Semper Fi
June 29, 2006
A gung ho Marine recruiter featured in Michael Moore’s antiwar film, Fahrenheit 9/11, has died from wounds suffered in the Iraq War.
Say what? Tom DeLay rewrites history once again
June 29, 2006
We always knew Tom DeLay suffered from reality separation syndrome but his latest claim that Valerie Plame “was not a CIA agent” is way out there even for him.
Signing away our freedom
June 29, 2006
President George W. Bush, through his use of “signing statements,” has declared himself, on more than 750 separate occasions, above the laws of Congress, the laws of the land and even the Constitution of the United States.
With each stroke of his pen, Bush wipes away more of the freedoms once guaranteed by the Constitution, undermines the system of checks and balances that is supposed to protect our government from despots and brings this nation closer and closer to the precipice.
His actions come, ironically, as the nation prepares to celebrate the birthday of its independence, an independence threatened as never before not by Islam-spouting madmen but by an opportunistic politician with a fountain pen.
Geraldo spins a new fantasy
June 29, 2006
Geraldo Rivera, easily one of the most biased and repudiated “journalists” in television history, claims the New York Times is biased because it never puts a “positive spin” on stories. That’s odd. We thought the role of the press was to report the news, not “spin” it.
On second thought…
June 29, 2006
The Pentagon is revising a document that calls homosexuality a mental disorder, officials said Wednesday.
Border strategy? What border strategy?
June 29, 2006
Years without an intelligence strategy to secure U.S. borders resulted in uncoordinated and sometimes incomplete threat information about immigrants, a top counterterrorism official said Wednesday.
Berkeley plans vote on Bush impeachment
June 29, 2006
Berkeley plans to give voters a say on a measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the mayor of this famously liberal California city said on Wednesday.
GAO cites management problems with EPA
June 29, 2006
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency does not enforce clean air and water laws consistently and is crippled by sloppy record keeping, the investigative arm of Congress told a Senate panel on Wednesday.