Let’s be honest here…..it’s all about what it’s going to cost them. They don’t want to pay for services for the men and women who return from Iraq with need of medical care. God only knows how many of them there are.
The Pentagon has admitted that it delayed introducing [...]
You just know Bush and Co. are worried sick over this:
White House E-Mail Battle Heats Up
The White House has three days to explain why it shouldn’t be required to copy its computer hard drives to ensure no further e-mails are lost, a federal judge ordered Tuesday. [...]
Observing that even that step is “not without its [...]
The Federal Reserve reduced its benchmark interest rate by three-quarters of a percentage point on Tuesday, to 2.25 percent, a cut that was less than investors had been hoping for even though it was one of the deepest in Fed history.
Is this the progress the delusional morons speak of?
From AlJazeera:
Iraqi political groups are meeting in the capital Baghdad for talks aimed at reconciling their differences, but the main Sunni Muslim bloc has decided to boycott the convention.
The National Concord Front, the main Sunni bloc, said its decision to stay away from Tuesday’s meeting [...]
US Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Tuesday that he supported Israel’s claim to Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state.
“I support Jerusalem as the capital of Israel,” McCain said in Jordan on the latest leg of a visit to the region.
Israel annexed east Jerusalem after seizing it in the Arab-Israeli war in [...]
U.S. Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) today introduced the Ten Commandments Weekend Resolution, which would designate the first weekend of May 2008 as Ten Commandments Weekend.
“It is important for Americans to remember the importance the Ten Commandments have in our nation,” said Brownback. “The Ten [...]
Try being the key word. It’s projected he’ll raise $762 thousand. That’s not all that much money for Palm Beach…….. wonder what he raised in the 04 and 06 election cycles on a visit to Palm Beach.
President Bush is making his way to South Florida today.
While in town, he will recognize a [...]
“I would like to share with you how one goes about becoming a concentration camp guard without having made many decisions,” 24-year-old former Guantanamo prison guard Christopher Arent told a crowd of hundreds at last weekend’s Winter Soldier gathering outside Washington, DC.
“I was 17 years old when I joined the Army National Guard,” he [...]
In the second of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s series of three films he visits Baghdad’s killings fields on the edge of Sadr City. The scene of thousands of sectarian murders over the last three years, it is a desolate and evil place: ‘Only the killers and the killed ever come here’ says Abdul-Ahad. Here in the thousands [...]
The politicalization of government…..now there’s something GW was good at.
For at least four years, since the 2004 presidential election, when a veteran, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., was the Democratic Party nominee, the Department of Veterans Affairs has blocked efforts to help U.S. soldiers register to vote at its facilities in all 50 states.
“This is [...]
