Courtesy of the LA Times: This year it was Miers who brought word to the president that Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was retiring, it was Miers who interviewed potential successors and told others...
From the LA Times: Coming off a recruiting year in which the Army fell short of its goal of 80,000 active-duty soldiers, Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey announced that the Army would allow up to 4%...
Cindy Sheehan was arrested today, joining the proud ranks of incarcerated non-violent civil protestors like Rosa Parks, M.K. Gandhi and Dr. King. She's in great company. Oh, I just thought of another...
A couple weeks back, Paul Krugman asked what other federal agencies, beyond FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security, were being run by Bush cronies who weren't qualified for the job. Time...
The stock-holding members of Congress are bound by law to have their money in "blind trusts." This way, they don't know what companies may benefit or suffer from the way they vote on bills before...
In Washington today, at least 100,000 citizens marched against the war. Republicans, Democrats, independents. Young, old. Vets, pacifists. United in one thought: get out of Iraq. It's taken Tony...
Why are Americans so stupid? The lack of a good education is doubtless at the root of this particular evil. For instance, a school that would expel a kid for having gay parents. That's not my kind of...
Numbnuts, en route, to his home state: "There will be no risk of me getting in the way. What I will do is observe."
New Orleans today: "Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard. "We have three significant breaches in the levee and the water is rising rapidly," he said. "At...
The term "global warming," like many quickly adopted scientific terms (i.e. the theory of general relativity) is not entirely accurate. And it's the lack of accuracy that lends credence to the...
"This is the worst planning I've ever seen," said Julie Anderson, who covered just 45 miles in 12 hours after setting out from her home in the Houston suburb of LaPorte. "They say we've learned a lot...
A federal investigation into Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's sale of HCA Inc. stock widened on Friday when the largest U.S. hospital chain said federal prosecutors had subpoenaed the company for...
The massive degree of systematic theft at high corporate and Bush administration levels is truly impressive. It looks like Rep. Bob Ney from the remarkably disgraced state of Ohio (2004 election...
The National Enquirer (yes, that National Enquirer) reports that Bush is drinking again. No big surprise to anyone who knows about alcohol addiction in times of stress. The article is written in the...
If insider trading is a prerequisite for hosting retread versions of The Apprentice, then I nominate the majority leader of Congress, Senator Bill Frist! Why? Well, as the Washington Post reports, Dr...
Courtesy of the Gainsville Sun: After more than an hour of solemn ceremony naming Rep. Marco Rubio, R-West Miami, as the 2007-08 House speaker, Gov. Jeb Bush stepped to the podium in the House...
Well, they've fingered one bad apple, already: The Iraqi government is expected to issue a warrant for the arrest of Hazem al-Shaalan, the former Defence Minister, in connection with the...
Reminiscent of the excellent Gulf War picture Three Kings, has a story out of Baghdad of one BILLION dollars being embezzeled from the Iraqi army. One billion dollars has been plundered from Iraq's...
Also from ThinkProgress, more vomit-inducing news from the Washington Post: The Washington Post reports, “the White House was working yesterday to suspend wage supports for service workers in the...
ThinkProgress has the goods on the newest plan from Bush Sec. of Education Margaret Spellings to reintroduce segregation to schools. This time it's not based on race (well, not REALLY) but on socio...
