Alberto Gonzales, in a prepared statement released today, promised to "abide by anti-torture treaties if he is confirmed as attorney general". So I guess all this concern over his previous legal...
Gonzales speaks
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Author - Jim Biederman
Staples pulls advertising on Sinclair net
Breaking news from Broadcasting and Cable: Office supply store chain Staples is pulling its advertising from newscasts on Sinclair Broadcast Group TV stations as of Jan. 10. Anti-consolidation...
Ethics, schmethics
Tom (the Bugman) DeLay did an end run around his critics yesterday by "urging" his fellow Republicans to return to a decade old ethics policy that he had "urged" his fellow Republicans to reverse a...
Republicans Reverse Rule Change
Republican leadership in the House of Representatives vote to return to a decade old ethics rule. Specifically, if you can believe it, it was Tom DeLay who requested the reversal. Republicans...
Dismantling Social Security
Finally the mainstream press is catching on that Bush and his cronies are not trying to "reform" Social Security, but simply "remove" it. In an editorial in today's NY Times, In effect, the...
CBS News kisses Bush’s ass
If you've ever had any doubt that the news media is really just a bunch of whores, Broadcasting and Cable Newsletter breaks this disturbing story: Mr. Heyward Goes to Washington By Staff ...
Petition against Gonzales
Sign a petition urging Congress to oppose Alberto "torture is quaint" Gonzales' nomination for Attorney General. Petition here.
Apocalypse Now, Part II
James Wolcott's commentary on an article about our military in Iraq in the current issue of The Economist. Brilliant. And a real quote, as if written by John Milius, himself. 'If anyone gets too...
Justice for sale
Hmmm... A bible valued at $19,000. A bust of President Lincoln worth $15,000. These and other sundried items are just some of the haul our US Supreme Court Justices took in as "gifts". By the way...
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year everyone! And Happy New Year Bob!
Finally!
Now that Bush was finally shamed into substantially increasing American aid to Southeast Asia; the real question now is, will the lying sack of shit actually spend it? Read more here.
Not so far apart
While Bush and the religious right repeat the idiot mantra that the terrorists "hate our freedoms", there's at least one thing extremist Islamic fundamentalists and extremist Christian...
URGENT ACTION ALERT
STOP FLOGGING OF WOMEN IN THE UAE Amnesty International has posted this urgent Action Alert. Specifically, this case revolves around two women who have been sentenced for becoming pregnant out of...
Long Term Memory Loss
Welcome back! It's time to play, Long Term Memory Loss! Okay contestants, here we go...who said, "The President now needs to show leadership, consistently and with great clarity, from devising an...
Torture Bad
A new memo released yesterday by the Justice Department repudiates a previous DOJ memo from August 2002 which defended (and even endorsed) torture in interrogations. The first memo was written by...
Christian Right silent over tsunamis
The Christian Right's odd silence over the tragedies that befell southeast Asia this past weekend is truly deafening. A cursury check of their websites and blogs show not a mention of the calamity...
More Mad Cow
Hours after the U.S. re-opens the border with Canada for meat shipments, Canada announces that it discovered a new case of Mad Cow in it's livestock. Read it here.
More on Concerned Women For America
As mentioned before on this blog, this group is really severe. In addition to their boycott of companies that they feel are gay friendly, the group also... ...opposes hate crime legislation too...
A mandate?
So Bush feels that his slim margin election victory gives him a mandate that represents the "will of the people". Problem is that the issues the American people think are important have nothing to do...
Bush V. Governors
An impressive, bipartisan association of Governors are rallying to stand up to Bush's horrendous Medicaid cuts (Bubble Boy's route to lowering his obscene and reckless deficit). In today's NY Times...