With news like this coming out it makes you wonder how much longer the few Iraqi’s that like is will keep doing so: U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians Eyewitnesses Cite Scores Killed in Marine Offensive in Western Iraq By Ellen Knickmeyer Washington Post Foreign Service Saturday, December 24, 2005; Page A01 RAMADI, Iraq — […]
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 […]
The RNC released their “white flag” video a couple weeks ago attacking Howard Dean and other Democrats. Now its the DNC’s turn to attack the right and this time they are doing it by proving that Bush has lied in recent speeches. The video shows President Bush telling Americans that Congress had the same access […]
Remember back to the summer of 2003? We could not find those WMDs the administration swore Saddam had stockpiles of. Slowly the reasoning of our invasion turned from WMD to freeing the people from the rule of an evil tyrant. We heard stories of rape rooms and people being tortured by different means that made […]
As if Diebold’s crooked business practices isn’t enough of a threat to our voting rights and the basis of our democracy, we now learn that the Justice Department is also posing a harsh threat: The Justice Department has barred staff attorneys from offering recommendations in major Voting Rights Act cases, marking a significant change in […]
The Washington Post has an interesting article today about the House ethics committee and its state of hibernation during what should be a very busy time. The House ethics committee, the panel responsible for upholding the chamber’s ethics code, has been virtually moribund for the past year, handling only routine business despite a wave of […]
When oil executives took to Capital Hill last month to testify before Senate about their profits, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was outraged that Democrats would want them sworn in. What did he know? As it turns out, these executives lied when asked if they ever met with Cheney about energy policy. In fact they did […]
YesterdayI reported on Deborah Davis who is facing federal charges for not showing her ID to a police officer on a bus during a random check. Today we learn about the Pentagon wanting to expand it’s powers to operate domestically and investigate citizens of this country: This from the Washington Post: The Defense Department has […]
The noose seems to be tightening around NSA Stephen Hadley. Earlier this week, Raw Story reported that they had learned through lawyers and sources close to the leak investigation that Hadley was Bob Woodward’s source. Since then there has been limited denial from Hadley and his office. As matter of fact it is so limited […]
More proof of Bush’s dwindling “political capital” was evident yesterday as the Senate Finance Committee struck down the Bush tax cuts. The measure could be voted on by Senate today. The tax cuts removed were part of Bush’s first term tax cut program which he has campaigned Congress to make permanent. During his re-election campaign, […]