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November  2007
Rove Investigator had Computer Files professionally deleted 11-29
Virginia GOP requires loyalty oath before you can vote in the primary. 11-29
New documents show that Rudy Giuliani charged obscure city agencies with security costs incurred for conducting an extramarital affair while mayor 11-29
John Ashcroft: I’m Willing To Be Waterboarded. Volunteers, the line starts to the right 11-29
Trent Lott's brother-in-law, nephew indicted for bribery. That explains his early departure 11-29
Is Lott Negotiating A Future Lobbying Position In Violation Of Senate Ethics Rules? 11-29
While governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee released a convicted rapist. The victim was related to Bill Clinton. Then the rapist killed someone. 11-29
More Boos At Republican YouTube Debate As McCain Re-Writes History (Video) 11-29
Romney Refuses To Call Waterboarding Torture, Says He’ll Consult With Blackwater’s Cofer Black 11-29
St. Rudy of 9/11 has an interesting client list 11-29
Yesterday in an address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) stepped up his rhetoric against the Bush administration, calling it one of the most “incompetent” in history 11-29
McCain blames Rise of Hitler on Ron Paul, Not Invading and Occupying other Countries Branded 'Isolationism' 11-29
Bush refers to his photo op in Annapolis as a "Hopeful Beginning"... to a negotiation that is already 60 years long 11-29
Mitt Romney shores up the mouthbreather vote 11-29
Rudy Giuliani is running third in Iowa, third in New Hampshire, and fifth in South Carolina. 11-29
Nearly 3,000 families will be forced out of FEMA trailers by next May when FEMA plans to “close all the trailer camps it runs for victims” of Hurricane Katrina. 11-29
Bush slashes federal pay raises. 11-29
Rep. Jon Porter (R-NV) said he’s not particularly interested in having Bush come to his district to campaign for him. 11-29
Dennis Kucinich By Gore Vidal 11-29
Bush Bolts After Photo Op At Middle East Peace Summit, fails to pronounce attending members' names correctly. It's hard work! 11-28
Rove rewrites history: "Congress Pushed Bush To War In Iraq Prematurely" 11-28
Right-Wing Magazine: Veco Oil Scandal Contributed To Lott’s Resignation 11-28
Chemical weapons monitor at Army base in Kentucky says he was fired for...expressing concern about the safety of the chemical weapons he was watching. 11-28
New administration press secretary says old press secretary lied when he said the president told him to lie. 11-28
Bush meets Iraqi Shi'ite leader at White House 11-28
Edwards proudly uses the L-word (that's "lawyer") 11-28
A pattern developing: Embattled immigration chief went to fake questioner at first press conference 11-28
Bush, April 2007: "Nancy Pelosi should not meet with Bashar Assad because he is a state sponsor of terror." Bush, November 2007: "Mr. Assad, meet Secretary of State Condi Rice" 11-28
Hillary has an autism plan. No word on a plan for all of the republican heads that will explode if she's elected 11-28
Hillary Clinton says that she would appoint Colin Powell as a diplomat in her administration. Appointing one of the chief cheerleaders of the Iraq war to help rebuild America's world reputation? That ought to work. 11-28
Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) is already a hot commodity on K Street 11-28
POAC flash animation on K Street 11-28
If Kucinich wins nomination, Ron Paul could be his veep 11-28
Senators John Kerry, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein wrote a letter to FDA Commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, requesting a full investigation into lipstick products containing lead levels above the legal limit, as recently reported by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics. 11-28
Dennis Hastert (R-Brautwurst) formally resigns from Congress, to circumvent the law that goes into effect the first of the year requiring a 2 year waiting period for ex-Congresspeople to become lobbyists. 11-27
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour waits approximately 1 minute to violate election law after Trent Lott announces his resignation to circumvent the law that goes into effect the first of the year requiring a 2 year waiting period for ex-Congresspeople to become lobbyists. 11-27
Emails Show State Dept Blocking Probe Into Blackwater Iraq Shootings 11-27
Probe finds fake DHS press briefing in 2006 11-27
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and others “are working on legislation that would direct federal judges to review the president’s state secrets claims,” instead of just accepting them outright and “dismissing cases on the government’s word.” 11-27
Gates: Civilians needed in terror war 11-27
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request “seeking documents stating the Department of State’s policies governing the Secretary of State’s methods of communicating via e-mail with audiences both internal and external to the U.S. government.” 11-27
While Bush signed off on a $460 billion defense bill, he vetoed a $150billion bill funding the Labor and Health and Human Services departments. And he also has set the stage for rejecting a $105.6billion transportation bill that exceeds his budget by $2.3billion. 11-27
A House committee is demanding to know why federal regulators failed to assess potential public health damage from extremely high levels of a toxic industrial solvent found in Southern California drinking water before the mid-1980s. 11-27
Christopher Dodd Asks GOP YouTube Debate Question 11-27
Guiliani and Obama top the list of likable candidates. 11-27
Giuliani: "Never Had Any Doubt" Invading Iraq Was Right Decision 11-27
Mitt Romney blasts Mike Huckabee as a liberal in disguise whose commitment to conservatism is doubtful. 11-27
"Did Thompson waste too much time to have a chance?" In related news, the election is a year from now 11-27
Despite Promises To ‘End Earmarks,’ Giuliani’s Law Firm Sought Millions In Pork For Clients 11-27
66 percent of consumers in the United States are confident that the food they buy is safe, down from 82 percent last year 11-27
Edwards faults Kerry for not filing a legal challenge to the 2004 election results. So do the rest of us. 11-26
Sen. Trent Lott To Resign By End Of Year. 11-26
Family Security Matters — the right-wing front group, claims ‘multiculturalism’ threatens U.S. 11-26
Lacking public support, Republican Party seeking rich congressional candidates who can pay for their own campaign 11-26
PBS NOW: Alaskan Oil, Politics & the Corrupt Bastards Club 11-26
Novak says Huckabee is not a true Conservative. Neither are those who blow a CIA agent's cover, Robert 11-26
Nearly all the political indicators points to another very big year for Democrats in 2008 11-26
Florida School Turns Down Students Wanting To Form Peace Group 11-26
If you liked Bush cronyism, you'll love Rudy's 11-25
Refresher: Bush cronyism 11-25
Giuliani's tie to organized crime extend past U.S. borders while his supporters consider him a hard-nosed prosecutor and a crime-fighting mayor 11-25
Pentagon leaves 20,000 out of wounded soldier tally. 11-24
Conservatives just now realizing that Bush is a simpleton who isn't really involved in running things 11-24
Bush Gave First Thanksgiving Speech. But he wasn't talking to all Americans, at least not in person. Admission was strictly by "Invitation-Only.“ Photos and video included 11-24
Writers' strike could lead to the cancellation of Presidential debates. 11-24
Dennis Kucinich makes Early Show host sound like an idiot 11-24
Rep. Jim Moran (D-Va.) last week praised the AIPAC and its supporters for their hard work in getting Congress to support their policy positions. 11-24
Huckabee Picks Up Another Endorsement: Left Behind Author Tim LaHaye 11-24
The man who said he looked in Putin's eyes and saw someone "straightforward and trustworthy" is calling Pervez Musharraf a "man of his word" 11-24
If he doesn't get completely unrestricted funding, Bush threatens to lay off 150,000 civilian workers in Iraq and blame it on democrats... one week before Christmas  11-21
John Dean: New McClellan allegations could lead to conspiracy charges in the White House 11-21
Homeless Bribed With Food To Support California GOP Ballot Initiative 11-21
The U.S. Military is demanding that thousands of wounded service personnel give back signing bonuses because they are unable to serve out their commitments. 11-20
John Bolton believes that the administration's foreign policy is lax, too focused on useless "diplomacy", and has been taken over by "pragmatists", he also inhabits alternate reality 11-20
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan: I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice President, the President's chief of staff, and the president himself 11-20
A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. has opened an investigation into the role of Blackwater security guards in the shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi citizens 11-20
Giuliani claims illegal immigration can be eliminated in 3 years. 11-20
Has Mitt Romney been caught push polling himself? That's not as gross as it sounds 11-20
Poll: Obama Takes 4 Point Lead Over Hillary In Iowa 11-20
Rep. Mike Ferguson of New Jersey becomes the seventeenth Republican Congressman to announce that he will be spending more time with his family in 2009 11-20
New Orleans lost out in the competition to host one of the 2008 presidential debates Monday after the commission that selects the sites decided that the city has not sufficiently recovered from Hurricane Katrina 11-20
Townsend’s goodbye to Bush: ‘You are such a man.’ 11-20
Massachusetts governor says "he needs to control the state's independent agencies to govern effectively." 11-20
Awkward moment during Alberto Gonzales' speech at Univ. of Florida as a protestor dressed in Abu Ghraib attire approaches the podium (with video) 11-20
Huckabee commits to nationwide smoking ban ensuring he never becomes President 11-20
Did GOP Gerrymander Itself Out of Power? 11-20
White House begins making scary pronouncements about possible terrorist attacks on elections. 11-20
The lawyer for State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard asked on Saturday that he not be called to testify before Congress on discrepancies between his statements and those of his brother over the brother's ties to the Blackwater security firm. 11-19
Dan Ellsberg: Sibel Edmonds case "Far More Explosive Than Pentagon Papers" 11-19
Fran Townsend, the leading White House-based terrorism adviser resigns 11-19
Kucinich Protests Army Training School 11-19
Kucinich's views, which aren't that far left of Democratic orthodoxy, are less controversial than his style is. 11-19
Giuliani Addresses Energy at NASCAR Race 11-19
A major contributor to Democratic causes and political races was indicted Friday on charges of falsely holding himself out as a lawyer and impersonating a public servant. 11-19
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) will make his seventh trip to Iraq over the Thanksgiving holiday 11-19
Is Kerik the albatross around Giuliani's neck? 11-19
Mike Huckabee personally intervened to release convicted rapist who immediately raped and killed again. 11-19
House Passes Bill To Reinstate Judicial Oversight On Wiretaps Without Telecom Immunity. Senate Strips Telecom Immunity Similar Bill 11-18
Reid To Keep Senate In Session During Thanksgiving To Prevent Bush From Making Recess Appointments. 11-18
Federal prosecutors on Friday accused Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-90kinthefreezer) of soliciting bribes in two alleged schemes that had not been previously disclosed. 11-18
The brother of embattled State Department Inspector General Howard Krongard quit as an adviser to Blackwater Worldwide on Friday 11-18
Kucinich Takes Iowa, New Hampshire and 45 Other states in National Grassroots Democrat Poll. Unfortunately, the owners of our media have chosen Hillary 11-18
State Dept. IG called before congress over his incompetence in questioning absolutely nothing in the looting of the Treasury regarding Iraq. 11-18
Number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. 11-18
Push-poll phone calls attacking Mitt Romney for his religion seem to be coming from people close to the candidate himself. 11-18
U.S. mine safety regulators failed to conduct inspections required by federal law at more than one in seven of the country’s 731 underground coal mines last year 11-18
Top JFK adviser joins Obama campaign. 11-18
Barry Goldwater Jr. is officially endorsing Ron Paul 11-18
John Edwards wants universal coverage from birth to death. Republican candidates still obsessed with the fetus and what happens after you die. 11-18
McCarthyism Strengthens America - Prolefeed 016 11-18
Capitol Hill cafeteria worker fired after Republican lawmaker complains that his sandwich was grilled, not toasted as he requested. People requesting not to die in a meaningless war also not getting what they asked for. Headlines compliments of fark.com 11-18
9/11 Firefighters Mulling TV Blitz On Giuliani 11-18
Hillary Heckled At Enviro Forum As Dems Vow A Greener America 11-18
Thanks to a math error, flood gates that were supposed to reduce flooding in New Orleans during a major storm by about 5.5 feet will only reduce flooding by half a foot. 11-18
Rudy Guiliani, a foe of "socialized medicine" in his Presidential campaign, advocated putting more people on state medical programs as mayor of New York. 11-18
Clinton Accepts Cash From Recipients Of Bill's Controversial Pardons 11-18
State Department Inspector General recuses himself from Blackwater investigation, two months after the incident, after family ties to the company are revealed. 11-15
Refresher: Cookie was supposed to be watching over the Blackwater contracts. But he didn't because his brother Buzzy sat on the board. 11-15
House of Representatives voted 218-203 to pass a $50 billion funding bill for Iraq that would require withdrawal of most U.S. troops from Iraq to begin within 30 days of the bill’s enactment. The bill they passed is expected to be defeated in the Senate and would in any case be vetoed by Bush. 11-15  
"We did not remove 8 pages" in the global warming report, says white house science advisor .... "we only removed 6" 11-15
Polls now show Ron Paul passing Thompson in New Hampshire and tied with McCain in Iowa 11-15
The federal government said it denied a visa for a well-known South African scholar who has been a critic of the war in Iraq because he "engaged in a terrorist activity," according to a letter made public Wednesday. 11-15
Tancredo: Irrational Fear More Important Than Healthcare, Education or Anything 11-15
Polls now show Ron Paul passing Thompson in New Hampshire and tied with McCain in Iowa 11-15
White House: Reality Of Iraq War Has A Well-Known Liberal Bias 11-15
Bush blasts the majority for out of control earmarking, even though the two biggest earmarkers are in the minority. And they don't even include Sen. Ted Stevens 11-15
Dems Set To Kill Feinstein Censure Resolution 11-15
Virtually everything that Bush correctly gets condemnation for could have been prevented or negated by Democrats, if they had had courage, conviction and commitment to maintaining the rule of law and obedience to the Constitution. 11-15
We have an American president who violates laws in the name of national security, supporting a Pakistani president who violates laws in the name of national security, who in turn cites America as his example for the violation of laws in the name of national security. 11-15
CNN reports that at 2:30 PM EST today, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) will announce on the House floor that he is retiring from Congress. 11-15
Mark Foley has a fully grown adult boyfriend 11-15
Video: The DNC is currently considering producing the spot for the upcoming 2008 Presidential election season. 11-15
Government investigators smuggled liquid explosives and detonators through airport checkpoints, exposing dangerous vulnerabilities in security efforts 11-15
If you've ever wondered about some kind of unifying theme for Rudy Giuliani's campaign, maybe here's one 11-15
Bush, after signing $459 billion defense budget bill: Says Congress is a teen with creditcard, vetoes domestic spending bill on health, education and jobs 11-14
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Tuesday that Democrats won't approve more money for the Iraq war this year unless President Bush agrees to begin bringing troops home. 11-14
Iraq, Afghan war costs are $1.6 trillion 11-14
Amount of dollars kept out of the U.S. Treasury as a result of Bush's tax cuts: $1.6 trillion 11-14
This weeks Republican sex scandal 11-14
Why is it taking White House officials so long to restore millions of deleted e-mails from the backup tapes they claim to have? 11-14
Mitt Romney's campaign has set a record for most spent on advertising at this point in an election, spending around $85,000 a day on campaign commercials, which have aired more than 14,500 times already 11-14
McCain Supporter Asks About Hillary: "How do we beat the bitch?" McCain's response: "That's an excellent question." 11-14
Only nine percent of Americans think it would be a bad idea to elect a female President. 11-14
Anti-war Democratic voters disappointed with the ones they elected 11-14
Homophobic Surgeon General Nominee Reveals Bush Plans To Recess Appoint Him 11-14
Bush Records Back-To-Back Interviews For Fox News And Fox Business Channel 11-14
Kucinich blasts Bush: "Even planning for this is a war crime... Iran is not a threat to us." 11-14
Hillary says vote for her because of her record, Obama and Edwards say vote for them because of Hillary's record 11-14
USA Today/Gallup poll shows Clinton and Obama tied for the Democratic presidential nomination. 11-13
Judge orders White House to preserve e-mails. 11-13
Fred Thompson, former paid lobbyist for abortion rights, gets endorsed by "Right to Life" committee. 11-13
Are Americans completely incapable of getting mad as hell? 11-13
Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey 11-13
McCain's missed over half of all Senate votes this year. In fact, Kucinich seems to be the only presidenial candidate currently serving in Congress that shows up for work regularly 11-13
Bush To Give Keynote Address Honoring Federalist Society’s 25th Anniversary 11-13
Louisiana politician calls a black civil rights worker "Buckwheat." 11-13
Good News for GOP Wide-Stancers — Court Rules Homosexual Sex Is not Adulterous 11-13
Salon.com profiles the smear campaign machine against Ron Paul 11-13
To paraphrase Jon Stewart, when Newt Gingrich is the voice of sanity and reason in America, you know we've fallen through a wormhole 11-13
Senator McCain's campaign dogged by his very own Frankenstein's monster 11-13
John McCain forced to borrow $3 million to finance his sinking campaign 11-13
GOP presidential candidate unveils new TV ad promoting world peace. Just kidding, it's actually an ad that says vote for him or the muslims will blow you up next time you go to Hot Topic. 11-13
Poll finds Americans deeply pessimistic and eager for change. Yet, the Presidential frontrunners are another Clinton and Giuliani 11-13
Sen. Ted Stevens isn't the only corrupt elected official in Alaska. Meet Representative Don Young 11-12
Richard Armitage describes his leaking of Valerie Plame's name as "foolish". Other adjectives such as: "criminal", "treasonous" or "politically motivated payback" unavailable for comment. 11-12
Florida state Rep. Bob Allen guilty in bathroom-sex case 11-11
US Rates As One of Worst Modernized Nations for Infant Deaths 11-11
Clinton Staff Planted Question at Forum. Foxnews is there. Newsflash: This is common practice for every candidate at nearly every campaign stop. 11-11
Romney: Adam and Eve looked "promiscuous" 11-11
H.R. 3835: Be it enacted, the Military Commissions Act is Repealed; Habeas Corpus Restored. Torture is forbidden 11-11
Bill Clinton Lunches With Leader Of The "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy" 11-11
Two more Republican lawmakers jump off the GOP Failboat. 11-11
McCain's Mom Goes After Romney's Mormonism 11-11
Giuliani blames Clinton for overstretched military. 11-11
FEMA’s fake journalists revealed 11-11
Bush begins to rule by decree 10-31
Washington State: yet another GOP sexual hypocrite scandal 10-31
Biden: Rudy's Sentences Consist Of "A Noun, A Verb, And 9/11" 10-31
The state department is losing one of its best diplomats. There was no other logical choice than to put a person like Karen Hughes, a right wing native Texan with no expertise in diplomacy or Muslim culture, in charge of repairing Mid-east/American relations. 10-31
More than 3 months after the last guy announced his resignation Bush has finally gotten around to appointing a new VA secretary 10-31
The White House may have been much closer to Jack Abramoff than previously disclosed. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman demands 600 previously withheld documents 10-31
The State Department gave all 17 Blackwater contractors involved in civilian shooting incident immunity from prosecution before anyone could investigate what happened.. Because that's how you get Justice done in the Bush Administration 10-30
Bush administration official whose department had government workers pose as journalists in fake news conference denied resulting promotion following media scrutiny 10-30
This week's anti-gay Republican lawmaker engaging in hot man-on-man action brought to you by Spokane, Washington 10-30
Republican candidate for State Assembly runs newspaper ad accusing opponent of being an "admitted homosexual". It's probably the "admitted" part he has trouble with 10-30
The quarantine of "sodomites" and ending abortion to halt illegal immigration: Welcome to the Value Voters Summit. Bonus: "by not being bigoted and not being racist, Bush has embraced Islamofascists on several occasions." 10-30
This week's Republican announcing he will not seek re-election to Congress is... Tom Tancredo. 10-30
President Bush’s acting chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation that would strengthen the agency 10-30
Watchdog groups agree: White House needs to cough up lost email records now 10-30
British minister detained at US airport: Britain's first Muslim Minister has decribed his disappointment after he was detained at a US airport, where his hand luggage was analysed for traces of explosive materials. 10-30
I don't know if anyone's noticed, but George W. Bush is being disappeared from the presidential campaign and everyone's running against incumbent Hillary Clinton. 10-30
Bush May Recess-Appoint Homophobic Surgeon General Nominee Who Wants To Cure Gays 10-30
"It if would help get Sen. Gravel back into the debate, I offer to purchase $1 million of advertising from NBC, or simply pay NBC $1 million in exchange for the service of allowing Sen. Gravel to participate in your debate." 10-30
VP Cheney goes hunting at private club; claims it's better stocked with lawyers than public areas 10-30
Presidential candidate Fred Thompson opposes civil unions 10-30
As U.S. Health Care Costs Rise, More Americans Head Abroad for Treatment 10-30
668-page report issued by Texas government says state has too many reports 10-30
Mitt Romney compares Hillary Clinton to an intern. This article is a great example of how the leading republicans are campaigning on Hillary Clinton and little else. 10-30
Ron Paul: "Let's stop the hysterics about the freedom of Cubans – which is not our government's responsibility – and consider freedom of the American people, which is" 10-30
The unifying theme of Election 2008: Hillary Clinton. 10-30
Rudy Giuliani lies again 10-30
Hillary receives more campaign contributions from the healthcare industry than any other candidate. 10-30
First Lady Laura Bush claims that she has been "involved for a long time in policy." 10-30
A former lawyer in Gov. Matt Blunt's office says he was fired last month after he raised questions about how the governor's staff was handling office e-mails and public records requests. 10-30
Iowa moves their Presidential primary to January 3rd. 10-30
Senior Republican lawmaker asked the U.S. FDA to confirm that an internal FDA group privately voted to keep the troubled diabetes drug Avandia on the market 10-30
New set of "Downing Street memos" surfaces, this time from Down Under. 11-30
Federal judge rules that the Bush administration unconstitutionally denied aid to gulf coast residents displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 11-30
Twelve states, three cities, a U.S. territory and 13 environmental groups are suing the EPA to actually enforce the 1970 Clean Air Act 11-30
One day after leaked memo shows Bush doubts Iraqi Prime Minister has the capacity to control the sectarian violence in Iraq... Bush: Maliki is doing a heckuva job 11-30
US State Dept. Official On Tony Blair And British: “We Typically Ignore Them And Take No Notice” 11-30
The Hijacking of a Nation, Part 1: The Foreign Agent Factor 11-30
Black-hooded CIA paramilitaries tried to "disappear" German national 11-30
Mitt Romney, moving closer to a presidential run, has hired Tom DeLay's former spokesman 11-30
Former CIA Director Robert Gates, President Bush's nominee for defense Secretary, criticized the handling of the war in Iraq and said he will improve Pentagon postwar planning if he is confirmed. 11-30
Rep. Dennis Kucinich Tackles Healthcare 11-30
Bush’s Failed Global AIDS Plan: The President’s relief plan ignores the gender dimensions of the AIDS epidemic, and women are paying for it with their lives. 11-30
Dem Sen. Biden: “I Am Going To Run For President” 11-30
SCSU study reveals a direct link between mental illness and support for President Bush. The more psychotic the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush. 11-30
Dem Gov. Vilsack Set To Kick Of Presidential Campaign. 11-30
Congressman Alcee Hastings dropped for Intel Committee chair after private meeting with Pelosi, tells media "sorry, haters, God is not finished with me yet." 11-29
Nancy Pelosi sees her approval rating jump up 12 points. 11-29
Bush cuts and runs from newly elected Senator who wants his Marine son home from Iraq 11-29
Iraq panel's real agenda: damage Control. The Iraq Study Group's makeup gives away its true purpose. 11-29
Tom Delay endorses a book on corruption. Seriously 11-29
Tom Tancredo drew fire from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and others on Tuesday after saying that ethnically diverse city of Miami resembled "a Third World country." 11-29
A classified memorandum by President Bush’s national security adviser expressed serious doubts about whether Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki had the capacity to control the sectarian violence in Iraq and recommended that the United States take new steps to strengthen the Iraqi leader’s position. 11-29
30,000 Immigration Files Missing. 11-29
Senate Majority Leader-elect Harry Reid said Tuesday he's doing away with the "do-nothing Congress" that Democrats campaigned against and plans to keep senators working long hours _ focusing first on ethics, the minimum wage and stem cell research. 11-29
Texas Ethics Commission rules that bribery is legal if paid with cash. 11-28
President Bush says Iraq is not in a civil war 11-28
Bush administration uses its last possible option in the war on terror: "Diplomacy". Not nearly as lucrative for the people who put him in power. 11-28
U.S. Representative Curt Weldon (R-PA) in "able danger" after witness tells FBI about possible corruption links 11-28
Controversial Senior Aide To Condoleezza Rice, Philip Zelikow Resigns. 11-28
Some interesting facts about Philip Zelikow that you may not know 11-28
Wikipedia entry for Philip Zelikow 11-28
CQ Analyst Suggests ‘Rumsfeld’s Leaving Is Just The Beginning,’ Cheney Might Be Next 11-28
Convicted GOP Fundraiser Forced To Repay $13.7 Million...$3 Million For His Own Prosecution. 11-28
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL), prospective chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and former judge impeached and convicted for bribery, blames bloggers for making a big deal of out his corruption 11-28
Dem Spokespeople “Uneasy” About Lieberman's Communications Director Joining Their Weekly Meetings. 11-28
Speaking at annual 1st Amendment ceremony, Newt Gingrich suggests that freedom of speech be re-examined to meet the threat of terrorism 11-28
Member of the Iraq Study Group predicts that since the conclusions of that group are so negative, the Administration will soon start downplaying their efforts in attempt to discredit the report's findings 11-28
Americans: Kerry Least Likeable Dem 11-28
Jordanian king - arguably the most moderate, pro-U.S. leader in the entire region - warns that U.S. actions have helped increase the risk of at least 3 middle-eastern civil wars in 2007 11-27
Pentagon Is Developing Alternative To Iraq Study Group Findings “To Give The President An Out” 11-27
Iraq Study Group Draft Urges Aggressive Diplomatic Initiative Including Direct Talks With Iran, Syria 11-27
Drug industry braces for Democrat-led Congress 11-26
Ike Skelton of Missouri, set to take charge of the House Armed Services Committee: Good news for Northrop Grumman, bad news for us. 11-26
GOP’s Specter On Wiretapping Program: “For Every Day That Passes, There’s An Invasion Of Privacy That Could Be Cured” 11-26
GOP Sen. Hagel: “There Will Be No Military Victory Or Military Solution For Iraq” 11-26
Dems want to see citizen-monitoring database: Congress wants to know not just what data was collected, but why and how it was to be used. 11-24
No plastic turkey this year: President Makes Thanksgiving Calls to 10 in Armed Forces from the presidential retreat at Camp David 11-24
Cheney to visit Saudi Arabia Saturday for Iraq talks 11-24
Cheney's DC office won't say where the hell he is. 11-24
FBI Director Robert Mueller urged whistle-blowers to come forward, then silenced them and ruined their careers 11-24
Bush administration to allow U.S. growers to keep using thousands of tons of methyl bromide, one of the most dangerous pesticides to public health. More than 180 nations banned its use worldwide as of 2005. 11-24
GOP's Jean Schmidt Declared Winner In Contested Ohio Race 11-23
US Vice-President Dick Cheney will visit Saudi Arabia on Saturday for talks on the Middle East, the White House said Wednesday. Bush to clear brush and mutilate the English language, or something 11-23
Pelosi backs judge who was impeached for involvement in bribery to chair House Intelligence Committee 11-23
Leaked Drug Company Memo: Santorum Loss “Creates A Big Hole We Will Need To Fill... We Now Have Fewer Allies In The Senate” 11-24
Arkansas Gov Huckabee Recently Set Up Wedding Registry With Wife Of 32 Years To Furnish New $500K House 11-23
CREW BLASTS PELOSI ENDORSEMENT OF UNETHICAL MURTHA FOR MAJORITY LEADER 11-23
Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE): ‘The Time For More Troops Is Past,’ McCain’s Plan Is ‘Not Realistic,’ ‘The Wrong Approach’ 11-22
First Daughter Barbara Bush Robbed In Argentina. 11-22
McCain And Giuliani Compete For Bush's “Vast Network” Of Donors. 11-22
A Rat Abandons a Ship of Fools: Ken Adelman, a onetime Reagan Administration official and “onetime member of the Iraq war brain trust”. 11-22
U.S. District Court Judge has ordered the FBI to submit "proper disclosures" to the Court and Judicial Watch by December 15, 2006 concerning the U.S. government's evacuation of Saudi royals and members of the bin Laden family from the United States immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. 11-21
Judge Rules No On Release Of Information About Bush Admin.'s Secret Wiretap Program. 11-21
Republicans vacating the Capitol are leaving behind almost a half-trillion-dollar clutter of unfinished spending bills. Cue the right wing pundits to point and yell about how all democrats do is spend 11-21
Mary Matalin Solicits Money For Scooter Libby's Defense Fund: “A True Unsung Hero In The War On Terror”. 11-21
Pelosi, Hoyer Say House Won't Consider Resuming Military Draft 11-21
Senior Bush advisor, and former attorney general, Ed Meese argues against legal protection of contraception 11-21
Montana elects 10 Natives to State Govt. all are Democrats 11-21
Déjà vu all over again: Bush ignores CIA intelligence on Iran. 11-21
Democrats Plan Series of Votes on Ethics Reforms 11-21
The Decider said Monday he hasn't decided whether to send more troops to Iraq or begin bringing them home, saying he is awaiting the military's recommendations. 11-21
Dem Chris Dodd seeks to kill Bush's "torture bill" 11-21
McCain literally sticks to the script on Iraq: Take a look and count how many times McCain looks down to read his talking points over the course of the minute. 11-21
The NeoCon agenda which was supposed to last an entire century and stabilize the middle east, only lasted about 5 years and created a quagmire in Iraq 11-21
Rummy headed back to the corporate elite 11-21
Buchanan declared winner in Florida: Democrat Christine Jennings contested her 369-vote loss in the 13th District, asking a judge to order a new election because of problems in Sarasota County, where more than 17,000 voters who cast ballots in other races Nov. 7 failed to vote in the congressional contest. 11-21
Cheney: Dem Victory Wouldn’t Prevent Bush Admin From Attacking Iran 11-20
GOP fundraiser gets 18 years in prison for: theft, corrupt activity, money laundering, forgery and tampering with records 11-20
Dems To Target Oil Companies' Tax Breaks. 11-20
Rangel: If US Had A Draft We “Never Would Have Invaded Iraq”, seeks to reinstate draft 11-20
Mass. Gov. Romney to ask activist judge to force Massachusetts lawmakers to vote on a proposed amendment to ban gay marriage 11-20
Bush may declare an end to the Korean war in exchange for Kim Jong Il giving up on having nukes 11-20
Kerry still considering spoiling dems 2008 White House bid 11-20
John McCain 1999: Would not overturn Roe vs. Wade. John McCain 2006: Flip-Flops, Supports Immediate Reversal of Roe v. Wade 11-20
According to an international think tank, the "War on terror could last 30 years". That's right. In only thirty years we'll finally be rid of car bombs and hijackings, and kidnappings for ever. The war on drugs and the war on poverty, soon to follow, I am sure. 11