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Doug: Because - you know… terrorists are one thing, but them damn queers are something else altogether. Once again, we see homophobia and hatred trumping GOP (Gays on Parade) security, war on terror rhetoric. Pathetic.

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Valerie Plame and her publisher filed suit yesterday against the CIA, its director, Michael Hayden, and Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, charging that they are wrongly blocking her from disclosing certain details of her agency career in her forthcoming memoir.

The details in question? The exact dates of Plame’s federal service, which the intelligence agency […]

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday criticized Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as a European caricature who would turn the United States into a welfare state. “She gave a speech a couple of days ago and laid out her vision for America. And as I listened to her I figured her platform wouldn’t even […]

As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.

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Was talking to an influential Republican strategist who thinks if Iraq looks the way it does now in September, Bush will lose about 25 Senate Republicans on a bill with some sort of timetable for withdrawal. John Aravosis at AmericaBlog has the story.

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Through four elections, Debbie Thompson has supported Representative Mark Steven Kirk, a Republican and staunch backer of the Bush administration’s policies in Iraq. But Ms. Thompson, a mother of two from this affluent suburb of Chicago, says her views on the war have evolved, and she now wants Mr. Kirk to change, too. “My patience […]

Clinton initially opposed cutting off funds for the troops, but said Wednesday that she believed last week’s vote was cast in support of soldiers abroad. “The best thing I can do to continue my very vigorous support of the troops is to begin to bring them home,” she told the AP. Clinton was on her […]

Local peace activists expressed surprise, sadness and sympathy following Cindy Sheehan’s Memorial Day announcement that she’s leaving her controversial role as the face of America’s anti-war movement. “I was shocked and stunned like everybody else, but, actually, in retrospect, I’ve been kind of thinking the same things and I think probably she was under a […]

Since last year, the military’s embedding rules require that journalists obtain a signed consent from a wounded soldier before the image can be published. Images that put a face on the dead, that make them identifiable, are simply prohibited.

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Special counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald has made it clearer than ever that he was hot on the trail of a coordinated campaign to out CIA agent Valerie Plame until that line of investigation was cut off by the repeated lies from Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

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An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame’s employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was “covert” when her name became public in July 2003. The nature of Plame’s […]

May was the deadliest month this year for American troops in Iraq. Six more American soldiers were killed in bombings to the north of Baghdad on Monday, the US military said today, bringing the number of American military deaths to 112 this month. The worst month for US forces was November 2004, when 137 were […]

Attorney General John Ashcroft is really sick. About to give a press conference in Virginia, he is stricken with pain so severe he has to lie down on the floor. Taken to the hospital for an emergency gallbladder operation, he hallucinates under medication as he lies, near death, in intensive care. On the night after […]

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Doug: Notice how O’Reilly describes Rosie as “parading her neuroses” on the program and “attacking Elizabeth Hasselback.” WTF?! Criticizing your government is neurotic?! I would say demonizing those who criticize their government is neurotic.

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I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called “Face” of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such “liberal blogs” as the Democratic Underground. Being called an […]

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“If we stayed here for 5, even 10 more years, the day we leave here these guys will go crazy,” he said. “It would go straight into a civil war. That’s how it feels, like we’re putting a Band-Aid on this country until we leave here.”

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Rosie O’Donnell will not be back on “The View,” ABC announced Friday, two days after she and co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck got into a huge political dust-up live on the talk show. “We had hoped that Rosie would be with us until the end of her contract three weeks from now, but Rosie has informed us […]

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Doug: Maher makes the point that even Fox News calls Moore’s film “brilliant and uplifting.”

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Doug: If you wonder from time to time why the conservative base of the GOP is so ill informed and ignorant, here’s why. They surround themselves with “safe” conservative “news” organizations that feature lemmings like Ann Coulter, who in this clip actually says…

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Way back in March, the Washington Post reported…

“Al-Qaeda in Iraq is the United States’ most formidable enemy in that country. But unlike Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda organization in Pakistan, U.S. intelligence officials and outside experts believe, the Iraqi branch poses little danger to the security of the U.S. homeland.”

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The entire Fitzgerald sentencing memorandum is worth reading, but this sentence stuck out:

===First, it was clear from very early in the investigation that Ms. Wilson qualified under the relevant statute (Title 50, United States Code, Section 421) as a covert agent whose identity had been disclosed by public officials, including Mr. Libby, to the press. […]

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Yeah, but his hair sure looks nice, doesn’t it?

PAUL Wolfowitz has really had a bad couple of weeks. He not only lost his job, he lost his girlfriend, too. Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, was pushed out as president of the World Bank over a controversial pay and promotion package […]

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The US Senate on Thursday, following the lead of the House of Representatives, approved $120bn in new funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without a timetable for withdrawing combat troops. By a vote of 80-14, the Senate passed the emergency funding bill, sending it to President George W. Bush, who is expected to […]

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Doug: Personally, I think he just had one too many with his lunch today. (*hic*)

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Five-term veteran Shelley Berkley, who represents Las Vegas and environs, said Thursday afternoon, “My district is pretty evenly divided. I haven’t done polling, but according to other polls it’s apparent that more than 50 percent now oppose the Iraq war in my district or in Nevada.”

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The vote was 280-142, with Republicans supplying the bulk of the support needed to send the measure to the Senate for final passage later in the evening. There were 194 Republicans in favor, as well as 86 Democrats, three members of the leadership among them. Pelosi and 139 other Democrats voted against the measure, as […]

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Doug: This is all I’ve been able to find thus far, Sam. Still looking for footage that features the exchange you mentioned, wherein Goodling’s lawyer interrupts and Davis responds. If I find it, I’ll post it.

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American liberals need to face these truths: The demand for self-government was and remains strong in Iraq despite all our mistakes and the violent efforts of al Qaeda, Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias to disrupt it. The key question for Congress is whether or not Iraq has become the primary battleground against the same radical […]

THE US today threatened new UN sanctions to punish Iran’s nuclear drive as it ratcheted up tensions with the biggest display of naval power in the Gulf in years. A bristling US armada led by two aircraft carriers steamed into waters near Iran for exercises, hours before UN watchdogs said Iran was expanding its uranium […]

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Doug: Check the classic response from Goodling. “I don’t believe I intended to commit a crime.” WTF?!?!

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Three years ago, in 2004, 60 percent of military voters polled by the Military Times identified themselves as Republican. Today, that number is down to 46 percent, or less than half. The reason for this change is obvious: Iraq has gone from bad to worse. Afghanistan, too, is in trouble. Many Democrats […]

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Doug: And while I’m sure Senator Dodd wanted this to sound forceful, decisive and presidential, I really don’t like the “safe” way he uses the word “redeploy” instead of “bring our troops home.” Why? Because our troops don’t need to be redeployed, they need to be brought home. Period.

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Doug: Unfortunately, he makes the same mistake as most progressives keep making. He criticizes the idiotic, GOP created, never ending war in Iraq, but then supports and defends the idiotic, GOP created, never ending “war on terror.” Hello, can’t anyone make the connection that the “war on terror” was brought to us by the […]

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None other than Deryk Schlessinger, Dr. Laura’s son. And did you know he had his own MySpace page? At least he did until MySpace removed it because it contained cartoon depictions of rape, murder, torture and child molestation; photographs of soldiers with guns in their mouths; a photograph of a bound and blindfolded detainee captioned […]

Seeking to rally support for the war, President Bush is pointing to U.S. intelligence asserting that Osama bin Laden ordered a top lieutenant in early 2005 to form a terrorist unit to hit targets outside Iraq, and that the United States should be first in his sights. The information, which Bush was to cite Wednesday […]

Farmers in southern Iraq have started to grow opium poppies in their fields for the first time, sparking fears that Iraq might become a serious drugs producer along the lines of Afghanistan. The shift to opium cultivation is still in its early stages but there is little the Iraqi government can do about it because […]

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Doug: Can you think of better ways we could be spending $275 million dollars a day?

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A small group of protesters gathered near the funeral services to criticize the man who mobilized Christian evangelicals and made them a major force in American politics — often by playing on social prejudices. A group of students from Falwell’s Liberty University staged a counterprotest. And Campbell County authorities arrested a Liberty University student for […]

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Doug: And they call upon “The Walrus” to help them do it, who immediately plays the “Time is not on our side” canard. I think we have at least enough time to wait until this incompetent, war-mongering Bush administration mercifully ceases to exist.

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In grudging concessions to President Bush, Democrats intend to draft an Iraq war-funding bill without a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops and shorn of at least some of the billions they want for domestic programs, officials said Monday. The legislation would include the first federal minimum wage increase in more than a decade, […]

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Doug: And note how Matt Lauer plays it safe at the beginning of the report by saying, “Some think he’s gone a little too far.” Think, Matt?

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Doug: If you haven’t heard it yet, here’s the song “Barack, the Magic Negro.”

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… the film wherein George W. Bush is assassinated? Here it is in its entirety, all 93 minutes in 10 different clips. Very well done and very interesting (and I’m sure intentional) how the GOP’s reaction to Bush’s death parallels Bush’s reaction to 9-11 with regards to Iraq. (In case you’re wondering, Bush is shot […]

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Here’s a link to a story on the page 6 scandal.

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Doug: This putz actually sends a cardboard likeness of himself on a trip every week to find out… wait for it… here it comes… are you ready? To see (* barf alert *) what people think of him. I think I’m gonna’ hurl.

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A former member of the South Dakota House was arrested Friday on charges of rape and other offenses against two girls who were his foster children, the second time in a year that the Legislature has been rocked by allegations of improper sexual conduct. Ted A. Klaudt, R-Walker, was charged with eight counts of second-degree […]

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If you missed Carey’s appearance on Cavuto’s show, here it is.

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Doug: And why would the propaganda arm of the GOP report on this story, you might be wondering? Because the loyal right doesn’t like John McCain. Because the loyal right wants to sink McCain’s campaign (like he isn’t doing a good enough job himself). John McCain condemns torture. You can’t represent the political party […]

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Doug: Best line goes to actor Bradley Whitford, who says, “I feel like my ancestors snuck into this country back in the 1,600’s, so I think we should leave the immigration debate to the indigenous people like Lou Dobbs.” Great line.

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Bill says “This was Fox News… republican candidates… a South Carolina audience - a perfect storm of stupidity.” Ouch.

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Doug: And listen to Elisabeth Hasselbeck spit out one meaningless right wing talking point after another. And catch her fondness for one of the right’s favorite buzz words, “terrorists.” And kudos to 2-time past guest, Congressman Paul for getting people talking. This can only be a good thing.

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Doug: Here’s a little comedy skit for something called “Juggy Academy,” a school that focuses more the size of women’s breasts than their brains. But note who plays the part of the professor in the skit. Right wing nut and Bush apologist, Ben Stein! Now I don’t have a problem with this skit - […]

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Doug: This is a follow-up to this story we brought you yesterday.

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Troops don’t need bigger pay raises, White House budget officials said Wednesday in a statement of administration policy laying out objections to the House version of the 2008 defense authorization bill.

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It matters enormously whether the president, once that mission failed, was willing nonetheless to proceed with a program whose legality had been called into question by the Justice Department. That is why Mr. Bush’s response to questions about the program yesterday was so inadequate.

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Plame Seeks Showdown With Cheney

A lawsuit brought by a CIA agent whose cover was blown by Bush administration officials, Valerie Plame, is expected to face a withering attack this morning at a court hearing in Washington. Through their attorneys, the defendants in the case have denounced it as a political vendetta on the part of […]

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Doug: Tucker says the whole porn community will be for Hillary Clinton. Ummm… not so, Tucker. Scroll down to the “Political Ambitions” headline. You’ll see this on Mary’s own web site. “In June 2005, Carey announced her bid for Lieutenant Governor of California as an Independent in 2006. She also attended a GOP fund-raiser […]

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In a collision of 21st-century science and decades-old conspiracy theories, a research team that includes a former top FBI scientist is challenging the bullet analysis used by the government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald alone shot the two bullets that struck and killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

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… why is it acceptable for these people to use their loved one’s deaths to promote the deaths of more soldiers? Have you ever heard Joseph Williams, Debbie Lee or Mark Crowley demonized on Hannity and Colmes? Or on any of the conservative talk radio programs?

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Doug: Yeah, but his hair sure looks nice, doesn’t it? Doin’ a heckuva’ job, Bushie. Thanks for embarrassing and shaming this nation yet one more time.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz has resigned his post, effective June 30. An internal panel tasked with investigating the lucrative pay and promotion package Wolfowitz arranged in 2005 for […]

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It has been with dismay that we have watched your cavalier handling of our freedoms time and again. When it has been important that legal boundaries hold unbridled government power in check, you have instead used pretextual rationales and strained readings to justify an ever-expanding executive authority. As lawyers, and as a matter of principle, […]

A bipartisan group of senators is pushing legislation that would force the CIA to release an inspector general’s report on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The CIA has spent more than 20 months weighing requests under the Freedom of Information Act for its internal investigation of the attacks but has yet to release […]

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Doug: Oh yeah, and he lies about keeping congress informed about this program. And then he launches into some idiotic diatribe over our “enemy that wants to kill us.” Isn’t this getting a little old? I mean, really old?

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Doug: Think this’ll be Hitchens’ last appearance on Hasn’t Any and Colmes?

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Doug: Check out this line from her column:

“If you still think it isn’t Christ whom liberals hate, remember: They hate Falwell even more than they hate me.”

So let me get this straight. If we hate Jerry Falwell and Ann Coulter… we hate… Christ?! Can anybody please explain this connection to me?!

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Since this war began the number of soldiers in Iraq who think Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11 has stunned us all. We continue to be surprised by the number of troops over there who still think we’re winning, convinced we’re doing good, and that if America pulls out they will follow us home.

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Here’s the money quote: “The empty life of this ugly little charlatan proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraordinary offenses to morality and to truth in this country if you will just get yourself called Reverend.”

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Not to mention that only FAUX Noise would come up with a question as idiotic as this. They are appealing to the knuckle dragging “tough talkers” in their base - those brave souls who fight the “ideological struggle of our time” from behind the safety of their computer keyboards.

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And listen to the right wing lemmings respond to Giuliani’s machismo perversion of the truth. And watch the other candidates all stick their chests out and ask for time to attack Paul. Their posturing is as pathetic as the people who actually buy into it.

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Amazing. When you scold your child of doing wrong, and try and steer them on a better path, you’re a good parent. But when you apply the same principle to your country, you’re accused (by the Hasn’t Any’s in the media) of being anti-American.

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With a final outcome like that, you know a lot of Democrats voted against this bill, including Jim “Macacca killer” Webb, whom we all thought was going to be this firebrand who’d hold George W. Bush’s feet to the fire when he got to the Senate. All the Democratic presidenial candidates in the senate (Clinton, […]

Bullets were pinging off our armor all over our vehicle, and you could hear multiple RPGs being fired and flying through the air and impacting all around us. All sorts of crazy insane Hollywood explosions… I’ve never felt fear like this. I was like, this is it, I’m going to die. That’s a quote from […]

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“The Iraqi government is a huge disappointment,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told CNN’S Late Edition on Sunday. “I want to assure you, if they vote to ask us to leave, we’ll be glad to comply with their request,” he said.

Doug: So what happened to “If we don’t fight them over there, we’ll have to […]

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FRONTLINE addresses an issue of major consequence for all Americans: is the Bush administration’s domestic war on terrorism jeopardizing our civil liberties? Reporter Hedrick Smith presents new material on how the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance program works and examines clashing viewpoints on whether the president has violated the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) […]

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Starting Monday, the Defense Department will block access to MySpace, YouTube and a host of other sites on official department computers worldwide, in an effort to boost its network efficiency… the move leaves servicemembers in Iraq and Afghanistan who use the popular picture- and video-sharing sites with little or no access to them.

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Congress today announced that the Office of President of the United States of America will be outsourced to India as of January 1, 2007. The move is being made to save the President’s $500,000 yearly salary, and also a record $521 trillion in deficit expenditures and related overhead the office has incurred during the last […]

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If Bush won’t listen, Congress must.

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Henry Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House oversight committee, announced today that former CIA Director George Tenet has agreed to testify before his committee. The topic: the White House’s hyping of false intelligence in the run-up to the war, specifically Iraq’s alleged efforts to procure uranium from Niger.

June 19th’s the date. And to make things […]

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Hitchens discusses his new book, “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.”

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With all the crimes of the Bush administration a “newscaster” could be shining some light on, Hasn’t Any’s still standing on an orange crate “peeping” into the Clinton’s bedroom. Illegal wars and illegal spying programs just isn’t newsworthy in Hasn’t Any’s America. But what you do in the alleged privacy of your own bedroom, […]

He railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer, and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades.

These were not the actions of a terrorist, but of a paid FBI informant who helped bring […]

“Now, I am target,” Mr. Tatar said, standing in the deserted restaurant on Thursday afternoon. “How do I know some kid won’t come and. …” Instead of finishing the sentence, he raised the thumb of his right hand and jabbed his forefinger, riddling the air with invisible bullets. Everything has changed for Mr. Tatar since […]

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Susan Eisenhower is an accomplished professional, the president of an international consulting firm. She also happens to be Ike’s granddaughter—and in that role, she’s the humble torchbearer for moderate “Eisenhower Republicans.” Increasingly, however, she says that the partisanship and free spending of the Bush presidency—and the takeover of the party by single-issue voters, especially pro-lifers—is […]

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Two years ago, Robin C. Ashton, a seasoned criminal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, learned from her boss that a promised promotion was no longer hers. You have a Monica problem,” Ms. Ashton was told, according to several Justice Department officials. Referring to Monica M. Goodling, a 31-year-old, relatively inexperienced lawyer who had only […]

They don’t seem to get that there is not another major brand in the country — not Wal-Mart, not G.E., not even Denny’s nowadays — that would try to sell a mass product with such a demographically homogeneous sales force. And that’s only half the problem. The other half is that the Republicans don’t have […]

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Mother’s Day for Peace

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Edwards launched a new Web site today, SupportTheTroopsEndTheWar.com. Edwards is proposing that this Memorial Day, we take back patriotism.
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Listen to 1) the idiot Mancow blame the Opie and Anthony incident on them being liberals; and 2) the Idiot Hasn’t Any defend Opie and Anthony.

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Galloway hasn’t lost a step. He calls Blair and Brown “2 cheeks of the same backside.” Gotta’ love him!

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John Stewart interviews Reza Aslan, author of “No God But God.” This is excellent! Reza single handedly exposes all the rabid right’s Iran bluster for the dishonest fear and war mongering it is.

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Hitchens discusses his new book “God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”

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Doug: Only in George W. Bush’s America would a member of the dishonest right wing media call for an honest media. Amazing.

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This is further to this story.

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‘IoS’ today reveals a draft for a new law that would give Western oil companies a massive share in the third largest reserves in the world. To the victors, the oil?

That is how some experts view this unprecedented arrangement with a major Middle East oil producer that guarantees investors huge profits for the next 30 […]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) - a non-partisan ethics watchdog group - filed a complaint today with the Federal Election Commission alleging that U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez did not fully disclose information about nearly half of his 2004 U.S. Senate campaign contributors. The complaint by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington […]

CBS’s explanation was this. “CBS has “internal” standards that dictate against this sort of advocacy,” which the spokesperson defined as “expressing a public opinion that is coming from an advocacy point of view.” She added: “You are not allowed to take a public position on an issue.” But TPM has discovered that another CBS consultant […]

Further to this story we brought you yesterday, we now learn this from Michael’s diary.

Hello Kossacks, Michael Moore, here. I know you all are aware of the controversy surrounding my recent trip to Cuba with a group of 9/11 heroes for my upcoming movie SiCKO and the subsequent letter I received from the Treasury Department […]

CBS fires Gen. Batiste over VoteVets ad

Iraq veteran Gen. John Batiste “has been asked to leave his position as a consultant to CBS News” over a new VoteVets ad criticizing the Iraq war.

If you missed the ad, here it is.

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Keith Olbermann interviewed General Batiste tonight. Watch it.

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Listen to this self-righteous, sanctimonious little prick. And ponder what that makes anyone who buys into his hateful dishonesty.
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U.S. warns that ‘world is watching’ Wolfowitz saga

The United States warned on Thursday that “the whole world is watching” to see that embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is treated fairly as critics press him to quit over a pay-and-promotion dispute.

Doug: The United States most certainly did not warn that the whole world is watching. […]

On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. really do think that our founding fathers, Hamilton, Washington, Monroe, Madison, would all be astounded that over the course of our short history as a country, 200 plus years, we haven’t […]

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thursday he believes President Bush’s low approval ratings are hurting the GOP yet won’t affect the party’s 2008 nominee.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that when the president’s polling numbers are low that it harms the Republican Party in general, but I think that when it comes election time […]

The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed an Iraq war funds bill that President George W. Bush has promised to veto because it only provides enough money to continue combat for the next two or three months without a guarantee of future funding.

By a vote of 221-205, the House approved the Democratic-backed bill […]

The Democratic-controlled House defeated legislation Thursday to require the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq within nine months, then pivoted to a fresh challenge of President Bush’s handling of the unpopular war. Democrats advanced legislation for a vote later in the evening to provide funds for the war in two installments.

The first portion would […]

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Rep. Doggett: “”Defeatism? That’s an administration that lacks the courage to admit its failures, and which pays for those failure with the blood of the brave - the blood of someone else. It is not the enemy that has us pinned down in Iraq today. It is this Administration’s unwillingness to admit its mistakes […]

The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin, a protégé of Rove’s, as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The withheld records show that D. Kyle Sampson, who […]

Rudolph Giuliani and his consulting company, Giuliani Partners, have served as key advisors for the last five years to the pharmaceutical company that pled guilty today to charges it misled doctors and patients about the addiction risks of the powerful narcotic painkiller OxyContin.

Federal officials say the company, Purdue Frederick, helped to trigger a nationwide epidemic […]

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Congressman John Conyers opening.

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Rep. John Conyers questions.

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The new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee dealt a blow to the human-rights community by failing to include provisions to overhaul GOP legislation governing military tribunals in the 2008 defense authorization bill. The chairman’s move is attracting criticism from some who say Democrats’ dedication to the issue is wavering.

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Weinsteins set ‘SiCKO’ release date

The Weinstein Co. has pegged a June 29 rollout for Michael Moore’s Cannes-bound docu “SiCKO” and brought in Lionsgate to partner on releasing the documaker’s first pic since “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Michael Moore In Trouble For Cuba Trip

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore is under investigation by the U.S. Treasury Department for taking ailing […]

A majority of Iraqi lawmakers have signed onto draft legislation calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Iraq and demanding a freeze on the number of such troops already in the country, lawmakers said on Thursday.

Doug: Even tho’ we know BushCo doesn’t want to leave Iraq, they’re eventually going to have […]

MySpace Brightens News Corp. Earnings

ALTHOUGH OVERSHADOWED BY MOVIE AND cable earnings, interactive was still a bright spot for News Corp. last quarter. The owner of MySpace said Wednesday that fiscal third-quarter profit rose to $871 million, or 27 cents per share–from $820 million, or 26 cents per share, a year ago. Revenue, meanwhile, rose 21% […]

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Watch it here, or read it on Greg’s web site here.

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If you missed the new VoteVets ad, here it is.

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Officer Robert Tim Buckman was rushing to warn rural residents about the approaching storm when the tornado swept up his squad car and flung it 300 yards into a field. The 46-year-old officer hung on long enough for his daughter’s wedding at his hospital bedside, then died of his injuries at a hospital Tuesday morning, […]

I think the GOP was dissolving. Now it’s drying up and the wind’s going to blow it away. I just don’t think we have the depth of knowledge, intellect, and experience necessary for a viable political party any more. I’m not sure if maybe the GOP has been hijacked by the base, or by Karl […]

John Aravosis at AmericaBlog has the story.

I just heard from an impeccable source that there is serious concern on the Hill that conservative Democrats in the House will vote with the Republicans to strip any and all restrictions from the Iraq supplemental tomorrow, effectively giving Bush all the money he wants with no restrictions and […]

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill. Pelosi recently told a group of liberal bloggers, “We can take the president to court” if he issues a signing statement, according to […]

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Doug: Just what these people need. More destructive hot air.

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Last year, Congressional Democrats allowed the Bush administration to ram through one of the worst laws in America’s history - the Military Commissions Act of 2006. This year, the Democrats pledged to use their new majority to begin repairing the profound damage the law has done to the nation’s justice system and global image.

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VoteVets.org

Most Americans disagree with President Bush’s decision last week to veto the war funding bill that contained a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. What do they think Congress should do now? Former Sen. John Edwards said Congress shouldn’t back down. “If we don’t have the votes to override the veto, the Congress should send him […]

The study exposes the deteriorating behavioral health status of US troops—including depression, anxiety, alcoholism, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), marital problems and suicide. These mental health and personal problems are shown to directly influence the attitudes US soldiers hold toward the Iraqi population—resulting in increasing levels of terror and brutality meted out to civilians.

That the majority […]

Federal authorities have arrested six men identified as “radical Islamists” and accused them of plotting to “kill as many American soldiers as possible” in an attack on the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey.

Doug: And of course, the conservative media - desperate to find something to bestow accolades upon George W. Bush over - […]

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Doug: Yeah, but doesn’t his hair look nice?

A World Bank panel has found that bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s handling of a promotion and pay increase for his companion represented a conflict of interest and broke rules, but made no recommendation on how he should be reprimanded. The former US deputy defence secretary, a key architect […]

A recent Newsweek poll showing Democrat Barack Obama leading top Republican presidential hopefuls could have been made up and might help al-Qaida, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said in her latest verbal broadside.

Coulter, a best-selling author known for outrageous and often controversial statements, was asked Sunday on Fox News’ “At Large” what she thought about the […]

In a triumph for the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate on Monday killed a drive to allow consumers to buy prescription drugs from abroad at a significant savings over domestic prices. On a 49-40 vote, the Senate required the administration to certify the safety and effectiveness of imported drugs before they can be imported, a requirement […]

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If you missed his original, delusional tirade, here it is.

This newspaper reluctantly endorsed the U.S. troop surge as the last, best hope for stabilizing conditions so that the elected Iraqi government could assume full responsibility for its affairs. But we also warned that the troops should not be used to referee a civil war. That, regrettably, is what has happened.

Having invested so much in […]

From past guest on the show, Eric Boehlert.

The good news was that Beck’s special, “Exposed: Climate of Fear,” was a commercial flop, finishing dead last in total viewers among CNN, Headline News, Fox News, and MSNBC programs that night. The weak showing simply highlighted Beck’s recent, albeit little-discussed, ratings woes.

Just months after being hyped as […]

Conservatism historically has seen government as a problem to overcome, an albatross. President Reagan stated it succinctly when he said, “we need to get government off our backs.” Conservatives usually justify this negative view of government in the name of freedom. They conflate freedom with unregulated markets, anti-unionism, low taxes and a rabid individualism. Without […]

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Doug: This is the best FAUX Noise can come up with to criticize Democrats? Bernard Kerik?!

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What a shock. This is what you have to do when your policies benefit so very few Americans. You have to steal elections.

Doug: Not that there’s any honor involved here. There’s an election around the corner. The repugs don’t care about timetables or soldier’s deaths. They only care about being elected. So… how come George W. Bush isn’t accusing Boehner and Lott of “waving the flag of surrender?” Hmmm? Sick bastards.

Senate Republican Whip Trent Lott said […]

When Will Public Progressive Figures Ever Learn?

by your humble host, Doug Basham

I just had the opportunity to watch the much bally-hooed debate that took place on Friday night up at the University of Utah between Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and FOX News’ Sean Hannity.

And let me preface this article by stating unequivocally […]

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Whatever your politics or your views on the Iraq war, the admission by Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) that as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee he knew that America was duped into a war, but remained silent because he was sworn to secrecy, was a stunner.

“At the time of this debate,” he recently […]

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Doug: Once again, the “Decider Commander Guy” embarrasses us. Had enuff yet?

Update

From John Aravosis at AmericaBlog.

John says “He really is an idiot. Then he follows it up with what one might call a sexist comment as well. She is, after all, a head of state. Then again, I guess we should be thankful he […]

The rebuilding effort in tornado-ravaged Greensburg, Kansas, likely will be hampered because some much-needed equipment is in Iraq, said that state’s governor. Governor Kathleen Sebelius said much of the National Guard equipment usually positioned around the state to respond to emergencies is gone. She said not having immediate access to things like tents, trucks and […]

Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said Sunday he doesn’t believe former CIA Director George Tenet “has credibility with anyone in the United States.” The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee told CBS’ “Face the Nation” Tenet should be investigated for his role in the buildup to the Iraq War.

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N. Y. Times: An Empty Place Where a Kansas Town Once Stood

Four soldiers from Fort Riley and a reserve police officer were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of looting cigarettes and alcohol from a store, The Associated Press reported. (WTF?!)

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Why would a Christian Seminary invite controversial writer, speaker, columnist and pundit Ann Coulter to come to speak? That is the question many have been asking since Southern Evangelical Seminary in Charlotte announced Coulter would be speaking on May 10. Coulter is has received lots of media attention for her caustic comments seems an unlikely […]

“Scandals collide! The BushCo-rattling US Attorneys scandal may have intersected with the titillating DC Madam scandal. And just in time, after the extraordinary buildup and letdown from ABC News “investigative reporter” Brian Ross on Friday night (transcript). I guess 20/20 doesn’t believe in full release and happy endings.”

Suzie-Q has the story.

They’re not happy with their own media. Too many rogue elements still displaying “liberal bias.” So they got their own on-line encyclopedia - conservapedia - because Wikipedia is just so “liberally biased.” Now, they’ve set their sights on another “liberally biased” target, YouTube. Their solution? QubeTube. Two Republican White House veterans have launched QubeTV as […]

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A roadside explosion outside the Iraqi capital on Sunday killed six American soldiers and a civilian journalist, the military said, among 12 U.S. troop deaths reported on a day when two car bombs killed at least 44 Iraqis at a Baghdad market and a police headquarters.

Doug: Doin’ a heckuva’ job, Bushie. George W. Bush and […]

The chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty has told congressional investigators that phone calls he placed to four fired U.S. attorneys — calls that three of the prosecutors say involved threats about testifying before Congress – were made at McNulty’s direction.

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Representative Darrell Issa expects Iraq troop levels to drop in less than a year, but warns it could take much longer before all U.S. personnel and equipment come home. In a conference call from Baghdad, where he is visiting with members of Congress, the San Diego-area Republican said he believes the number of troops in […]

A Department of Defense Mental Health Advisory team on Friday released key findings from a report on the mental health of U.S. troops in Iraq. A survey of more than 1,300 soldiers and nearly 450 Marines gave a snapshot of the mental state of some of the men and women fighting in Iraq. Of those […]

Doug: Watch for this to be all over the right wing shows - radio and television - on Monday. Watch the hosts all line up like the mindless lemmings they are, calling the very patriotic Sean Penn unpatriotic. Bet on it.

You can watch the entire fiasco from beginning to end on Google here.

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The U.S. economy added a modest 88,000 jobs in April, the slimmest gain in more than two years, and the unemployment rate edged up, the government said on Friday in a report that showed weaker economic growth taking a toll on the job market. The Labor Department said the jobless rate ticked up to 4.5 […]

Using analysis techniques first developed in the 1930s by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis, Conway, Grabe and Grieves found that O’Reilly employed six of the seven propaganda devices nearly 13 times each minute in his editorials. His editorials also are presented on his Web site and in his newspaper columns. The seven propaganda devices include:

Name […]

“Is George W. Bush even trying to make sense anymore? On Wednesday, speaking to the Associated General Contractors of America, Bush gave himself a new nickname. Responding to a question from the audience, he asked rhetorically whether “the Congress or the commanders” should decide how many U.S. troops are needed in Iraq.

“And as you know,” […]

As Democrats in Congress search for new ways to bring an end to the conflict in Iraq while producing a funding bill that President Bush will sign, the front-runner for the party’s presidential nomination yesterday endorsed legislation that would revoke the administration’s authority to wage the war. Amid a flurry of backroom negotiations yesterday afternoon, […]

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And watch him flash his best “inappropriate Bush smirk” when he finishes saying it. And then right at the very end, watch closely as Chris Matthews break into a smile he probably couldn’t control.

So far, the message is perfectly clear. If you want more war… vote republican. And the questions didn’t help matters any. Did you hear them? What do we have to do to win in Iraq? What’s your trip wire for attacking Iran? Who came UP with these questions?

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Just hours after the White House issued a veto threat Thursday, the House voted to add gender and sexual orientation to the categories covered by federal hate crimes law. The House legislation, passed 237-180, also makes it easier for federal law enforcement to take part in or assist local prosecutions involving bias-motivated attacks. Similar legislation […]

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Doug: And of course, 180 republicans voted against it, evoking mindless, hateful canards in the process. Ever wonder why a party would vote against a “Hate Crimes Bill?” Because hate is the foundation of their entire ideology.

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Leader Steney Hoyer on the Hate Crimes Bill. Excellent.

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House speaker Nancy Pelosi in Hate Crimes Bill.

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Doug: And the answer is, because republicans need an atmosphere of fear and hate to thrive. Period.

Bush’s signature failures—the war in Iraq, Katrina, Enron and the corporate scandals, failed tax and trade policies, the attempt to privatize Social Security, the posturing around Terri Schaivo and stem cells – can be traced back not simply to the conservative ideology and ideologues that sired them—but to the core conservative doctrine that Reagan championed.

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It’s the practice on these occasions that the president do his own comic shtick, but this year Mr. Bush made a grand show of abstaining, saying that the killings at Virginia Tech precluded his being a “funny guy.” Any civilian watching on TV could formulate the question left hanging by this pronouncement: Why did the […]

“By the way, in the report it said, it is — the government may have to put in more troops to be able to get to that position. And that’s what we do. We put in more troops to get to a position where we can be in some other place. The question is, who […]

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was subpoenaed on Wednesday to produce any e-mails he may have from White House political adviser Karl Rove related to a widening congressional probe into the firing of federal prosecutors.

The Justice Department announced on Wednesday it was looking into whether its former White House liaison, Monica Goodling, considered political affiliation […]

An Interior Department official accused of pressuring government scientists to make their research fit her policy goals has resigned. Julie MacDonald, deputy assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks, submitted her resignation letter to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, a department spokesman said Tuesday.

MacDonald resigned a week before a House congressional oversight committee was to hold […]

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Doug: Notice how he laughs when he says “Either we’ll succeed… or we won’t succeed.” Then he offers his brilliant new definition of success. Watch how he smirks throughout this whloe painful dissertation (it’s only 32 seconds, it just seems longer). How embarrassing. And we wonder why they hate us?

Facing a mountain of bad news, the Bush administration needed some good news heading into this weekend. Its “AIDS czar” abruptly resigned after admitting he used an escort service that’s facing federal prostitution charges. Two batches of new documents were released in the widening U.S. attorneys purge case. Condi Rice indicated she’d refuse to comply […]

President Bush’s approval rating slipped to new lows in the most recent Harris Interactive survey, but he’s not alone: For the first time since the series began, all of the political figures and institutions included in the survey have negative performance ratings. Of the 1,001 American adults polled online April 20-23, only 28% had a […]

The resolution offered by the gentleman from Ohio reads sensibly. It alleges crimes high and low, misdemeanors galore — all of them representing an effort to mislead the American people and take them into war.

It is Dennis Kucinich’s articles of impeachment directed at Dick Cheney. The vice president will, of course, deny being a liar. […]

Money quote: “Generals who disagree with Bush earn a new title… retired.”

Today, two retired Generals who led troops in Iraq expressed outrage at the President’s veto of the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Health, and Iraq Accountability Act.

The President vetoed our troops and the American people. His stubborn commitment to a failed strategy in Iraq is incomprehensible. He committed our great military to a failed […]

Citing FBI abuses and the attorney general’s troubles, senators peppered top Justice and intelligence officials Tuesday with skeptical questions about their proposal to revise the rules for spying on Americans. Senate Intelligence Committee members said the Bush administration must provide more information about its earlier domestic spying before it can hope to gain additional powers […]

Here is a recent Washington Post article that tells us, according to a Post/ABC News poll, that Americans overwhelmingly trust Democrats in Congress to do the right thing on Iraq, edging out Bush by 25%. That’s a HUGE margin. Democrats have the support of the American people on this issue. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHOULD WE […]

Folk singer and anti-war activist Joan Baez says she doesn’t know why she was not allowed to perform for recovering soldiers recently at Walter Reed Army Medical Center as she planned. In a letter to The Washington Post published Wednesday, she said rocker John Mellencamp had asked her to perform with him last Friday and […]

Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January. Rather, they argued that the president had the constitutional authority to decide for himself whether to conduct surveillance […]

Because George knows better. After all, he’s the one who took us into Iraq in the first place. And look how swell that turned out. And as usual, Bush accuses the Dems of everything he is guilty of himself. But that’s OK. Being the leader of the party of “responsibility” means never having to be […]

Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, said Tuesday it received an unsolicited bid from Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to buy the company for $5 billion, but it was unclear whether the family that controls the company would sell.

Doug: Do ya’ think old Rupie just might use the Wall Street Journal […]

Hours before vetoing a war spending bill, President Bush said Tuesday that Democrats who made the legislation a showdown over withdrawing U.S. troops could turn Iraq into a terror-spreading “cauldron of chaos” with their approach.

Doug: Except for one thing, George. You already did.

Doug: I have been saying for quite some time now that Tenet’s “slam dunk” remark was not in the context of Iraq having WMD, but rather, in the context of the American people believing that Iraq had WMD. As the King once said, “Thang u’ ver’ much.”

President Bush’s unpopularity and a string of political setbacks have created a toxic climate for the Republican Party, making it harder to raise money and recruit candidates for its drive to retake control of Congress. Some of the GOP’s top choices to run for the House next year have declined, citing what Rep. Thomas M. […]

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In the four years since Bush declared “Mission Accomplished,” the war in Iraq has cost America and its allies dearly in both lives lost and resources spent. When Bush made his speech, 139 members of the military had lost their lives. As of April 26, there have been 3,337 military fatalities in Iraq. Five hundred […]