Commentary

Dennis Kucinich And The Media

Dennis Kucinich And The Media »

The major corporate news outlets, and all the smaller outlets that follow their lead, and all the partisan outlets that obey the White House, have created a false story that was clearly turning Kucinich's own constituents against him. According to this story, of the dozens of Democrats and over a hundred Republicans not committed to voting for the insurance corporation bailout bill, only Kucinich's vote mattered, so the blame would go to him if it...

March 17 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »

Law

Republican Witch-Hunters Embrace Dictatorship »

Republican Witch-Hunters Embrace Dictatorship

Are there no depths to which the Republican Party will not sink in its unprincipled assaults on President Obama’s counter-terrorism policies? The latest unconstitutional...

Mar 16 2010 / 3 comments / Read More »

Nation

Lehman Brothers Autopsy: Repo 105, and Why Auditors Have Some Explaining to Do »

Lehman Brothers Autopsy: Repo 105, and Why Auditors Have Some Explaining to Do

“Secretary Geithner ‘did not recall being aware of’ Lehman’s Repo 105 program, but stated: ‘If this had been a bank we were supervising, that...

Mar 16 2010 / No comment / Read More »

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DA Refuses to Prosecute Animal Cruelty Case »

DA Refuses to Prosecute Animal Cruelty Case

A Pennsylvania district attorney took campaign funds from an organization which promotes killing live pigeons in contests, and then refused to allow the prosecution...

Mar 15 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

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Torture

UK/US Asylum Seekers Find Death, Abuse, and Criminal Indifference »

UK/US Asylum Seekers Find Death, Abuse, and Criminal Indifference

An article in the March 14 UK Observer reports that United Kingdom's asylum immigration system is systematically denying claims of torture by asylum applicants, despite ample medical evidence by applicants of torture in their home countries. Since 2001, many asylum applicants have been sent to...

Mar 14 2010 / 5 comments / Read More »

Nation

Chief Information Officers’ Council Earns Award For Worst Open Government Performance »

Chief Information Officers’ Council Earns Award For Worst Open Government Performance

The Rosemary Award for worst open government performance, named after President Nixon’s secretary who erased 18 ½ minutes of a crucial Watergate tape, this year goes to the Federal Chief Information Officers Council, the senior federal officials (responsible for $71 billion a year of IT...

Mar 14 2010 / No comment / Read More »

World

This Time It’s Pregnant Women: Another Atrocity In The Bush/Obama Afghanistan War »

This Time It’s Pregnant Women: Another Atrocity In The Bush/Obama Afghanistan War

Another night-time raid on a housing compound in Afghanistan. Another bunch of innocent Afghans killed. Another round of lies by the US-led forces of the so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Only this time, among the dead are two pregnant mothers and a teenage girl....

Mar 14 2010 / 9 comments / Read More »

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House Passes Bill Banning Deceptive ‘Census’ Mailings »

House Passes Bill Banning Deceptive ‘Census’ Mailings

Last month when we first wrote about the faux "Census" mailers from the Republican National Committee, we reported that though deceptive, the mailings were likely legal. That could change soon. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation that specifically bans misleading mailings that...

Mar 13 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Law

Virginia Man Tried To Steal 10 Million Gallons of Fuel From US Army In Iraq »

Virginia Man Tried To Steal 10 Million Gallons of Fuel From US Army In Iraq

Michel Jamil, 60, was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for his participation in a scheme to steal approximately 10 million gallons of fuel from the U.S. Army in Iraq, announced Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division Lanny A. Breuer and U.S. Attorney...

Mar 13 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Commentary

Why Tom Hayden’s Wrong, Why Nancy Pelosi’s Lying »

Why Tom Hayden’s Wrong, Why Nancy Pelosi’s Lying

Tom Hayden wants peace, but he's sincerely mistaken about how to get it. He claims that Wednesday's unsuccessful vote to end the war in Afghanistan makes ending the war less likely, and that the way to end the war is to pass a bill...

Mar 13 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Politics

Obama’s Claims About Cracking Down on Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Are Bogus »

Obama’s Claims About Cracking Down on Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Are Bogus

President Barack Obama is out and abroad stumping like mad for his embattled health insurance “reform” plan, claiming now that his administration will “crack down” on $100 billion in annual “waste and fraud” in the Medicare and Medicaid systems. This new tough rhetoric is meant...

Mar 11 2010 / No comment / Read More »
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