Katie Couric leaving CBS News?
by Dave Goldiner
Katie Couric's days at CBS could be numbered.Buffeted by two years of pitiful ratings, the first female solo anchor of a network newscast is likely to split from the station as early as next winter, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night.The cheery Couric, 51, who replaced the iconic Dan Rather as "CBS Evening News" anchor, makes $15 million a year. Her record-setting five-year contract stretches to 2011. |
Beat The Clock!
by Michael Fox
There are seven months left until elections, and while the results in November can’t be considered a foregone conclusion, it’s clear to the die-hard disciples of Milton Friedman that things are going to change. But those gilded sultans of Wall St. have unfinished business that needs tending to, and the race is on. Their ultimate nefarious goal is to deregulate brokerages and banking by privatizing the government’s fiduciary duties through the Fed. They want financial anarchy, serving only their interests – and they only have seven months to push it through. |
Why America Won't Boycott the Olympics
by Allison Kilkenny
Horrifically violent and totally chaotic, China has become impossible for the world to ignore. Of course, that won't stop American athletes and tourists from attending the Olympic games, nor American advertisers from leaching millions of dollars from the international gathering of irregularly muscular pole vaulters and aquatic overachievers. |
Pelosi's Trade Move: The Good, the Bad and the Potentially Ugly
by David Sirota
This just off the Reuters wire: The House of Representatives will decide on Thursday whether to put off indefinitely a vote on the Colombia free-trade agreement that President George W. Bush submitted to Congress this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. Pelosi, announcing the move to reporters on Wednesday, would not give a time frame for when the trade pact might be debated and put up for a vote on passage in the House. The vote on Thursday would change rules for considering the deal by eliminating a 90-day deadline for Congress to approve the Colombia trade deal. |
Dem Candidates' Spouses give "WWF Bout" Like Tag Team Advantage To John McCain and Cindy
by Fred Cederholm
I’ve been thinking about couples. Actually I’ve been thinking about the 2008 Presidential Election, spouses, financial disclosures, money, power, the cult of celebrity, and “two-fers.” The American public is being treated to a temporary hiatus in the media blitz of the 2008 Presidential campaign. It’s not that the race for the oval office is over – far from it. Because of the gap in the timing of the remaining primary elections and caucuses before the political conventions are held this summer and the “real campaigns” begin in earnest after Labor Day, we are getting a breather. Please read on... |
Should Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be Set Free?
by Mike Whitney
"This is the time to demonstrate to the world that the United States need not abandon its principles even as it seeks to ensure the safety of its citizens."-- Janet Reno, former Attorney General and member of ACLU Guantánamo Defense "Dream Team"Should Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be set free? |
White House and McCain Try To Cornhole Us With Flaccid Fuzzy Math
by Steve Young
During the 2000 presidential election, candidate Bush called Al Gore's economic figures, "fuzzy math."Seems like the White House is still using the same arithmetic."We'll look at the circumstances and assess," said U.S. Iraq Ambassador Stephen Crocker speaking "battlefield geometry" and "political-military calculus." |
Obama: Repeal of "don't ask" possible
by Nedra Pickler
Barack Obama says if elected president he won't require that his appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff support allowing gays to serve openly in the military.The Democratic presidential front-runner favors repealing the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, which was instituted during the Clinton administration. He said his priority for the Joint Chiefs will be that they make decisions to strengthen the military and keep the country safe, not their position on the policy. |
Randi Rhodes joins up with Nova M after leaving Air America
by Nick Juliano
Air America Radio host Randi Rhodes has left the network after it suspended her over comments she made at a station fundraiser the other week.A statement from the station's chairman, Charlie Kireker, and president, Mark Green, to be released Thursday says the popular progressive host decided to leave after the station suspended her over the off-air comments. The statement was obtained in advance by RAW STORY. |
Riding the Tiger: Muqtada al-Sadr and the American Dilemma in Iraq
by Patrick Cockburn
Muqtada al-Sadr is the most important and surprising figure to emerge in Iraq since the U.S. invasion. He is the Messianic leader of the religious and political movement of the impoverished Shia underclass whose lives were ruined by a quarter of a century of war, repression, and sanctions. |
McCain erases Obama lead
by Nedra Pickler
Republican Sen. John McCain has erased Sen. Barack Obama's 10-point advantage in a head-to-head matchup, leaving him essentially tied with both Democratic candidates in an Associated Press-Ipsos national poll released Thursday.The survey showed the extended Democratic primary campaign creating divisions among supporters of Obama and rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and suggests a tight race for the presidency in November no matter which Democrat becomes the nominee. |
Saudi blogger posts video on violent Christian extremism
by Raw Story
A Saudi blogger has made a short video featuring alleged Christian extremists preaching violence and a Bible passage calling for war, in response to an anti-Quran film that sparked protests across the Muslim world.Raed al-Saeed told The Associated Press on Thursday that the purpose of his six-minute video is to show Islam should not be judged by watching Dutch filmmaker Geert Wilders' movie "Fitna," which links terror attacks by Muslim extremists with texts from the Quran. |
McCain Won’t Rule Out Pre-Emptive War
by Libby Quaid
Republican Sen. John McCain refused Wednesday to rule out a pre-emptive war against another country, although he said one would be very unlikely.0410 01 1The likely Republican presidential nominee was asked Wednesday at a town-hall style meeting if he would reject “the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive war,” a reference to Bush’s decision to invade Iraq without it having attacked the United States. |
Number of Adults Who Want Troops Home from Iraq Within a Year Reaches High
by Yahoo
A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 65% of Americans would like to see U.S. troops brought home from Iraq within a year. That's the highest total recorded in the tracking poll which has been conducted regularly since August of last year. The 65% total is up six points from two weeks ago, but just a single point higher than the total from a month ago. |
