George Bush went into great detail during a speech at Camp Pendleton Tuesday about how specifically he intends to deal with the insurgency in Iraq. While decked out in a pseudo-military jacket*, Bush...
Author - Bob Cesca
Yushchenko was poisoned
Doctors have determined (Times Online UK) that Ukraine opposition candidate Victor Yushchenko was poisoned in an obvious assassination attempt. There has been widespread speculation that Yushchenko...
CIA on Iraq: 'We're screwed'
A classified CIA message from Baghdad says that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and that security issues are getting worse (Reuters). A similar description, though more polished, was given by...
RUMMY: Four more years
Donald Rumsfeld said today, in his typically vague manner, that he "hopes" our troops will be out of Iraq by the end of Bush's second term. In other words, he wouldn't go on the record with a...
Weren't these people vetted?
Atrios is reporting this story and it's, quite simply, confounding. AP October 6, 2004: President Bush visited the swing state of Iowa on Monday to sign the Working Families Tax Relief Act of 2004...
More from the Defense Science Board
Expect news of the purging of the Defense Science Board to come down any day now. This report is really bad news for the Bushies, and, more importantly, bad news for us all. Download the report...
Kerik cracks the glass house
The Korea Times reports that would-be Homeland Security secretary and former NYPD police commissioner Bernard Kerik fathered a South Korean girl, named Lisa, while stationed on the peninsula in the...
Putting food on your companies
From Saturday's photo-op with Bush and President Musharraf of Pakistan: REPORTER: Thank you. Mr. President, what do you make of the warning sounded yesterday by Tommy Thompson that the American food...
The disinforming of America continues
AP is reporting that Clear Channel Communications has just made Fox News Radio their primary top-of-the-hour "news" source for most of Clear Channel's 1,125 radio stations nationwide. "Working this...
Tourist Bora: Bin Laden slept here
Looking for a place to visit with the kids this Summer? Forget Epcot. Nevermind the Grand Canyon. Visit Tora Bora! Afghan authorities are opening up Bin Laden's former hole in Tora Bora for tourists...
Senator Frist doesn't know
On "This Week", while discussing the insanely false information in the government's abstinence education program, George Stephanopoulos asked Senator Bill Frist -- an MD and heart surgeon -- whether...
Actual hardball question on Hardball
From Friday night's Hardball with guest: Stay-Puft Televangelist Jerry Falwell: MATTHEWS: How old were you when you chose to be heterosexual? FALWELL: Oh, I don't remember that. MATTHEWS: Well, you...
Oil spill upgraded to 'Holy Fucking Shit!'
The Delaware River oil spill which was originally estimated to be a "minor" 30,000 gallons has now been upgraded to a "not so minor" 473,500 gallons. The lovely black ooze, courtesy of Tsakos...
Amen, Sister Joan
It flew unnoticed under the radar in and amongst the frenzied post-election analysis of the so-called "moral values" mandate claimed by the Christian right and the Bushies. On November 12, Bill...
Pooty Poot: U.S. policies "dictatorial"
Our international reputation must be getting worse if a man who is actively consolidating power in his own country calls us out. This is the same man who Bush has nicknamed Pooty Poot. Aren't these...
Jerry Falwell admits Fox deception
Sort of. Filling in for right wing moral values shmendrick Joe Scarborough (who *cough* resigned from Congress for suspicious reasons *cough*) on MSNBC, Falwell said: "I think [Iraq] is going well...
Good poll, scary poll
Good poll: A new AP poll says 59% of Americans want Bush to nominate judges who will uphold Roe v Wade. Scary poll: A Gallup poll this week found that 45% of Americans "believe that God created human...
Public radio reporter forced to resign
After receiving a gay-bashing spam e-mail from an ultra right organization, Rachel Buchman, a reporter for the Philadelphia NPR affiliate WHYY-FM, said what most of us would like to say to any...
Networks controlled by White House
What happens when a large, well respected Christian group creates an advertisement promoting tolerance and acceptance of the gay community? It gets banned, of course, in an insanely twisted...
Mr. Bush Goes to Canada
When was the last time you saw Canadians this angry?