Chad orders foreign oil firms out

Chad has decided that as of tomorrow ChevronTexaco and Petronas must leave Chad because they have refused to pay their taxes......more

Bigotry: Out in the Open

A leading congressional candidate in Florida said he knows, "from my own experience, that blacks are not the greatest swimmers, and may not even know how to swim.".....more

If you are not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin......Katherine Harris

After the flood

Katrina taught us a lot about climate change, flood control and disaster management. So why are these lessons still being ignored?.....more

Puta Of The Week
Rocky vs. Spike Lee

Jon Stewart took a good look at Rockey, the Katrina survivor who met with Bush this week, on The Daily Show last night......here

WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE

Puta noun - whore, streetwalker, sucia, ho, slut

Republican Congressional Report on Iran Riddled With Errors

Here is what the professionals are saying about the Republican-dominated Subcommittee on Intelligence Policy report on Iran that slams US intelligence professionals for poor intelligence on Iran....more

Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor

A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferencz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting "aggressive" wars--Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq.....more

"9/11 was Clinton's fault"

On August 6, 2001, George W. Bush received his Presidential Daily Briefing. The briefing described active plots to attack the United States by Osama bin Laden. The word "hijacking" appeared in that briefing. Shortly after this briefing, George W. Bush departed to Texas for a month-long vacation.....more

America the Shootiful
Cartoon by Mark Fiore

Send in the peacekeepers -- to save us from Charlton Heston and the NRA!.....more

Austrian girl escapes her "master" after 8 years

Police pictures showed the windowless dungeon Kampusch had been kept in -- a 6-sq-metre room, hidden underneath the house's garage, reachable only by a vault-like hatch of fortified steel. The cell, equipped with running water and a toilet, was stacked with shelves full of books, toys, a radio and a tv.....more

Chávez's Revolution in Foreign Policy

Chávez interview with Al Jazeera "had an electric impact on 26 million Arab viewers. It received the station's largest ever e-mail response — tens of thousands — with the bulk of them posing a simple question: why can't the Arab world produce a Chávez?".....more

Black students ordered to give up seats to whites

Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.....more

The Top 10 Corporate Democrats-For-Hire

They claim to be 'centrists,' but these D.C. Dems -- whose corporate agendas aren't too different from Bush administration policies -- are living proof that the system needs fixing.....more

While you surf the Web, who's surfing you?

Any business traveler who has logged on to a wireless network at the airport, printed a document at a hotel business center or checked e-mail messages at a public terminal has probably wondered, at least fleetingly, "Is this safe?".....more

Limbaugh handicapped races in new Survivor series

"African-American tribe" worst swimmers, Hispanics "will do things other people won't do"

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Is Bush a Clear & Present Danger?

Faced with George W. Bush’s disastrous policies in the Middle East and his adamant refusal to change course, the question now arises whether the President has become a “clear and present danger” to the security of the United States and, indirectly, to Israel.....more

GOP Jihadists purged Republican Party

It's amazing seeing all the news stories this morning of the crazy, angry jihadists who have purged their Republican Party of Murkowski. Oh wait, no one is writing that...I forgot that booting an incumbent is fine if you are a Republican.....more