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This section of Right Web profiles the many individuals who have played a key role in shaping, promoting, and/or implementing the Bush administration's weapons programs, foreign policies, and interventionist strategies.	People for the American way	CBS 60 Minutes: Interviews former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill
	The Bush family fortunes	Video: Bob Woodward: 60 Minutes Interview. Windows Media Player
April 2007

Sen. Joseph Lieberman: There is something profoundly wrong when opposition to the war in Iraq seems to inspire greater passion than opposition to Islamist extremism 4-30

Justice Dept. Withholding More Than 170 Documents Related to Attorney Firings 4-30

D.C. prostitution and politics scandal "set to explode". 4-30

Former CIA members send outraged letter to Tenet after the publication of his tell-all book 4-30

Another Friday, another document dump from the DOJ. Monica Goodling Instructs DOJ Officials to Delete Documents well after Congress began investigating 4-30

Rice: ‘I Don’t Know What We Were Supposed To Preemptively Strike In Afghanistan’ In July 2001 4-30

Rice Falsely Claims U.N. Inspectors Thought Saddam Hussein Had WMD 4-30

Rice: Imminent Threat Doesn't Mean a Threat That Someone Will Strike Soon 4-30

Iraqi infrastructure, which the US has spent billions rebuilding, is decaying due to lack of maintenance. Not to mention that pesky civil war and shoddy workmanship 4-30

Utah County Republicans ended their convention on Saturday by debating Satan's influence on illegal immigrants. 4-30

NYC Bar: Bush Admin Directs "Unwarranted" Guantanamo Blame At Defense Lawyers 4-30

Lawyers taking Rumsfeld war crimes case to Spain after German rejection 4-30

Apparently, there have been some GOP-related scandals recently, and that is making it hard for them to raise money, recruit candidates 4-30

A special kind of denial: "The truth is that the Bush administration has been extraordinarily scandal-free. Not a single instance of corruption has been unearthed." 4-30

Bush administration scandals 4-30

Frist Charges Dropped: vindication in two federal probes over the timing of his 2005 sales of all his family's stock in HCA Inc. 4-30

Ron Paul Interviewed in a College Dorm Room (Video) 4-30

Abramoff scandal widens in Guam 4-30

While Bush sat there letting N.O. drown, foreign aid was diverted, billions missing. Don't worry, Halliburton will fix it (for a fee). 4-29

U.S. Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales is heckled at his 25 year law school class reunion 4-29

Retired general gives the Commander in Chief advice: Sign the bill that Congress has sent you. Clearly, Lt. Gen. William Odom, Reagan's head of the NSA, is an enemy aiding and comforting defeatocrat. 4-29

60 Minutes interview with whistleblower who blew open prisoner abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib 4-29

Miz Julia ready to start naming names in Washington escort service scandal. 4-29

Top Abramoff investigator at Justice Department quits in wake of scrutiny over ties to ... Abramoff 4-28

Ex-Congressman JD Hayworth (R-AZ) now under scrutiny in Abramoff investigation 4-28

Friday night press release: Deputy Sec Of State, Client Of Alleged DC Madam, Resigns. Bonus: He was Bush's AIDS Czar who stressed abstinence and faithfulness 4-28

Can you think of anyone better to lead the nation's Consumer Product Safety Commission than the guy who has lobbied against it for the last 15 years? Well Dubya can't 4-28

Condi Rice, still mistakenly under the impression that this administration is above the law, will refuse subpoena to testify. 4-28

Hatch Act violated: White House officials conducted 20 private briefings on Republican electoral prospects in the last election for senior officials in at least 15 government agencies covered by federal restrictions on partisan political activity 4-28

Liberal media my arse: CNN bans Mike Gravel from debates 4-28

U.S. congressional leaders on Wednesday threatened to make sweeping changes to the Bush administration's food safety system in light of fresh concerns over contaminated pet food. 4-28

McCain’s New Title: Most Absent Senator In 110th Congress 4-28

Dismissed US attorney awarded "Outstanding Attorney of the Year" by San Diego Bar Association. Alberto Gonzales unavailable for comment 4-28

For his emotional wounds he has received from his critics, Bush accepts Purple Heart given to him by concerned Vietnam veteran. 4-28

Cheney continues claims of Saddam-Qaeda connection 4-28

Minority Leader Boehner says it'd be a shame if Democrats abandoned Iraqi like Clinton did Somalia. Please ignore that in 1993, he voted twice in favor of leaving Somalia, and voted against further funding for American operations there 4-28

Congressman being investigated for corruption gets so confused that he denounces rumors that he is thinking about resigning as lies, despite the fact that he started the rumors himself 4-28

Position of War Czar still open. 4-28

Democrats time delivery of Iraq spending bill to White House to coincide with anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" aircraft carrier moment 4-28

One-trick ponies: GOP Candidates Go Negative On Each Other 4-28

Panel Requests Tillman Documents 4-28

Al Gore might be the Democrats strongest choice for 2008, a new poll showed Thursday. 4-27

Bloch is investigating the White House for violations of the Hatch Act. The White house is investigating Bloch for his handling of the cases. 4-27

Senior Official Linked to Escort Service Resigns 4-27

Rice Signals Rejection of House Subpoena 4-27

Bradley Schlozman has been a minor character in the U.S. attorneys scandal. He ought to be a major one. 4-27

Rep. Rick Renzi, R-Ariz., could soon step down in the wake of a federal investigation into his involvement in a federal land swap deal and FBI raids of an insurance agency owned by his wife. 4-27

Medal of Freedom no longer buys silence: Tenet says he's a scapegoat on Iraq 'slam-dunk'. "It's the most despicable thing that ever happened to me," Tenet said. 4-27

The Bush administration considered firing the former U.S. attorney in Minnesota, but he left his job voluntarily before the list of attorneys to be ousted was completed.” 4-27

Are the unidentified RNC emailers Cheney aides? 4-27

FBI largely ignoring hate crimes, police abuse, and other civil rights issues. Politics determine which cases get pursued 4-27

Obama: “We are one signature away from ending the Iraq War. President Bush must listen to the will of the American people and sign this bill so that our troops can come home.” 4-27

Hillary Clinton: "It might be necessary for America to confront Iran militarily." Same as the old boss 4-27

Sen. Mike Gravel at SC Debates 4-27

MSNBC poll results from Democratic debate. 4-27

John Edwards calls on Bush to fire Rove 4-27

Kucinich Only Candidate Who Supports Cheney Impeachment 4-27

Pelosi pressed to reconsider impeachment proceedings. 4-27

Terrorist attack by Christian extremists in Austin, Texas narrowly averted. 4-27

American Conservative mag: "Working for the Clampdown: What might the president do with his new power to declare martial law?" 4-26

In speech to the Brookings Institute, Rahm Emanuel lays bare the connection between all the Bush scandals. 4-26

Timetables and withdrawal dates: Wrong for Iraq, but oh so right for Kosovo 4-26

RNC Releases Partial List Of White House Officials With Party Email Accounts 4-26

White House Rediscovers Constitution, Acknowledges Congress Has Oversight Role 4-26

Ore. gov. starts week on food stamps, already hungry 4-26

U.S. Frees International Terrorist: Following the mass slaughter on the Virginia Tech campus, the U.S. government quietly released a convicted terrorist and mass murderer. 4-26

Tom Delay's "treasonous" rant against Harry is just plain crazy 4-26

House Panel Votes To Issue Rice Subpoena 4-45

Stop me if you've heard this one before: Allegations against Bush administration probed 4-25

Investigation Of GOP Congressman Stalled During '06 Election 4-25

Congressman who had his house searched by the FBI last week was also being investigated by one of the fired US Attorneys. 4-22

Fired Attorney filed complaint that initiated Rove investigation 4-25

Monica Goodling, aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, can't hide behind the 5th Amendment any more 4-25

Kucinich takes steps to impeach Cheney 4-25

Harry Reid on Dick Cheney: "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating." 4-25

Giuliani: "If Democrats win presidency, they'll be a "new 9/11". I'd like to warn Giuliani of new 11/7 if Giuliani doesn't come up with more than one issue for his platform 4-25

Refresher: more extraordinary anti-democracy comments from Giuliani 4-25

The masked Senator who blocked the transparency measure was...(drumroll please)... 4-25

Hatchet man in Attorney firings sent 43% of his email to White House politicos before the firings, and 5% after. 4-25

Former Chief of Staff to Rep. Tom Feeney, who is caught up in the Abramoff scandal, quits Romney campaign to "spend more time with his family" 4-22

Were the 'Attorneygate' e-mails actually lost? Here comes the science 4-25

Office of Special Counsel set to launch a sweeping investigation of the political activities of Karl Rove (with video report) 4-25

2008 Presidential vote match quiz. See which candidate would best represent you in Washington 4-25

The Department of Homeland Security might just be an ineffectual bureaucracy 4-25

First Lady Laura Bush claims that nobody suffers from the carnage in Iraq more than her and the President. 4-25

America Since 1980: A Right-Turn Leading to a Dead End 4-27

Utah Republican claims Satan is behind illegal immigration. Satan claims God should stop demanding cheaper labor 4-27

Hagel say’s he’s American first, resents pressure from pro-Israel activists stating, his support for Israel should be automatic. He won’t “sacrifice his friendships in the Arab world to please pro-Israel groups" 4-27

Senator McCain goes to Senate floor, demands President bring US troops home immediately. Twice. With Video 4-27

Irrelevant Republican will debate irrelevant Democrat on Global Warming 4-27

David Huckabee, a son of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was arrested at Little Rock's airport Thursday after a federal X-ray technician detected a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on luggage. 4-27

WSJ has Mr. Bush at 28% approval 4-27

John Murtha comments on McCain's IED joke to Jon Stewart. Some people try to start public scandals simply to tear down their political opponents, but it's rare that said person isn't a Republican 4-27

"Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have war against a tactic." Oh yeah, this is a Republican from Texas giving Bush the business. (Video) 4-27

"Presidential secrecy is best understood not as an expression of executive strength but as a sign of weakness and insecurity" 4-27

The Buck Doesn’t Even Stop By For Visits 4-27

House Panel Votes To Issue Rice Subpoena 4-26

House votes to fund our troops. President Bush vows to veto. Why doesn't Bush support our troops? 4-26

Gonzo gets a do-over: Judiciary Committee Asks Gonzales To Re-Testify 4-26

Network Hosting US Attorneys Emails Also Hosted Ohio's 2004 Election Results 4-24

Bush vows to block any attempt to save taxpayer money by allowing the government to negotiate Medicare prescription drug prices. "I just want to assure you that we'll do everything we can to jealously guard why this program is working." 4-24

President Bush will have to propose Medicare cuts to Congress next year. 4-24

House Foreign Affairs subcommittee holds hearings on extraordinary rendition. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) tells the crowd that he hopes it is their families that suffer terrorist attacks. Smiles and laughs as he says it (with video) 4-24

The FDA, in the interest of efficiency, has allowed GA peanut butter company to "police itself" to correct years of contamination problems 4-24

McCain Hires Prominent Global Warming Denier To Help Craft Global Warming Policy 4-24

John McCain admits global warming is real and man-made, further confusing Republicans 4-24

The scandal that keeps on giving: Representative Tom Feeney now being questioned about his Abramoff dealings 4-24

Congressional staffer pleads guilty to Abramoff bribe charges. Since that's the 10th conviction in the scandal 4-24

Texas man to give Bush his Purple Heart for the verbal attacks he has suffered. Seriously. These are the same people who claimed that John Kerry didn't earn his 4-24

Alberto Gonzalez paves way for resignation, obligatory blame for democrats: states that he will serve "as long as I can continue to serve effectively." 4-24

William Pitt: What Gonzales Really Told Us 4-24

State Militias making comeback in wake of Federal take over of the National Guard 4-24

Security Breakdown at the White House? Current and former employees of the White House Security Office have reported to Chairman Waxman that there was a systemic failure at the White House to follow procedures for protecting classified information. 4-24

"Bush Flunks Diplomacy 101: How to infuriate Russia and the European Union and waste $10 billion a year." 4-24

Bush compares himself to Abe Lincoln. 4-24

On the day Kucinich is scheduled to file impeachment charges against Cheney, Cheney conveniently has to go back to doctor for blood clot in leg 4-24

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps 4-24

GAO Finds Fraud in Commuter Program: Federal Workers Selling Transit Cards 4-24

Gingrich Blames Virginia Tech Shootings On "Liberalism" 4-23

Waxman Threatens Multiple White House Subpoenas 4-23

Gore Staffers Deny Report Of Campaign Preparation 4-23

"From the very beginning, this administration emphasized loyalty over competence. And at some point, that catches up with you." 4-23

GOP Congressman Renzi Focus of Corruption Probe 4-23

Bush Poised to Veto Long-Sought Labor Reform 4-23

PNAC founder Kristol: "What Harry Reid said is much more disgraceful than anything Trent Lott said, and I do think Democrats should ask Harry Reid to step down" 4-23

Why this guy gave Ron Paul 100 dollars 4-23

Clinton: Time To Drop "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy 4-23

Obama's Ties To Chicago Slum Lord 4-23

Oregon Governor will live on Food Stamps for a week to illustrate plight of poor 4-23

Bush says he is confident, that all the events Alberto Gonzales can not remember were legal 4-23

Anonymous employees of the DOJ send letter to Pelosi blowing whistle on large scale politicization of that department 4-21

The administration claims up to 75 percent of all requested FBI documents cannot be found. 4-21

Pentagon lawyers abruptly blocked mid-level active-duty military officers from speaking Thursday during a closed-door House Armed Services Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee briefing about their personal experiences working with Iraqi security forces. 4-21

Bush threatens to veto any bill providing for public or congressional oversight of the CIA 4-21

Olympia Snowe (R - Maine) proposes a possible timetable for withdrawal from Iraq. 4-21

Vermont Senate adopts resolution seeking impeachment of Bush, Cheney 4-21

The Bush administration has used the Justice Department to manipulate voter turnout in "battleground states" in ways that favor Republicans over the past six years, writes Greg Gordon for the McClatchy Newspapers. 4-21

Bush to Pelosi: "I didn't criticize your trip to Syria." 4-21

Rep Waxman To Fmr Bush Chief Of Staff: You'd Chat on Daily Show But Won't Testify? 4-21

Democrats Nearly Erase Long-Held GOP Money Advantage, ensuring that republicans will now campaign on getting the money out of politics. 4-21

Army Started Lock Down On Tillman Story Within Hours Of His Death 4-21

Report On Haditha Condemns Marines: Signs of Misconduct Were Ignored, U.S. General Says 4-21

Yet another republican House Republican enjoys an FBI raid this week. The winner this time? Rep. Rick Renzi (R-ighttoremainsilent) 4-20

For six years, the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates. 4-20

Gonzales Lied To Senator About Plan To Install Rove Protege As U.S. Attorney 4-20

Kucinich to launch Cheney impeachment push on April 25 4-20

45: Number of times Alberto Gonzales "testified that he could not recall events he was asked about". 4-20

Gonzo: "The Burden's Not With Me" 4-20

Sen. Mel Martinez (R-efund) has to give back $95,000 from his 2004 campaign due to "sloppy accounting" 4-20

Rove lets it slip that he's doing the bidding of Bin Laden: Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq. ``I think it was Osama bin Laden's,'' Rove replied. 4-20

John Edwards (D-onthatemecuzimbeautiful) is paying back his campaign for his $400 haircuts 4-20

Presidential candidate drops Hitler fun-fact during campaign stop 4-20

When confronted with reality, really weird things come out of Bush's mouth 4-20

Hail and Farewell: the End of the American Empire By Gore Vidal: Obviously, our weird little emperor is incapable of moral reflection, thus inviting us to reflect morally upon him as he has gone about his systematic wrecking of our common empire. 4-20

A U.S. Military Dictatorship? From the democracy that it celebrates to the military might that it wields, some argue that the U.S. is less of a Republic these days and more of an empire. And that, says Charlmers Johnson, means Americans have some decisions to make if they don't want their country to go the route of fallen empires. 4-20

Once again, a senator has placed a secret hold on legislation that increases government transparency. 4-19

If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is in need of someone to pull him back from the edge of the political plank, he hasn't gotten any help today from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee. 4-19

Former Florida Congressman Mark Foley using campaign fund to pay his personal bills. 4-19

CREW Issues New Fact Sheet: The Facts Behind The White House Email Scandals 4-19

Video: Gonzales Gets Heated With Sen Specter: "I've Already Said That I Misspoke" 4-19

Doolittle (R-ighttoremainsilent) resigns his Appropriations seat after FBI raid on his house 4-19

WH also purged entry level lawyers. The issue is not just U.S. Attorneys. Summa cum laude graduates of both Yale and Harvard were rejected. 4-19

McCain Says He Favors "No Gun Control" After Shootings 4-19

McCain Sings: "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran" At Campaign Stop 4-19

Thornburg has lost a second of its lobbyists linked to a congressional bribery and corruption scandal surrounding jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff 4-19

The U.S. Department of Justice released an audit last month that revealed poorly trained FBI agents have abused a provision of the anti-terrorism law, the USA Patriot Act, which permits agents to look secretly at personal and public documents without a court warrant. 4-19

Former U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns has paid more than $150,000 this year to a Washington, D.C., lawyer who specializes in white collar crime and congressional investigations, according to campaign finance reports filed this week. 4-19

Ken Lay's Widow Says She Owns Assets Government Is Trying To Seize 4-19

Kucinich says Clinton and Obama continue to vote for war funding 4-19

Senators seek probe of GI mental care 4-19

U.S. Department of Defense officials are "breaking the law" by failing to notify some reservists they qualify for education benefits 4-19

Protesters greet Karl Rove in Ohio 4-19

The FBI has raided the Northern Virginia home of Rep. John Doolittle (R-Cultureofcorruption). He would have been prosecuted by fired US Attorney Carol Lam. 4-18

Bush's DoJ: Dems need not apply. Even for the career non-political jobs 4-18.

John McCain DOES NOT support the Hate Crimes bill. 4-18

White House Seeks to Review RNC E-mails 4-18

Defense Department ordered contractor to hire Wolfowitz's girlfriend to study ways to form a new government in Iraq. Her final report highly recommended cronyism 4-18

The POAC takes a look at Bush administration cronyism 4-18

Kerry takes stand on Imus...while country is distracted by real news 4-18

Wolfowitz has Bush's "full confidence". 4-18

IRS Commissioner to become head of American Red Cross. 4-18

Corzine's SUV Went 91 MPH Before Crash 4-18

Politician helps clean up graffiti. New: Graffiti is actually commissioned artwork. Fark: Police investigating politician for vandalism 4-18

Perjury? Gonzales Contradicts His Own Testimony 4-17

Constitutional crisis? DOJ Fails to Comply with House Judiciary Subpoena 4-17

A group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter to the White House to call for Gonzo's resignation 4-17

Gonzales Hearing Postponed To Thursday In Light Of Shootings 4-17

McCain: I Still Support Second Amendment 4-17

Bush Defends Guns In The Midst Of National Horror 4-17

Leahy Doubts Bush Aides on Lost E-Mails 4-17

In 2001, French intelligence surrendered report to CIA that warned about Bin Laden's plan to hijack airplanes in the U.S. 4-17

In other news, They let it happen 4-17

Treasury Dept. Enemy List keeps similarly named people from buying homes and cars 4-17

VIDEO COMPILATION: Bush Fear-Mongering Reaches Fevered Pitch In Iraq Speech 4-17

Ron Paul and the Three Big Issues of 2008 4-17

Presidential hopeful Tommy Thompson knocks one out of the park as he mentions "private sector", "earning money" and "Jewish tradition" in the same sentence 4-17

Debunking Bush's Whoppers On Pork 4-17

"You can listen to simplistic statements of the administration, appealing to emotion and fear, or you can take an analytical approach and see the reality of the world." --Retired Gen. John Johns 4-17

THE CHENEYBUSH WAR POLICY: CONNECTING THE DOTS 4-17

Lifelong Republican, marine veteran and former congressman Pete McCloskey has left the GOP, registering with the Democratic Party 4-17

Why I Declined to Serve," by Marine Corps General John J. Sheehan (retired) 4-17

No Child Left Behind Initiative Workers Under Investigation: Profited From Textbook And Test Deals 4-23

Refresher: Neil Bush's company sells software to prepare students to take comprehensive tests required under "No Child Left Behind." 4-23

DOJ Fails to Comply with House Judiciary Subpoena 4-16

White House grudgingly admits Bush was completely unaware of defense plans to extend tours when he was caught criticizing Dems for trying to extend troop tours. It's almost as if Bush is the figurehead while the someone else runs the country 4-16

No one is sure what exactly Wolfowitz's girlfriend does, and no physical address has been provided for where exactly she works. She does, however, bring in $200,000 a year, tax free 4-16

Wolfowitz (R-PNAC) to retain control of World Bank despite calls for resignation 4-16

Wolfowitz: An Example of NeoCon Principals in Microcosm 4-16

Cheney still hasn't called Scooter Libby. 4-16

President Bush claims he can still eject anyone from anywhere if they happen to disagree with him. 4-16

Webb: McCain Is Consistently "Impugning People's Patriotism" And "Hiding Behind The Troops" 4-16

Kerry reopens door to possibility of another spoiler campaign

E-mails reveal that politics was a factor in dismissal of federal prosecutors - includes careful notes on prosecutors' level of political activism and membership in "conservative" groups 4-14

Sampson Lied Under Oath: "Had In Mind" Plan To Replace U.S. Attorneys With Loyal Bushies 4-14

Panel Investigating Walter Reed Scandal Meets 4-14

Karl Rove's Lawyer says that Rove's deletion of five years of e-mail being sought by both US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, and congressional investigators was "accidental", Fitzgerald Asked To Re-Open Plame Case 4-14

Permanently deleting emails e-mails isn't easy, experts say 4-14

FBI is investigating the governor of Nevada for corruption. Guess which party is pretending this guy doesn't exist?" 4-14

Bush to veto legislation requiring him to provide Congress with details of the CIA's secret prisons 4-14

How much would the subprime bailout cost? About 437 days of the Iraq War, or $120 billion 4-14

Obama's campaign returns all contributions from lobbyists 4-14

DNC hires RIAA shill 4-14

Dick Cheney still has fans 4-14

State representative says he was being "cute" in email to fellow Republicans reminding them that 12 million illegal immigrants are waiting on their tax return 4-14

Former D.C. Madam names high ranking Bush Advisor (responsible for the "shock and awe" Iraq War strategy) as just one of her regular clients 4-14

Cheney can't just shoot a bird, he runs planes into them; saving the ammo for his friends 4-14

Bush expands tampering with regulatory agencies: Scientific assessments by environmental agencies could be delayed. 4-13

Bush takes time out from refusing to de-escalate the bloodshed in Iraq to use his 'culture of life' slogan and denounce science before a religious group. 4-13

Education Department official holds a-quarter million dollars in stock in a company that he was charged with overseeing 4-13

World Bank staff to (PNAC member) Wolfowitz: Resign 4-1 4

White House admits to "mishandling" RNC email system which reportedly accounts for 90% of Karl Rove's correspondence. "Undetermined number" of emails lost 4-12

The White House claims they are missing 5 *million* e-mails. Missing from their required-by-federal-law-to-be-archived e-mail system 4-12

Sen. Coleman Now Backtracking From U.S. Attorney He Once Championed 4-12

Pennsylvania congressman fined for reporting that he had raised $2.5 million when in actuality he had raised $18,000. 4-12

Senate passes stem cell research bill; unlikely to survive Bush veto 4-12

In effort to solidify their stance as the anti-environment party, Congressional Republicans block Al Gore's Live Earth concert from holding U.S. leg in Washington, D.C. because it they claim the event is too partisan 4-12

More details on Pelosi smear group: Board includes Ari Fleischer, David Frum, Sheldon Adelson, Lewis M. Eisenberg and Ken Mehlman. They also financed ads for Lieberman during his senate race, and have some lovely overlap with the Scooter Libby Defense Fund. 4-12

Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton and PNAC member: Britain's "weakness" in standing up to Iran in the detained sailors stand-off handed Tehran an improbable victory and left it dangerously emboldened. In other news: Mr. Bolton won't be satisfied until a bomb has been dropped on every capital city 4-12

Duncan Hunter's son is going to run for his Congressional seat. But we got word today that he'll have to run that campaign from Iraq, because he's just been recalled to active duty as a Marine captain. 4-12

If the election were held today, Americans would vote for a generic democrat over a generic republican by a 47-29 margin. 4-12

Bush inviting Democrats for photo-op about Iraq, points out meeting is not a 'negotiation' 4-11

A U.S. House committee has scheduled hearings on the military's propaganda efforts regarding the friendly fire death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan and the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch 4-11

The slowly-unfolding disclosure that some White House aides use non-government e-mail servers to conduct official business may soon be reaching scandal proportions. 4-11

The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job 4-11

President Bush: "Give me all the war money right now or the troops will start suffering in April." Bi-partisan analysis: "The military won't need more money until August." 4-11

Ordinary Customers Flagged as Terrorists: If you sell a sandwich to someone on a terrorist list, you face penalties of up to $10 million and 10 to 30 years in prison 4-11

Bush Calls Decreases (And Increases) In Border Apprehensions 'Examples Of Success' 4-11

Senate Republicans don't want an up-or-down vote for Swiftboating Ambassador nominee. Threaten filibuster, which everyone knows is simply a tool used to oppress the majority 4-11

73: Percentage of Americans who believe that Karl Rove and other top White House officials should testify under oath about the U.S. Attorney scandal 4-11

Tom DeLay Compares Liberals to Hitler. Again 4-11

President Bush Confirms He Will Veto Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill 4-11

White House Cites 'Experience From September 11th' To Justify Staying In Iraq 4-11

Multiple White House Email Systems, paid for and maintained by the RNC, may have been used to conceal contacts with lobbyist Jack Abramoff 4-10

Goodling Among 150 Alumni From Pat Robertson Univ Employed By Fed Gov't 4-10

Bush appointed Milwaukee U.S. Attorney Disgraced by Appeals Court for Political Prosecution of Innocent Woman 4-10

White House: "Protests are a sign that Iraqis can gather and freely express their opinions." Just don't plan on us giving a crap. 4-10

Army Chief Bids Farewell 4-10

Abramoff could get reduced sentence: Judge grants request for new hearing, rewarding lobbyist for cooperating 4-10

A half-dozen sitting U.S. attorneys also serve as aides to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales or are assigned other Washington postings, performing tasks that take them away from regular duties in their districts for months or even years at a time 4-10

Approval For Congress At Yearlong High 4-10

Pentagon Considers Extended Tour Duty For 15,000 More US Troops 4-10

Senate panel to question FDA response to tainted pet food 4-10

McCain, Day Before al-Sadr Orders: "Al-Sadr Is In Hiding. His Followers Are Not Contesting American Forces." 4-10

The Bush administration and the Defense Department are among the winners of the 2007 Jefferson Muzzle awards, given Tuesday by a free-speech group to those it considers the most egregious First Amendment violators in the past year. 4-10

Elliott Abrams behind Pelosi attacks? 4-10

Congress won't weaken the Endangered Species Act, so the Bush Administration has set time limits on how long an animal can be considered endangered 4-10

BUSH RETROSPECTIVE, III: ON FASCISM - AND THE GEORGITES 4-10

State Dept. Blows Off Waxman's Niger Inquiry, Falsely Claims Rice Has 'Answered In Full' 4-10

"We're working closely with Republicans and Democrats to find a practical answer that lies between granting automatic citizenship to every illegal immigrant and deporting every illegal immigrant," Bush said 4-10

On the fourth anniversary of "Baghdad's fall," the AP documents today's violence across Iraq. "A total of 25 people were killed or found dead in Iraq" today. 4-10

Refresher: Alan Keyes attempts to explain the link between homosexuality and incest, starts getting irate when both Obama and the moderator give him their WTF? faces 4-10

President Bush prays for peace after weeks of threatening to veto troop withdrawals. 4-9

Ford CEO saves President Bush's life. 4-9

GOP Presidential candidate Huckabee goes after rival Romney's "lifelong hunter" tales 4-9

Newt Gingrich suggests that Albert Gonzales should resign 4-9

House Democratic leaders, in an effort to upstage Republicans on the issue of tax cuts, are preparing legislation that would permanently shift the tax burden from the have-nots back to the have-mores. 4-9

Ralph Nader not committing to a 2008 presidential run 4-9

Pelosi Personally Told Bush Of Syria Trip And He Did Not Object 4-9

Lieberman Says Pelosi Syria Visit Was "Bad For America," Suggests Syria Was
Behind 9/11 4-9

White house ignored red flags regarding Kerik 4-8

Friday? Check. Close to 5:00 p.m.? Check. Start of weekend news cycle? Check. Holiday weekend? Check. Monica Goodling abruptly resigns 4-6

The Bush White House of Cards Crumbles A Little More 4-3

Bush losing top day-to-day Iraq advisor. 4-3

Pelosi Shrugs Off White House Criticism: "Interesting...Republicans Were In Syria Yesterday" 4-3

Senators Russ Feingold and Harry Reid announced that if Bush vetos the Pentagon spending bill because it includes a withdrawal date for US troops, they'll just send him a tougher one. 4-3

"Abstinence Czar" pulls out: Bush Administration's point man for abstinence education resigned Monday. 4-3

The most conservative college in one of the reddest states in the Union is protesting Dick Cheney coming to give a speech. 4-3

Corrupt republicans coming to the defense of corrupt democrat 4-3

18 Republican Senators, who now decry the Iraq spending bill as loaded with pork, not only voted for last year's pork-laden bill, but specifically voted to keep a Railroad to Nowhere in last year's bill, the largest pork expenditure ever 4-3

Your Modern-day Republican Party: Leading GOP presidential candidates believe in the power of imprisoning American citizens with no charges or review. 4-3

Cronyism Claims: Arnold Gives Friends, Own Dentist, Chiropractor Gov Posts 4-3

Republican Tancredo Officially Enters White House Race 4-3

Hillary, Rupert, and the Culture of Corruption: By having Murdoch host her fundraiser, Hillary Clinton seems to be signaling to Murdoch that while Democratic Party activists have mobilized in recent years against media conglomeration and policies that favor and subsidize media giants, those are not concerns of hers. 4-3

A Record Week For U.S. Passports 4-3

Hot off the POAC blog: "LESSONS FOR THE US FASCISTS FROM THE NAZI GERMAN EXPERIENCE," PART 1 by Dr. Steven Jonas 4-3

"An illegal-immigration protest organized by the Minuteman Project on Saturday morning was foiled by the arrival of members of the Ku Klux Klan." 4-3

Pentagon's top official on Asian affairs resigns. 4-4

Romney Plans to Resume TV Ads: Campaign promises more guns, less butter 4-4

Gov. Richardson to visit North Korea. 4-4

Commander-in-chief with the most vacation hours in history is sending large units back to Iraq without giving them required time at home 4-4

Bush's handler observing from off camera 4-4

Dems are finally playing hardball with Bush, accusing him of not supporting our troops if he vetoes spending bill 4-4

The US Department of Homeland Security is pushing to get hold of the master keys for a proposed revision of the internet's domain name system. 4-4

Bush boldly takes the helm as a global leader: won't make policy changes to combat global warming unless China and India do the same first. 4-4

McCain Camp Recruits Nixon's Jew-Counter As Finance Co-Chair 4-4

Latest White House defector, Vic Gold, calls GW, "Dan Quayle in cowboy boots." 4-4

The republican base doesn't care about Iraq, they just follow Bush's lead. So says that pinko commie Grover Norquist 4-4

At age 21, Karl Rove worked for "Nixon's master dirty trickster"-convicted Watergate conspirator Donald Segretti. 4-4

HuffPo: World Bank Employees Cry Foul: Wolfowitz's Girlfriend Getting Paid More than Secy Rice 4-6

Dems Call For Investigation Of Swift Boat Appointment 4-6

Obama Earns Almost $500,000 In 24 Hours After Fund-Raising Announcement 4-6

Cheney Says Bush, Rumsfeld, And Myers Are 'Dead Wrong' Over Political Sloganeering 4-6

President Carter: White House 'Ordered' Me To Not Go To Syria 4-6

"Strangely Quiet" Scene As Bush Visits Base Where Medically-Unfit Troops Were Deployed 4-6

Chertoff: "The Fear Has Always Been The So-Called 'Clean Skin'" Terrorists. Huh? 4-6

DNC Refuses To Sanction Fox News Debates 4-6

"LESSONS FOR THE US FASCISTS FROM THE NAZI GERMAN EXPERIENCE, PART 2" 4-6

Ron Paul on 'Real Time' with Bill Maher [4 mn.] 4-6

"Shallow Throat": Playing Chicken on the Big Stage By Bernard Weiner, The Crisis Papers 4-6

Orrin Hatch and Rush Limbaugh just make stuff up about the bio of one of the fired US attorneys, nobody in the media calls them on it. 4-5

Waxman To RNC: Turn Over Your Emails 4-5

Bush Sidesteps Senate To Name Swift Boat Financier As Ambassador 4-5

President Bush's recess appointment of Sam Fox as ambassador to Belgium may break the law 4-5

A look inside the latest recess appointments 4-5

Obama Beats Hillary In Primary Fundraising 4-5

Obama Had More Donors Than Hillary And Edwards Combined 4-5

Bonus: without any money from federal lobbyists or PACs 4-5

GOP Reps Return From Syria: "Don't Care What The Administration Says On This" 4-5

Sure Pelosi visited Syria, but at least she didn't tell Syrian leaders to bypass the President and negotiate directly with Congress, which is what Hastert told Columbian officials in 1997 4-5

US Attorney firing may have violated law prohibiting discrimination against US military personnel 4-5

Rove crony and interim U.S. Attorney, Tim Griffin, made claims about his experience as an Army lawyer that have been put in doubt by military records. 4-5

Paul Wolfowitz's girl friend, on loan by the World Bank to the State Department, has now become the highest paid State Department employee. 4-5

Francis Fukuyama, the man who invented neoconservatism, has a slight clarification: we should all act like the European Union 4-5

Former H&HS Sect'y Tommy Thompson throws his hat for GOP nod 4-5

Interest in the House page program has skyrocketed since the Foley scandal 4-5

Bush 41 and Emperor Moon, together again 4-5

Remember the deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office building -- crown, robes, the works? 4-5

Romney Brags He's Lifelong Hunter Even Though He's Been Only Twice 4-5

NV Gov. Jim Gibbons lawyering up with high-priced Washington, D.C., attorney to prepare for FBI investigation into his associations with a company awarded secret military contracts when Gibbons was in Congress 4-2

Government contractor that set up a billion-dollar-a-year federal reading program hired to assess its own failed program. 4-2

One-Third Of Open US Atty Jobs Given To Bush Insiders 4-2

Attorney Purge = Stacking The DOJ To Suppress Voting Rights 4-2

More Potential 2004 Election Illegalities Rock Ohio's Hocking County As Cleveland Braces For A Legal Firestorm 4-2

Pelosi to discuss kidnapped Israelis with Syrian president 4-2

When Speaker Pelosi leads a bipartisan delegation to Syria, she's a traitor to her country. When GOP lawmakers visit Syria, well, the right doesn't want to talk about it. 4-2

Echoing White House, Kristol attacked Pelosi for trip to Syria, which GOP-led delegation also visited 4-2

Here's why: The Bush Administration is ratcheting up the pressure on Syria 4-2

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich equated bilingual education Saturday with "the language of living in a ghetto" 4-2

Additional Republican calls on Gonzales to resign. 4-2

Obama: If (when) Bush vetoes Iraq funding bill, Congress had better create a clean funding bill because nobody wants to play "chicken" with the troops 4-2

McCain Blames Press For "Negative" Representation Of Iraq 4-2

McCain Strolls Through Baghdad Market, Accompanied By 100 Soldiers, 3 Blackhawks, 2 Apache Gunships 4-2

Video Refresher: McCain in Neverland on Iraq 4-2

Former Bush cabinet member Tommy Thompson said in announcing his presidential candidacy on Sunday that he would urge the Iraqi government to hold a vote on whether U.S. troops should stay. 4-2

John McCain (R-emoved) has missed one-third of Senate votes this session 4-2

Glenn Greenwald asks, "what does it say about our political culture that a political party has all but adopted a view of presidential powers that is -- literally -- the exact opposite of what this country is?" 4-2

April 2006

Federal government intends to invoke rarely used "State Secrets Privilege" to dismiss domestic spying litigation by EFF 4-29

Despite CEO's lengthy rap sheet, limo service that ferried Cunningham to sex parties at the Watergate Hotel was a Dept. of Homeland Security contractor to the tune of $21m 4-29

Another Senior Bush Appointee Becomes Subject Of A Criminal Investigation: Ex-Head of F.D.A. Faces Criminal Inquiry 4-29

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is implicated in the phone jamming scandal 4-29

Bush praises the leader of a country known for torture and corruption. He's got oil. 4-29

While republicans get arrested and indicted for outing CIA agents, rigging elections, bribery, money laundering, etc etc 6 democrats decide to get arrested as well... for peacefully demonstrating against the genocide in the Darfur region by the Sudanese government 4-29

The plan is the culmination and codification of an ad hoc array of progams and powers that Bush has doled out to Rumsfeld over the years, that turned the world into a "global free-fire zone" for the Pentagon's secret armies and proxy foreign militias, as a top Pentagon official told The New Yorker. "We're going to be riding with the bad boys. 4-29

Thousands of anti-war demonstrators converge on lower Manhattan to call for an immediate surrender in Iraq 4-29

Bush rejects tax on oil companies' profits 4-29

GOP $100 tax rebate plan called costly, ineffective 4-29

18 Rich Families Pay For Campaign To Kill Estate Taxes: Eighteen of America's wealthiest families, are bankrolling efforts to permanently repeal estate taxes that would save their families a total of $71.6 billion. 4-29

Bush says that immigrants "ought to learn" how to sing the national anthem in English. No word on if they "ought to learn" grammar too. 4-29

"America should maintain military strength beyond challenge and use it to preempt provocations from rogue states with weapons of mass destruction. And, if necessary, the U.S. should be prepared to act alone." - Paul Wolfowitz 1992 4-29

US says world terrorism attacks kill 14,600 in '05 4-29

Ex-CIA analyst says US policies in Islamic world have given boost to Al-Qaeda and its leaders. 4-29

There's clearly a link between President Bush's sudden reduction of Karl Rove's authority and prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's renewed interest in possibly handing down an indictment for perjury or obstruction to "The Architect" 4-28

Reporter: “As Many as a Half a Dozen” Members of Congress May Be Involved In Prostitution Scandal. 4-28

Congress looking to help America with gas issue by sending you...100 dollars. That will be paid for by taxpayers. In exchange for drilling in ANWAR 4-28

Lawmakers talk gas in hybrid auto photo-op, drive away in SUVs 4-28

Rumsfeld seems to be tiring of having to convince everyone that his disaster is a paradise 4-28

Condoleeza Rice says U.N. Security Council the best way to maintain peace and cannot be undermined 4-28

Bush's democracy-promotion agenda takes a backseat to Bush's we-need-oil agenda. 4-28

The Senate voted Wednesday to cut the Pentagon’s wartime budget by $1.9 billion to pay for improvements in border security. The Senate rejected a Democrat alternative that would have increased the border security budget without touching defense spending. 4-28

Bush: If I can't sell our port administration to Dubai, how about selling them our military vehicle manufacturing plants? 4-28

Summary of Senator Pat Roberts' (Chair, Senate Intelligence Committee) seemingly-endless attempts to stifle inquiry into this administration's misdeeds. 4-28

CIA Warning Retired Employees Not To Talk With Reporters - Or They Will Lose Their Pensions. 4-28

Who was at the Watergate hooker parties? Some say CIA chief, Porter Goss 4-28

Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality

Rove's Future Uncertain: Prosecutor Has Not Yet Made Decision About Charges. 4-27

House Passes Bill That Allows Bush Admin. To Punish whistleblowers. 4-27

Senate Panel Recommends Abolishing FEMA 4-27

More top brass blast Rumsfeld: Two retired generals and an admiral denounce his leadership -- and say he's protected by a handpicked ring of high-ranking yes men. 4-27

Senator Rick Santorum reaches out to women voters, invites 3000 to a conference on professional women. 90 attend 4-27

Every American taxpayer would get a $100 rebate check to offset the pain of higher pump prices for gasoline, under an amendment Senate Republicans hope to bring to a vote Thursday. Of course, the taxpayers are going to pay for this. 4-27

Unrest Over High Gas Prices Makes GOP Rethink Billions In Oil Company Tax Breaks. 4-27

Government furiously trying to suppress unclassified aviation security documents relating to 9/11. 4-27

Senate votes to divert war funding to border security, Bush threatens veto 4-27

Any country that harbors terrorists are equally as guilty as the terrorists themselves. Except for Cuban terrorists. 4-27

Remember this? Bush rewarded one of his loyalists with the ambassadorship to Italy -- despite his past as the founder of a cult-like teen rehab clinic where abuse and torture were common. 4-27

The responsibility of creating a situation in Iraq in which war crimes are the norm and not the exception lies squarely with the officers and commanders of the US Army, starting with the Commander in Chief, George W. Bush. 4-27

What role did Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff play in allowing American companies to profit by exploiting tens of thousands of female workers in the Northern Marianas Islands? 4-27

Crisis building in White House over Iraq war: A week ago, it was the generals. Now it's the colonels and majors and captains. Moreover, these officers are in uniform and have none of the security from retribution of the generals who had all already retired. 4-27

Rice fails to win Greek support on Iran 4-27

George W. Bush would like to sell you the idea that pesky environmental regulations are keeping gas prices high. 4-27

President Bush in Las Vegas for fundraiser 4-26

Karl Rove set to testify again in Valerie Plame leak case 4-26

Gas prices are too high, what does Bush do? He increases profit margin for large oil companies by suspending environmental rules for production of gas and gives oil companies more time to repay loans. 4-26

Federal jury on Tuesday convicted a 23-year-old CA man of supporting terrorists by attending an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan three years ago. 4-26

Republican Senator May Hold Hearings On Rumsfeld. 4-26

Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV) buys 300 acre farm with the head of defense contractor which won $2.1 million contract from funds Mollohan added to 2005 budget." 4-26

Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) creates foundation. Foundation gets $1 million grant from AT&T. Rush sponsors bill favoring AT&T. 4-26

Senate Considers Hearing with Generals Critical of Rumsfeld 4-26

EU Investigation Accuses CIA of 1,000 Illegal Flights 4-26

Halliburton collected $100,000 a day for a pipeline it never built 4-26

Ken Lay: Enron Collapse the medias fault 4-26

The Bush administration has pushed hard for limitless powers to spy on, imprison and torture American citizens in the name of 'security.' Is this really what America stands for? 4-26

Fox"News" host Tony Snow chosen new White House Press Secretary. Job description remains same 4-26

CIA official reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice were personally told Iraq had no WMD in Fall 2002 4-24

Joining Illinois, California has become the second state in which a proposal to impeach President Bush has been introduced in the state legislature. And this one includes Cheney as well. 4-24

Almost 70 Vermont lawmakers sign Bush impeachment letter 4-24

Protesters force Bush to move Stanford meeting: Bush's caravan was forced to reroute their trip and had to meet with Hoover officials off campus 4-24

More: The Bush Administration's blatant double standard on leaks. 4-24

Colleagues Say Fired CIA Officer Played by Rules 4-24

Chertoff Says DHS Will "Come Down Hard" On Companies Exploiting Illegal Aliens 4-24

Valerie Plame's work at Brewster Jennings was primarily focused on tracking WMDs in Iran. Maybe outing her and the CIA front company she worked for wasn't such a good idea. 4-24

Resigning From the State Department To protest the drive to aggressive war. 4-24

Private Military Contractor Sued by Families of Slain Employees 4-24

Bush Meets Privately With Think Tank Promoting Military Strike On Iran 4-24

If Americans were more aware of how often our leaders have lied in order to wage war, would anyone have believed this president's justifications for attacking Iraq? 4-24

CIA fires whistleblower: The CIA fired a top intelligence analyst who admitted leaking classified information that led to a Pulitzer Prize-winning story about a network of secret CIA prisons 4-22

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice leaked national defense information to a pro-Israel lobbyist in the same manner that landed a lower-level Pentagon official a 12-year prison sentence, the lobbyist's lawyer said Friday. 4-22

Katherine Harris was a guest at the $2,800 dinner paid for by Mitchell Wade, a defense contractor who later pleaded guilty to bribing a California congressman. To make amends, Harris donated $100 to a religious group founded by a lady who claims she was sold to devils as an infant and was raised from the dead. I'm so not kidding. 4-22

Grand Jury Hears Evidence Against Rove 4-22

Illinois Legislators Introduce Bill for Bush Impeachment: The text of the Illinois bill and information on its status 4-22

Oil hits new peak over $75 4-22

Ohio Republican Bob Ney going down 4-22

Reuters reports Falun Gong member arrested for 'heckling' Hu Jintao at yesterday's White House visit...neglects to mention China's ongoing persecution of Falun Gong members. Hope you enjoyed your stay in the "land of the free," President Hu 4-22

World's largest weapons exporter tells Russia "All countries should refrain from military sales and arm sales." 4-22

The top Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan Mollohan, will leave the panel _ at least temporarily _ while he defends his own financial conduct 4-22

Leader of human trafficking gang arrested for smuggling illegal aliens to America from... Eastern Europe 4-22

West Point Graduates Against the War Launches Campaign Against the Deceit of the US Government 4-22

We could end up spending up to one trillion (dollars) in supplemental budgets for this war," 4-22

Muslim charities are being shut down for supposedly backing terrorist causes, while giant firms like Halliburton are receiving the full protection of U.S. law for allegedly breaking government sanctions against doing business with Iran -- a country designated as a sponsor of terrorism. 4-22

Rumsfeld jokes as generals get angry over GI body count 4-22

PSA Supporting Investigation into Grounds for Impeachment. (.MP3 format) 4-22

Halliburton Co. reported first-quarter net earnings rose nearly 34% to $488 million, or 91 cents a share, from $365 million or 72 cents a share a year earlier. 4-22

Getty images caught Vice President Dick Cheney napping as other administration officials left a briefing by President Bush and Chinese leader Hu Jintao. 4-22

Sleeping Dick 4-22

Comprehensive list of warnings Bush has received about imminent dangers to the people of America and what he did to ensure our safety 4-22

White House knew there were no WMD: CIA: The CIA had evidence Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction six months before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion but was ignored by the White House. 4-22

Rumsfeld: “The Implication That There Was Something Wrong With The War Plan Is Amusing”. 4-21

Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency Negroponte was complicit in supporting Nicaraguan death squads during the Iran-Contra affair and supported the brutal military dictatorship of General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez in Honduras. Feel safe now? 4-21

Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte: Almost 100,000 Intel Personnel On US Payroll. 4-21

Intelligence Director's Budget May Near $1 Billion, Report Finds 4-21

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney expands sex abstinence programs, simultaneously flushing $800,000 in taxpayer money down the toilet, polishing his conservative credentials ahead of a possible White House run. 4-21

Fox News: Bush At 33% Approval. 4-21

Roves replacement is a brownshirt Bushco toady, Brooks Brothers rioter 4-21

If Past Is Prologue, George Bush Is Becoming An Increasingly Dangerous President 4-21

Protestor shouts at Chinese President Hu. Bush apologizes for that evil known as democracy. 4-21

Disaster declarations have become 'new pork' 4-21

Homeland Security funds are being used to help to protect communities with clowns, puppet shows, and brand new gym equipment 4-21

"Conservatives" attack UCSC after students protest Military recruiters. Threaten to get all government funding pulled from school 4-21

Army Braces for $25 Billion Cut 4-21

A second study released on Wednesday was critical of rebuilding efforts, saying the US had failed to make the health of ordinary Iraqi and Afghan citizens a top priority. 4-21

Republican candidate uses subliminal ads to claim his primary opponent is being investigated by the FBI 4-21

Cracks in the Coalition of the Crackpots 4-21

Rove's Replacement Was Fake Florida Protester 4-21

Kerry 'thinking hard' about throwing 2008 election as well 4-21

U.S. expert claims bird flu threat is overstated. 4-21

Feds make the single biggest immigration raid US history by arresting more than 1,000 undocumented workers in the Carolinas. Executives could get 20 years behind bars for knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. 4-21

DeLay escapes conspiracy charge 4-20

Ties to Jack Abramoff May Hobble Ralph Reed's Bid for Georgia Office 4-20

Rumsfeld blames his own bad press on bin Laden and al-Zarqawi manipulating the U.S. press 4-20

Getting Off Scott Free: AP Presents McClellan's Past Quotes on Rove and Plame 4-20

Tom DeLay Involved In N.H., White House Phone Jamming Scandal. 4-20

Remember those Halliburton Detention Centers? Looks like they'll be seeing use. 4-20

The Worst President in History? One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush 4-20

Minutemen to Bush: Build fence or we will 4-20

White House spokesman Scott McClellan resigning 4-19

Rove gives up White House policy role, to return to dirty campaigns 4-19

Bush: 'I'm the decider' on Rumsfeld. We now live in a decidership and the front-man for the PNAC will never fire one of his handlers 4-19

They terrorize other government officials, and they’re so secretive that their names aren’t even revealed to a harmless federal employee directory. Meet Dick Cheney’s staff. 4-19

Cheney Receiving Katrina Tax Benefits For Non-Katrina Donations. 4-19

Memo: '16 Words' Were False : The revelation of the warning from the closely guarded State Department memo is the first piece of hard evidence and the strongest to date that the Bush administration manipulated and ignored intelligence information in their zeal to win public support for invading Iraq. 4-19

The 'mobile weapons labs' introduced by Bush as pre-war evidence of WMDs were not, in fact, mobile weapons labs. What? 4-19

Rumsfeld Personally Supervised Torture, Says Human Rights Watch: "The question at this point is not whether Secretary Rumsfeld should resign, it's whether he should be indicted" 4-18

Taking a cue form North Korea: 'Katrina Kids' serenade Laura Bush lauding Congress, Bush and FEMA 4-18

The Many Parallels Between Watergate And N.H. Phone-Jamming Scandal. 4-18

Republican Senator Expects Six Congressmen, One Senator To Go To Jail. 4-18

Lobbyists Say DeLay Could Be One of Them 4-18

Georgia governor signs new law cracking down on illegal immigrants and the people who hire them 4-18

A television ad campaign portrayed as an independent effort to help Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has been bankrolled partly by a group with deep ties to his political operation. 4-18

NYC Transit Union Fined $2.5 Million For Illegal Strike 4-18

That cabinet shake-up Bush publicly denied less than two months ago, well it's happening. 4-18

The Approaching 2006 E-Voting 'Train Wreck' Continues On Course 4-18

Former Ill. governor George Ryan convicted of fraud/racketeering. 4-18

Scientists Say They're Being Gagged By Bush 4-18

Q: What's the difference between Tom DeLay's campain fund and his defense fund? ... A: about one month 4-18

Rumsfeld allowed Guantanamo abuse 4-17

Democrats add to pressure for Rumsfeld to be removed 4-17

Pentagon paying weapons contractors performance bonuses for projects that are years late, millions over budget and often entirely non-functional 4-17

Arrangement Gives GOP Rep.'s Wife 15% Cut Of His Political Donations. 4-17

Katherine Harris Getting Crushed In Florida Senate Race. 4-17

China president at Bill Gates house, not White House 4-17

The shrieking sounds of warmongers are everywhere. And the bullshit stinks like it's 2002. 4-17

U.S. immigration ballyhoo: It's all about keeping illegal labour plentiful and unskilled wages low 4-17

Blair refuses to back Iran strike 4-17

America’s Secret Police? Intelligence experts warn that a proposal to merge two Pentagon intelligence units could create an ominous new agency. 4-14

The Rise of Fascism in America 4-14

In one year, the Office of the National Intelligence Director has grown from a staff of zero to 1,500 headed by John Negroponte 4-14

Yet another retired general calls for Rumsfield to resign due to incompetence: Six former senior officers have publicly called for change due to Iraq 4-14

President Believes Rumsfeld "Is Doing A Very Fine Job” 4-14

Abramoff Did Business With Everyone: James Dobson, The Gambino Family, Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, Karl Rove 4-14

Govt. Spending Hit All-Time High In March. 4-14

Hillary Clinton has already raised over $20 million for her expected 2008 Presidential bid. 4-14

TERROR mastermind Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi is a largely fictitious bogeyman invented to help an American propaganda war in Iraq. Senior officers admitted they have "overstated" the importance of the al-Qaeda chief. 4-14

Colin Powell didn't even believe Colin Powell 4-13

DeLay on short list for OMB job: The former House majority leader, who is under a state indictment on political money laundering charges, is listed as a possible replacement for Josh Bolten 4-13

Dean to Bush : Declassify info on Iraq "weapons trailers" 4-13

McClellan: Media Should “Publicly Apologize” For Reporting On Mobile Weapons Lab Story 4-13

Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman has decided to abolish his department's Science Advisory Board 4-13

Two former staff members of U.S. Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Michigan, say the longtime Detroit congressman made them baby-sit his children, run errands and work on political campaigns while they were on his congressional payroll. 4-13

A month after Corning's political action committee gave $10,000 to her re-election campaign, Mrs. Clinton announced legislation that would provide hundreds of millions in federal aid to reduce diesel pollution, using, among other things, technology pioneered by Corning. 4-13

Unless Democrats in Congress and the American people stand up and speak out - in the process Bush and his Republican enablers may just bring about the end of the great American experiment in democracy. 4-13

Why are we so afraid to acknowledge that U.S. aggression is interrelated with capitalism, class privilege, war profiteering and worker abuse in every part of the world? 4-13

The ominous signs are "on the table" for all to see. The Pentagon has its Long War, the rebranded "war on terror" that Vice President Dick Cheney swears will last for decades, a replay of the war between Eastasia and Oceania in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. 4-13

The Internal Revenue Service won approval from a federal court to ask PayPal to turn over information about people who might be evading taxes by hiding income in other countries, officials said Tuesday. 4-13

Thanks to NAFTA's success, the flood of illegal immigration is up and the standard of living of the average Mexican is down. 4-13

Why didn't President Bush just come out and say that he was the leaker? Instead, when this leak first became public, the president said that anyone in his administration involved in the leak would be fired. Is he going to fire himself now? 4-13

Former DeLay aide paid thinktank to advance Washington lobbying efforts: Policy nonprofit where Abramoff was director funded DeLay's overseas junkets 4-13

Recently retired major general joins movement to replace Donald Rumsfeld: Rumsfeld is facing a growing rebellion from his own military as a senior officer joined the ranks of retired generals calling for his resignation. 4-13

An estimated 55,000 pages within 10,000 documents have been removed from public view under the Bush administration, the latest disclosure, The National Archives agreed to remove documents and keep the fact secret 4-12

Another bald faced lie from the administration: "We have found the weapons of mass destruction." But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials knew it was not true. 4-12

Colin Powell “Never Believed” Iraq/Niger Uranium Connection, Playing Up Nuclear Threat “Was All Cheney”. 4-12

An aircraft carrier strike group moved into the Caribbean this week to begin two months of naval exercises in what the U.S. military hopes will be a show of its "commitment to the region". 4-12

House Republicans verbally agree to remove felony provisions from immigration legislation 4-12

Dick Cheney makes an appearance to throw out the first pitch at a baseball game and is booed by the crowd, unless you are reading the Washington Post. The Post says he was booed for his poor pitching skills 4-12

Republican gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell has said he’s moving his investment portfolios to a blind trust to avoid any potential conflicts of interest. Ohio law doesn’t allow fully blind trusts. 4-12

Blood Fruit: The Blowback Harvest Begins 4-12

Lobbyists want corrupt Politician to give them their 'gifts' back because they didn't get what they want. 4-11

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., -- recently sold the future of our children to Big Pharma for a paltry $4 bucks a pop. 4-11

Bush admits leaking intelligence information for political purposes 4-11

Colorado House crafts bill to prevent them from taking bribes, but adds provision barring Governor from accepting speaking fees to ensure he vetoes it 4-11

'We Decided Not to Be Invisible Anymore': Hundreds of thousands of pro-immigration demonstrators mobilized on the Mall and in scores of cities across the country yesterday 4-11

Bush: "I Knew Exactly What Was Going To Happen When I Committed These Troops Into Harm's Way". 4-11

Bush does a Q&A at John Hopkins Intl. Studies school and gets asked a question by a student about Iraq and private contractors. Bush makes it clear that he has absolutely no clue to what is going on, mimics calling Rummy on the phone. 4-11

Jason Leopold: Bush and Cheney Discussed Plame Prior to Leak 4-10

'Forgers' of key Iraq war contract named: Two employees of the Niger embassy in Rome were responsible for the forgery of a notorious set of documents used to help justify the Iraq war. 4-10 In case you forgot, It was Joseph Wilson who was publicly denouncing this document as a fake and his wife, Valerie Plame, who was "outed" in retaliation by the Bush administration.

Spector to Bush & Cheney regarding the Plame leak: Explain yourselves 4-10

US Military's propaganda program exaggerates importance of Zarqawi, admits "U.S. Home Audience" is one of the targets. 4-10

Generals Talk of Resigning As Bush plans nuclear murder. Article by Seymour Hersh. 4-10

Organizers Expect Crush for Immigrant Rights Rally Up to 180,000 Protesters May Converge on Mall 4-10

Having no other pressing issues at the State dept., Condi Had Playboy, Penthouse Yanked From State Dept. Newsstands. 4-10

According to Jan Frel, Senator Tom Harkin is ashamed of the Dems -- and for good reason: 4-10

What happens when you accuse the other guy of committing the acts you are about to commit 4-10

Lies lurk behind U.S. terror policy 4-10

Spokesman says president has right to declassify intelligence with out review, checks, or balances. It's good to be the king. 4-8

White House faces questions regarding engaging in crass politics by leaking classified information to plant stories in the media. Response: Democrats engaging in crass politics 4-8

HOW do you slip legislative poison past a U.S. senator? Bury it on page 302 of a bill. Bill would replace the country's entire bench of experienced immigration judges with pro-immigration advocates. 4-8

Bush's Drive for Dictatorship: James Bovard on the bogus theory of absolute presidential power. 4-8

Bush threatens veto of bill that doesn't exist 4-8

Administration of Accountability blames Harry Reid on failed immigration bill 4-8

Libby: Bush authorized the leak of sensitive intelligence information about Iraq 4-6

1999: Bush Sr. Calls Leakers “Most Insidious of Traitors” 4-6

Scooter Libby still trying to duck prosecution by requesting as many top secret documents as possible 4-6

2nd Homeland Security official in teen sex scandal - exposed himself to teenage girl in mall, formerly ran sex predator operation at Homeland Security 4-6

Video: Conspiracy of Silence: This documentary was to be aired on the Discovery Channel, on May 3, 1994. This documentary exposed a network of religious leaders and Washington politicians who flew children to Washington D.C. for sex. Before airing, unknown congressmen threatened the TV Cable industry with restrictive legislation if this documentary was aired. (.wmv format, 39 MB, right-click, save target as)

House votes to limit nonprofit committee donations, remove party donation limits. Measure curbing donations to ‘527’ groups seen as blow to everyone but republicans 4-6

Bush did the same thing to organized labor in 2000, issuing orders effectively reducing how much money unions can spend for political activities 4-6

Rep. Curt Weldon criticizes opponent for having his five year old daughter get treated for a brain tumor in Virginia instead of Pennsylvania 4-6

How nervous are Republicans that the Iraq war could hurt them in November? Nervous enough to milk the same photo-op twice in one week. 4-6

John Kerry on Iraq: "We will defeat Al Qaeda faster when we stop serving as its best recruitment tool." 4-6

A federal judge barred prosecutors in the CIA leak case Wednesday from making arguments that would be kept secret from the defendant, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. 4-6

Pelosi to DailyKos readers: the gloves are off. Really, this time we mean it Kos readers to Pelosi: We're sick of hearing that. You haven't taken your gloves off. YOU HAVEN'T EVEN PUT THEM ON YET!!! 4-6

GOP revises immigration legislation to allow legal status and citizenship for undocumented immigrants 4-6

Justice Department yesterday for proposing deep cuts in assistance to local law enforcement agencies 4-6

Democrats Form Veterans' Council 4-6

THE ARCHITECTS OF WAR: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? 4-6

Government attorneys presented a robust justification of their decision to prosecute two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for mishandling classified information. 4-6

Bush placed directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter. 4-6

Lawmakers will spend a record $29 billion on "pork" this year 4-6

Deputy Press Secretary of Homeland Security Arrested in Pedophile Sex Sting 4-5

Majority of 32 Wisconsin Towns Vote for Iraq Pullout: Complete results of Wisconsin's troop withdrawal referendums 4-5

Landrieu threatens to block Bush appointments over levees. 4-5

Two Years Of Republican Scandals: DeLay Says “We Have Had An Effect On The Culture Of Washington, D.C.” 4-5

Top 10 Tom DeLay quotes, including this jaw-dropper on Columbine: “Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized [sic] out of some primordial soup.” 4-5

FBI Whistleblower Colleen Rowley Warns Zacarias Moussaoui Trial May Mark Last Time Bush Administration Use Courts to Try Terror Suspects 4-5

Union Leaders Boo McCain on Immigration. John McCain insists American workers could not pick lettuce even for 50 dollars an hour. 4-5

Sibel Edmonds Moves to Dismiss Judge Walton: Reggie Walton, is also currently hearing the perjury case involving I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, on allegations that Libby leaked the name of a CIA operative to the media. 4-5

Could Terrorism Result In A Constitutional Dictator? 4-5

Nothing can Make Katherine Harris Go Away. 4-5

Tax burdens on Americans making more than $10 million per year have dropped $500,000 per year. 4-5

GAO Criticizes Bush's AIDS Plan: "The Bush policy on AIDS prevention is unworkable the way it's currently being implemented. The policy is essentially doing more harm than good" 4-5

Tom DeLay calling it quits: Once powerful House majority leader will leave Congress 4-4

Chronology Of The Corruption Scandal. 4-4

Federal spending is at it's highest since the early 70s. Here are the top 8 places your money went under Bush 4-4

The Manning memo uncovers even more evidence that the president knew his case for invading Iraq was based on bogus intelligence. 4-4

Remember that Army general who portrayed the Iraq war as a Christian battle against Satan? Well, guess who a Republican senator wants to see in charge of special ops 4-4

Capitol police seek arrest warrant for congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney 4-4

Sen. Obama Rips Bush's Stubborn Refusal “To Attack The Causes Of Climate Change”. 4-4

"I've been in combat too long": Former Sen. Max Cleland blasts the "total folly" of Iraq -- and says he still hasn't gotten over the GOP smears that ended his political career. 4-4

Supreme Court won't review Bush's terrorism powers: By a 6-3 vote, the court sided with the Bush administration and refused to hear an appeal by Jose Padilla, who was confined in a military brig in South Carolina for more than three years 4-4

Gale Norton brags that U.S. gained wetlands for first time in fifty years under her tenure; fails to mention she changed definition of "wetland" to include golf course water hazards, ornamental ponds and wastewater treatment lagoons. I shit you not. 4-3

Frist Has Lost The Respect Of GOP Colleagues: Why would a man universally described as kind and intelligent suddenly start acting like a dodo? Presidential ambition, of course. 4-3

Democratic congressman is only member of national government to actually have been convicted of illegal wiretapping 4-1

Feingold: "Under (Bush's) theory, we no longer have a constitutional system consisting of three co-equal branches of government. We have a monarchy" 4-1

Time: Bush Approval At New Low 4-1

FEMA: New Levees In New Orleans Do Not Meet Flood Standards, $6B To Fix. 4-1

The most unprincipled and opportunistic man in the history of Ohio, Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell, stands poised to claim the Republican primary for governor. 4-1

Who's who in the Abramoff scandal 4-1

Halliburton overcharged for Iraq oil work: report 4-1

There has never been an investigation into Cheney's involvement in awarding Halliburton no-bid contracts making the company the number one war profiteer 4-1

Top Ten Mistakes The Bush Administration Is Repeating From Vietnam 4-1

Former US presidential advisor Brzezinski presents plan to quit Iraq: The plan would allow Washington to disengage gradually in Iraq, ”without victory, but also without defeat,” 4-1

911 Loose Change 2nd Edition with extra footage 4-1

How the FBI Let 9/11 Happen 4-1

Bill seeks to end color-coded terror alert 4-1

2005

Lobbyist who paid for some of Delay's trips called Native Americans the "stupidest idiots in the land" thinks that charging millions of dollars to lobby for them was fair 4-30

Arkansas's Republican Party fined $360k by the FEC 4-30

Watch Corpus Christi Republican Representative Gene Seaman imitate a penis on the House floor 4-30

The Bushes are robber barons, not capitalists. 4-30

You are going to want to read this 4-30

For those who haven't heard about Rick Santorum and the dead fetus 4-30

Neocon 'Nightmares' SFIFF Documentary Examines How Terrorism Is a Two-Way Street 4-30

Zell Miller hospitalized 4-29

Unless a handful of moderate Republicans can inject some common sense and human kindness into the process, Congress is likely to approve a budget blueprint this week that manages to be profligate and mean-spirited at the same time 4-29

GOP shuts Dems out of budget negotiations 4-29

Bush's pick for Ambassador to Canada has been there once. "It's been so long, I'd have to look at the map" 4-29

White supremacist running for Montana school board; brings whole new meaning to cap & gown 4-29

Mary Kay Letourneau's father was John G. Schmitz, an ultraconservative California congressman whose political career ended in 1982, when the family-values promoter was revealed to have a pregnant mistress and 15-month-old son 4-29

A convicted terrorist was providing U.S. officials with very specific information about a terrorist attack three months before 9/11. 4-29

Strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government. When the government lacks an effective, fact-based defense, other techniques must be employed. The success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party. 4-29

Soldier: I just met my 3-month-old daughter, Bush: Awesome. 4-27

50% of Americans think Bush deliberately misled them on Iraqi WMDs. 4-27

Terrorist attacks tripled in 2004, but we're winning the war on terror 4-27

Tom DeLay told the Washington Post on 9/14/97: "Judges need to be intimidated." 4-27

President Bush thinks he joked with a Texas crowd about a raunchy beach drinking event. The event is actually a raunchy GAY beach drinking event. 4-27

Another Ex-Colleague Criticizes Bolton 4-27

Newsweek: US Jewish Lobbyist Funded Settler Gangs with Swindled Indian Tribe Money 4-27

With a vote of hand-picked lobbyists, the president could terminate any federal agency he dislikes

The Frauds of the Clergy : Why would a multi-multi-millionaire Senator, who consistently votes to harm the hungry and the poor who so concerned Jesus, join forces with religious fundamentalists to stack this nation's highest courts? 4-27

DIA SEEKS FOIA EXEMPTION FOR OPERATIONAL FILES 4-27

New documents obtained by Freedom Of Information Act show more shifty business with Jeff Gannon, including 14 days when he signed in at the White House when there were no press conferences, days that he signed in but didn't sign out and vice versa, etc: 4-26

Senator Isakson on the floor of the United States Senate extolling the virtues of the filibuster to protect the rights of the minority from being overrun by the majority... in Iraq (.mov file) 4-26

Republicans want to ban the 200 years old tradition of filibustering because some 5% of their judicial nominees were blocked 4-26

Half of the House of Representatives is re-filing travel forms, afraid they're next 4-26

White House entry logs show male prostitute/reporter Jeff Gannon checked in and sometimes never checked out. 4-26

Acu-weather pays Santorum $5,500. Santorum introduces legislation to ban the National Weather Service from posting on the internet 4-26

FEMA's first line of accountability includes embezzlers, burglars, drug addicts, drunks, and a guy named Mad Dog 4-26

Energy Bill - Capps Amendment and Passage 4-26

High Court to hear dispute over student loans: the mere existence of this case speaks volumes 4-26

No Fault War / No Fault Government 4-26

BUSH GOES BACK ON WORD AND ENCOURAGES IRRESPONSIBLE ABUSE OF POWER 4-25

Complete Asshole and UN ambassador nominee John Bolton not content with chasing women through hotels and manipulating intelligence. Also annoys British 4-25

Ed Markey (D- Mass.), blames “Bush’s ’Failed energy policy’ for high gas prices, called for efficiency & conservation - not more oil drilling” 4-25

John Bolton's nomination as UN ambassador in Jeopardy 4-25

Tom Delay, saves $120,000 dollars by using two credit cards; one from a lobbyist, the other from a scandal-ridden lobbyist. Both illegal 4-25

The Bush Administration purges democrats from Inter-American Telecommunication Commission 4-25

White House stepping up efforts to eliminate the middle class: Bush to launch War on Tax Deductions. 60% of all corporations still pay no taxes 4-25

Cheney met Sunday with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah ahead of the fake talks today at President George W. Bush's fake ranch 4-25

Another phase in the media effort to improve Rummy's image 4-25

Cheney Meets With Saudi Prince in Texas 4-25

Cheney promises to hammer coffin shut on filibusters, balance of powers, democracy 4-23

Reconstructionist attacks on the Constitution 4-23

In January 2002, not long after the fall of the Taliban, Sen. Joe Biden stood stark naked in the middle of the bombed-out U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. "I'm just glad [the photo] never turned up on the Internet," Biden said. 4-23

Rice accused of suppressing terror info 4-23

Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994 4-23

Name: George W. Bush. Occupation: President of the United States. Address: A post office box in Chicago 4-23

FBI PROTECTS OSAMA BIN LADEN'S "RIGHT TO PRIVACY" IN DOCUMENT RELEASE 4-22

House committee chairman involved in writing the energy bill quietly admits that the lip service regarding $2 billion hydrogen fuel program is bullshit. CNN overhears, reports false Whitehouse talking points anyway, has headline written by teenager, sucks in general 4-22

Neil Bush, the president's controversial younger brother, six years ago joined the cardinal who this week became Pope Benedict XVI as a founding board member of a little known Swiss ecumenical foundation. 4-22

Tired of pesky federal watchdogs and regulatory commissions? Bush has a plan: With a vote of hand-picked lobbyists, the president could terminate any federal agency he dislikes 4-22

Powell did not sign a letter from seven other former U.S. secretaries of state or defense supporting Bolton, and his former chief of staff, Lawrence B. Wilkerson, recently told the New York Times that Bolton would be an "abysmal ambassador." 4-22

With fresh indictments last week, the UN oil-for-food scandal took an unexpected turn into the Labyrinth -- the tangled skein of war profiteering and state terrorism that has seen the Bush Family's lust for blood money emerge in three of the darkest criminal episodes in modern American history: Iran-Contra, Iraqgate and the BCCI affair. 4-22

GOP approves $12 Billion welfare check for fabulously profitable energy industry 4-22

Only 37% of Senate Republicans support ban on judicial filibusters 4-22

Entire Site to Follow DeLay/Abramoff Scandal 4-22

Justice O'Connor responds to Tom DeLay 4-22

Rep. Waxman asked the State Department Inspector General to investigate Condoleezza Rice's move to drop the data on the number of terrorist attacks from the Department’s annual report 4-22

In Miami, It's Better to Be a Terrorist Than a Poet: “What kind of counter-terrorist program is this? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security denies visas to Cuban poets and artists, but grants free entrance to terrorists?” 4-22

War On Terror Hides Multitude of Sins, Has Little To Do With Mexican Labor: “At the heart of these legislative maneuvers is an anti-immigrant sentiment that has dressed itself up as a concern for national security.” 4-22

Congress is poised to pass the Family Movie Act, which among other things, will make it legal to violate copyright laws by allowing altered DVD's with censorship/removal of "offensive" content 4-22

The Republican Dictionary, IV 4-22

A federal air marshal on Thursday sued Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to block government rules that prevent him from speaking out about possible security lapses. 4-22

Are Bush's Social Security Program and John Bolton Just Grand Diversions? From the X-files of political conspiracy theory, here's a nasty thought: What if Bush and Karl Rove aren't really expecting to win on Social Security? 4-22

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign 4-20

Homeland Security memo reveals terrorism records are being sanitized: existing records deemed to be terror-related to be purged from the TECS computer system by reclassifying them to make them appear to be unrelated to terrorism. 4-20

More republican hate politics: DeLay says Democrats "hate conservatives," same way they hate America and the troops and the way he hates ethics and the rule of law 4-2

Get Tom DeLay to the Church on Time: As the lies and subterfuge of the go-go 1990's coalesced around sex, so the scandal of our new "moral values" decade comes cloaked in religion. The hair shirt is the new thong. 4-2

How Rich is Too Rich For Democracy? 4-20

Most Americans think country is on wrong track; support for Bush and Congress sliding away 4-20

Republican congressman Henry Hyde announces retirement, intent to tout family values with one of his mistresses 4-20

Outreach To Islam : Delays in launching U.S. effort: The Bush administration's outreach to the Islamic world is in no hurry. And it includes no Muslims. 4-20

Air Safety: Extending the No-Fly Zone : 4-20

Drive the Wolf back to BUSH! : “Wolfowitz will kill more people from his position at the World Bank than he has done at the Pentagon!” 4-20

Secret FBI Report Highlights Domestic Terror: A secret FBI report, obtained by ABC News, identifies 22 domestic terror organizations as the current subjects of 338 active FBI field investigations. 4-20

Wolfie's War on Poverty: Just wait till our oil companies' profits dip. You'll hear the sound of our tanks over there, and I don't mean gas tanks. 4-20

Electing the Next Paul Wellstone; Progressive Candidate Chuck Pennacchio Wants to Run Against Rick Santorum in the 2006 PA Senate Race, and he needs your help. This article tells you why this campaign has national significance. 4-20

New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign 4-20

DeLay Speaks Out, Telling Supporters He's Never Been Found to Have Violated Law or Rule 4-19

DeLay Still Denies Ethics Violations, blames liberal media 4-19

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says "thoughtful citizens" must call for end to threat posed by the party she threw the 2000 election for 4-19

JOHN BOLTON & THE BATTLE FOR REALITY: The John Bolton nomination battle is one of those rare moments when a window has opened onto how the U.S. public was rushed into war with Iraq and, in a larger sense, how conservatives seized control over the flow of information that shapes policy, writes Robert Parry. 4-19

New Book Reveals the Hidden History Behind the Bush Dynasty 4-19

John Bolton flipped out and assaulted woman in Russian hotel 4-18

hear an audio interview here (.mp3) 4-18

PNAC member and former Enron consultant, Zoellick running state department behind figurehead Rice 4-18

A blameless fiasco? The U.S. intelligence community was declared by a presidential commission to be dead wrong in its assessment of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What didn't make the headlines was the criticism in the report that, leading up to the war, briefings for the president were "disastrously one-sided" and "more alarmist and less nuanced" than longer reports, such as the National Intelligence Estimates. 4-18

The new Pentagon can peruse intelligence on U.S. citizens and send Marines down Main Street 4-18

THE RISE OF DISASTER CAPITALISM: A government devoted to perpetual pre-emptive deconstruction now has a standing office of perpetual pre-emptive reconstruction. 4-18

Bush’s Vision Of Arab Democracy Vs Two Reports 4-18

Former Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey considering running for Mayor of New York City 4-18

Florida puts foster kids into the hands of private business 4-18

Tom Delay woos NRA 4-18

Republicans: It’s disturbing that Democrats would plot to use the life of Terri Schiavo for political gain. 4-18

If you're a legislator sponsoring the Marriage Protection Amendment, don't cheat on your wife. 4-18

McCain disagrees with his party over appointment of judges. Republicans respond with a smear campaign 4-18

Lott agrees with Frist: filibuster an attack on God 4-18

Washington Is Bolstering An Anti-immigrant Movement, Will The First Latino A.g. Take A Stand? 4-18

Unrest surfaces in home district of DeLay 4-18

'Big stick' politics not the answer, America 4-18

Florida social services admits it knew that Terri Schiavo was never abused 4-18

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) has released a document showing the Administration knew of the lack of ties between Iraq and al Qaida before going to war. 4-16

The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government's top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year since 1985, the first year the publication covered 4-16

Lawmakers squabble over ethics rules, why they need them at all: House GOP kills Dems' ethics proposal 4-16

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has launched JackintheHouse.Org that tracks Jack Abramoff’s dirty dealings with Congress members 4-16

Republicans about to launch a massive campaign targeting Democrats who filibuster judicial nominees. The campaign's premise: By not allowing every single one of the President's nominees, Democrats are "attacking people of faith". 4-16

Dr. Steven Jonas continues his insightful analysis that the Republicans are deliberately advancing another assault on constitutional democracy in: “THE SCHIAVO CASE, II: WILLIAM BENNETT AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE SEPARATION OF POWERS ” 4-16

A White House aide was told about potential problems with the Education Department paying a conservative commentator to promote an administration policy but did not prevent the contract from being renewed, according to a new government report. 4-17

Cheney was paid almost $200,000 by Halliburton last year 4-16

Bush puzzled by legislation he himself signed. It's almost as if he isn't really calling the shots. 4-16

GOP allies against ban on filibusters 4-16

Dr. Dobson, moral leader of Focus on the Family, tells the heroic story of whipping his daschund to obey 4-16

Democratic Campaign Commitee replaces its own website on the internet with one entirely devoted to bringing the numerous Tom DeLay scandals to light marking a significant change in strategy for the Democrats 4-16

Covert diplomacy : Dark past of Bush’s new national intelligence director recalled in Central America 4-16

Rep. George Miller (D-CA), ranking Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, said the White House is interfering with the Department of Education inspector general's investigation into conservative commentator Armstrong Williams' pay-for-play contract, which paid Williams $240,000 to promote its No Child Left Behind Policy. 4-16

DeLay's people were basically sending out requests for anyone who wanted to get rid of their asbestos "problems", essentially saying "hey, you got big bucks and big asbestos problems? send some of those big bucks our way and we'll make those asbestos problems go away" 4-15

A Texas businessman and two of his companies were charged with paying secret kickbacks to Iraq in a federal indictment unsealed on Thursday as part of an investigation into the scandal-plagued U.N. oil-for-food program 4-15

For those interested in who voted yay/nay on the bankruptcy bill, here's a rundown 4-15

Army decides to withhold results of investigation on whether they withheld information 4-14

Bolton and Negroponte Nominations : Dramatic examples of the U.S.’s failed Latin American policy and the Bush administration’s disdain for international norms. 4-15

Bush Will Sign Bankruptcy Bill written by credit card company lobbyists. In other news, BoA, Chase, Discover, and Citicard increase their penalties for late payments this month 4-15

Wanted: Complete Asshole for U.N. Ambassador John Bolton has left a trail of alienated colleagues and ridiculed ideas. He's a shoo-in for Senate confirmation. 4-15

According to the Department of Justice, almost any explosive or weapon can be considered a weapon of mass destruction 4-15

Tough on terror, weak on guns Politicians in Washington are poised to give unprecedented freedom to the gun industry -- and they're so beholden to the NRA they're allowing potential terrorists to buy weapons over the counter. 4-15

69% of Floridians don't want Jeb Bush as President 4-15

Ethics Panel Reprimands Democratic Fla. State Senator 4-15

The Pathology of Government-Funded Research: The University's Biocontainment Lab: Coming to a Neighborhood Near You! 4-15

United American Committee "A federation of concerned Americans, promoting awareness of threats which face America from within our very own borders. Primarily focusing on Islamic extremism in America." 4-15 No word on shirt color or armbands -ed.

Bush thinks his emails should be kept private from the public. Yours is still easily read by the government, however 4-15

Bush will never have a "Lewinsky" 4-15

How the Bush Administration's Biological Weapons Buildup Affects You 4-15

What do neoconservatives believe? 4-15 ...... More on "neoconservatives" 4-15

Pretense of Trans-Atlantic Thaw Ends With Bolton Nomination: “How can an extreme anti-U.N. neoconservative, without the least capacity for negotiation, work usefully at the United Nations?” 4-14

NEGROPONTE'S CHRON FILE FROM TENURE IN HONDURAS POSTED National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 151 - Part 1 4-14

Tom DeLay compares GOP's "Contract with America" to Bill of Rights 4-14

With prominent Republicans publicly denouncing him, how much longer will Tom DeLay survive as majority leader? 4-14

Coalition of Electoral Reform Groups Call for James Baker's Resignation from Electoral Reform Commission 4-14

Bush rewards his failures: U.S. commission on Iraq just the latest surge in a Niagara of whitewash 4-14

Minnesota state senator comes out, endorses 'outing' anti- gay politicians 4-14

Wealthy folks to keep their millions when they inherit it 4-14

CIA's secret kidnappings: 4-14

Money for homeland security being spent on Segways 4-14

Entymologists name slime-mud insects after Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld 4-14

"The Day of Silence was an event conceived of by students themselves in response to harassment and bullying. The Day of Truth is a publicity stunt cooked up by an outside conservative organization with a political agenda." 4-14

Clinton Foundation Pledges $10M for AIDS 4-14

Lawmakers With Relatives on Payroll 4-14

Terrorist to seek asylum in U.S., says he worked with CIA 4-13

US audit probes possible Halliburton $212m overcharge 4-13

DeLay Urges GOP to Blame Dems Over Ethics 4-13

Our next UN Ambassador 'joking' about knocking 10 stories off the UN building ( .mov direct link. may tak a few minutes to load) 4-13

Rick Santorum claimed he skipped a Social Security talk to be with Terri Schiavo. In fact, he was attending a series of fundraisers. 4-13

Did your representative accept money from Tom DeLay? Here's a quick way to check 4-13

Republican congressman tells Supreme Court judge they "go beyond the rule of law" 4-13

New Republicans - They Don't Vote With Their Hearts or Their Heads - Only With Their Party! 4-13

"Our nation has been made stronger, more just, more fair, more true to its own destiny through the voices of those who have spoken out in opposition." 4-13

EXTREME UNILATERALIST OR STRONG LEADER? Phyllis Bennis and Peter Brookes debate nominee John Bolton's credentials for U.N. Ambassador. 4-12

Bush’s pick for director of national intelligence once oversaw an Afghan-style sanctuary for terrorists every bit as nasty as Osama and al Qaeda 4-12

Senior GOP lawmaker remarks about DeLay, "Democrats should save their money. Why murder someone who is committing suicide?" 4-12

The Progress Report: 'DeLay Knew Everything'; and more 4-12

Dutch airline denied entry to US airspace due to terrorist fears 4-11

Lunchtime chat with a lobbyist close to Tom DeLay suggests he may be headed for hotter water. 4-11

GOP in House and Senate members are starting to turn on DeLay 4-11

When Sen. Rick Santorum thinks you may be slimy for a politician, it may be time to start packing your bags 4-11

DeLay's Backers Launch Offense: Conservatives Say GOP Is Threatened 4-11

THE NEW PC: CRYBABY CONSERVATIVES: Conservatives like David Horowitz complain relentlessly that they do not get a fair shake in the university. What fuels the persistent charges that professors are misleading the young? 4-11

Schwarzenegger's approval ratings dip to Bush-like levels 4-11

Bush admin wants access to int'l banking records 4-11

Despite a lack of credible candidates for the job, Republicans are aiming to sink tons of money towards the goal of defeating Hillary in 2006 4-11

The Delphi Technique was created to give a facilitator tools that would ensure control of the outcome of a group decision manipulating the group to think it was participating in the making of that decision. 4-11

Some scenes from the nation's capital 4-11

Business corporations in their current form -- as vehicles for the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of an elite -- are incompatible with democracy. That's why they are so popular with an elite whose status depends on ensuring that democratic processes don't happen. 4-11

Investigative article that sheds new light on the confession of Osama Bin Laden on tape to 9/11 and supports the possibility that it was produced by western intelligence. It also vindicates those who coined the term "Synthetic Terrorism". 4-11

Government aid paid for 315 funerals for last year's 123 hurricane victims 4-11

Wealthy Floridians think you should pay to clean up their private gated communities after hurricanes 4-11

Black churches' bad tradeoff: In trying to figure why so many black pastors are adopting issues and causes dear to white evangelicals, I realized that, more often than not, these black pastors hope to score points with the Bush administration and, therefore, increase their chances of winning big bucks from the president's "faith-based initiatives" program. 4-11

Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant for American and republican anti-gay legislators and Christian fundies gets married. To his boyfriend. Seems he wanted the same rights afforded to straights. 4-9

Just How Far Does The Rabbit Hole Go? The recent cries from the right-wing that the judiciary is “out of control” may appear to be a new phenomenon in response to the Terri Schiavo case, but do not be fooled. 4-9

Looks Like $80 Billion More for War, Despite Objections 4-9

This short essay will not explain what happened on 9/11. Instead it will give the reader a little insight into the clique behind the event. 4-9

Democratic governments overthrown by the U.S. Government: Source: William Blum, The CIA: A Forgotten History London: Zed Books, 1986. 4-9

Bush fails to give a crap about falling polling numbers, states such. Sheep bleats "I don't know that the exit strategy in Iraq is completely thought out. And I don't know that all the Social Security options have been explored. But I think President Bush is doing a good job." 4-9

A Timeline of CIA Atrocities 4-9

Governor Mitt Romney's administration has awarded a $10,000 contract to a Boston Herald op-ed columnist to promote the governor's (anti)environmental policies. 5-8

Congress rejects proposal to investigate Iraq's war profiteers 5-8

Revolt Against the Bankruptcy Bill 4-9

The Tom DeLay scandals, all in one easy to read form 5-8

Tom Delay can't stop bashing judges in Shiavo case, even when in Rome attending Pope's funeral 5-8

The Transportation Security Administration, once the flagship agency in the nation's $20 billion effort to protect air travelers, is now slated for dismantling. Another proud moment in Homeland Security! 5-8

WHO FORGED THE NIGER DOCUMENTS? A former counterterrorism chief claims that the now- discredited documents that showed Iraq trying to purchase uranium were fabricated right here in the United States. 5-8

Despite widespread budget cuts, GA Republicans approve $1.5M for renovations to the Speaker's office. Strangely, no one seems to know how it got there 5-8

Tom DeLay blames liberal media for his corruption 4-7

DeLay daughter's baby shower held by Texas energy firm under investigation 4-7

You too can be "Physician of the Year" - for a mere $1250 donation to the Republican Party. 4-7

Sen. Martinez (R-FL) Says Schiavo Talking Points Memo Came From His Office. In other news, Freepers have some major crow to eat 4-7

Jeb Bush calls author of bill banning professors from being too liberal as a "freedom fighter" 4-7

Sen. Tom Cole (R-TX) compares Social Security phase-out to civil rights movement 4-7

Bushco gets a pass like they always do. Even for treason: Plame Game Over? The special prosecutor says his investigation was “for all practical purposes complete” six months ago. 4-7

Alfred Mendes outlines the history of America's beloved First Family and some of their choice friends. 4-7

White House restricts information on CIA terror suspect detentions: report : The White House is maintaining extraordinary restrictions on information about the detention of high-level terror suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), permitting only a small number of Congress members to be briefed on the issue 4-7

First responders throughout California are on the offensive against Governor Schwarzenegger. 4-7

House majority leader Tom DeLay's wife and daughter have been paid $500,000 since 2001 by DeLay's political action and campaign commitees. 4-7

JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DROPS EXORBITANT FOIA RECORD FEES 4-7

The Republicanization of the Democratic Party 4-7

The Terrorism of War: Our foreign policy has been decided by oil companies, Wall Street, and the politicians who serve them, for too long. If the world is to survive, the US can no longer act as if the world is its real estate. It is essential that we put human needs before corporate desires. 4-7

BTC NEWS ASKS THE WHITE HOUSE A QUESTION 4-7

Today's "Tom DeLay takes another bribe" story brought to you by Moscow, Russia: Leaked Washington Post article show Delay's trip to Moscow '97 wasn't funded by a nonprofit organization but by a shady Bahamas based firm actually lobbying the Russian government 4-6

On top of accepting cash to lobby Russia, Tom Delay caught siphoning more than $500k to his wife and daughter from his PAC 4-6

Gallup: Bush Approval Rating Lowest Ever for 2nd-Term Prez at this Point 4-6

John Bolton's Senate confirmation hearing as the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations will be held Thursday. Who is John Bolton? 4-6

Professing a deep belief in the sanctity of life, particularly for the unborn, George Bush is callously indifferent about the toxic effects of mercury on human fetuses. 4-6

Is no one in administration accountable? 4-6

Gangstas R US! So Sayeth The Judge! Isn’t it obvious that our government uses force in exactly the same manner as organized crime? 4-6

Blood and Oil: The Rising Cost of Domination 4-6

In wooing African-American voters the GOP is resorting to deception and cynical claims of racism -- in other words, business as usual. 4-6

ChevronTexaco to acquire Unocal 4-6

FBI Probe Into America's Powerful Jewish Lobby Is Petering Out 4-6

The Coming Judicial Storm 4-6

The Wolfowitz Coup 4-6

Not wanting to be outdone by Tom Delay, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) says violence against judges is understandable 4-5

Just Say No ... to Empire 4-5

A Texas oilman is using his Bible as a guide to finding oil in the Holy Land 4-5

President Bush has awarded the first Medal of Honor to a soldier in the Iraq war. Still hasn't attended one single fallen soldier's funeral. 4-5

Senate, lacking any real work to do, to Hold Mock Social Security Debate Two Democrats and two Republicans will square off Tuesday night in a mock debate on the Senate floor, arguing whether — and how, if necessary — the government retirement insurance program should be altered. 4-5

We're all paranoid Sure, the people with the 9/11 conspiracy theories are a little odd. But not everything they're saying is entirely crazy. 4-5

Amazingly, herds of gun toting vigilantes on the border are causing the border patrol headaches 4-5

The Pentagon was too slow to inform local officials about the anthrax scare in Defense Department mail facilities last month, and gave antibiotics to workers without coordinating with public health officials, an assessment of the false alarm concludes. 4-5

US relied on 'drunken liar' to justify war 'Crazy' Iraqi spy was full of misinformation, says report 4-4

Ohio invests millions in rare coins. 'Coin'-cidentally the business that sold the coins is run by a prominent Republican. 4-4

Fourth man indicted in Republican phone-jamming scheme 4-4

Former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell called on senators Saturday to reject a Republican plan to ban filibusters of judicial nominees, calling it "unprecedented, unfair and unwise." 4-4

Illinois Governor has signed an emergency order that requires all licensed pharmacies to fill birth control pill prescriptions regardless of an individual pharmacist's objection on moral grounds 4-4

Tom DeLay losing support amongst people in his congressional district 4-4

WMD Commission Stonewalls 4-4

Bush makes recess appointments on base closings 4-4 I'll take a stab in the dark and assume it'll be the blue states that get hit

It's the Oil Stupid -- and the Profiteering! Crude Futures Near Record-High Levels. 4-4

Bush is slaying people in the name of democracy, yet his commitment to democracy has already been debunked in Haiti and Venezuela, not to mention Florida and Ohio. 4-4

Medford hotel owners say Bush Admin. left them with unpaid bills 4-4

Government Abstinence Web Site presents biased and inaccurate advice to parents on how to talk to their children about sex stressing abstinence. Nevermind an eight-year study released last month shows those who abstain are almost as likely to get an STD as those who don’t make a pledge to stay a virgin. 4-4

American Jewish Congress Lauds Wolfowitz Appointment to World Bank 4-4

The FBI will investigate allegations of malfeasance and cronyism at the U.S. Office of Special Counsel 4-1

Dick Cheney’s son-in-law nominated for a new job at the Homeland Security Department. He also was a lobbyist for Lockheed Martin, the top defense contractors for the Department. 4-1

The Pentagon is closing military bases at home and opening new ones abroad, costing states badly needed jobs and money. 4-1 (great political leverage against blue states -ed.)

Stop the "Debt Slavery" Bankruptcy Bill in the House! 4-1

Paul Wolfowitz named World Bank chief 4-1

William Kristol, founder of the Project for a New American Century (a leading neo-con think tank) and a key figure in American foreign policy for over 20 years, was hit by what appeared to be a cream pie in Richmond, Indiana. 4-1

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