2,996 Victims - But Only One "Marc A. Murolo"

This is my tribute to Mr. Marc A. Murolo who died on 9/11/2001......click here

Bush Fears War Crimes Prosecution, Impeachment

With great fanfare, George W. Bush announced to a group of carefully selected 9/11 families yesterday that he had finally decided to send Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 13 other alleged terrorists to Guantánamo Bay, where they will be tried in military commissions. After nearly 5 years of interrogating these men, why did Bush choose this moment to bring them to "justice"?.....more

Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act
The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the Geneva Conventions. The Washington Post recently reported that the Bush administration is quietly circulating draft legislation to eliminate crucial parts of the War Crimes Act......more

Seeking black vote, Davis gets a scolding

At separate events on opposing sides of Tampa Bay, Crist and Davis made a play for African-American voters. For Republican Crist, it was a bold effort to reach out to a traditional Democratic constituency and for Davis, an effort to show his commitment to a critical voting bloc in his party.....more

Jim Davis

Fury as academics claim 9/11 was 'inside job'

They believe a group of US neo-conservatives called the Project for a New American Century, set on US world dominance, orchestrated the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to hit Iraq, Afghanistan and later Iran......more

ABC 9/11 Movie “Something out of Fantasy Land”

What’s amazing about this based on what I seen so far is how much they got wrong" I mean it’s sheer fantasy. So, if they want to critique the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, based on fact, I think that’s fine. But what ABC has done here is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. It’s factually wrong. And that’s shameful......more

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Olbermann to Bush, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

Poll: Iraq war could wound GOP at polls

President Bush's unpopularity -- due largely to the war in Iraq -- seems likely to affect GOP candidates in congressional midterm elections in November, according to a CNN poll released Wednesday.The war in Iraq appears to be a main factor in Republican opposition, poll results show. Fifty-eight percent of poll respondents said they are opposed to the war, compared with 39 percent who approve of it.

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How Can 14,485 Hillsborough County Voter's Be So Dumb

A recognizable name, die-hard supporters and a drumbeat on family values paid off Tuesday for Ronda Storms, who parlayed eight stormy years on the Hillsborough County Commission into a winning primary bid for the Florida Senate.....more

Stephen Gorham

U.S. Losing Control Fast
The U.S. military has lost control over the volatile al-Anbar province, Iraqi police and residents say. The area to the west of Baghdad includes Fallujah, Ramadi and other towns that have seen the worst of military occupation, and the strongest resistance.....more

For battered Davis, worst lies ahead

How can U.S. Rep. Jim Davis possibly beat charming Charlie Crist, the telegenic, lavishly funded Republican gubernatorial candidate who stuck to the ideological center throughout a sometimes bruising GOP primary?.....more

War is not a solution for terrorism
Howard Zinn

THERE IS SOMETHING important to be learned from the recent experience of the United States and Israel in the Middle East: that massive military attacks, inevitably indiscriminate, are not only morally reprehensible, but useless in achieving the stated aims of those who carry them out......more

Bush, GOP hoping terror card can save them from election drubbing

President Bush and the Republicans expect a stinging defeat in November, but they're betting the terror card saves them from an electoral debacle. "The security issue trumps everything," a senior Bush official said last week. "That's why even though they're really mad at us, in the end they're going to give us another two years.".......more

33 bodies found scattered across Baghdad

Police found the tortured, blindfolded bodies of 33 men scattered across the capital and the U.S.-led coalition reported combat deaths of seven servicemen, a day after Iraqi leaders said the capture of a top terror suspect would reduce violence.....more

Right Wing Authoritarianism
How to talk to a Conservative…

There are some genuinely thoughtful people who hold conservative values, but are self-aware enough to recognize and distinguish between the claims and the actions of the Bush Administration. But there are also an awful lot of people who simply don’t think critically and just reflexively defend this administration, despite mountains of evidence that their faith is ill-placed......more

Bush's Terror Tales

There is something sad about a grown man playing children's make-believe war games in a tree-house in grandpa's back yard—which is how George W. Bush came across Thursday night in his speech on the importance of winning the war in Iraq in the global battle against terrorism. Rarely does a leader of a great country like the United States malign history, his people's intelligence and the dignity of over a billion Muslims in one speech. But Bush did that Thursday night and will probably keep doing it for a while......more

Empty playgrounds in an aging Italy

While all of Europe has suffered from declining birthrates, nowhere has the drop been as profound and prolonged as in this once gorgeous Mediterranean city, the capital of Italy's graying Liguria region.....more