Sunday, August 13, 2006
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
Saturday, August 12, 2006
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
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
Friday, August 11, 2006
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
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
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
Thursday, August 10, 2006
The neocons' next war
By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it....more
By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it....more
A Clean Break:A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
The Nexus of Politics and Terror
In the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event” - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning....more
Watch it Here
In the last three years there had been about 13 similar coincidences - a political downturn for the administration, followed by a “terror event” - a change in alert status, an arrest, a warning....more
Watch it Here
Dean on Republican Post-Primary Spin
"Republicans can try to spin their propaganda, but the truth is Republicans are out of touch with America and the November elections will be a referendum on George Bush's failed policies".....more
Yesterday....
Neo-Conservatives' "Favorite Democrat" Falls
Today....
Bush says plot a 'stark reminder'
"hmmm"?
Q&A: Liquid explosives
An alleged plot to blow up planes from the UK mid-flight and cause "mass murder on an unimaginable scale" has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said....more
Penguins in Texas highway crash
Texas highway patrol officers carried out one of their strangest rescues after a truck carrying 25 penguins, an octopus and exotic fish overturned....more
Neo-Conservatives' "Favorite Democrat" Falls
Tuesday's defeat in Connecticut's primary election of President George W. Bush's "favourite Democrat", Sen. Joe Lieberman, by a little-known anti-war candidate marks a major setback to neo-conservative hopes of maintaining bipartisan support for the administration's aggressive foreign policies, particularly in the Middle East.....more
Tuesday's defeat in Connecticut's primary election of President George W. Bush's "favourite Democrat", Sen. Joe Lieberman, by a little-known anti-war candidate marks a major setback to neo-conservative hopes of maintaining bipartisan support for the administration's aggressive foreign policies, particularly in the Middle East.....more
Smith lets Big Sugar do the dirty work
How nice that U.S. Sugar, which has done so much for - sorry, I meant to - the state of Florida, now is telling people how to vote in the governor's race.....more
Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Lamont's Victory -- A Media Defeat
Jeff Cohen
Lieberman is not just the favorite Democrat of the White House and corporate interests; he’s also a favorite of conservative pundits and Fox News and Sean Hannity, who proposed “Conservatives for Lieberman” and has volunteered to campaign and fundraise for Joe in Connecticut.....more
Jeff Cohen
Lieberman is not just the favorite Democrat of the White House and corporate interests; he’s also a favorite of conservative pundits and Fox News and Sean Hannity, who proposed “Conservatives for Lieberman” and has volunteered to campaign and fundraise for Joe in Connecticut.....more
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