Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

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The slashdotters have done a wonderful job of debunking the Nuclear Threat from the Nuclear Warhead blueprints allegedly found on a laptop computer in Switzerland and owned by so-called nuclear smugglers. They first point out that the story in both the NY Times has some inconsistencies with how things geek actually work. The slashdot article […]

According to a bulletin I just received from the Wexler camp, Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Bush on 35 separate allegations of High Crimes. Wexler is a co sponsor on these Articles of Impeachment. But in order for the Repuglycan LockSteppers to be overridden, it is CRUCIAL for us, the people, to […]

The Huffington Post has a clip of something Andrew Sullivan said on the Chris Matthew’s Show– that the Torture Memo from John Yoo “…means that Don Rumsfeld, David Addington and John Yoo should not leave the United States any time soon. They will be, at some point, indicted for war crimes.” Could it be that […]

Well, those sneaky changes to the laws that got through in the Post 9/11 era are what got Spitzer’s “structuring” of withdrawals and deposits into various accounts put under a microscope. But can anyone tell me if, when it was found out that these financial flags were not pointing at a TERRORIST, why the activity […]

Domino Power Magazine has a great analysis of the information, that was presented in the recent meeting of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, about how the infamous White House Emails got Lost. Reading the whole article will most likely lead you to the same conclusion I did. This was PURPOSEFUL OBFUSCATION.
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The Energy Legislation that has been finally hammered out and is due to be pushed through both the Senate and the House is both a success and a failure. It’s about time that Members of Congress realized that just because higher MPG standards for cars might hurt folks in certain voting districts, that overall, for […]

As Congress is finally talking about cutting Iraq purse strings, one of the most compelling reasons to do so are the reports coming out of Iraq from the Government Accountability Office, which tell the story of small arms shipments to Iraq that were meant for Iraq security forces and, because of a lack of oversight […]

The NYTimes this morning has an OpEd piece from Studs Terkel on the whole issue of Wiretapping and Telecomm Immunity. Terkel was one of the people who was persecuted during the McCarthy Era simply because he signed petitions against injust laws, such as the Jim Crow laws and poll taxes. His ability to work in […]

I think any of us who have, whether early on or later, realized that we have no business being in Iraq, will realize who feels they do have business being in Iraq, to the tune of billions of dollars of profit, by reading some of the Audit Reports coming out of the Special Inspector General’s […]