The Swiftboating of Barack Obama
by David Michael Green
If there's anything I've learned about American politics over the past decade, it's this: First, regressives will do anything - and I mean anything - to obtain power (the real purpose of which is to loot the public fisc of all items not securely nailed to the floor). And, second, just about everything they try works when employed against an American public possessed of stunning political immaturity. |
Who is the Iraqi Army?
by Cenk Uygur
Who is the Iraqi Army? That seems like a strange question. What do I mean?The Bush administration claims the Iraqi Army is a unified force of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds who fight together for the centralized government of Iraq. That's complete nonsense. |
Hannity, Clinton, Obama, Rev. Wright and "Racism 101"
by Walter C. Uhler
Part One: "Not God Bless America. God Damn America"What are we to make of FOX NEWS hate-monger, Sean Hannity? Years after he gave Neo-Nazi Hal Turner a secret guest call-in number to WABC -- in order to assure that his calls could always get on his radio show -- Hannity recently "broke" a story about the inflammatory rhetoric occasionally used by Barack Obama's former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright. (Quote from Hannity: "I broke this story.") |
McCain Forecloses Early
by Gail Collins
I don’t see how anybody could deny that John McCain is a straight-talker. The country is terrified of economic collapse and he’s been sounding like Mr. Potter, the banker in “It’s a Wonderful Life.” You can’t get more forthright than that.McCain, by the way, is going to be the Republican presidential nominee. Really. While you were watching Hillary and Barack in the Campaign That Never Ends, the Republicans picked him. |
Net Neutrality’s Quiet Crusader
by Cecilia Kang
Bearing video cameras, laptops and cellphones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest.0328 01 1 2Members of public-interest group Free Press weren’t there to support a presidential candidate or decry global warming. The tech-savvy hundreds came to the Federal Communications Commission’s hearing at Harvard Law School last month to push new rules for the Internet. |
Earth Hour Turns Spotlight on Emissions
by AP
Earth Hour may see people switch off their lights for just one hour on Saturday night, but organisers believe the environmental message will be everlasting.0328 04 1 2The event, in which some of the world’s major cities will be temporarily plunged into darkness, is hoped to spotlight the global need to reduce carbon emissions. |
U.S.-Led Coalition Forces Bomb Shiite Militia in Basra
by AFP
US-led coalition warplanes dropped bombs on Shiite militia positions in Basra overnight, directly entering the fray for the first time since the Iraqi army launched a crackdown in the southern city, a British military spokesman said on Friday.0328 08Two bombing missions were carried out against specific targets, Major Tom Holloway told AFP. |
Plan would expand Fed's power to intervene in financial crisis
by CNN
The Federal Reserve would have the power to regulate virtually the entire financial industry under a Treasury Department proposal to be announced Monday. The proposal is part of a sweeping overhaul of the government's regulatory structure that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will propose in a speech Monday, said Treasury Department spokeswoman Michele Davis. |
Analysis: Iraqis' Basra fight not going well
by Barbara Starr
The Iraqi military push into the southern city of Basra is not going as well as American officials had hoped, despite President Bush's high praise for the operation, several U.S. officials said Friday. A closely held U.S. military intelligence analysis of the fighting in Basra shows that Iraqi security forces control less than a quarter of the city, according to officials in both the United States and Iraq, and Basra's police units are deeply infiltrated by members of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army. |
Paper: Skit featured student playing Obama in blackface
by AP
North Dakota State University is investigating complaints about a campus skit in which a white student in blackface portrayed Barack Obama receiving a lap dance.The same skit, part of a charity fundraiser held at a campus theater, also featured a depiction of cowboys having sex with each other, witnesses told The Forum newspaper, which first reported the backlash Friday. |
Nipple ring search procedures faulty, TSA admits
by CNN
The Transportation Security Administration said Friday its officers at a Texas airport appear to have properly followed procedures when they allegedly forced a woman to remove her nipple rings -- one with pliers -- but acknowledged the procedures should be changed. |
