Same Poop Different Year

Jack Cafferty discussed the new Time article "What Would War With Iran Look Like" yesterday and questioned the intel reports we are hearing on the nuclear capabilities of Bush’s next target......more

Spin

Out to breakfast with friends this morning, my friend Pat points out the difference in the two headlines here. Same story, different papers. The Times-Union is from Jacksonville and has a reputation of being a conservative paper. The Gainesville Sun... well, I wouldn't say it's conservative generally but it's conservative for the town it comes out of a college town with a long history of progressive politics........more

Drums of War
Are we gearing up to attack Iran?

Noting that recent orders have put U.S. ships on standby in the Persian Gulf, the cover piece weighs the likelihood of war against Iran......more

Texan works to impeach president

Since he arrived in Lawrence a week ago to collect signatures from people who would like to see President Bush impeached, Jim Goodnow has received a mostly positive or at least tolerant response.....more

Democrats gain as November vote nears

Polls show, and politicians from both parties agree, that a steady drip of bad news from Iraq, anger over high fuel prices and a spate of corruption scandals have soured the public's feelings toward the ruling Republicans. President Bush, with his approval rating hovering near 40 percent, does not have the political clout he had in past campaigns......more

Ron Klein 2006

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 260
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Catch an Illegal Immigrant Day

That's right. But "Fun with Guns" is just one of the ways College Republicans at several campuses across the U.S. will be trying to get twenty-somethings enthusiastic about this fall's elections. Another is "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" days, in which volunteers dressed in orange t-shirts and representing "mock immigrants" will hide around campus and those "catching" them will be awarded prizes......more

Dean Sends Mehlman Letter

Chickenhawk Sean Hannity Condemns Veterans Against Torture

Sean Hannity, who declined to serve in the military when he had the chance, condemned General Colin Powell and Republican Senators Graham, McCain and Warner, all of whom did serve, for taking a stand on behalf of the legal rights of prisoners and maintaining the Geneva Conventions’ standards for humane treatment......more

Summit Examines U.S.-Muslim Relations Five Years After 9-11

Five years after 9-11, U.S.-Islamic relations continue to deteriorate at a rapid pace. Recent polls reveal that 90 percent of residents in predominantly Muslim countries view the U.S. as the primary threat to their country. To examine this relationship, 300 young leaders from around the Muslim world and the U.S. came together to develop a blueprint for long-term engagement between the U.S. and the Muslim world.....more

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

War Is Over If You Want It.........more

Fortress America is an ugly America

"Capitol Hill is a zone of fear, welcoming the tourists with fences, slanted concrete barriers, steel walls that pop out of the pavement and steel posts called bollards that are designed to hold a vehicle-delivered bomb at bay,".....more

Mall sues war protesters

Kings Mall has filed a civil suit against protesters who read the names of dead soldiers and distribute anti-war literature in front of the military recruitment center at the U.S. Route 9W mall. The mall's attorney, Jon A. Simonson, said the suit stems from tenants' complaints over loss of business from the protests, with damages estimated at $50,000. The suit follows the dismissal in late May of trespassing charges against two of the defendants, Jay Wenk and Joan Keefe, both members of the group Veterans For Peace. The two were arrested Feb. 4, and Wenk was arrested again Feb. 11, on charges of harassment.....more

Iraq: Experts Fear a Lost Generation

At first glance, the games occupying Sameer, Salwa, Batul, Taghreed, Yasir and Fawzi seem much like those enjoyed by any children as they play happily in a Baghdad street with friends from school and the neighbourhood.On closer inspection, however, their games are far from innocent, and offer a brutal reflection of daily life in Iraq. This group of five- to seven-year-olds is re-enacting a beheading, a scene they have most likely seen on television or on one of the many graphic videos circulating in the country......more

Congress May be Prosecutable For Participating In Bush War Crimes

Members of Congress are thus on notice that minimum due process guarantees under customary international law must not be denied when Congress attempts to articulate what forms of procedure a military commission should adopt. If members participate in a plan to do so or are complicit in the deprivation of minimum due process guarantees under customary international law incorporated by reference in common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions or any other rights or protections under common Article 3 (e.g., concerning the right to humane treatment even at the hands of CIA interrogators), they would be participating in the denial of rights, protections, and duties under Geneva law. Such denials are war crimes......more

Advantage, Davis

The first rule of thumb for candidates for governor is to do no harm to their campaigns when selecting running mates. Charlie Crist and Jim Davis passed that test, selecting serious men knowledgeable about state issues and shoring up support among key voting blocs. While Crist played it safe as the Republican front-runner, Davis' decision was uncharacteristically bold and potentially historic......more

George Clooney Addresses The U.N. On Darfur

The right likes to attack "liberal Hollywood" for speaking out on political matters but isn’t that their right and responsibility as Americans? As fellow members of the human race? Clooney (and every other person on the face of this earth) has that right and responsibility to do their part in trying to bring an end to preventable mass killing and suffering......more

Las Vegas in the Arabian Desert

Dubai has sold its soul to globalization like few cities have. A glittering capitalist fantasyland has taken shape at the heart of the Arab world. It's a center of international trade, a holiday paradise and a carnival rolled into one......more

Candidate Franken

Gearing up for a possible Minnesota state senate run, Al Franken is changing his image from provocateur to politico. Will he still call Rush Limbaugh a big fat idiot?......more

Why Blogs?

With an innumerable amount of flashy, take-forever-to-load mainstream websites teeming with must-read items about pseudo-people like Paris Hilton, Tom Cruise, Bill O'Reilly, and Michael Moore...why do so many bother maintaining a blog that's read by (maybe) 75 outcasts?.....more

"War on Terror" Numbers To Silence Republican Candidates

When George W. Bush made a prime-time television appearance Monday night to give a political speech -- under the guise of commemorating the five-year anniversary of September 11 -- he started right off by telling both a lie and the truth in one short sentence."Today, we are safer, but we are not yet safe," said Bush, which means he was batting .500 with the truth in just one short statement. Not bad for him. It is undeniably true that we are not yet safe, but to imply that we are safer than we were before Bush turned the world against us is demonstrably false......more

Study finds Neanderthals survived longer

The work contends that Neanderthals were using a cave in Gibraltar at least 2,000 years later than their presence had been firmly documented anywhere before, researchers said.....more

Lebanon to sue Israel over oil spill caused by war bombing

Lebanon is preparing legal action against Israel for damages over a large oil spill caused by the Israel Air Force's bombing of a power station during the recent conflict, the Lebanese environment minister said Wednesday. The spill has been described as Lebanon's worst-ever environmental disaster, and experts say it could take up to a year to clean it up.....more

PUSHING ROPE POLL: Who is the worst candidate running for the Hillsborough County Commission?.....here

Katie and Rush and the face of corporate news

There was a revealing, if unintentionally ironic, moment during Katie Couric's first week on the job as host of the CBS Evening News. It surrounded the segment called "Free Speech," which featured commentaries from invited guests. "Expressing your opinion is very American," Couric told viewers, stressing: "Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion." On Thursday night, Couric welcomed right-wing talker Rush Limbaugh who taped his 90-second contribution and took a very different tact. He suggested during his "Free Speech" commentary that the wrong kind of free speech (i.e., criticizing the war in Iraq) undermines patriotism and drags down the morale of U.S. troops. So much for CBS' attempt at a democratic dialogue......more

Quote of the Day:

Given that most polls are conducted during the day and democrats tend to be at home because they have no work ethic and prefer to collect welfare, maybe such a poll result is not so unusual.......From our very own, Vilmar @ Right Wing Howler

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The Blue Pill

Republicans tense as voter disillusionment sets in

President Bush's anemic job approval, underscored this week by the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, is a drag on Republicans almost everywhere. His rating hasn't risen above 42% in six months.....more

Rockefeller: Bush Duped Public On Iraq

"[Saddam] wasn't going to attack us. He would've been isolated there. He would have been in control of that country but we wouldn't have depleted our resources preventing us from prosecuting a war on terror which is what this is all about.".......more

Keith Olbermann blasts Bush

Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you......more