has Ever Known’ Identifies U.S. Homeland Security ‘Cyber Alert’ Prior to ’04 Election Warning Votes Can be ‘Modified Remotely’ via ‘Undocumented Backdoor’ in Central Tabulator Software! In exclusive […]