Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

According to the NY Times this morning, Senator John D Rockefeller IV, the man who, as “chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, emerged last week as the most important supporter of immunity in devising a compromise plan with Senate Republicans and the Bush administration” received over $42,000 in campaign funding from Verizon and AT&T.
Of course, […]

So now Keisler, former AT&T Legal Hatchetman, is now head of DOJ? The blog, Next Hurrah, has entitled this event The United States of AT&T. I’ve gotta wonder how this move will affect the upcoming FCC Spectrum Auction, now that the Bush Administration has GIVEN our legal system to the Telecomms. I also doubt highly […]

This is just my speculation, mind you, but I just compared Bin Ladens from different tapes and photos, and though you’d expect some differences due to age or hair dye, and it’s pretty amazing to think that someone running for his life would be vain enough or have time enough to dye his beard, the […]

MoveOn.org has outdone themselves with this excellent video on Bush’s Iraq Progress.

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An Important film has just been released, called “No End in Sight, the American Occupation of Iraq“, which “dissects the people, issues and facts behind the Bush Administration’s decisions and their consequences on the ground to provide a powerful look into how arrogance and ignorance turned a military victory into a seemingly endless and deepening […]

Funny how certain things can come back to bite you on the butt, huh?

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The Washington Post is reporting that our new Security/Wiretapping Law, which, because of the fiber optic nature of landlines, requires special switches for the taps to be placed, also allows others beside the government to use these special switches to intercept conversations. The article states, “Such threats are not theoretical. For almost a year beginning […]

Thanks to Rolling Stone for printing it in its entirety so we don’t have to download another stinking pdf, here’s the newest National Intelligence Estimate.
Bottom line is that six years after 9/11 and the creation of the Department of Homeland (in)Security we’re actually in more danger of a terrorist attack on US soil because of […]

So why is it that we’ve spent billions of dollars to supposedly make our country safe from terrorists when the most basic safeguards to ensure our Nuclear material safe have never been put in place?
According to the NY Times, investigators from the Government Accountability Office applied for a licence from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for […]

Could it be that it’s because Libby can still plead the 5th if questioned about what the President and his Cabinet knew and when they knew it? Could this be damage control in preparation for Impeachment? (that’s IF Pelosi can get off her duff about that question . . . )
It’s the only thing that […]