Right Wing attacks the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war

We have a rule in our country that "attacking the Commander-in-Chief during a time of war" helps The Terrorists and emboldens our enemies. Joe Lieberman put it this way: "in matters of war, we undermine presidential credibility at our nation's peril.".....more

Linda Ronstadt defends her politics

Five minutes into the interview and Linda Ronstadt is screaming into the phone, “George Bush stinks!”
“He’s an idiot,” Ronstadt says, adding, “he’s enormously incompetent on both the domestic and international scenes.”.....more

Public Stoning:
Not Just for the Taliban Anymore

"I don't want to capture their (mainstream Americans') system. I want to replace it," fumed North to a cheering audience. North has called for the stoning of gays and nonbelievers (rocks are cheap and plentiful, he has observed). Both friends and foes label him "Scary Gary.".....more

Racial Profiling Gone Wild
No Terror Connection in Michigan Cell Phone Case

On the kids from Texas busted in Michigan Friday and being held by local Michigan prosecutors for terror offenses because they bought too many cell phones at a Wal-Mart.....more

Madonna Headed for Das Big House?

If Madonna doesn't change her ways, she could be going from "Hung Up" to locked up.
German prosecutors have announced plans to monitor the erstwhile Material Girl's Sunday concert in Duesseldorf to see if she goes ahead with the mock-crucifixion routine that has been drawing religious ire since her Confessions tour kicked off in May.....more

War is a Racket
The Anti-War Classic by America's Most Decorated General

Is a short work by former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, where Butler discusses how business interests have commercially benefited from warfare. Butler points to a variety of examples, mostly from World War I, where industrialists whose operations were subsidised by public funding were able to generate substantial profits essentially from mass human suffering..... Wikipedia

Read It Here

The Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception,Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War,and Illegal Domestic Surveillance.....here

Welcome To The Hague

Did Cheney Go Too Far?

By insinuating that the sizeable majority of American voters who oppose the war in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy, Vice President Cheney on Wednesday may have crossed the line that separates legitimate political discourse from hysteria.....more

'They've run this play one too many times','The American people simply do not recognize any validity in what they're saying.'...... Harry Reid, D-Nev.

Lou Dobbs Wakes Up to 9/11 Lies

South Koreans tried and punished by online vigilantes

"By the time I found out the source of this outrage, it was too late. My name, address, photographs, telephone numbers were all over the Internet," . "Tens of thousands of people were busy sharing my identity and discussing how to punish me.....more

Internet rules the news in South Korea

An indigenous revolution brings hope to Bolivia

The challenges in Bolivia are formidable but so is the energy and spirit of the people. For more than 500 years they have waited for this moment and now it is theirs.....more

Fear and Smear

An evil symbiosis does exist between Muslim terrorists and American politicians, but it is not the one Republicans describe. The jihadists need George W. Bush to sustain their cause. His bloody crusade in the Middle East bolsters their accusation that America is out to destroy Islam. The president has unwittingly made himself the lead recruiter of willing young martyrs.....more

Criminal Administration

A few months from now, after midterm elections, if Democrats regain a majority in Congress—or if Democrats regain the Executive office in three years—almost the entire Bush administration could be standing trial....more

Dean Defends Lamont, Slams Lieberman

Today on NBC’s Meet the Press, David Gregory asked DNC Chairman Howard Dean, about his support for Ned Lamont vs. Joe Lieberman.....more

Meet: Marc A. Murolo

After Reading On "The State Of Sunshine" About The Tribute To The Victim's Of 911 By This Website
2,996: A Tribute to the Victims of 9/11
Bloggers honor the innocent victims of that awful day...

I was Honored To Be Assigned Marc A. Murolo.

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Free Republic: The Castro images are fake

Not fake in the sense that that isn’t Castro, but they were not taken at the time they are stated to have been taken....more

Hemingway felines in Key West spark USDA catfight

For more than 40 years, they have lounged on Ernest Hemingway's bed, lolled in his garden and sipped water from the urinal he dragged home from his favorite saloon (Sloppy Joe's), delighting tourists from around the world.....more

Floridians think war has been handled badly

A St. Petersburg Times poll found that more than half of Floridians think President Bush has done a poor job handling the war in Iraq, an opinion that could spill over into this fall’s elections.....more

Bush Seeks Political Gains from Foiled Plot

US President George W. Bush seized on a foiled London airline bomb plot to hammer unnamed critics he accused of having all but forgotten the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Weighed down by the unpopular war in Iraq, Bush and his aides have tried to shift the national political debate from that conflict to the broader and more popular global war on terrorism ahead of November 7 congressional elections.....more

'Retaliation monstrous and disproportionate'

Lebanon's social affairs minister is appalled by what she sees as the "monstrous and disproportionate retaliation" of the Israeli military against her country.....more

Braves give the boot to conservative group at "Faith Day"

Several gay rights groups on the Web bristled with speculation that Focus on the Family was given the boot for promoting its belief that homosexuality is a social problem comparable to alcoholism, gambling or depression.....more

Commie Book Ban

"Angelina Jolie has a tattoo of Che Guevara ... like Mike Tyson," said Emilio Izquierdo as he shook his head in mild bewilderment.....more

Vamos a Cuba

Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved

While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, the Bush administration was quietly seeking permission to divert $6 million that was supposed to be spent this year developing new homeland explosives detection technology.....more

Beyond Chutzpah: Cheney Implies Terrorists Are Happy Lieberman Lost

Here's the bottom line: Ned Lamont ran against the war in Iraq, a war that Joe Lieberman vehemently supported -- and still supports. A war that 60 percent of Americans are against. A war that is the defining foreign policy initiative of the Bush administration -- an initiative that has been an abject failure on every level. A war that has put the GOP's back against the electoral wall. So it's firing back with it's favorite weapon -- fear -- trying to make the case that being against the war somehow makes Lamont soft on national security.....more

"I just think that this Bush administration confuses a comprehensive attack on the terrorists with the invasion of Iraq,"......Ned Lamont

FL-22: Another Republican runs away from Bush

A strong challenge by Democratic state Sen. Ron Klein is giving 13-term Republican Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. what appears the toughest challenge of his House career. And Shaw, as he seeks to hang on in south Florida's politically competitive 22nd District, is using his TV advertising to preemptively -- if selectively -- distance himself from President Bush.....more

Be Prepared For Republicans To Close Gap

Right now, both Democrats and the progressive movement are flying high. Our fifty-state strategy has yielded record candidate recruitment. With a 43% Democratic turnout in Connecticut, evidence continues to mount that Democrats are turning out at higher rates than Republicans (possibly significantly higher rates)....more

Cheney on Lamont: Can't Resist the Low Blow

Mayhem in Iraq. Global warming on the warpath. National debt to the moon. There's much to moan about. But it's the little things that sometimes can tick one off the most....more

Half of Americans Still Believe In WMDs - They Saw Them on TV

A recent Harris Poll reports found that while “the U.S. and other countries have not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, surprisingly more U.S. adults (50%) think that Iraq had such weapons when the U.S. invaded Iraq.....more