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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Palin: average isn't good enough
She's not qualified to be president, and in picking her, McCain shows that he has little respect for the presidency. Americans have an unhealthy desire to see average people promoted to positions of great authority. No one wants an average neurosurgeon or even an average carpenter, but when it comes to the Presidency, Americans say they want a regular person. This is when narcissism becomes indistinguishable from masochism.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Marshall Law Imposed in Arkansas Town: Is Your City Next?
(3 comments) On Tuesday, the Helena-West Helena City Council voted 9-0 to allow police to expand a 24-hour curfew program into any area of the city, despite a warning from a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas that the police stops were unconstitutional. Officers armed with military rifles have been stopping and questioning passers-by in a neighborhood plagued by violence that's been under a police state curfew.

Monday, June 30, 2008
Southern Baptist Scholar Links Spouse Abuse to Wives' Refusal to Submit to Their Husbands
(3 comments) Biblically endorsed misogyny – at least according to Bruce Ware, professor of Christian theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky – continues to circumscribe a threadbare and dangerous meme engendered by radical Christian religious fundamentalists. Ware's extreme rationale and justification for men abusing their spouses is simple: "because women rebel against their husband's God-given authority."

Monday, June 2, 2008
Clinton Likely to Suspend Campaign, Endorse Obama on Tuesday
(2 comments) The Huffington Post is reporting that "Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to attend her speech tomorrow night" and it is now widely viewed that this signals, "she plans to suspend her campaign and endorse Barack Obama" immediately after the last two Democratic Primaries are held on Tuesday. Clinton staffers were also being urged to turn in expense receipts "by the end of the week."

Friday, April 18, 2008
Defense Department: Iraq war 'a major debacle' with outcome 'in doubt'
(3 comments) According to the National Institute for Strategic Studies, a Defense Department research center, the war in Iraq has become "a major debacle" and the outcome "is in doubt." The report carries considerable weight because it was written by Joseph Collins, a former senior Pentagon official, and was based in part on interviews with other former senior defense and intelligence officials who played roles in prewar preparations.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Quinnipiac: Clinton lead in Pennsylvania slipping away
(6 comments) Hillary Clinton needs a large, double digit win in Pennsylvania to maintain any appearance of legitimacy in winning the Democratic nomination – anything less will be seen as a fatal blow to her quest for the presidency. Sadly, the latest Quinnipiac poll shows Hillary's lead down to only six points and falling as Obama picks up women and white voters.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Obama Reneging on Promise to End Occupation in Iraq?
(1 comments) A key adviser to Senator Obama’s campaign is suggesting in a private paper that America keep between 60,000 and 80,000 troops in Iraq as of late 2010, a plan at odds with the public pledge by Obama to withdraw combat forces from Iraq within 16 months. The paper, obtained by The New York Sun, was written by Colin Kahl for the Center for a New American Security entitled, “Stay on Success: A Policy of Conditional Engagement.”

Monday, March 31, 2008
Cash-strapped Hillary Clinton fails to pay bills
(2 comments) Hillary Rodham Clinton's cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months - freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles. It's not just the size of Clinton's debts that's noteworthy. Clinton also reported debts to a slew of small apolitical businesses and organizations.

Friday, March 28, 2008
Sen. Leahy to Clinton: Withdraw and back Obama
(2 comments) Sen. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and six-term Vermont lawmaker said there is no way that Clinton is going to win enough pledged delegates to get the nomination. Leahy opined on Vermont Public Radio that Clinton ought to withdraw and back Obama. Adding, "Obama's lead appears to be insurmountable and that Obama's endorsement by U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is the latest sign of how the race is going."

Monday, March 24, 2008
Pentagon report: No evidence of Saddam attempt to assassinate Bush
Newsweek reports that the same Pentagon report that has essentially disproved an Iraq-al Qaeda link also calls into question the 1993 plot (to assassinate former president George H. W. Bush while in Kuwait) which spurred former President Bill Clinton to launch a Tomahawk cruise-missle strike against Saddam's Iraqi Intelligence Service, may be another tenuous allegation made against Saddam by current President George W. Bush.

Friday, March 21, 2008
Breaking: Gov. Bill Richardson endorses Obama
(3 comments) Bill Richardson, the nation's only Hispanic governor, threw his support behind Barack Obama for president Friday, delivering one of the most coveted and tightly held endorsements in the race for the Democratic nomination. Richardson stated, "You are a once-in-a-lifetime leader...above all, you will be a president who brings this nation together."

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Obama's Passport Records Breached at State Department
(6 comments) Three State Department contractors improperly accessed Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's passport records beginning in January, department officials said Thursday night, and an investigation into their motives and backgrounds is under way. Two of the contractors were immediately fired, and the third has been disciplined but not fired. The State Dept claims "no political motivates" apparent.

Friday, March 14, 2008
McCain suggests al Qaeda in Iraq may attempt "spectacular attacks" in Iraq to sway a Democratic win for the White House.
Responding at a town hall in Philadelphia, John McCain intimates that al Qaeda operatives in Iraq may be the reason he could lose the presidency this November. Glossing over the implication that lives may be in danger, instead, McCain seemed more concerned with his own presidential bid and chances. Quoting McCain, "Yes, I worry about it."

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Winning the Battle, Losing the War
One lesson from the Tet offensive is to not put the best face on a military situation for political reasons.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Sophist at-large: Bush Equates Criminal Acts by Telecoms as "Patriotic."
President Bush is still bullying legislatures and a wary American public to endorse immunity for the telecommunications companies who illegally spied on Americans without proper warrants. In a desperate act to delude lawmakers, Bush nakedly asserted that the illicit acts by the telecoms were "patriotic" and Americans "ought to say Thank You" for their participation in Bush's warrantless eavesdropping on U.S. citizens.

Thursday, February 28, 2008
Amending the Constitution in God's name: Huckabee endorses 'Egg as a Person" legislation.
(4 comments) Presidential Republican hopeful Mike Huckabee has tossed all of his eggs in one basket (sorry, it was there for the taking) by pandering to the most radical of ideas to rally his fanatical right wing base of raucous pro-life lemmings.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Supreme Court Rules Medical Devices Immune from Lawsuits
Makers of medical devices like implantable defibrillators or breast implants are immune from liability for personal injuries as long as the F.D.A. approved the device before it was marketed and it meets the agency's specifications, the Court ruled on Wednesday. In an 8-1 decision, the justices said that federal law preempts states from imposing liability for these approved devices.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Protect America Act "Unconstitutional" According to FOX News' Top Law Analyst
Creeping intrusions against our privacy rights are an assault on the Constitution. The FISA statute itself significantly...lowered the 4th Amendment bar from probable cause of "crime" to probable cause of "status." The government cannot constitutionally prosecute someone unless it has evidence against him that was obtained pursuant to probable cause of a crime, a standard not met by a FISA warrant.

Friday, February 15, 2008
Clinton's Chief Strategist Mark Penn Tied To Controversial Nuclear Firm
Even as Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign was blasting Sen. Barack Obama for his ties to the Exelon Corporation, the firm of Mark Penn, Clinton's chief strategist, was earning hundreds of thousands of dollars from the very same nuclear energy giant. Penn also has ties to the controversial security firm Blackwater.

Thursday, February 14, 2008
BREAKING: Justice Dept: "Waterboarding not legal." Will Mukasey begin investigations now?
(12 comments) A senior Justice Department official says laws and other limits enacted since three terrorism suspects were waterboarded has eliminated the technique from what is now legally allowed. There has been no determination by the Justice Department that the use of waterboarding, under any circumstances, would be lawful under current law," he said. It is the first time the department has expressed such an opinion publicly.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Senate Votes to Give Retroactive Immunity for Telecoms
(3 comments) Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) took to the floor last night to give a speech asking, "This is our defining question, the question that confronts every generation: The rule of law, or the rule of men?" The resounding answer: the rule of men.

Monday, February 11, 2008
Obama Wins Again, Clinton Replaces Campaign Manager
VIRGINIA BEACH -Senator Barack Obama racked up his fourth decisive victory this weekend, winning the Maine caucuses on Sunday, as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton replaced her campaign manager and longtime aide, Patti Solis Doyle, in the biggest shakeup of her campaign to date.

Monday, February 11, 2008
Army Buried Study Faulting Iraq Planning
Containing a wide-ranging critique of the White House, the Defense Department and other government agencies, a now unclassified report identified problems with nearly every organization that had a role in planning the Iraq war.

Monday, February 11, 2008
Plan Would Force Electoral College to Choose According to Popular Vote
(1 comments) If John R. Koza gets his way, American voters will never again have to wonder about the workings of the Electoral College and why it decides who sits in the White House. Koza is behind a push to have states circumvent the odd political math of the Electoral College and ensure that the presidency always goes to the winner of the popular vote.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
Obama will be assassinated if elected, says Nobel winner
(7 comments) If Barack Obama becomes the next US president he will surely be assassinated, British Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing predicted in a newspaper interview published here Saturday. "They would murder him," Lessing, 88, told the Dagens Nyheter daily.

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Washington Post: "A President Who Tortured"
(13 comments) Waterboarding will leave an indelible stain on the legacy of George W. Bush. THE ADMISSION this week by CIA Director Michael V. Hayden that three terrorism suspects were subjected to waterboarding in 2002 and 2003 puts to rest any doubt about whether President Bush authorized torture.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Ted Haggard quits "pray-away-the-gay" program
After three weeks of intensive "restoration" therapy, former megachurch leader, meth-purchaser and intimate man-on-man massage enthusiast Ted Haggard declared that he is now "completely heterosexual." He submitted himself to a Daddy Dobson-approved team of godly, clean men who inserted themselves into the life of the fallen pastor, who was tossed out from New Life Church in Nov. 2006 for gay trysts with a male prostitute.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Giuliani 'one of most spectacular flame-outs in history'
(1 comments) AFP: Rudolph Giuliani's plummet from soaring Republican front-runner, to humiliated White House also-ran, ranks as one of the most spectacular flame-outs in US election history.

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
John McCain's Platform: 'Less jobs and more wars.'
Republican front-runner John McCain's foreboding future in his America: "There's going to be other wars. ... I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender but there will be other wars," and, "Some of the jobs that have left the state of Michigan are not coming back", says John McCain.

Sunday, January 27, 2008
Caroline Kennedy endorses Obama: "A President Like My Father."
(9 comments) Caroline Kennedy endorses Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. She writes in an op-ed posted Saturday on the Web site of The New York Times, "I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them...but for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president - not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
42 Reasons We Won't Miss President George Bush
Would you believe it's possible to narrow the reasons we won't miss Bush down to 42? No, but it's a start. We all know the penalty for forgetting history - after all, we've been through two Bushes! To get things started, here is a particularly infamous quote for each year of his presidency, from the sadly hilarious to the infuriatingly tragic.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Pelosi puts "contempt" but not "impeachment" back on the table.
Seven months after the House Judiciary approved a measure to cite close Bush aides, Josh Bolten and Harriet Miers, for Contempt of Congress, Speaker Pelosi is preparing to bring the accusations before the full House for a vote. Republicans, on cue, stated that investigations of "malfeasance by the administration [had failed]" and warned of a "constitutional confrontation" if Pelosi proceeded.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Former Republican Congressman suspected of being fundraiser for terrorists
Too embarrassed to even mention his party affiliation, Fox News is circling the wagons to offer up as many points of conjecture as possible to explain away the indictment of former representative, Mark Siljander. Mr. Siljander was charged with money laundering, conspiracy & obstructing justice for "allegedly lying about lobbying senators on behalf of an Islamic charity" that purportedly was secretly funding terrorists.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Incredulously, ACLU sues to block switch to paper ballots!
(3 comments) The ACLU filed suit this afternoon to block the state of Ohio from forcing Cuyahoga County to switch from touch-screen voting machines to paper ballots counted at a central location in the March 4 primary. Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is requiring the change in the state's most populous county because of past problems there and a study that concluded the touch-screens are substandard and vulnerable to tampering.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Cheney-style democracy in the Middle-East: "Musharraf: vote disrupters will be shot!"
"President Pervez Musharraf [of Pakistan] warned troops would shoot anyone trying to disrupt parliamentary elections meant to bring stability to the country as it battles a rise in attacks blamed on Muslim extremists." Just to summarize, a police state has ordered the orderly murdering of other human beings in order to achieve democracy and uphold the rule of law. Incredulous? Read on...

Monday, January 14, 2008
Ohio Republican legislators assemble in secret to stave off changes to how Ohioans vote
Columbus, Ohio - The Ohio Republican Party has invited Republican elections board members from around the state to gather at a private meeting to discuss "the party's response to the secretary of state's voting proposals." Elections officials in at least three counties have balked at Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's directive that counties with touch-screen machines make paper ballots available during the March primary.

Monday, October 8, 2007
Bush and the modern GOP: Same party, same problems
A number of articles recently portray President Bush as someone who strayed from the path of true conservatism. On the contrary, he's the very model of a modern movement conservative. Cutting taxes while waging wars, fiscal irresponsibility, general incompetence, disenfranchising minority groups, and disdain for the rule of law. Paul Krugman shows - citing contemporary history examples - that the GOP is the "same old party."

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Judge: Sen. Craig Can't Revoke Plea
(MINNEAPOLIS) - A Minnesota judge on Thursday rejected Sen. Larry Craig's bid to withdraw his guilty plea in an airport sex sting, a major setback in Craig's effort to clear his name and hang onto his Senate seat.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
BREAKING NEWS - Bush Vetoes Children's Health Care!
(2 comments) WASHINGTON - President Bush, in a sharp confrontation with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance. It was only the fourth veto of Bush's presidency, and one that some Republicans feared could carry steep risks for their party in next year's elections. The veto comes on the heals of Bush proclaiming this past Monday was "Child Health Day."

Monday, October 1, 2007
Not so fast, Hillary!
The Clinton nomination is not inevitable, at least according to the latest Rasmussen poll. Quoting, "For now, we simply note that Clinton is a serious frontrunner but her victory is not inevitable."

Monday, October 1, 2007
McCain's Shameless Lie: U.S. Constitution Establishes We are a "Christian Nation"
(2 comments) WASHINGTON – After a speech that heavily pandered to conservative Christians, several Jewish organizations criticized John McCain on Monday after the Republican candidate said he would prefer a Christian president over someone of a different faith. Adding, "The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation," and, "This nation was founded primarily on Christian principles."

Friday, September 28, 2007
New '92 Video of Cheney Surfaces: "Deposing Saddam not worth many damn lives"
A recently uncovered video from 1992 shows Dick Cheney, then Secretary of Defense, outlining the reasons the United States did not topple Saddam Hussein during the first Gulf War. Stating, "The bottom line question for me was: How many additional American lives is Saddam Hussein worth? The answer: not very damn many."

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
When America Went Fascist
The United States turned fascist on December 11, 2000. On that day, the Supreme Court essentially appointed George W. Bush president of the United States, stopping the recount of Florida votes, and, hence, the democratic process. The justices of the court then slipped away by night, ashamed of their role in murdering America's great experiment in democratic rule.

Monday, September 24, 2007
Bush predicts Gop will hold White House in '08 and declares Obama's intellectualism as "laziness"
(1 comments) Apparently, Bush is still using Karl Rove's math. You know, the one Rove proclaimed as "the math" in reference to the 2006 election outcome - that, well didn't add up! Bush waxes prognosticate that Hillary Clinton will be defeated by an unnamed GOP candidate in the '08 Presidential election. Incredulously, he also claims Obama's brainpower is a bane and not a boon.

Monday, September 24, 2007
Dept. of Homeland Security caught notating what kind of hotel bed you request
In a broad dragnet, which was vastly expanded in 2002 by the DHS, millions of American travelers are being subjected to documentation and cataloging of highly personal data. Likely in violation of the Privacy Act, DHS' intrusive data collection efforts includes everything from itineraries, hotel and rental car reservations, and even the type of bed requested in a hotel.

Monday, September 24, 2007
Tired of Bush's War in Iraq, Independents Favor Democrats in '08 election
From coast to coast, independent voters tilt tellingly toward Democrats in their opposition to the Iraq war, their displeasure with Bush and their feeling that the country is moving in the wrong direction, according to data from recent Associated Press-Ipsos polls.

Monday, September 24, 2007
Bush's stonewalling of documents requested by Judiciary Committee may be more insidious than first thought
Bush appears to have raises the stakes in a new twist on Nixon's political enemies list. Harper's Magazine is reporting that sources inside the DOJ have told of a plot, devised by the Bush administration in early 2002, to target John Edwards and Hillary Clinton. Seen as potential threats to Bush back in '04, both Democrats may have been marked for harassment, seizing of records and even the levying of bogus criminal charges.

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Bush hits record low in ratings in new Reuters poll!
(1 comments) WASHINGTON - Only 29 percent of Americans gave Bush a positive grade for his job performance, below his worst Zogby poll mark of 30 percent in March. "The public mood is not just dark... the mood is getting ugly", Zogby Said.

Thursday, September 20, 2007
McCain's Midnight Ride
NY Times columnist, Gail Collins, brilliantly, with a perfect touch of satire, illuminates the mercurial, irrational, and capricious justifications John McCain has put forth about his position on the occupation of Iraq since 2003. A delightful read and highly recommended!

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Senate Takes on Moveon.org
(3 comments) The same Senate that can't muster the decency to restore Habeas Corpus, or given Iraq combat soldiers as much time at home as they spend in the Iraq meat grinder, wants to censure Moveon.org. Eerie, Orwellian, or perhaps downright pathetic, this is what our elected and "esteemed" representatives in D.C. are spending their morning doing. When does the book burning outside the Capitol Building begin?

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Bush setting America up for war with Iran
LONDON, UK - Senior American intelligence and defense officials believe that President George W Bush is taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran. Pentagon planners have developed a list of up to 2,000 bombing targets in Iran, including the use of bunker-busting tactical nuclear weapons advocated by Vice-President, Dick Cheney.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Must Read: The Conscience of a Liberal
(1 comments) Through superb precision, Paul Krugman of the NY Times eloquently articulates the departure from an equal-access society to the extensive inequities that exist today in a dwindling middle class. Calling it a "great divergence", Krugman states, "The America I knew has unraveled. We're no longer a middle-class society in which the benefits of economic growth are widely shared...brought on by the era of "movement conservatism."

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Bush's sly change-up on reversal of acting AG goes virtually unnoticed
Yesterday, Bush's signature move of obfuscation was on full display – if you were paying attention. Amid the robust announcement of Michael Mukasey, as Bush's new Attorney General Appointee, nearly undetected was this subdued statement: "Outgoing Justice Department official Peter Keisler would serve as the acting attorney general until Mukasey is confirmed." Talking Points Memo tells us why and how this actually matters.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Flyer Mitt Romney Doesn't Want The Right To See!
ABC has obtained one flier Romney doesn't want you to see. It's from 2002, when Romney was running for governor with Kerry Healey as his running mate. 'Mitt and Kerry Wish You a Great Pride Weekend! All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference.' (It's even pink.)

Thursday, September 13, 2007
Has Obama Offered Most Extensive Plan Yet for Winding Down War?
(2 comments) IOWA - Senator Barack Obama yesterday presented his most extensive plan yet for winding down the war in Iraq. He proposed a withdraw of all combat brigades by the end of next year. "The best way to protect our security and to pressure Iraq's leaders to resolve their civil war is to immediately begin to remove our combat troops," Mr. Obama said. "Not in six months or one year - now."

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Cindy Sheehan's "Pigs of War"
Pigs of War come in both political colors of red and blue. We are all unfortunately very familiar with the red pigs. The pigs of war who manipulated, cherry-picked, stove-piped and manufactured intelligence to suggest to the world that Saddam had mushroom cloud producing WMD and something to do with the tragic events of 9-11 that occurred six years ago now.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Glen Greenwald: The DC Establishment vs American Public Opinion
By large majorities, Americans distrust Gen. Petreaus' report and, in general, claims about Progress in Iraq. Quoting Greenwald, "The overwhelming majority of the American people now harbor such intense distrust towards our political and media elite that they are virtually immune to any of these tactics."

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Republicans focus on attacking MoveOn.org, not Bush's failed surge
In their opening statements Monday, the top Republicans on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs committees turned their sights toward a liberal group's advertisement in the New York Times today, citing numerous sources that indicate the administration's measures of progress are inaccurate and incomplete.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Democrats See Politics in a Governor's Jailing
(1 comments) House leaders are beginning an investigation this week of the prosecution of Don Siegelman, the former Democratic governor of Alabama who was imprisoned in June on corruption charges. The case could become the centerpiece of a Democratic effort to show that the Justice Department engaged in political prosecutions. Karl Rove may be connected to the prosecution of Mr. Siegelman, opined Jill Simpson, an Alabama lawyer.

Monday, September 10, 2007
Pentagon planning base near Iraq-Iran border
New York – The Pentagon is preparing to build a military base near the Iraq-Iran border, inside Iraq, the Wall Street Journal is reporting. So much for H.R. 2929, Banning Permanent U.S. Bases in Iraq, which states no funds should be used for permanent base construction.

Monday, September 10, 2007
Delay Decision on Major Cuts, Petraeus Says
WASHINGTON - The top American commander in Iraq, Gen. David H. Petraeus, has recommended that decisions on the contentious issue of reducing the main body of the American troops in Iraq be put off for six months, American officials said Sunday. Petraeus is asserting that American forces had achieved "tactical momentum"and were forging successful alliances with local Sunni tribal leaders.

Monday, September 10, 2007
Craig will try to take back his plea
WASHINGTON - Sen. Larry Craig should be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in a sex sting because he was under extreme stress after being hounded by journalists asking questions about his sexuality, his lawyer argues.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Aussies: Bush 'worst president' ever!
(26 comments) MORE than half of all Australians believe George W. Bush is the worst president in American history, a new poll shows. The Galaxy poll, commissioned by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War (MAPW), found 52 per cent of Australians believed Mr Bush was the United States' worst-ever president.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Bush Insisted Weapons of Mass Destruction Existed Through April 2006
Bush is still fixing the facts around the policy. Former White House chief of staff Andy Card, called the statement Bush made in October of 2004, that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, "just rhetoric." Robert Draper in his new book, Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush, records that Bush continued in private to believe that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction through April of 2006.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
High School Student to McCain: You're No Leader
(1 comments) This morning, a high school student challenged Sen. John McCain about his age, causing McCain to jokingly refer to the student as "a little jerk." The troubles for McCain didn't end there. Another student pressed him with regards to his stance on gay marriage, which McCain says he "does not support civil unions or gay marriage." Students response: "I came here looking to see a leader. I don't."

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
GAO's Blunt Assessment at Serious Odds with Bush's View
WASHINGTON - Violence in Iraq remains high, fewer Iraqi security forces are capable of acting independently, and the Baghdad legislature has failed to reach major political agreements needed to curb sectarian violence, says a report released Tuesday.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Top Cheney Aide: "We're One Bomb Away From Getting Rid" Of Wiretapping Court
In his book, Jack L.Goldsmith, former head of the Office of Legal Counsel, claims that David Addington and other top officials treated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act the same way they handled other laws they objected to: "They blew through them in secret based on flimsy legal opinions that they guarded closely so no one could question the legal basis for the operations," he writes.

Monday, September 3, 2007
Bush seeking immunity for telecommunications businesses in NSA lawsuit
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration wants the power to grant legal immunity to telecommunications companies that have been slapped with privacy suits for cooperating with Bush's illegal warrantless eavesdropping program. Bush is seeking to shut down dozens of lawsuits filed against AT&T and Verizon, who are accused of helping set up the program.

Friday, August 31, 2007
Young Americans lean left, only 4 percent "enthusiastic" about Republican candidates
Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll. More than half of Americans ages 17 to 29 - 54 percent - say they intend to vote for a Democrat for president in 2008. Moreover, only 4 of 10 approve of President Bush.

Friday, August 31, 2007
"State Secrets" Becomes Bush's New Tool to Avert Litigation Over Banking Records
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is signaling that it plans to turn again to a legal tool, the "state secrets" privilege, to try to stop a suit against a Belgian banking cooperative that secretly supplied millions of private financial records to the U.S. government. Seeking to end public discussion of cases like the NSA's eavesdropping program, the Bush administration has summoned this legal tactic more than 30 times.

Thursday, August 30, 2007
Bush Attempts to Re-write Iraqi Benchmarks
WASHINGTON – After a bleak assessment showed little or no progress in Iraq, The White House is now endeavoring to whitewash the report. Specifically, Bush aides are undertaking a bit of revisionism and claiming the original marks set were, "too high." By law, the president must report to Congress by September 15 on Iraq. Bush's answer appears to be the equivalent of "fixing the facts to cover up the reality!" Yahoo has more.

Thursday, August 30, 2007
Republican Fred Thompson to announce bid
DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican Fred Thompson, whose entry into the presidential race has been long anticipated, will officially launch his candidacy Sept. 6 in a webcast on his campaign site, followed by a five-day tour of early primary states.

Thursday, August 30, 2007
Conyers: Impeachment off Pelosi's table, but not mine
(6 comments) Rep. John Conyers declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi could not stop him from beginning impeachment proceedings in the House Judiciary Committee against a 'long list of people'in the Bush administration, although he did not make a firm commitment to begin proceedings. "I understand the politics of impeachment," Conyers said. "But we have something going on now that we've never had before."

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Marred in Scandals, GOP Operative Asks, "How low can you go?"
(2 comments) WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 - Scott Reed, a Republican strategist asks, "The real question for Republicans in Washington is how low can you go, because we are approaching a level of ridiculousness... you can't make this stuff up. And the impact this is having on the grass-roots around the country is devastating. Republicans think the governing class in Washington are a bunch of buffoons!"

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Record Number of Americans Lack Health Insurance
-- A record number of Americans are without health insurance, according to new U.S. Census Bureau statistics released Tuesday. Up from 44.8 million in 2005 to 47 million in 2006 or 15.8 percent of all Americans.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Gonzales Resignation Does Not Pardon President's Abuse of Power
(2 comments) WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today said U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation requires further congressional investigation into the Bush administration's systematic abuse of power. Alberto Gonzales will follow Mitchell Palmer as one of the worst attorneys general in U.S. history," said Anthony D. Romero, ACLU Executive Director.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Read the actual police report filed on Senator Craig's Attempt At 'Lewd Conduct'
CNN has obtained the June 11, 2007 police report detailing Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's disorderly conduct arrest in an airport bathroom. In the report, the arresting officer alleges that Craig lingered outside a restroom stall where the officer was sitting, then entered the stall next door and blocked the stall door with his luggage. (Read the report [PDF])

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
GOP senators say Craig should resign
WASHINGTON - Idaho Sen. Larry Craig's political support eroded significantly Wednesday as three fellow Republicans in Congress called for his resignation and party leaders pushed him from senior committee posts. The White House expressed its disappointment, too - and not a word of support for the 62-year-old lawmaker. Norm Coleman of MN added, "Senator Craig pled guilty to a crime involving conduct unbecoming a senator."

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Study: Withdrawal possible over a year
WASHINGTON - Most U.S. troops can be withdrawn safely from Iraq in roughly one year and the Bush administration should begin planning the pullout immediately, according to a study released Wednesday. With the exception of two brigades who would remain in the Kurdish region for a year to guard against conflict with Turkey, the U.S. troops would be moved to Kuwait initially, says the study by the Center for American Progress.

Friday, August 17, 2007
DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS, INC. IS NO MORE!
(1 comments) Diebold Elections Systems, Inc. is no more, at least in name. After a year and a half of conversely trying to dump their failed voting unit and lying to customers about the reliability and security of their voting systems, corporate parent Diebold is giving up the ghost of their election business. Is full bankruptcy far behind? The Brad Blog has more...

Thursday, August 9, 2007
I AM Your Senator's Son
Republican Presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, has five sons and all of them are of military service age. How many are actually serving in the military? You guessed it, none! Romney, who also has never served, laid out several insipidly lame excuses for his family's continued pro-war but anti-enlistment stance. The winner of the assortment of defenses to not serve, "[they are] helping me get elected."

Wednesday, August 8, 2007
BREAKING: Bush Recess-Appoints Former Coal Exec as Mine Safety Chief
(4 comments) President Bush just put former coal industry executive Richard Stickler in charge of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA)-a job the U.S. Senate twice refused to grant him. Since Bush couldn't get his appointment through Congress, he gave Stickler a "recess appointment" while members of Congress are out of town. The Senate sent Stickler's nomination back to Bush twice because of his troubling safety record.

Thursday, July 26, 2007
Bipartisan support for impeachment gains traction from former Reagan official.
The former Associate Deputy Attorney General during the Reagan administration and Constitutional lawyer, Bruce Fein, brings impeachment to the mainstream media while being interviewed by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown show Wednesday night. Fein expertly opined that Bush had met the threshold for political crimes against the Constitution and "must be impeached."

Saturday, March 3, 2007
Jerry Falwell: Weather Channel Cause of Global Warming
(2 comments) This past week Rev. Jerry Falwell devoted his holy homily not to the almighty, but to ostensibly debunking the "myth of global warming." Falwell, debunking his own, already dubious credibility on the subject, proudly proclaimed, "[I]am quick to say that I am not a scientist." Adorned with nearly incomprehensibly ramblings, Falwell blamed the focus on global warming on everything from Hollywood to the Weather Channel.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
The Religious Right's Era Is Over
(1 comments) Jim Wallis, author of God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It, explains to Time Magazine why the Religious Right's day of inflicting its divisive and intolerant judgment into the public discourse of American politics is "over."

Saturday, February 17, 2007
Bush continues his "Mr. Freeze" Persona, Job Rating still at 32 Percent
(1 comments) In the latest February 12, CBS News Poll, Bush's overall job approval rating was an icy 32 percent, while his overall handling of Iraq was judged very frosty at 27 percent. When asked, "How is the war in Iraq going?" 71 percent responded "badly."

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Elections chief in Ohio's largest county resigns after botched primary, mishandled recount
(3 comments) CLEVLAND, OHIO - The elections chief in Ohio's most populous county resigned Tuesday, ending a tenure that included the mishandled recount of President Bush's narrow 2004 'win' [loss?] in Ohio that gave him a second term. Under executive director Michael Vu, Cuyahoga County had a botched primary last May and saw the convictions last month of two workers who rigged the presidential recount.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Lieberman wants your blood, your children and now your money to fight the 'war on terror'
(1 comments) Former turncoat Democratic Senator and now an independent, Joseph Lieberman, brandished his hawkish stance with a new proposal that will make even the ardent Bush support blush. Lieberman wants to enact legislation to impose a 'war on terrorism' tax. This is apparently Joe's farcical scheme on how to 'share the cost' of an illegal occupation and war. Why not just swear and Omertà and "kick two points" to Uncle Sam instead?

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Bush below freezing, approval now stands at just 28 percent
(2 comments) (CBS) As Americans grow wearier of Bush and his obsession with Iraq by the moment, his approval rating continues a precipitous drop. Now, nearly three-fourths of the nation is in staunch disagreement with Bush. Virtually in uncharted territory in terms of unpopularity, only Nixon faired worse at a dismal 23 percent, just before he resigned in 1974 amid the Watergate scandal.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
'Smoking gun' for human-caused global warming
(2 comments) WASHINGTON - Human-caused global warming is here - visible in the air, water and melting ice - and is destined to get much worse in the future, an authoritative global scientific report will warn when it's released next month. "The smoking gun is definitely lying on the table...," said top U.S. climate scientist Jerry Mahlman, who reviewed all 1,600 pages of the first segmenta four-part report. "The evidence... is compelling."

Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Reid: "We've got to tell the president what he's doing is wrong!"
(3 comments) WASHINGTON - In a blunt challenge to President Bush, the leader of the Senate's new Democratic majority said Monday he will "look at everything" within his power to wind down the war in Iraq...and start bringing our folks home.

Friday, January 5, 2007
Serious questions arise over Bush's failure to follow 'letter of the law'
(3 comments) WASHINGTON - A signing statement attached to postal legislation by President Bush last month may have opened the way for the government to open mail without a warrant. The White House denies any change in policy. "The signing statement raises serious questions whether he is authorizing opening of mail contrary to the Constitution and to laws enacted by Congress," said Ann Beeson, an attorney with the ACLU.

Friday, January 5, 2007
ExxonMobil paid to mislead public over global warming
(3 comments) WASHINGTON - ExxonMobil Corp. gave $16 million to 43 ideological groups between 1998 and 2005 in a coordinated effort to mislead the public by discrediting the science behind global warming, the Union of Concerned Scientists asserted Wednesday.

Friday, January 5, 2007
CBS poll: Bush's approval at a dismal thirty-percent!
(3 comments) American's are generally optimistic about the new democratically lead 110th Congress – sixty-eight percent are optimistic – while Bush's overall rating is now below the freezing mark at just thirty percent. Additionally, seventy-six percent are doubtful Bush has a clear plan for Iraq.

Thursday, January 4, 2007
FBI releases documents showing the late Chief Justice, William Rehnquist, was a pill-popper
(4 comments) In a request made under the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI has released detailed information about the deceased former Supreme Court Justice, William Rehnquist. Among the 561 pages are the revelations that Rehnquist suffered from hallucinations, tried to escape from a hospital in his pajamas and had paranoid delusions that the CIA was plotting against him. Quoting, "[Rehnquist suffered] disturbance in mental clarity"

Monday, January 1, 2007
Chief Justice Roberts Bemoans Rule of Law in Jeopardy without Pay Raise for Judges
(3 comments) Bush appointed, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, declared in his single-topic, year-end report that a failure to raise judicial pay scales would results in a "constitutional crisis." Judge Roberts currently earns $212,000 per annum or roughly $101.00 per hour. The current minimum wage for nearly 2 million Americans – set at $5.15/hr over a decade ago – more closely resembles an epic humanitarian emergency.

Friday, December 29, 2006
What Should Congressional Democrats Do, When the Bush Administration Stonewalls Their Efforts To Undertake Oversight?
(3 comments) John Dean, author of "Worst Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush" and "Conservatives Without a Conscience" opines in his Findlaw.com column the legal means Congress has at its disposal to force executive compliance during investigations and hearings. Noting, "Congress has a host of tools, of various size and shape and depending on the situation, to extract information from the President."

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Many soldiers say troop surge a bad idea
(4 comments) BAGHDAD, Iraq - Many of the American soldiers trying to quell sectarian killings in Baghdad don't appear to be looking for reinforcements. They say the temporary surge in troop levels some people are calling for is a bad idea. Sgt. Justin Thompson adds, "This is a civil war, and we're just making things worse. We're losing. I'm not afraid to say it."

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Man who queried that outing Plame was treason, dead of 'apparent suicide'
(3 comments) Paul Sanford, a high-profile attorney who was also a member of the White House press corps in 2005, died of an ostensible "suicide leap." Sanford was the first reporter to ask then Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, "whether a violation of that statute [leaking Plame's name] would, in effect, constitute treason?" Sanford regularly championed the rights of the oppressed and robustly supported separation of church and state.

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Self-professed demigod, Sun Myung Moon, funneled over $3 billion to conservative causes
(3 comments) The ultra peculiar and eccentric owner of the Washington Times, Sun Myung Moon, a cultish figure with seemingly vast ties to the Bush family and organized crime, has been quietly subsidizing the radical elements of the Republican Party. Currying favors – ranging from planted propaganda stories in his paper to raising billions for the right – Moon helped amplified much of the extremism of the neoconservative movement.

Thursday, December 28, 2006
AP/IPSO poll pegs Bush as #1 villain in the world!
(4 comments) George Bush can finally claim, "Mission Accomplished." In a recent AP/IPSO poll, Americans overwhelmingly chose the U.S. Commander-in-Chief as the world's number one worst villain. Galloping to the head of the class -- in front of Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein -- by a margin of 4 to 1, Bush is now considered the world's foremost desperado. Finally, Bush wins in a landslide!

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Despondent Army Reservist, Due to Return to Iraq, Dies in Police Standoff
(3 comments) James E. Dean, an Army reservist, who had already served 18 months in Iraq, died at the hand of a single gunshot wound inflicted by police after a 14-hour standoff. Dean barricaded himself inside his father's home, claiming he was going to "kill himself", after being notified he was being dispatched to Iraq again. A neighbor was quoted as saying, "He had already been out there and didn't want to go again."

Monday, December 25, 2006
Senator Dodd Disperses with Bush's "Surge to Victory" as Recipe for Disaster
(3 comments) Insisting that the President should announced in January a withdraw of U.S. troops; Senator Dodd believes an escalation of troops in Iraq will accomplish "nothing." Quoting a West Point graduate, After Dodd recently visited Iraq and met with troops, "Senator, it is nuts over here!"

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Iraq on brink of collapse: report
(3 comments) BAGHDAD - Iraq is on the brink of total disintegration and could drag its neighbors into a regional war, a leading think-tank said, after the Pentagon confirmed violence was at an all-time high. The warning from the International Crisis Group came amid lawless chaos in Baghdad, where police were hunting for 16 kidnapped aid workers and a former minister who escaped from jail, allegedly with the help of U.S. hired guns.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Bush to Expand Size of Military, Ignores Voter's November Mandate for Peace
(3 comments) President Bush said today that he plans to expand the size of the U.S. military...Bush said he has instructed newly sworn-in Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates to report back to him with a plan to increase ground forces.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
'O-bomb-a' and the War Party
(3 comments) Barack Obama: He's more of the same...

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Pentagon mulling show of force to Iran
(3 comments) WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is considering a buildup of Navy forces in the Persian Gulf as a show of force against Iran, a senior defense official said Tuesday.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Bush Takes One Step Closer to Total Tyranny, with Help of Courts
(3 comments) The MCA – passed in a pre-election fury with nearly no forethought or deliberation – passed its first judicial "smell test." District Judge James Robertson granted a motion to dismiss Salim Ahmed Hamdan's petition for a writ of Habeas Corpus, the same Hamdan of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which was fought earlier this year in the U.S. Supreme Court. Glen Greenwald notes, "[This] is a power which not even the British King possessed."

Monday, December 18, 2006
Boomtown Las Vegas Aims to Boot Bums
(3 comments) LAS VEGAS, NV. – Mayor Oscar Goodman, a former trial attorney for the mob, continues his tactless, political mauling on the homeless through an escalation of callous city ordinances. His arsenal to maintain the city's glitz and eradicate the glum includes banning advocacy groups from providing free food to shuffling them off to an abandoned prison. In some cases, even a bowel movement from a bum was banned.

Monday, December 18, 2006
New Secretary of Defense, Old War Plan: Stay the course.
(3 comments) On the same day he was sworn in as the new Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates made an announcement with the hallmark signs of another Bush, neoconservative. Extemporaneously confirmed earlier this month by the Senate, Gates still believes the conflict in Iraq is somehow a winning proposal. Only 21% of Americans now support Bush's invasion of Iraq, yet Gates shows his impropriety for public sentiment, um, right out of the gate.

Saturday, December 16, 2006
Leahy vows to fight Bush, guard privacy rights
(3 comments) WASHINGTON - The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised this past Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights and laws. Patrick Leahy revealed his ideas to reign in Bush's assault on essential liberties by using everything from subpoenas, denying confirmation of key appointees to the power of the Congressional purse.

Saturday, December 16, 2006
Taxpayer-financed Evangelism Found in Iowa Prison
(3 comments) Hoping to covert convicts to evangelical Christianity, an Iowa prison has lured inmates with the promise of salvation and porcelain toilets! The tentacles of the religious-right have extended their suppressive temptations by enticing the incarcerated with everything from pizza to partitioned-off potties. The catch for inmates is the use of coerced, imposing religious indoctrination in exchange for increased creature comforts.

Saturday, December 16, 2006
Showdown looms over domestic spying
(3 comments) SAN FRANCISCO - Federal agents continue to eavesdrop on Americans' electronic communications without warrants a year after President Bush confirmed the practice, and experts say a new Congress' efforts to limit the program could trigger a constitutional showdown. High-ranking Democrats set to take control of both chambers are mulling ways to curb the program Bush secretly authorized a month after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Friday, December 8, 2006
Bi-Partisan Senate Bill Aims to Restore Habeas Corpus
(4 comments) A new bill was introduced in the Senate on Wednesday (S. 4081) by Arlen Specter (R) and co-sponsored by Patrick Leahy (D) aimed at striking the limitations placed on Habeas Corpus by the previously passed controversial Military Commission Act of 2006. Entitled, the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2006, the bill parallels similar legislation introduced earlier in December by Senator Christopher Dodd of CT.

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Vengeful Video Game Teaches Kids how to Slaughter Jews, Muslims and other "non-believers."
(3 comments) Tim LaHaye, the extreme, evangelical purveyor of pious heresy and hatred, author of the rancorous Rapture books, "Left Behind", has a new ally in his quest for an American Christian theocracy at Wal-Mart. The mega-retailer is helping LaHaye pimp his latest implement of Christian conversion by way of a violent kid's video game. The game features a post-apocalyptic world where Christian forces amass to slaughter "non-believers."

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Eleven Geriatric Grandmas Faced 90 Days in Jail for Anti-War Antics
(3 comments) CENTER CITY, SC – Eleven elderly women, known as the Granny Peace Brigade, took their anti-war sentiment directly to the source, a military recruiting station. Wearing T-shirts proclaiming, "We will not be silent", were arrested in June for attempting to enlist in lieu of young men and women. Judge Deborah Griffin dismissed the charges stating, "The women were engaged in constitutionally protected free speech."

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Bush's 'Black List Law' Ruled Unconstitutional
(3 comments) LOS ANGELES, CA. – Judge Audrey Collins ruled against the Bush administration's use of an executive order that allowed the Dept. of Treasury unconstrained ability to designate individuals and organizations as "specially designated global terrorists" and freeze their assets. The court established that the order was "vague"; it "contains no definable criteria", "and imposed guilt by association."

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Pat Robertson Claims that All Other Religions are "Demonic"
(5 comments) Pat Roberson, the Curmudgeon Christian of the 700 Club, tells his audience in response to a viewer's email question about religious diversity that only evangelical Christians "have a relationship with God" and all other religions are "really just demonic powers!" Adding, "Sure, they are mostly demons."

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Main Stream News Paper Reports Iraq in Civil War, Bush calls it a "new phase."
(4 comments) The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a new Harris Interactive poll finds that 68 percent of Americans believe Iraq is in the midst of a civil war. Only 14 percent disagreed. President George W. Bush was not among those 68 percent confirming Iraq was at civil war.

Thursday, November 30, 2006
Intolerant Talk Show Host has Meltdown over Muslim Congressman's "Multiculturalism"
(4 comments) Dennis Prager, former Reagan appointee, right-wing sycophant and verse-by-verse fundamentalist Bible coach, shows his xenophobia and spews bigotry towards Keith Ellison, Congressman-elect of Minnesota, a practicing Muslim, for being sworn in using the Koran and not the Bible. Mr. Prager appears to busy espousing his prejudices to have read Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, "but no religious test shall ever be required."

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Judge strikes down part of Bush anti-terror order
(3 comments) LOS ANGELES, CAL. -- A federal judge in Los Angeles, who previously struck down sections of the Patriot Act, has ruled that provisions of an anti-terrorism order issued by President George W. Bush after September 11 are unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins found that part of the law violated the Constitution because it put no apparent limit on the president's powers to place groups on that list.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Iraq Panel to Recommend Pullback of Combat Troops
(3 comments) WASHINGTON, Nov. 29 - The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal, according to people familiar with the panel's deliberations.

Saturday, November 25, 2006
Signed Memorandum Pins Torture of Detainees on Rumsfeld
(3 comments) MADRID - In a hand-annotated and signed memo, Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, told Spain's El Pais newspaper that in early 2004 Donald Rumsfeld ordered that techniques such as sleep deprivation and prolonged stress position were approved for use on terror suspects. Karpinski also claims she witnessed in the margin of the memo in the same handwriting "Make sure this is accomplished."

Saturday, November 25, 2006
Justice Department Quashes Wiretapping Inquiries
(3 comments) MAINE -- The Department of Justice's response to inquiries sent by Maine, Connecticut, Vermont and New Jersey about possible illegal wiretapping has been to sue the states for enforcing state law!

Saturday, November 25, 2006
Culture War Crusading Pastor Decries Wal-Mart, Seeks Christian Moratorium on Would-be Shoppers
(3 comments) BUENA PARK, Calif – Pastor Dr. Wiley S. Drake Sr., Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention, declares a boycott, in the "name of Christianity," on Wal-Mart. Sighting the company's neutrality stance in the "culture wars," Wiley writes president of Wal-Mart, Lee Scott, saying, "I will not return to your stores...as [long as] you are killing babies with plan "B"...and a member of the Homosexual Chamber of Commerce."

Friday, November 24, 2006
War Crimes Complaint Against Rumsfeld, et al. Takes Shape
(4 comments) The November 14, 2006, criminal complaint, filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, is a request for the German Federal Prosecutor to open an investigation and, ultimately, a criminal prosecution that will look into the responsibility of high-ranking U.S. officials for authorizing war crimes in the context of the so-called "War on Terror." Watch testimony, learn the facts, take action and demand justice!

Friday, November 24, 2006
God hates gays, but loves liars!
(3 comments) The beef-cake, gay stud, Mike Jones, that helped bring down mega-church leader and heretical hypocrite, Evangelical Rev. Ted Haggard, offered a "deep tissue and Swedish style massage with the pleasure of the man in mind," in his advertising. Including this splendid lump of luridness, "If you like a strong muscle man to bring pleasure to you, then please call me."

Thursday, November 23, 2006
Blending dinosaurs and rapture proves too taxing for Pensacola evangelist
(4 comments) PENSACOLA - Evangelist, Kent Hovind, was found guilty of 58 counts of tax fraud on Nov. 3, 2006. Kent Hovind, whose life's mission is to debunk evolution, says he and his employees are "workers of God and therefore exempt from paying taxes." Hovind is founder of Creation Science Evangelism and Dinosaur Adventure Land, a place where "dinosaurs and the Bible meet." Jurors found Hovind should have met his tax obligations instead.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Police State and Hysteria May be Setting In
(3 comments) WASHINGTON – The ability to move about freely just took another step back. Homeland security just announced that passports will be required for ALL travel, including to Canada and Bermuda; both entering and exiting. "Homeland Security plans to require all travelers, including Americans, entering the U.S. by land or sea to show a passport," according to Michael Chertoff.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Concession speech by Minnesota State Senator turns into "Christian conversion" plea
(4 comments) MINNESOTA – State challenger Rae Hart Anderson, turned her concession speech to winning candidate, Satveer Chaudhary, into a scripture-laden, messianic appeal for his conversion to the tenants of Jesus. "Congratulations on winning the District 50 senate race... and it is my sincere wish that you'll get to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior!" Chaudhary is a practicing Hindu.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Excesses and dangers of MCA of 2006 must be revoked
(3 comments) NEW YORK -- Senator Christopher Dodd, already working hard to restore Habeas Corpus, finds a new ally. Aziz Huq, director of the Liberty and National Security Project, declares the MCA of 2006, "a wretched compendium of needless derogations from proud American traditions of freedom from detention and torture." Aziz Huq on tompaine.com soberly reminds us this draconian Bill, "contains no sunset provisions."

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Bush/Cheney to ignore Congress, may Bomb Iran in 2007
(4 comments) U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh has noted that ultra-hawkish Vice-President Dick Cheney is intent on attacking Iran, with or without the approval of Congress. Claiming the "WMD defense", Cheney says, "The military option would never be discarded." Even progressive think tanks, such as the Center for American Progress, believe that Bush may order limited strikes by next summer. "I think he is going to do it," added John Pike.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
George Allen's parting "shot" to America: A concealed weapons bill for national parks
(6 comments) NY TIMES -- As a last little gift to America, Senator George Allen, who was narrowly defeated by James Webb this month, has introduced what may be his final piece of legislation: a bill that would allow the carrying of concealed weapons in national parks.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Christian Churches Speaking Out on Homosexuality Demanding Gays Remain "Celibate."
(3 comments) WASHINGTON -- Religious intolerance and prejudice showed it "faithful fangs" and xenophobic treatment of homosexuals by Christian organizations once again. On Tuesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops "voted to approve new guidelines asking homosexuals to "stay celibate," because the church considers their conduct, "Sexually disordered."

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
Armed with New Evidence, Civil Rights Groups File War Crimes Suite Against Rumsfeld.
(3 comments) NEW YORK, GERMANY -- The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit with German prosecutors that seek to charge disgraceful, outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes for the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons. The Pentagon's response, "sounds frivolous to me."

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
God has a "Foreign Policy," According to Evangelical Leaders
(4 comments) WASHINGTON – Calling the conflict "a battle between good and evil", the Rev. John Hagee of San Antonio, lays out his apocalyptic reasons for encouraging Israel to destroy "the Lebanese militia" and fulfill Biblical prophesies. Piety preacher, James Dobson, of Focus on Family, added that Israel's fight compared to, "the Biblical skirmish between little David and mighty Goliath."

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Acerbic Atlanta talk show host Neal Boortz turned away at the polls on Tuesday
(3 comments) ATLANTA, GA. – Atlanta-based talk show host, libertarian loud-mouth and polemic xenophobe, Neal Boortz, was unable to vote on Tuesday. Boortz, the acerbic blowhard, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper was, "turned away." Emblematic of most neoconservatives and their sympathizers, Boortz blamed the polling booth problem on one his staffers!

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Self-Righteous Evangelical Leader Blames GOP for Fateful Fall of Republican Congress
(4 comments) COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- Focus on Family Evangelical leader, James Dobson, blames GOP leaders for Democratic take-over of Congress. Fails to mention massive Republican corruption, gay pedophiles in Congress cloaked as protectors for our children and the revelation that now fallen conservative church leader Ted Haggart solicited gay, male prostitutes for sex and drugs.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Kilroy Demands Every Vote Be Counted, Refused to Concede in Ohio
(3 comments) COLUMBUS, OH. – The 15th Congressional District in Ohio is still undecided. Democratic challenger Mary Jo Kilroy is still trying to unseat Republican incumbent, Deborah Pryce. Pryce has a narrow margin of 2,800 votes, but over 20,000 provisional and absentee ballots have yet to be counted. Many uncounted ballots are from the OSU campus area, a usually predominately Democratic-leaning area of town.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
Jesus Camp in Devils Lake, N.D. to Close After Protests
(4 comments) DEVILS LAKE, N.D. – The infamous "Jesus Camp", where hardcore Evangelical parents sent their reluctant kids to speak in tongues, spurn abortion, and worship cardboard effigies of President George W. Bush is closing. Pentecostal pastor Betty Fischer, who cautioned kids against reading Harry Potter books, says the camp is closing after much hate mail, protests and vandalism.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
"Vote and You Will be Arrested," Telephone Call Alleges.
(3 comments) Illegal voter suppression telephone calls turn nasty in Virginia, "You will be arrested if you vote!" (Click 'View Article' to watch it on YouTube.)

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Kentucky poll worker charged with assault, interfering with election
(3 comments) LOUISVILLE, Ky.-- Angry poll worker arrested after choking and pushing voter at polling location in Jefferson County.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Central Ohio voters hampered by machine problems, voter ID confusion
(3 comments) COLUMBUS, OH. – Voters across Franklin County are experiencing a swath of voting problems at the polls. Many are reporting machine malfunctions, Board of Election phone lines being down and mass poll worker confusion about voter ID laws.