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When Our Pigmy President Played Soldier
by Jerome Doolittle
Today is Mayday, the international distress signal. We should have known what was coming, five years ago when the Pigmy President chose that day to promise us Mission Accomplished. But instead we mostly slobbered and drooled and wagged our tails like ecstatic puppies — the fierce watchdogs of the media very much included. | A Brief Exposé of a Fraudulent War
by R.W. Behan
The “War on Terror” is a fraud and a façade, a mere label concocted and trumpeted by an Administration known for its signature dishonesty. The label conceals the Bush Administration’s international crimes of unprovoked military aggression—the armed invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, two sovereign nations the Administration meant to attack from its first days in office.[1] | Nightline: Important Questions In the Black Community Aren't "Real"
by David Sirota
Sometimes racial denigration is easy to see - think white police officers in the segregation era using hoses to stop peaceful protests. Other times it is more subtle - like a few days ago on ABC's Nightline.I don't usually watch the show, but I happened to be flipping through the channels on Tuesday, when I caught the program's predictable piece on Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Here was how correspondent David Wright (no relation to Jeremiah) concluded his piece: | "Man Overboard!" Obama Wrights-off a Drowning Friend
by Mike Whitney
Obama is "outraged". After weeks of blistering attacks by the media, Barak Obama held a press conference on Tuesday and made it official; his relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was over, terminated, kaput. He would no longer associate with a man who believed that the United States of America could do horrible things to its people (like infect them with AIDs virus) or that 9-11 might have been blowback from US foreign policy. As Obama said, that's just outrageous. | The CEO Presidency
by Bob Burnett
In 2000, when George W. Bush first ran for President, one of his selling points was the claim he would be America's first "CEO President." Of course, Bush's assertion was far from the truth, but for most voters the notion of an effective executive running the White House has enduring appeal. Looking at Clinton, McCain, and Obama, who would be a CEO President? | White House Announces Contest to Find More Specific Text For "Mission Accomplished" Banner
by Steve Young
On the 5th anniversary of President Bush's heroic landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln and speech before the Mission Accomplished banner, the White House has admitted that the banner could have been "more specific." To mark the anniversary, spokesperson Dana Perino announced that the White House will be holding a contest for families and friends of the over 4,000 soldiers who have perished, and the more than 50,000 who have been maimed since the original Mission Accomplished banner was unfurled, asking them to come up with a more specific banner. | Hillary and Bush are alike: Damn the experts I'm the decider
by CapitolHillBlue.com
Listening to to her mouthpiece Howard Wolfson, responding to questions as to why Hillary supports a gas tax summer holiday despite the fact that there isn't a single economic expert that thinks it's a good idea, I've concluded Hillary has as much use for experts who disagree with her as George W. Bush. | Maine Jury Acquits Peace Activists For Senate Office Sit-In
by Judy Harrison
Six longtime anti-war activists arrested last year for refusing to leave the Federal Building when it closed for the day were found not guilty Wednesday of criminal trespass.0501 02 1A Penobscot County Superior Court jury deliberated for 2½ hours after a two-day trial. | Party of Denial
by Paul Krugman
During Barack Obama’s Sunday appearance on Fox News, the interviewer asked him for an example of “a hot-button issue where you would be willing to buck the Democratic Party line” and say that Republicans have the better idea.Mr. Obama’s answer was puzzling because he gave credit where it isn’t due — and thereby undermined what could be a very effective Democratic line of argument. | Panel threatens to subpoena Rove
by AP
The House Judiciary Committee threatened Thursday to subpoena former White House adviser Karl Rove if he does not agree by May 12 to testify about former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman's corruption case. In a letter to Rove's attorney, committee Democrats called it "completely unacceptable" that the Republican political strategist has rejected the panel's request for sworn testimony even as he discusses the matter publicly through the media. | Second ex-nanny countersues Rob Lowe, wife
by CNN
A former nanny for actor Rob Lowe took part in a dramatic, tear-filled news conference Thursday regarding her lawsuit that accuses his wife of sexual harassment. Laura Boyce, former nanny to the Lowes, clutched a tissue and sobbed as attorney Gloria Allred read a statement explaining the reasons for the suit, which was filed Wednesday in Los Angeles Superior Court. Allred kept her arm around the woman; at times, Boyce turned her face into the attorney's shoulder. | Race to the Bottom
by Betsy Reed
In the course of Hillary Clinton's historic run for the White House--in which she became the first woman ever to prevail in a state-level presidential primary contest--she has been likened to Lorena Bobbitt (by Tucker Carlson); a "hellish housewife" (Leon Wieseltier); and described as "witchy," a "she-devil," "anti-male" and "a stripteaser" (Chris Matthews). Her loud and hearty laugh has been labeled "the cackle," her voice compared to "fingernails on a blackboard" and her posture said to look "like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court." As one Fox News commentator put it, "When Hillary Clinton speaks, men hear, Take out the garbage." Rush Limbaugh, who has no qualms about subjecting audiences to the spectacle of his own bloated physique, asked his listeners, "Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older before their eyes on a daily basis?" Perhaps most damaging of all to her electoral prospects, very early on Clinton was deemed "unlikable." Although other factors also account for that dislike, much of the venom she elicits ("Iron my shirt," "How do we beat the bitch?") is clearly gender-specific. | Student educates himself, loses 180 pounds
by Jackie Adams
Gathering together for old-fashioned, home-cooked meals was just a way of life for Brandon Hollas, who was raised on his family's farm in Cameron, Texas. Eating healthy and portion control didn't often make its way into conversations at their dinner table. But Hollas, 25, does remember eating a lot of food. | The Queen of Pork
by Matt Taibbi
One Sunday about three months ago — on the day before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in fact — I got out of bed very late and lazily switched on CNN. On the TV screen, Sen. Hillary Clinton was smiling broadly and wearing a black jacket over some strange Oriental get-up. She was standing next to influential black pastor Calvin Butts, in front of the latter's famous Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Camera bulbs were flashing. An important announcement was about to be made. | Ex-Iraq commander accuses Bush Administration of 'gross incompetence'
by John Byrne
In a new memoir set to be published May 6, the former commander of US forces in Iraq provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the Bush Administration in the first year of the Iraq war.His sharp tongued conclusion: "Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty." | D.C. Madam: Suicide Before Prison
by Adam Zagorin
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, known as the "D.C. Madam," once implied that suicide was cowardice but, in the end, she seems to have chosen that same path herself. "She wasn't going to jail, she told me that very clearly. She told me she would commit suicide," author Dan Moldea told TIME soon after news broke of her body being found in Tarpon Springs, Florida, an apparent suicide. Palfrey's body, along with a handwritten suicide note, was discovered by police in a storage area attached to her mother's mobile home. Palfrey contacted Moldea last year to provide her help writing a book. "She had done time once before [for prostitution]," Moldea recalls. "And it damn near killed her. She said there was enormous stress — it made her sick, she couldn't take it, and she wasn't going to let that happen to her again." Palfrey had been free pending her scheduled July 24 sentencing on a series of racketeering and money laundering charges as part of running a prostitution ring that had as clients many prominent Washingtonians, including Senator David Vitter of Lousiana. She faced as many as 55 years behind bars (though sentencing guidelines could well have limited her prison time to a maximum of 71 months.) | McCain in the Membrane
by Cliff Schecter
Today an audacious member of a McCainiac townhall audience Iowa finally asked McCain "the question." It was a query he has been able to avoid so far, simply by besmirching my character and hiding behind his bevy of underpaid hacks. Did he or did he not refer to his wife with an expletive in 1992 in front of the press and male aides of his, as I reported in my book The Real McCain? Well, today McCain's media holiday on this subject came to end, with an everyday person taking democracy into their own hands and asking him to answer for his behavior. Not that he would lower himself to being held accountable -- it was at best a non-denial: | Memphis Principal Accused of Outing Gay Students
by Joyce Peterson
Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union say Daphne Beasley, the principal of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in South Memphis, went way beyond her role as educator.The ACLU says in September 2007, Beasley asked her staff to give her the names of students who were couples, heterosexual and homosexual, because she wanted to keep an eye on them to cut down on public displays of affection. | A Last Vanishing Act for Robert Vesco, Fugitive
by Marc Lacey
Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive financier who spent most of his life eluding American justice, might even have managed to die on the sly.Mr. Vesco, who was sentenced to a long prison term in Cuba in 1996 and was wanted in the United States for crimes ranging from securities fraud and drug trafficking to political bribery, died more than five months ago, on Nov. 23, from lung cancer, say people close to him. If so, it was never reported publicly by the Cuban authorities, who said Friday that they considered him a “nonissue.” American officials said Friday they knew nothing about his death. | Florida owes full cost of destroyed citrus trees, attorney says
by Curt Anderson
Tens of thousands of people whose healthy fruit trees were chopped down in an ultimately failed state effort to control citrus canker deserve more than cheap replacement saplings, an attorney for Broward County homeowners told jurors Friday.``This case has been about, since day one, the Constitution,'' said attorney Bobby Gilbert. ``They are entitled to full compensation when the government takes their private property for a public purpose.'' |
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