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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
May 2007

GSA administrator Lurita Doan claims she can’t remember the details of the partisan Rove PowerPoint session that was given to her employees because she was busy using her Blackberry. Documentation Ms. Doan provided concerning her private e-mail account says otherwise. 5-29

President Bush has chosen (PNAC member) Robert Zoellick to succeed (PNAC member) Paul Wolfowitz as head of World Bank 5-29

Waxman: ‘You Must Do The Oversight If We’re Going To Keep People Honest’ 5-29

Republican Speaker of the House for Texas state legislature declares himself dictator and employs armed guards to forcefully prevent coup attempt Held Over

President Bush pays tribute to fallen U.S. troops, reminds nation that we are in Iraq because they attacked us. Wait... huh? 5-29

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff dramatically underestimated the number of deaths of US Armed Service-members in the Iraq War in Memorial Day media appearance. 5-29

Patrick Fitzgerald: Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby has shown no remorse for corrupting the legal system and deserves to spend 2 1/2 to three years in prison 5-29

Senior Rove Aide Leaves White House 5-29

Gonzales Loses Hispanic Support: "He's Done The Bidding Of The White House" 5-29

New Poll: Obama Tops All '08 Candidates 5-29

Bill Frist has withdrawn his name from consideration for World Bank president 5-29

Aides: Vilsack In Rehearsals To Be Clinton Running Mate 5-29

Ron Paul explains why Rudy Guiliani is an ignorant authoritarian 5-29

Obama offers universal health care plan 5-29

Republican Speaker of the House for Texas state legislature declares himself dictator and employs armed guards to forcefully prevent coup attempt 5-28

Special counsel finds GSA chief violated Hatch Act 5-24

Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty denies lying to Senate Judiciary Committee 5-24

Monica Goodling: "All I ever wanted to do was serve this president and this administration and this department." American people, Constitution, not so much 5-24

Goodling Admits Her Partisan Hirings Were ‘Illegal’ 5-24

Goodling Dismisses Illegal Voter Suppression Tactic Of ‘Caging’ As Just ‘A Direct-Mail Term’. As research director at the Republican National Committee, U.S. attorney Tim Griffin was involved in a plan to suppress Florida votes — primarily those of African-American service members — in the 2004 election. 5-24

Both Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his former chief of staff Kyle Sampson approved a plan to bypass the Senate and install Karl Rove-protege Tim Griffin as U.S. attorney in Arkansas. 5-24

Emails released late Monday by the US Justice Department show the White House hired a well-known Republican operative to handle damage control in the aftermath of the US attorney scandal. 5-24

Florida bans touch-screen voting machines 5-24

Not so subtle: San Diego county hires former Diebold employee and former executive director of Ohio's Cuyahoga County election board, where two elections workers were convicted of rigging a 2004 presidential election recount as the county's top two elections officials. 5-24

David Iglesias: “What has become clear already is that the "loyalty uber alles" mentality has infected a wide swath of the Bush administration. Simple notions like right and wrong are, in their eyes, matters of allegiance, not conscience.” 5-24

GRAPHIC: Thumbnails of the original 8 purged prosecutors 5-24

Feds subpoena governor's campaign fund record: Blagojevich camp mum on U.S. probe of aides, advisers 5-24

If the Democrats don’t use their power, when they’re in the majority in both houses, they're going to start owning this war 5-24

Ron Paul speaks on the floor of the House about the erosion of liberty, the perpetual warfare state, and the root cause of terrorism 5-24

Following Bush's decision to declassify intel for political purposes, Lott Claims Bush Would Never Declassify Intel ‘Just For Political Purposes’ 5-24

VIDEO MONTAGE: Conservatives Hold Hour-Long Falwell Memorial On House Floor 5-24

Refresher: 150 grads of Pat Robertson’s Regent Law School are in the Bush Administration. 5-24

Rep. John Murtha’s (D-PA) admittedly rash statement to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) that “you will not get any earmarks now and forever.”: It’s an empty threat. Murtha has no control over Roger’s earmarks. 5-24

Ex-Justice liaison to White House, Goodling says deputy attorney general `not candid' on firings 5-23

Goodling Dismisses Voter Suppression Tactic Of ‘Caging’ As Just ‘A Direct-Mail Term’ 5-23

Goodling Hints Attorney Firings Came From ‘White House Judicial Selection Committee’ 5-23

Former Justice Dept. spokesman Mark Corallo defended the partisan and potentially illegal hiring practices of Monica Goodling, claiming she “was trying to bring balance to the department” by purging "liberals". 5-23

In a 306-114 vote, the House yesterday passed legislation “that would curb President Bush’s power to appoint prosecutors indefinitely,” limiting interim U.S. attorneys’ terms to 120 days. The Senate has already approved the bill 5-23

Former Rove Aide Seeks Immunity For Information About Bush Admin Ties To Abramoff, Waxman says 'Nice try'. 5-23

Former Rove aide pleads the Fifth on White House contacts with convicted lobbyist Abramoff 5-23

Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associate Michael Scanlon have bought themselves more time as they cooperate with prosecutors 5-23

Alberto Gonzales tries distracting everyone from his incompetence by introducing legislation to jail P2P users and seize their assets. 5-23

Lobbyist-turned-Bush nominee withdraws: “President Bush’s pick to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission withdrew his nomination Wednesday amid strong opposition from some Senate Democrats.” 5-23

Bush domestic policy czar: "I am never going to hire another woman because they just get pregnant and leave." 5-23

Bush Authorizes Covert Effort To Destabilize Iran: includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions. 5-23

Dems Split As New Spending Package Abandons Iraq Pull-Out Plan 5-23

Neocons meeting in the Bahamas, figuring out how to turn Iran into the next Iraq, Afghanistan, increase profits 5-23

Tony Snow said of Al Gore’s new book: “I don’t know if they’re going to do a reprinting of the book to try to get the facts straight. The fact-checkers may have to take a look at it.” Gore responded on a blogger conference call: “This book, unlike the President’s State of the Union Address, has been fact-checked.” 5-23

Bush decides its time to threaten the public with scary Bin Laden story from 2005, direct from the "Department of things we pulled outta our arse." 5-23

House approves bill that would let the U.S. sue OPEC countries over "price fixing" oil 5-23

House Democrats rejected a Republican bid Tuesday to reprimand Rep. John Murtha for threatening legislative reprisals against a GOP member who had crossed him. 5-23

Kentucky Republicans choose to not hold the whole indictment thing against their corrupt governor 5-23

The next President will select two or three new Supreme Court justices in his or her first term. All three will come from the Court’s liberal wing. 5-23

Right-Wing Solution To Undocumented Immigration: ‘Make America A More Inhospitable Place’ 5-23

Wolfowitz loses his job…and his girlfriend. 5-23

Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani has figured out a way to avoid every Republican candidate's Iraq war problem. Blame Bill Clinton. 5-23

OK, so you knew Duke Cunningham was dirty, but you didn't know that he was this dirty. 5-23

Guess who gets to be dictator if another 9/11 happens 5-22

Rove Given "One Last" Chance To Testify Before Subpoena 5-22

New Documents Confirm Gonzales Lied To Senator About Plan To Install Rove Protege As U.S. Attorney 5-22

Glen Greenwald discusses deliberate misstatements made by the administration regarding FISA 5-22

Master of the photo-op and sloganism accuses Democrats of "pure political theater" in Gonzales no-confidence vote. Mission accomplished banner unavailable for comment 5-22

Democratic Congress blinks, removes all troop withdrawal deadlines. 5-22

Remember the American Center for Voting Rights - a conservative front group that was conveniently invited to give expert testimony in Congress about voter fraud just days after they were founded? Well, they've now conveniently disappeared. 5-22

The United States is continuing to make large payments of roughly $1 billion a year to Pakistan for what it calls reimbursements to the country's military for conducting counterterrorism efforts along the border with Afghanistan, even though Pakistan's president decided eight months ago to slash patrols through the area where Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters are most active. 5-22

Giuliani's 9/11 Stories Contradicted By His Emergency Management Chief 5-22

Former Official Says Smithsonian Altered Global Warming Exhibit For Fear Of Angering Bush Admin 5-22

Fired US Attorney John McKay believes the Justice Department is covering up the real reason for his ouster. 5-22

Carter: Anti-Bush remarks 'careless or misinterpreted' 5-22

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) discussed the possibility of switching parties, adding, “I hope the moment doesn’t come that I feel so separated.” 5-22

NJ considering whether to give pet owners the right to sue for emotional suffering if their dog or cat gets sick or dies from eating contaminated pet food 5-22

Texas lawmakers vote multiple times (with video) 5-22

"Whenever power is unchecked and unaccountable, it almost inevitably leads to mistakes and abuses. In the absence of rigorous accountability, incompetence flourishes." 5-22

New Justice Dept. document dump. Dig in and let us know what you find 5-22

Comey considered ‘interven[ing] physically’ during the hospital meeting with Gonzales and Card 5-22

Nancy Reagan: Reagan would be ‘worried’ about Iraq and the state of the country today. 5-22

We're Number 1! America Leads the World in War Profits. The United States is a proud nation of firsts -- among them: weapon sales, military expenditure, oil consumption, CO2 emissions, external debt, private military personnel and more. 5-22

Funding them there so we don't have to fund them here: Cash From Iraq Funding Al Qaida In Pakistan. 5-21

The 'terrorists' who were supposed to attack Fort Dix actually called the cops to turn in the FBI mole as a terrorist. 5-21

Kansas school board member who supports intelligent design might be next leader of national education association. 5-21

U.S. diplomat shipped off to Iraq after publishing article critical of Bush's ambassadorial appointments 5-21

Poisoned and cancerous Chinese food products regularly exported to US while FDA looks other way. 5-21

Problem: When the Senate goes on summer recess, Bush appoints cronies without Senate confirmation. Solution: Don't go on recess. 5-21

Pollsters Censoring Ron Paul from the States He Would Do Well In; Statistical Analysis 5-21

Former South Dakota state representative has been charged with rape, sexual exploitation of a minor, sexual contact with a child younger than 16 and witness tampering. To be fair, he isn't another hypocritical GOP "moral highgrounder", he actually ran on that platform. Just kiddin' about that last part. 5-21

Continuing to restore dignity to the office, White House Calls A Former President “Increasingly Irrelevant” 5-21

Crooked cop's ex girlfriend threatens to spill the beans on Rudy Giuliani's criminal activities 5-21

Ever since he lost his house to Hurricane Katrina, Trent Lott has been convinced that the insurance industry - which he has supported his entire career - is now in need of reform 5-21

Right wing mag: College Republicans organization disbanded after 'White males only' scholarship 5-21

Congressman Tim Ryan thanks bully for stealing his lunch. Bonus: He's doing that 2 week, 20 dollar challenge to see what it's like to live off of food stamps. 5-21

Week in Republican Corruption Review 5-21

Gingrich addresses Falwell's Liberty University graduates and tells them they must fight the secular oppression of Christians rampant in the U.S. today. 5-21

Dept Of Defense Rejected Intelligence Predictions Of Sectarian Violence In Iraq As "Too Negative" 5-21

George W. Bush Snubs his Methodist Church 5-21

A cash crunch is fast approaching for the government trust fund that pays to build and repair highways and bridges. 5-21

A military jury recommended that a Navy lawyer spend six months in prison and be dismissed from the service for sending a human rights attorney the names of 550 Guantanamo Bay detainees in an unmarked Valentine's Day card. 5-21

Husband of army wife gets email from army on new army strategy in Iraq: Capitalize the word Families 5-21

US Army Recruiting Mentally Sick: Army Recruiters Caught on Hidden Camera 5-21

Fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias held a three-hour meeting this week with the staff of the Office of Special Counsel 5-19

Prosecutors : Alberto R. Gonzales faced sharp criticism from many of his own U.S. attorneys at a private meeting in San Antonio 5-19

Gonzales no-confidence vote proposed in House 5-19

Congressman Doolittle is on the brink of being sent to prison, blames corruption probe on partisan democrats at Bush justice department 5-19

Much like John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, and Alberto Gonzalez; U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose is so disliked by her peers, they resign 5-19

Rumsfeld To Create Research Foundation To Teach About ‘U.S. Engagement In World Affairs’ 5-19

McCain Drops F-Bomb On Senator When Confronted With Recent Absences 5-19

Christine Todd Whitman abruptly reversed herself Friday and agreed to testify before Congress on her agency’s response to the environmental fallout of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks 5-19

Bush administration looks to appoint manufacturers' lobbyist to lead Consumer Product Safety Commission 5-19

A partial list of Bushco cronyism 5-19

Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) threatened to deny any further spending projects to a Republican who challenged him over an earmark last week, the GOP is charging — a potential violation of House rules 5-19

Cheney's lawyer claims VP is immune from any and all prosecution. 5-18

Was Gonzales’ emergency hospital visit illegal? “Executive branch rules require sensitive classified information to be discussed in specialized facilities that are designed to guard against the possibility that officials are being targeted for surveillance outside of the workplace.” A Senate investigator says the Judiciary Committee is weighing whether to investigate the matter formally. 5-18

Gonzales Allows Karl Rove-Protege To Remain As U.S. Attorney, Even Though His Term Has Expired 5-18

Dems Seek No-Confidence Vote on Gonzales 5-18

Neocons cheer their corrupt heroes: crowd of 300 delivered “a standing ovation” for Libby, “who was in attendance while awaiting sentencing on his felony convictions.” 5-18

50 State AG's Asked DOJ For Oil Investigation. Gonzales Refused. 5-18

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is spending up to $4 million to publicize a 200th anniversary celebration while the agency has cut $700,000 from hurricane research 5-18

McCain Misses 42nd Straight Vote ... and Counting 5-18

The chairman of the Michigan Republican Party said Wednesday that he will try to bar Ron Paul from future GOP presidential debates 5-18

Giuliani, Edwards Have Sudan Investments Even Though They've Spoken Out About Darfur Genocide 5-18

Withheld Documents Contradict Gonzales Testimony 5-18

Bipartisan immigration deal that would grant legal status to millions of people in the country unlawfully is drawing criticism from across the political spectrum. 5-18

Liberal Hero Ron Paul: Blacks Commit Crimes, Zionists Silence The Opposition 5-18

Hillary: The Corporate Candidate? 5-18

Democrats Move to Expand Probe of Gonzales, Justice Department 5-17

Former counsel to Alberto Gonzales and Justice Department liaison to the White House Monica Goodling will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on May 23 5-17

Jack Abramoff's white house liason and personal assistant on loan to Karl Rove, Susan Ralston asking congress for a grant of immunity to testify. 5-17

Gonzogate: Justice weighed firing 26 attorneys, according to sources familiar with documents withheld from the public. 5-17

Justice Dept To Congress: Ask Rove For Missing E-mails 5-17

Sen. Chuck Hagel on Wednesday became the latest Republican to call for Alberto Gonzales' resignation 5-17

Paul Wolfowitz willing to resign from the World Bank if only they'd take some responsibility for his nepotism 5-17

Wolfowitz's lawyer says the board will have to vote to sack him if it wants to get rid of him. 5-17

Michael Baroody, a senior lobbyist at the National Association of Manufacturers nominated by President Bush to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, “will receive a $150,000 departing payment from the association when he takes his new government job, which involves enforcing consumer laws against members of the association.” 5-17

Lawyers Representing Bush In 2000 Election Case Signed Off On Wolfowitz’s Compensation Package 5-17

Lieberman, just collecting his check, giving the Whitehouse a pass 5-17

House passes flag bill Bush opposed: “Governors could order federal facilities to lower their flags to honor fallen military troops under legislation passed by the House Tuesday.” 5-17

FEMA head: "air those trailers out" 5-17

Ron Paul on CNN talking about the debate 5-16-07

Anti-illegal immigrant Mayor Lou Barletta of Hazelton, PA wins Republican mayoral primary and Democratic primary as a write-in candidate. 5-17

According to Gov. Mike Huckabee, the Islamic Jihadists are Pro-Choice 5-17

Six months after Sen. Jay Rockefeller, Rep. Alan Mollohan and Gov. Joe Manchin had a photo-op at the West Virginia Veterans Nursing Facility in Clarksburg, veterans still can't get treated there 5-17

U.S. F-16s unleash "shock and awe" on South Jersey: 19 square miles burned, 2,000 homes evacuated. 5-17

Property owners in southern Oregon will not be coming to the rescue of the shuttered public library system in Jackson County, voting down a tax that would revive what's considered the largest library closure in the nation. 5-17

In order to put an end to school shootings, South Carolina is considering making concealed weapons legal on campus. Because only the most sane and stable among us will feel the need to pack heat in class 5-17

Video of shocking testimony from former Deputy Attorney General James Comey about a late-night, hospital room standoff over the President's warrantless wiretapping program. 5-17

Aide: Sick Ashcroft pressed to approve domestic spying. White House pressured Ashcroft on wiretaps while he was in ICU. "I thought I had just witnessed an effort to take advantage of a very sick man who did not have the powers of the attorney general" 5-16

Snow: Ashcroft Wasn’t That Ill, It Wasn’t Like ‘His Brain Didn’t Work’ 5-16

The Washington Post calls former Justice official James Comey’s testimony yesterday “an account of Bush administration lawlessness so shocking it would have been unbelievable coming from a less reputable source.” 5-16

The White House has picked General Lute to serve as commander-in-chief/Scape Czar in charge of the war. Bonus: From his bio the guy has never commanded anything larger than a regiment. 5-16

Alberto Gonzales points finger at his own #2 man regarding firings 5-16

Keep Out the Vote: What’s the real motive for knocking off those eight, now nine, maybe more U.S. attorneys—Republican appointees all—apparently replaced for insufficient fealty to the Bushie party line? 5-16

Gonzales misses deadline to submit Rove emails. 5-16

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), indicted on charges of voter fraud, Attacks Prosecutor Who Supported His Campaign As ‘Politically Motivated’ 5-16

GOP Debate II: Romney - “Double Guantanamo” 5-16

Audience Applauds As Giuliani, Tancredo Endorse Waterboarding Torture 5-16

Appeals court hears challenge to Guantanamo 'enemy combatant' status 5-16

Americans get the poorest health care and yet pay the most compared to five other rich countries, according to the Commonwealth Fund report. 5-16

Watch as a heckler shouts for AG Alberto Gonzales to resign for bringing "dishonor" to the Constitution. 5-16

Ron Paul vs. Giuliani on the Root Causes of Terrorism 5-16

Sen. Carl Levin seeks crackdown on credit card charges 5-16

Richardson Holds $250,000+ In Stock From Oil Refinery Firm 5-16

Major Security Breach at Palisades Nuclear Plant 5-16

The U.S. government and Boston University are facing protests and lawsuits for building a laboratory to research potential biological weapons in a neighborhood whose residents are mostly African-American and Latinos. 5-16

Is it Friday already? Justice Department's No. 2 Official Resigning 5-15

Gonzales proposes new crime: "Attempted" copyright infringement 5-15

Claims of racial discrimination reported by employees of the Department of Justice civil rights division 5-15

Democrat Lanny Davis Resigns From President's Civil Liberties Board Over Lack Of 'Independence' 5-15

Tenet To Testify Before Congress On Pre-War Claim Of Iraq-Niger Uranium Trade 5-15

House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) yesterday defended the decision to place scandal-plagued Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) on the Appropriations Committee. 5-15

President Bush, prodded by a Supreme Court ruling, Orders the EPA to start enforcing the law of the land... 6 years later: said Monday his administration will decide how to regulate pollution from new motor vehicles by the time he leaves office. 5-15

Hookers, sex, and entrapment. Just another day at the CIA 5-15

THREE CHEERS: RON PAUL & MIKE GRAVEL 5-15

The Republican Party has been "hijacked" and led away from its core values: Chuck Hagel, 5-15

"Rove fingered five US Attorneys for dismissal" 5-14

Public interest groups and anonymous whistleblowers are charging that Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC), has irreconcilable conflicts of interest in his much-trumpeted investigations of Karl Rove's missing emails 5-14

Citizens spying on each other... Soviet Union? East Germany? No, USA. Optional headline: FBI calls on paranoid xenophobes to report all Muslim activity 5-14

The Republican Minority leader in the Senate says the U.S. would leave if asked by the Iraqi Parliament 5-14

The National Guard, because of Iraq, are down to 56% of their required equipment, and it will cost $22 billion over 5 years to get them back to 76%. 5-14

Bush responds to Supreme Court environmental ruling by settling on regulatory changes that don't need congressional approval. 5-14

Newt Gingrich "seriously thinking" about running for president. 5-14

Graham Says Reid Called Troops Losers, Boxer Smacks Him Down 5-14

Henry Waxman has just launched an intriguing new investigation: why, exactly, are American executives pulling in such stratospheric paychecks? CEOs and CFOs in the U.S. make 400 times what the average worker earns. 5-14

Republicans call Henry Waxman "the scariest guy in Washington" 5-14

PNAC founder: Republican 11 Can Be “Beaten Back” 5-14

Only one presidential candidate (Obama) releases tax returns 5-14

Giuliani parlayed 9/11 fame into riches 5-14

House Conservatives: ‘There Is No Liberal- Conservative Divide On Iraq’ 5-14

Tommy Thompson cited a dead hearing aid and an urgent need to use the bathroom in explaining on Saturday why he said at a GOP presidential debate that an employer should be allowed to fire a gay worker 5-13

Politician who was busted with a prostitute, tried to flee from police, lied about it and is still under investigation for other matters, gets appointed to the House Appropriations committee. 5-13

More on Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA) 5-13

Another fired Attorney: A former West Virginia federal prosecutor said Friday the White House fired him in 2005 in the middle of a corruption and vote-buying investigation but never told him why.” 5-13

More on Wilkerson’s Impeachment Call: As Colin Powell's right-hand-man during Bush's first term, Colonel Wilkerson is in a position to know intimate details of the "high crimes" he speaks of. 5-13

Dick Cheney goes to the border of Iran, and yells threateningly over it. 5-13

Presidential Candidates Not Releasing Their Income Tax Information: Since Watergate, Only Clinton Refused to Release Income Information 5-13

Ret. General John Batiste: "The flip side of civilian control is [for the military] to speak truth to it—not impertinently, not with disdain, but you have an obligation" 5-13

Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Cynthia Tucker revealed that sources within the military are warning of “a revolt from active-duty generals if September rolls around and the president is sticking with the surge into ‘08.” 5-13

Katrina Aid Program Is $2.9 Billion Short. To date, only 16,000 of 130,000 applicants have received money. 5-13

Have a culture of corruption in your party and you don't know what to do? It's easy, just stack the justice department: Justice officials detail Goodling’s partisan witchhunt. 5-12

New charges have been filed alleging that the CIA's former No. 3 official used his influence in that role to support a proposed $100 million government contract for his best friend, a defense contractor 5-12

Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) was forced to give up his seat on the powerful committee after the FBI raided his home as part of the Abramoff scandal. To replace him, the GOP leadership tapped Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), who was himself recently named one of Congress’ most corrupt lawmakers. 5-12

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington: Mel Martinez committed multiple egregious violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act in order to win election 5-12

An illustrated guide to Republican scandals 5-12

Conservatives ‘Declare War’ on House GOP Over Appointment of Scandal-Plagued Calvert 5-12

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to Republicans who have been criticizing President Bush on the Iraq war on the radio show of former Education Secretary Bill Bennett (R-PNAC): “Until you’ve got a better idea, keep your mouth shut.” He added, “The president did not choose war. The president chose to protect the United States of America, and he did.” 5-12

Another day, another scandal. The Bush administration has withheld a series of e-mails from Congress documenting the role of Karl Rove in installing Timothy Griffin as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas 5-11

“Only weeks before last year’s pivotal midterm elections, the White House urged the Justice Department to pursue voter-fraud allegations against Democrats in three battleground states, a high-ranking Justice official has told congressional investigators.” 5-11

Former Powell aide says Bush, Cheney guilty of 'high crimes' 5-11

US lawmakers Thursday voted to fund Iraq combat in installments of just a few months, defying President George W. Bush’s veto vow. Pelosi: "This legislation ends the blank check for the president’s war without end." 5-11

Bush Now Open To Benchmarks For Iraq 5-11

Gonzales Refuses To Say Whether More U.S. Attorneys Have Been Fired 5-11

Gonzales in trouble for politicizing partisan investigations and indictments. So Sensenbrenner begins pushing for a partisan indictment, right there, in front of everyone during the hearing, proving that they just don't 'get it'. 5-11

Boehner speaking on House floor: All House Members ‘Except One Voted To Send Our Troops Into Iraq’. Truth: 133 members of the House voted against the Iraq war authorization. 5-11

Cheney reiterates endless war theory. Halliburton reiterates endless war profiteering theory 5-11

Iraq for Sale video banned from Congress by republicans 5-11

House Republican Steering Committee Replace Scandal-Plagued Doolittle With Scandal-Plagued Calvert 5-11

Iglesias has spoken with many U.S. attorneys and assistant U.S. attorneys around the country. ‘To a person, they’re sickened by this. Some are actively looking for work,’ he said. ‘Morale is terrible across the country.’” 5-11

Tom Delay to headline an ethics seminar in D.C. 5-11

DeLay Calls Liberals Nazis, Then Claims ‘Only’ Liberals Make Nazi References 5-11

Bush thugs lashed out at a pair of uppity House Republicans 5-11

U.S. labels 2003 leaked memo 'sensitive'. Lawyers who handle national security cases said they could not recall an instance when the classification of "sensitive security information" was formally applied to a document made public years earlier. 5-11

European Leaders: White House "Battle To Save Wolfowitz Cannot Be Won" 5-11

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' testimony given to the Senate Judiciary Committee with regard to the writ of Habeas Corpus 5-11

FBI Director Robert Mueller said yesterday he is confident no one in the Justice Department exerted political influence on any of the high-profile public corruption cases. Mueller would not comment on behind-the-scenes complaints that the department was slow to approve the prosecution of targets in the corruption case of former Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham 5-11

How Romney will convince us to elect him president based on his special ability to protect us from France. 5-11

John McCain believes Bush's low approval ratings are hurting the GOP but won't hurt them during the election. 5-11

Tony Blair is waving goodbye to Downing Street - and hello to a staggering £40million from book deals and lecture tours. 5-11

GOP front runner in Georgia's special election says that Hugo Chavez is teaching terrorists to act Mexican and that leftists are registering terrorists to vote 5-11

An odd-looking Canadian coin with a bright red flower was the culprit behind the U.S. Defence Department's false espionage warning earlier this year, 5-11

New Whistleblower Surfaces At Chemical Weapon Depot Worker Safety, Environmental Violations and Data Falsification at Kentucky Facility 5-11

"Iraq for Sale" director Robert Greenwald explains to Congress that the billions that defense contractors and war profiteers are making out of the Iraq war is a madhouse run amuck. 5-11

Bush Officials Mocked Sen. Pryor’s Concerns About Gender Discrimination At DoJ 5-11

From the boys who brought us Iran-Contra... The Bush administration has withheld e-mails from Congress showing that senior White House and Justice Department officials worked together to conceal the role of Karl Rove in the U.S. Attorney scandal 5-10

There Were Nine Fired US Attorneys. Gonzales, Top Justice Officials Testified Only Eight Were Fired 5-10

Congresswoman Maxine Waters to Alberto Gonzales: "What DO you know?" 5-10

From the boys who brought us Iran-Contra... U.S. intelligence recently undertook a ’significant’ covert action without notifying Congress, as required by law, the House Intelligence Committee disclosed in a new report 5-10

Karl Rove at the center of a scheme to disenfranchise black US soldiers by sending them voting notices when they knew the soldiers were overseas, then taking them off voting rolls 5-10

Two former U.S. attorneys say they believe ongoing investigations into the dismissals last year of eight federal prosecutors could result in criminal charges against senior Justice Department officials. 5-10

Florida primary may not count for Democrats. Kinda like the general elections 5-10

Top Interior Department officials manipulated or ignored science when planning for wildlife under the Endangered Species Act, harming species and the program's integrity in favor of industry, former officials and environmentalists testified Wednesday 5-10

Following his choice to make Iraq the central front on the "war on Terror", Cheney says terrorists have made Iraq the "central front" in the war on terror 5-10

Bush Tours Tornado Devastation: "He Briefly Grabbed A Chain Saw, Ripping It Into Action For The Cameras..." 5-10

GOP moderates tell Dubya he's destroying his own party with the war in Iraq. 5-10

Retired generals, Iraq veterans launch anti-war ads 5-10 ...See one here 5-10

The Pentagon has placed unprecedented restrictions on who can testify before Congress, reserving the right to bar lower-ranking officers, enlisted soldiers, and career bureaucrats from appearing before oversight committees or having their remarks transcribed. 5-10

Remember that temporary troop surge in Iraq? Yeah, well it is being extended into next year 5-10

Bush vows second Iraq veto 5-10

Cheney caught saying 'kick the press out' at Iraq briefing 5-10

Saxby Chamblis (R-GA) reports that the progress in Iraq is "amazing," 5-10

Bush's nominee to head USAID: Black assembly-line workers would rather sell drugs, Hispanic's are lazy, white's resent having to work with machines, and Asians, while very productive, are likely to move on to management 5-10

U.S. Rep. Ted Poe under fire for quoting KKK leader during Iraq speech on House floor 5-10

“The former U.S. attorney in Kansas City, MO, Todd P. Graves, said yesterday that he was asked to step down from his job by a senior Justice Department official in January 2006, months before eight other federal prosecutors would be fired by the Bush administration.” 5-10

Giuliani To Now Say He Supports Abortion Rights 5-10

Ann Romney Gave To Planned Parenthood During Mitt's Pro-Choice Years 5-10

Sharpton Under Fire For Romney Religion Remarks: "As For The One Mormon Running For Office, Those Who Really Believe In God Will Defeat Him" 5-10

Pentagon to States: No, you can't command your state's National Guard for disaster relief. 5-10

In a January address announcing his escalation plan, President Bush unveiled a broad new plan to recruit U.S. government officials to move to Iraq to aid in reconstruction efforts: 0.1 Percent Of Commerce Department Answers Bush’s Plea To Move To Iraq 5-10

A side of Rice in the oil-for-food scandal? 5-10

Flak Vests And Helmets For All US Embassy Employees In Iraq. Risk of getting poked by the thorns of the roses they are showering us with as we are greeted as liberators cited as cause. 5-10

"To say that it's finally "game time" more than four years into the war is a pretty startling statement." 5-10

Cheney heads to Saudi Arabia to reaffirm alliances 5-9

Cheney makes a surprise visit to Baghdad to check his business venture 5-9

Yet another Bush appointee resigning amid allegations of corruption: Teresa Shaw, Chief Operations Officer of the Federal Financial Aide office quits her post amid allegations of wrongdoing in federal/corporate lending practices. 5-9

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is threatening to take President Bush to court if he issues a signing statement as a way of sidestepping a carefully crafted compromise Iraq war spending bill. 5-9

John Boehner, 2 days ago: We want results by September. John Boehner, 105 days ago: We want results in 90 days. 5-9

Former Alaskan Senate President Ben Stevens, son of Ted Stevens, accused of taking bribes from oil companies. Actual quote: "a caveman could have figured it out" 5-9

Democrats attack Big Oil over $3 gas prices: Hearings planned in the House; Senate Leader Reid wants to cut gas demand, hike economy of cars and trucks. 5-9

White House tells World Bank they'll be just fine with their corrupt PNAC guy at it's helm 5-9

Katrina Redux: Bush Admin. Thinks Kansas Governor is the "Commander Guy". 5-9

Obama pulls a Bush during his speech stating that 10,000 had died during the Kansas tornado 5-9

McCain asks to be told what to think about contraception. Maverick! 5-9

Impeachment polls surprisingly well 5-9

60 Percent Of Americans Want Timetable To Get Troops Out 5-9

Top US Commander: "The Surge Needs To Go Through The Beginning Of Next Year For Sure" 5-9

Majority Of Iraqi Parliament Calls For Timetable For U.S. Withdrawal 5-9

Bush would veto emerging House Iraq bill - spokesman 5-9

FLA Dems' primary may not count 5-9

Victory for the pharmaceutical industry: Drug import effort blocked, could have saved consumers billions of dollars. White House had threatened a veto. 5-8

Corrupt Alaska lawmakers are finally reaping what they sow...jail time 5-8

Congressional investigators are looking into new allegations a top official at the Justice Department illegally hired career lawyers based on their political affiliations. 5-8

Tenet Receives Millions From Corporations Profiting Off Iraq 5-8

GOP flings mud, sees if it sticks: Criticizes Pelosi's Water Project 5-8

Rep. Poe Quotes Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard On House Floor 5-8

House minority leader Boehner endorses setting some benchmarks to track war's progress 5-8

Trent Lott: Strategy in Iraq must show results by fall, but that's not a timetable or anything 5-8

World Bank directors have formally notified Paul D. Wolfowitz that they found him to be guilty of a conflict of interest 5-7

Prosecutor investigating Jerry Lewis (R-CA) was paid $1.5 million to quit the Feds and work for Lewis's defense. 5-7

Tenet's book reveals that he lied under oath to congress regarding meeting with Bush about 9/11 hijackers Pre-9/11 5-8

Kansas National Guard having difficulty cleaning up the disaster in Kansas because most of their equipment is tied up in Iraq 5-8

FBI arrests six suspected terrorists in New Jersey. 5-8

Blundering Bush makes ANOTHER gaffe as he winks at the Queen 5-8

Records shows that Giuliani contributed money at least six times to Planned Parenthood. 5-8

Obama Makes Push For Fuel Efficiency 5-8

Pentagon identifies 35,000 more troops for Iraq 5-8

World Bank directors have formally notified Paul D. Wolfowitz that they found him to be guilty of a conflict of interest 5-7

Prosecutor investigating Jerry Lewis (R-CA) was paid $1.5 million to quit the Feds and work for Lewis's defense. 5-7

Technology manager in the Elections Division of Colorado's Secretary of State's office was selling Colorado voter data to GOP candidates. 5-7

Justice Department has “confirmed it’s investigating whether [Monica] Goodling improperly assessed the political loyalties of applicants for career assistant U.S. attorney posts. 5-7

DC Madam scandal, Atty firings, Duke Cunningham scandals all mesh together 5-7

Congress considers broadening Justice Department inquiry 5-7

DoJ Finds "Unwritten Exception" for Pre-Election Voter Fraud Indictments 5-7

Will Doolittle do time? Does the downfall of a local congressman mean something more than the latest corruption of a politician? 5-7

Iran-Contra 20 years later: 4 of the top architects now in the house of Bush 5-7

Bush still looking for War Czar. 5-7

Bush promises to rebuild Greensburg, Kansas. Photo-op forthcoming 5-7

Two deep blue Democratic enclaves, which both gave John Kerry 59% of the vote in 2004, are the only states Bush has not visited since becoming president. 5-7

Question: When Is A Benchmark Not A Benchmark? Answer: When it's supported by a Republican and essentially meaningless 5-7

Mitt Romney thinks France has seven-year contract marriages: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney did not discuss his Mormon faith as he continued his outreach Saturday to conservative Christians in a graduation speech at Regent University, the school founded by televangelist Pat Robertson. 5-7

Rove's personal pick to be US Attorney for Arkansas under investigation for election fraud 5-5

NRA opposes bill to stop gun sales to terror suspects. 5-5

Judge order the release of papers regarding the gathering of intelligence on protesters at the 2004 Republican convention. 5-5

GSA Administrator Lurita Doan on complying with federal regulations: “There are two kinds of terrorism in the U.S.: the external kind and internally, the IGs have terrorized the regional administrators.” 5-5

The Army now classifies the media as a threat in parallel to al-Qaeda and drug cartels. 5-5

Transportation Security Administration Loses 100,000 People's Social Security Numbers, Banking Information 5-5

Alaskan Lawmakers Arrested, Charged With Taking Oil Company Bribes. The three Republicans pleaded not guilty at their arraignments. 5-5

28 percent: President Bush’s approval rating in a new Newsweek survey 5-5

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton thanks Iran, Syria, and liberals for helping him win $250,000 prize 5-5

Senators Challenge Bush Administration’s Claim That Sudan Is ‘A Strong Partner In War On Terror’ 5-5

Still "in the zone" from the National day of Prayer, Bush calls Gonzalez the Eternal General of the United States. 5-5

President Bush is warning Democratic leaders that any attempt to weaken federal policies that restrict abortion will be met with a veto. 5-5

Krauthammer’s definition of ‘neocon’ 5-5

22% Believe Bush Knew About 9/11 Attacks in Advance 5-5

Sept. 11: They Let it happen 5-5

This week's end of the weekly news cycle resignation brought to you by... the deputy Nat'l Security Advisor 5-4

Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has created an extraordinary wedge to use against the Administration and its gun-crazy Republican allies with S. 1237, officially (and brilliantly) titled the "Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007" 5-4

New claim as to why John McKay as U.S. attorney for Western Washington was fired: He criticized his superiors for being incompetent. 5-4

Ron Paul has the highest positive rating in MSNBC's post-debate poll. 5-4

Ron Paul, makes sense when speaking about Iraq 5-4

Rove coached officials on what to say to Congress during testimony over firings. Investigators are suggesting that Rove’s attendance at the meeting shows that he may have been involved in an attempt to mislead Congress. 5-4

Chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, made calls to the purged U.S. attorneys telling them to kept quiet about their dismissals. 5-4

Former Deputy AG Comey: None of the fired U.S. Attorneys should have been let go for performance-based reasons 5-4

Pelosi asks why, if the Iraq war is so all-fired important, hasn't Bush put funding it in the budget instead of risking it in a supplemental vote. 5-4

Frmr Gay Escort and White House press corps plant Gannon Holds DC Bible Event 5-4

Having already shown his compassionate conservatism in vetoing stem-cell research and troop withdrawal parameters, President Bush is ready to use his third veto to block federal hate-crime protections for gays. 5-4

Florida moves presidential primary up to January 2008. 5-4

Support for George W. Bush’s foreign policy now defines the GOP 5-4

There was a time where Texans were proud to tell everyone they are the home of Dubya, but those days are long gone. 5-4

Three Republicans angry about FBI investigating a terrorist that blew up a hotel 5-4

When is a terrorist not a terrorist? When they bomb a women's clinic 5-4

Simultaneous raids carried out in four Alabama counties Thursday turned up truckloads of explosives and weapons, including 130 grenades, an improvised rocket launcher and 2,500 rounds of ammunition belonging to the small, but mightily armed, Alabama Free Militia. 5-4

Clinton Proposes Retraction Of Bush's War Authority 5-4

Barack Obama placed under secret service protection. 5-4

A Fair and Balanced Look at the Democrats and War Funding Lies and the Lying Liars That Tell Them 5-4

According to NBC's chief Pentagon correspondent, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that his "interest is to hit Saddam Hussein" just hours after the attacks on September 11, 2001, "even though all indications pointed at al-Qaida as the guilty party," a Rhode Island newspaper reports. 5-4

Rumsfeld To Receive "Statemanship" Award 5-4

Fmr Deputy Says Fired Attys Performed Well 5-3

White House Asks Press Corps To Wear Yellow Snow Bracelets 5-3

Senate Subpoenas Gonzales For Rove E-mails 5-3

Fmr Gonzales Aide Under Investigation For Hiring DOJ Lawyers Based On Party Affiliation 5-3

Months after miscalculating health costs for returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, leading to a $1 billion shortfall in their budget, senior VA officials get huge bonuses 5-3

Senator Dianne Feinstein may have directed 1.5 billion in government contracts to her husband. That's billion with a B 5-3

Rep. Clay co-sponsors bill to impeach Cheney 5-3

“According to former British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, Dick Cheney has been calling the shots in Iraq and has even overridden decisions by President Bush and former US Defense Secretary Rumsfeld” 5-3

Brilliant statesman: 'I'm the Commander Guy' 5-3

Tenet, in Book, Says Cheney Pressed to `Handpick' Iraqi Leaders 5-3

Food Safety 'Broken,' Former FDA Chief Testifies 5-3

Bush meets business group, gets grilled with zingers like, ” What do you pray about, and how we can we pray for you?”. 5-3

President Bush and congressional leaders have begun negotiating a second war funding bill that omits the withdrawal timeline. 5-3

Stuart Bowen, the inspector general “who uncovered cases of waste, fraud and abuse in the U.S.-led reconstruction effort in Iraq,” is under investigation by a presidential panel. 5-3

The Justice Department has launched an internal investigation into whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's former White House liaison illegally took party affiliation into account in hiring career federal prosecutors 5-3

Remember back when Kerry said that we can only reduce terrorism to a nuisance? Guess how Bush redefines success in Iraq 5-3

When is it ok for a US attorney to be an "absentee landlord"? When you're a "Loyal Bushie" of course 5-2

U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton told Congress that "DoJ Official Wanted to Keep Me Quiet" 5-2

No Senator Left Behind: Kay Bailey Hutchinson thinks the Earth is 4 times larger than it is while defending President's stand on Iraq funding bill. 23rd paragraph 5-2

Lawmakers of both parties are making a new effort to pass a federal shield law to protect reporters from being forced to reveal their sources.” Such protection “would give government whistle-blowers more reason to reveal corruption 5-3

Anti-fraud official faces fraud probe. 5-2

US Justice Dept has the audacity to ask Congress for more powers to spy on US citizens 5-2

Director of National Intelligence says they aren't going to get FISA warrants after all 5-2

Citing FBI abuses and the attorney general's troubles, senators peppered top Justice and intelligence officials Tuesday with skeptical questions about their proposal to revise the rules for spying on Americans. 5-2

NRO: "At some point, politically sophisticated conservatives will have to recognize... that their only choice is to support the most conservative Democrat for the nomination. Call me crazy, but I think that person is Hillary Clinton" 5-2

Missouri Republicans propose amendment to get rid of that pesky "merit" thing for judges, so they can just appoint Republican hacks instead. Alberto Gonzalez unavailable for comment 5-2

Bush Appoints a czar to do what we already have a federal agency to do 5-2

Tom Delay closes the political action committee that got him into a boatload of trouble with prosecutors 5-2

Refresher: Dick Cheney believes that war is the natural state of mankind. Culture of life indeed 5-2

What happens when a Republican comes to terms with reality? It ain't pretty 5-2

Ron Paul made a big speech on the House floor about this in 2003 5-2

Mike Gravel interview on CSPAN 5-2

Officials Say Texas Border Fence To Cut Of Farmers' "Access To Water...Just Going To Create Bedlam" 5-2

Giuliani Blasts Chavez Even Though His Firm Does Business With Him 5-2

Giuliani Tied To Firm That Pushed For Roll Back Of Clean Air Act 5-2

Tenet: "I Will Never Give That [Freedom] Medal Back" 5-2

Pelosi calls out Bush for 1999 statement on timetable. 5-2

Reagan diaries reveal intimate thoughts, including "Sometimes I wonder if we are destined to witness Armageddon," "I swear I believe Armageddon is near," and "Getting shot hurts." 5-2

When is it ok for a US attorney to be an "absentee landlord"? When you're a "Loyal Bushie" of course 5-2

U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton told Congress that "DoJ Official Wanted to Keep Me Quiet" 5-2

No Senator Left Behind: Kay Bailey Hutchinson thinks the Earth is 4 times larger than it is while defending President's stand on Iraq funding bill. 23rd paragraph 5-2

An Interior Department official accused of violating the Endangered Species Act, censoring science and mistreating staff of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service resigns one week before testifying before House oversight committee 5-1

President Bush breaks out his veto crayon, takes a bite, and draws a frownie face on the Emergency Iraq Spending Bill 5-1 Headline compliments of fark.com

The DOJ never solicited job applicants for information on their political beliefs. They just googled their names, and threw out all the ones who could be tied to the Democrats 5-1

Tenet was horrified that Perle suggested to him they should invade Iraq, now if you will please excuse Tenet, he has to go fabricate the slam dunk case linking Osama and Saddam 5-1

Secret Order By Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers To Aides 5-1

Ray McGovern lays Yellow Cake forgery at Mr. Cheney's doorstep. 5-1

President says, "we need to get the money to the troops as soon as possible" before vetoing bill that sends money to the troops 5-1

Bush warns Iraq pullout could cause 'chaos', which is like now, but with less dead Americans 5-1

State Dept. blames rise in terrorism on Iraq debacle. 5-1

James Inhofe declares that the liberal media invented Saddam's WMD, apparently as part of a vast liberal plot to make Bush and his supporters look like complete idiots 5-1

Wolfowitz claims he's the victim of a smear campaign by the lowly serfs looking for handouts and told a bank panel he had acted in good faith in securing a promotion and pay raise for his girlfriend. 5-1

In states across the country, “local lawyers, politicians, editorial writers, members of Congress and defendants are questioning what they say is a pattern of investigating Democrats. They point to inquiries that drag on for years but end with no charges. 5-1

McCain favors a 'League of Democracies.' To be run by a 'League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.' Maybe we should call it the League of Nations 5-1

If anyone still paid attention to the mythical Bush doctrine — the part about our enemy being terrorist networks and the governments that support them — it would be time to add another government to the enemy watch list: our own 5-1

50-foot "Mission Accomplished" banner unfurled in front of the White House 5-1

NJ Governor grateful for getting away with breaking the law 5-1

May 2006

Bush gives NSA power to exempt corporations from SEC reporting requirements. 5-29

Your constitutional dictatorship at work: Examples of the president's signing statements 5-29

Cheney's legal adviser and chief of staff, David Addington , is the Bush administration's leading architect of the ``signing statements" the president has appended to more than 750 laws. 5-29

Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. 5-29

House leaders conceded Friday that FBI agents with a court-issued warrant can legally search a congressman's office 5-29

Attorney General Gonzales and FBI director threaten to resign if required to relinquish evidence seized at congressional offices 5-29

Cheney and Jefferson both tied to Nigerian bribery scandals 5-29

Bill Frist's top priorities: Gay marriage and flag burning. 5-29

Heroes: Bayh. Cantwell. Clinton. Dayton. Dodd. Dorgan. Durbin. Feingold. Harkin. Kennedy. Kerry. Menendez. Obama. Specter. Wyden. 5-29

Robert Kagan is the co-founder of the Project for the New American Century and he thinks it will be better for America if the Democrats win the 2008 contest for the Presidency. Of course, he's talking about conservative DLC democrats, but still democrats. 5-29

Ex-Bush Homeland Security Chief Nominee Now Facing Corruption Probe Involving Mob. 5-29

Bill Bennett: “What Broke My Heart Is When [Bush] Said, 'I Need To Be More Sophisticated.' What Is This, Kerry Talk?” 5-29

Senator John McCain returns $20,000 donation from Texas donors who smeared him during the 2000 presidential election 5-29

Santorum tries to cover his tracks on residency 5-29

Rep. Silvestre Reyes: Bush's “Militarize-The-Border Theatrics” Are “About To Spill Into The Real World” 5-29

Bush notes "bring em on" was a big mistake after 3 years of Iraqis bringing it on. No shit, Sherlock. 5-26

Is the National Security Agency being "turned against the people," as the Congressional committee led by Sen. Frank Church warned might happen? We the people cannot know; it's classified. 5-26

When Ahnold Got Lay'd 5-26

Portland Mayor Tom Potter has filed a complaint with the FBI against an agent who invited a city employee to pass information to the agency, raising questions about how far the government is willing to go to spy on its citizens. 5-26

An in-depth look at George and Kenny-boy 5-26

Feds Believed Rove And Novak Devised Cover Story To Conceal Plame Leak. 5-26

US Senate to debate constitutional ban on gay marriage. 5-26

Treasury Secretary John Snow has signaled to the White House he is ready to resign 5-26

Bush orders documents seized in Capitol Hill search sealed 5-26

Department of Justice denies House Speaker Dennis Hastert is under investigation 5-26

Email sent by Delay Defense Fund praises Stephen Colbert for hard-hitting journalism. 5-26

Bush and Israeli PM agree on timetable to bomb Iran 5-26

Bolton to resume work on UN resolution targeting Iran 5-26

The Bush administration promoted David Satterfield, an alleged informant for a former AIPAC lobbyist facing trial in a classified information case. 5-26

Bush's Saudi friends are teaching kids at their schools to hate and destroy America in schools right here on American soil. 5-26

Asst. Atty. General further marginalizes judicial branch in favor of a supreme executive: The Whitehouse, not the courts should decide whether to keep programs such as its effort to eavesdrop on citizens a secret. 5-26

Public relations firm with many prominent neo-conservative clients was the source of the "Iranian Jews to wear yellow star" hoax. Kuwaiti babies in incubators, aluminum tubes... you know the routine by now. 5-25

Tom Delay's legal defense fund website features a clip from Stephen Colbert 5-25

Libby Told Grand Jury Cheney Spoke of Plame 5-25

White House's top spymaster can cite national security to exempt businesses from reporting requirements 5-25

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State and PNAC member Robert Zoellick is close to quitting after failing to be promoted to Treasury Secretary 5-25

Ex-Bush official hid Abramoff ties. 5-25

Remember Hastert earlier today complaining about Jefferson's raid? Apparently he has something to fear from the FBI 5-25

Congressional leaders protect their rights against unlawful search and seizure from the executive branch, but for everyone else: Not so much 5-25

August 03, 2005: Alleged Turkish Bribes of Hastert: A senior official at the Turkish Consulate is said to have claimed in one recording that the price for Hastert to withdraw the resolution would have been at least $50,000. 5-25

Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has formally asked Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) to resign from the powerful Ways and Means Committee. 5-25

Analysis of how the William Jefferson mess became a fight over Constitutionally-mandated separation of powers between the White House and the Congress 5-25

A federal database program intended to prevent hiring illegals about as reliable as the no-fly list. 5-25

General Hayden's confirmation process confirms the fear and passivity that governs Senate Democrats. 5-25

Government Secrecy Is A Farce 5-25

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke assured congressional leaders that he won't be running monetary policy via weekend dinner parties anymore. 5-25

Judicial Watch confirms White House is withholding records on the visits of prostitutes Jeff Gannon and Jack Abramoff 5-24

Hayden nomination moves to full Senate 5-24

Constitutionality of Jefferson raid questioned: House leaders assail FBI’s search of Democrat’s congressional office 5-24

Top CIA Officials To Testify Libby Lied To Grand Jury. 5-24

Vice President Dick Cheney campaigned Monday for the two veteran California Republican congressman who took the most money from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff 5-24

Republican-dominated Arizona legislature suing Democratic governor for abusing line-item veto power. 5-24

Ken Lay Asks Alma Mater To Return His $1.1M Enron Stock Donation To Help Pay Legal Bills. 5-24

Barbara Boxer: "This report proves that this administration is owned and operated by big oil." 5-24

Senate votes to raise fines on employers to $20,000 for each unauthorized worker instead of just enforcing the old law 5-24

Former U.S Navy Senior Council Says Bush Administration Open To War Crime Charges: Albert Moro, in his first broadcast interview. Click here to view Real Video 5-24

Lou Dobbs says President Bush and Congress are part of an "elitist war on the middle class" 5-24

Bush Plans To Sign Bill Limiting College Study Abroad: Gov. Bush to sign bill limiting student and professor study abroad in Cuba, Syria, Iran, North Korea and the Sudan - because we certainly don't need to learn more about those places 5-24

Israel's UN ambassador praises U.S. envoy Bolton jokingly describing him at one point as "a secret member of Israel's own team at the United Nations." 5-24

When Chinese leader Hu visited the US, he went to Microsoft first. When Mexican President Fox visits, he starts in Utah 5-24

All of your GOP misinformation in one convenient list 5-24

Judge says the Bush administration's permanent ban on speech it seeks with its FBI national security letters was probably unconstitutional. 5-24

Jefferson: There are two sides to every story of bribery caught on video tape and 90,000 bucks wrapped in aluminum foil in your freezer. 5-23

Republicans looking to compare the William Jefferson corruption case with the Tom DeLay corruption case might want to think twice 5-23

Prosecutor Says Libby Knew Plame's Identity Was Secret, Lied To Grand Jury. 5-23

MSNBC: Rove's legal team expects decision 'at any time' 5-23

The man who helped found the K Street Project and then tried to deny its existence, pulled in the most money from it. Santorum 5-23

Rep. "Freedom Fries" (R-FL): "We made a colossal mistake." 5-23

Immigration Bill Expected To Pass Senate This Week: Hastert May Block Version That Divides House GOP 5-23

In New Orleans, the USS New York is being built with 24 tons of steel from the World Trade Center. Election cycle symbolism overload. 5-23

Straussism: The Philosophy Directing The Age Of Tyranny: The purpose of this document is to present the principles of Straussism as a rosetta stone to give one the knowledge to decipher and translate the rhetoric and behavior of the George Bush neocon administration into some degree of coherent meaning. 5-23

2004: President Bush appoints former ChevronTexaco lawyer as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. 2006: Federal Trade Commission clears oil companies of price fixing 5-23

Hundreds of Abramoff’s WH Emails To Be Made Public. 5-22

Hand-Picked Bush Appointee, Bernard Kerik, To Lead Iraqi Police Training Prepared For Job By Watching A&E Shows On Saddam 5-22

Kerik was the guy who used the donated hotel room for 9-11 rescue workers as a hook-up place for his extra-marital affairs. 5-22

Hayden Expected To Be Confirmed As CIA Chief 5-22

Hayden's uniform says it all: sending the wrong message for America 5-22

Ex-deputy secretary of state new figure in CIA leak probe: Armitage's testimony could hurt Vice President Cheney's indicted former chief aide Lewis (Scooter) Libby, or President Bush's political guru, Karl Rove 5-22.

Top McCain Aide Insults Entire College Graduating Class: "Very Unlikely Any Of You Will Ever Possess...One Small Fraction Of The Character Of John McCain" after McAin delivers exact same speech at Falwell's university. 5-22

In open split with Bush, top US conservative calls for independent movement 5-22

Gonzales Says Vote on English Symbolic.... Or as we call it, a divisive non-issue created by republicans during an election year to blame a minority for our problems 5-22

Election year symbolism overload: In New Orleans, the USS New York is being built with 24 tons of steel from the World Trade Center. 5-22

Reports on May 18th Rally at White House and March to Rumsfeld's House

That census data that says there are more minority-owned businesses than ever? Well, not really 5-22

The full impact of a proposal by President Bush to terminate funding for urban Indian health centers is unclear, but one anticipated result is an influx of patients to reservation-based facilities, according to testimony received by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs earlier this year. 5-22

A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant. Bonus points: He's a democrat! 5-22

Agents found $90,000 in cash last year in his Washington home. 5-22

Hawaiian Vacation house that sleeps 12. Hooker parties at the Watergate. Traveling with an indicted briber. It's good to be the CIA's #3 5-18

Rove Indictment and Jason Leopold 5-18

News leak makes NSA call logging program public. Solution: Issue an executive order allowing telcom companies to lie about what they are doing 5-18

Chief of the Osama bin Laden unit at the CIA: "I think Iraq is finished. We’ll just find a way to get out. I frankly don’t think we ever intended to win there." 5-18

Bush: Gov't handouts to wildly profiting oil companies good, Farm Aid bad 5-18

Bush Signs $70 Billion Tax Cut Extensions to give poor a break on capital gains 5-18

Senate OKs border fence with Mexico, as well as an amnesty program. 5-18

Chertoff: National Guard on the Border Would Be "Horribly Over-Expensive and Very Difficult" 5-18

Washington Post and ABC news poll shows Republicans are now trailing behind Democrats on all main issues 5-18

Trent Lott: “I've Never Been Comfortable With This Administration's Reluctance To Give Us Proper Briefings”. 5-18

Alberto Gonzales Admits His Grandparents May Have Been Illegal Immigrants From Mexico. 5-18

Ethics Panel Starts 3 Probes 5-18

Congressman Murtha claims US Marines "killed innocent civilians in cold blood" in Haditha, Iraq last November. No firefight. No bomb. Just executing men, women, and children 5-18

Enron jurors retire to consider Skilling and Lay verdicts 5-18

In the wreckage that followed Hurricane Katrina, we saw the failure of Bush's 'You're-on-your-own' economic and social policies. 5-18

NY Times reporter Judith Miller claims she received tip-off about the 9/11 attacks two months before they occurred, was ultimately denied printing story by NYT editor 5-18

The new tax bill passed by Congress offers a $4.3 billion tax break for oil companies while dropping a $4.5 billion tax break for people paying college tuition 5-17

Government Tracking ABC News' Phone Calls To Catch Whistleblowers. 5-16

FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game 5-16

Reporter Grills Rove On Why He Lied About Involvement In CIA Leak Case. 5-16

Jason Leopold update on Rove Indictment Story 5-16

Most Notorious Terrorists Missing From Pentagon's Guantanamo List. Kinda like some known Abramoff visits were not listed on the WH list of Abramoff visits. 5-16

US invokes "state secrets" privilege: Lawsuit against former CIA head's kidnap/torture of German citizen would harm to US security 5-16

Bush says he's going to put 5,000 National Guard troops on the border, but he says, "We will not militarize the southern border". 5-16

GOP Sex And Bribery Probe Growing...Hill Staffers Called In For Interviews. 5-16

What those red-blue electoral maps, at the county level, would look like if based on current presidential approval ratings. (pics) 5-16

How many more times do we have to be shown glaring evidence that the war was a con job from the word go 5-16

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime 1.0 5-15

White House releases partial record of Abramoff visits, misses 3 that were previously known. 5-11

If you're only going to release the records of two visits of a convicted lobbyist to the White House, try to make sure that one of those visits wasn't on the day you nominated one of his aides to federal office 5-11

The government has abruptly ended an inquiry into the warrantless eavesdropping program because the National Security Agency refused to grant Justice Department lawyers the necessary security clearance to probe the matter. 5-11

Official: Allegations of illegal CIA activities in Europe are hurting ability to perform illegal CIA activities in Europe 5-11

HUD secretary who refused to loan to non-Bushbots, claims he was just kidding 5-11

George Bush Sr. and Dubya think Governor Jeb Bush should run for election to be the next president. Jeb's a PNAC guy too, so don't expect much of a personnel change. 5-11

Hillary Clinton introduces bill to link congressional pay raises to the minimum wage, so they can't raise one without raising the other. 5-11

Rove's campaign strategy? "Painting Democrats as the party of tax increases, gay marriage, secularism and military weakness." 5-11

Nothing is ever Rumsfeld's fault; not the occupation; not the lack of soldiers; not the looting in Baghdad, not the faulty-armor, not the resistance, nothing. Ever! 5-11

There is more likelihood of being able to trace a suitcase or a GM tomato than lethal weapons, according to new research released today by the Control Arms campaign 5-11

Like father like daughter: Mary Cheney says that when John Edwards referred to her in the vice presidential debate in 2004 she looked at him and mouthed "Go F*ck Yourself." 5-11

Bush worked a courtyard where Frank Sinatra's "Young At Heart" played on the loudspeakers, then went indoors, where people were working on laptops. He walked around giving handshakes and hugs to those who rose for his entrance, and greeted a man who remained sitting in a wheelchair with, "You look mighty comfortable." 5-11

Taxpayer-funded research to be made free 5-11

Rebellion In The House: Speaker Comes Out Against Bush's CIA Choice. 5-10

President Bush and several other Republican officials have begun shedding campaign donations from former House aide and lobbyist Neil Volz, the latest person to plead guilty in a widening lobbying scandal. 5-10

House Republican leaders are ready to move forward on tax breaks worth $70 billion over five years to investors and some middle-income families 5-10

Bush's Entire Florida Trip Details Found In Trash. 5-10

Saipan and Enron: Why the Abramoff scandal is way bigger than you think 5-10

Recruiting Abuses Mount as Army Struggles to Meet Goals 5-10

Kucinich Asks Tough Questions of Bush, Rumsfeld: Kucinich wrote, "Any military deployment to Iran would constitute an urgent matter of national significance. I urge you to report immediately to Congress on all activities involving American forces in Iran." 5-10

What are the odds that Bush would use almost the exact same words to nominate Porter Goss, as he would to nominate Gen. 5-10

Benefits of being a legislator include pushing a bill to give yourself the power to approve or reject the TV ads of people you've had business disputes with 5-10

White House demanding all agencies talk about "progress in Iraq" in every speech/talk. White House keeping score of who does and doesn't 5-10

Gen. Michael Hayden refused to answer question about spying on political enemies 5-9

Paper Reveals Frist Let Drug Lobbyists Write Legislation He Snuck Into Defense Bill. 5-9

WH Orders All Cabinet Members To Put Positive War On Terror And Iraq Message Into All Their Speeches 5-9

USDA: Defenders of the corrupt 5-9

U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development says no HUD contracts if you criticize Bush 5-9

31% 5-9

No 3. At CIA Quits Amid Bribery, Poker Parties, Prostitution Scandal. 5-9

Bush On George Washington: “The Interesting Thing About Him Is That I Read Three Or Four Books About Him Last Year. Isn't That Interesting?” 5-9

Republicans Set Aside Middle-Income Tax Cuts to Focus on Rich 5-9

White House denies receiving letter from Iranian president 5-9

Kyle "Dusty" Foggo expected to resign as CIA's number three man. 5-9

White House talking points on new CIA appointee at Rawstory 5-9

Senior Intel Officer: John Negroponte “Is Willing To Give Up Covert Operations To The Pentagon”. 5--9

Looks like Hayden already has his scandal 5-9

Rep Bob Ney's (R-OH) aide makes a deal with investigators 5-9

A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, R-Calif., to help it collect data on houses of worship, schools, power plants and other locations in the United States. 5-9

Meet the dirtiest senator in the country. 5-9

Public Interest Groups Call for Corruption Investigation Into Prescription Drug Law 5-9

General Hayden's 4th Amendment gaff 5-9

BILLIONS SPENT ON BORDER SECURITY HAVE FAILED: The U.S. has pumped billions of dollars into beefing up security at the Mexican border -- resulting in more arrests and big profits for private contractors. 5-9

Dean dismissed the idea that Democrats would seek to impeach President Bush if they won back control of Congress — a possibility floated by Republicans looking to galvanize their base. 5-9

Potential Evidence Surfaces of Bush's Illegal Spying. Details quite frightening 5-9

US President George W. Bush has said the September 11 revolt of passengers against their hijackers on board Flight 93 had struck the first blow of "World War III". 5-8

The most forceful defender of Bush's eavesdropping program is Bush's choice for CIA director 5-8

Republican head of the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee: CIA director choice would be the "wrong person at the wrong place at the wrong time,". 5-8

Bush names Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden to lead the embattled CIA on Monday despite criticism from Republicans and Democrats alike. 5-8

How Bush sidesteps intent of Congress Instead of vetoing bills, he officially disregards portions with which he doesn't agree 5-8

Dems want price-gouging to be a federal crime, stop tax breaks for Big Oil and raise fuel-efficiency 5-8

Indiana congressman forces CDC to replace scientists at STD conference with abstinence proponents. Unlike other participants, no peer review necessary and feds will pay their way 5-8

Agency lost power under Goss, some officials say: Work force exodus and doubt on terror role seen as demoralizing 5-8

Xenophobia on the rise: school committee member files motion to remove Spanish-language emergency exit signs from high school 5-8

Bush cautions graduates against isolating themselves from their neighbors. 5-8

Mehlman Warns GOP They Could Lose 45 House Seats. 5-8

White House backs Cheney on Russia. Which is shocking, since he IS the Whitehouse. 5-8

Bush: “I Would Say The Best Moment Of All [My Presidency] Was When I Caught A 7.5 Pound Perch In My Lake”. Fishin' Accomplished 5-8

Bush still claiming to see the souls of other world leaders he meets with: This time, Germany 5-8

Gore “Thinking About [Running For President]... Talked To People About The Pros And Cons”. 5-8

Jeff "Bulldog" Gannon: I've "absolutely never stayed overnight at the White House." 5-8

Goss the reason for his resignation will have to be "One of those mysteries". Mystery Escorts Service inc. unavailable for comment 5-8

Top CIA official under investigation for connections to the Randall Cunningham bribery scandal 5-3

36 US House Reps Want Bush Impeachment Probe 5-3

Secret Service records of Abramoff visits to White House will be incomplete 5-3

Cato Institute: Bush had shown disdain and indifference for the US constitution by adopting an “astonishingly broad” view of presidential powers 5-3

Bush and the Republicans to extend 70 billion in tax cuts 5-3

Midterm Presidential Approval and 2006 5-3

A sampling of ten laws Bush has nullified with the use of cleverly-worded signing statements. And there are over 740 more the article doesn't list 5-3

Dick Cheney's Paranoia: Brings A Chemical Suit Everywhere, Changes Driving Route To Avoid “The Jackal”. 5-3

President frowns on Spanish National Anthem but has website in Espanol 5-3

Bush, who supports singing the national anthem in English these days, had the national anthem sung in Spanish at his inaugural in 2001. 5-3

CEO implicated in bribery of ranking Congressman Bill Jefferson (D-LA) pleads guilty 5-3

Santorum Making Robo-Calls For GOP Rep. Who Paid Domestic Abuse Settlement To Mistress. 5-3

Senate votes to save pork projects by slipping them into an Iraq funding bill 5-3

Bush has challenged over 750 laws passed by Congress claiming executive privilege 5-1

Rove's replacement is considering doing away with televised Press Briefings 5-1

As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as "top secret" or "confidential," one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney. 5-1

Frank Rich Column in NYT: Downing Street Memo proved correct; Bush fixed intel 5-1

Cheney's Halliburton Ties Remain 5-1

Republican plans wouldn't lower gasoline prices, would raise profit Democrat says 5-1

Colin Powell: I Told Bush, Rumsfeld They Needed More Troops In Iraq 5-1

Rice sent out on Sunday talk show circuit to do PR while PNAC member and second in command, Robert B. Zoellick runs things as usual. 5-1

Rep. Hostettler suggests that INS look into the hiring practices of businesses that are temporarily closing due to lack of workers on the day of the boycott 5-1

Bush's Energy Secy. Says Prepare For At Least 3 Years Of High Gas Prices. (And record oil industry profits.) 5-1

Tens of thousands in New York march against the war in Iraq 5-1

2005

Elder Bush would like son Jeb to run for president 6-1

Apparently, requesting documents so that your colleagues can make an informed vote is nothing more than an unfair stalling process 6-1

An agent of the executive branch paraded into the Senate Chamber with a proposal that directly trashes one of the most important protections in our Bill of Rights, and the esteemed legislator’s only reply was that he cannot say if it is "right or wrong". 6-1

GOP Congressman wants to outlaw city-owned wireless internet nationwide. Recent million dollar deposit in his bank account entirely coincidental 6-1

President Clinton was impeached for perjury about his sexual relationships. Comparing Clinton's misbehavior to a destructive and costly war occupation launched in March 2003 under false pretenses in violation of domestic and international law certainly merits introduction of an impeachment resolution. 6-1

Bolton: Secrets Spilled? : The bitter debate about John Bolton's nomination to the United Nations may have called unwelcome attention to the spying practices of the National Security Agency. Bolton told Congress last month that he asked the NSA for the names of Americans in raw intel reports. NSA rules prohibit the agency from spying on Americans 6-1

"Deep throat" is Mark Felt. 5-31

President Bush on Memorial Day Calls US a `Reluctant Warrior' with a straight face 5-31

Santorum takes legal bribe, proposes bill to benefit bribe-giver, harm taxpayers 5-29

U.S. Set to Test Missile Defenses aboard Airlines; Defence contractors salivate for $10 Billion in tax payers money. 5-31

Bush administration wants to redefine the 'war on terror' to something more ambiguous 5-31

The FBI, the Torture and Murder of Kenneth Trentadue and Advanced Knowledge of the Oklahoma City Bombing: Uncovering a DOJ Coverup 5-31

Former Dem explains why he's leaving the Left, for fun and profit 5-31

Why Did Feith Resign? 5-31

Cuban militant worked for U.S. in covert Contra supply network: Shortly after escaping from a Venezuelan prison twenty years ago, Luis Posada Carriles turned up as "Ramon Medina" at a Salvadoran airfield that was part of a secret White House project to funnel weapons to U.S.-backed Contra rebels waging war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government. 5-31

Ohio Governor in hot water for investing 12 million taxpayer dollars in a rare coin collection... which is missing 5-28

Democrats Force Senate to Delay a Vote on Bolton 5-28

Texas judge ruled that Tom Delay's Texas political committee violated Texas campaign law when it failed to disclose more than half a million dollars in corporate campaign contributions during the 2002 state legislative elections. DN speaks with the executive director of Texans for Public Justice. 5-27

US Passes 491 Billion Defense Bill : The House defeated an amendment that would have compelled the administration of President George W. Bush to lay out a specific timetable for pulling out from Iraq, by a vote of 300-128. 5-27

Congress Votes on Withdrawal of Troops: Below is the vote concerning the Lynn Woolsey Amendment to the Defense Authorization. Those voting in favor were voting in favor of a plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq 5-27

The Fascist View of Public Intellectuals: Policy is being fixed around the facts of corporate America’s insatiable lust for profits, desire to control world oil supply, and to maintain Israel as a key ally facing interminable Arab rejection. 5-27

Two civilian defense contractor employees--told to remain silent--say other workers quietly retro-fitted missile and remote control systems onto A-3 jets at Colorado public airport prior to September 11 when similar A-3 parts much smaller than a Boeing 757 were found at Pentagon 5-27

A significant 6 in 10 people do not believe that President George W. Bush shares the same priorities as they do, reaffirming the growing consensus that the President is out of touch with most Americans 5-27

Thanks to President Bush, Florida family has to go to Tijuana, Mexico to get stem cell treatment for their sick 4-year-old 5-27

How to lose a country in seven easy steps 5-27

Rape Rooms: A Chronology What Bush said as the Iraq prison scandal unfolded. 5-27

If you're the Governator and you want a photo-op filling in a pot-hole, make sure nobody finds out city crews dug it 'specially for you 5-27

Cloaking Red State Fascism: Lew Rockwell on conservative euphemisms for state aggression. 5-27

State legislators arrested in bribery sting. If you're a lawmaker taking bribes to introduce bills, don't threaten to kill the undercover FBI agent who's paying you $50,000 5-27

The memo: Boston constitutional lawyer seeks Resolution of Inquiry on Iraq 5-27

When will Democrats realize that they will remain a minority party so long as they only dare to take on Bush and the Republicans on domestic issues? 5-27

In 1995 Kenneth Trentadue was murdered by federal agents in a federal prison in Oklahoma City. A coverup immediately went into effect. Federal authorities claimed Trentadue, who was being held in a suicide-proof cell, had committed suicide by hanging himself, but the state coroner would not buy the story. 5-27

Is the U. S. guilty of Crimes against Peace? : To many Americans, the idea that U. S. leaders could be prosecuted for war crimes comes right out of left field. 5-27

Legislation issuing apology to American Indians under consideration 5-27

Texas Judge Finds DeLay's Political Committee Guilty of Violating Campaign Finance Law 5-26

10,000 protest governor: Firefighters, teachers, nurses oppose proposed changes in policy 5-26

Congressman Who Demanded French Toast Be Renamed "Freedom Toast" Waffles and now says US went to war "with no justification" 5-26

A Conservative Calling for Bush Removal 5-26

Bush: "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." 5-26

GOP still wanting Bolton for UN position 5-26

Coingate is the scandal that keeps giving / taking away from Ohio GOP 5-26

Senator who allowed Bolton vote scared shitless about what he has done 5-26

Virginia delagate who introduced the 'droopy drawers' bill, plans to reintroduce the bill next year 5-26

Bill Maher responds to Congressman: Me Treasonous? You're The Congressman Sitting On Your As s While Troops Are Dying 5-26

Keep in mind that based on past form, whatever lunacy is going on in Texas will eventually sweep the country. 5-26

Nebraska Senators get dinner from lobbyists when they have to work into the night 5-26

Warren Beatty's speech to Arnold --eloquent! 5-26

A North Carolina congressman who once pushed for the creation of a home-mortgage program in Russia was quietly giving out loans with interest rates as high as 60 percent 5-26

Anytime you have someone like Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), a cheerleader for the War on Iraq, a stalwart backer of the worst Zionist excesses of the Israeli state, lining up with Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a guy who headed up the House impeachment campaign against President Bill Clinton, a staunch conservative in moderate clothing, progressives need to worry. 5-26

Frist to break Senate deal on filibusters 5-25

Stem Cell Bill Vote 109th Congress, 1st Session 5-25

Democrats did gain something from filibuster deal: a power struggle within the Republican Party 5-25

House Speaker Tom Delay deems stem cell research "the dismemberment of living, distinct human beings for the purposes of medical experimentation", vows to pressure Republican supporters to change vote to block research Click here to see living, distinct human beings 5-25

Bush comes out against policy that "destroys life in order to save life", referring to stem cells, not Iraq 5-25

Condoleezza Rice's Credibility Gap: How she became the Secretary of State. 5-25

Has Google Gone Mad? Remember folks, the PNAC has stated that part of their agenda was control of the internet 5-25

Team NCPA: The Right Redefines Non-Partisan 5-25

Twilight of Secular Democracy in America? Bush and the Angry God 5-25

People for the American way 5-24

The world in the palm of their hands: Bilderberg 2005 5-25

US: Senate Committee Silence on Halliburton Bemoaned 5-25

This woman's name should be on every Americans lips 5-25

Republican congressman offers White House tours to anyone who gives him $5000. Angry White House points out tours are free 5-25

The Smoking Gun reveals the real reason why Bush has connection to the tyrannical leaders of Uzbekistan 5-24

Bush approval ratings near historic low 5-24

Following Dubya's preemptive strike policies, homeland security considers shooting down planes that fly too close to the white house 5-24

Trent Lott takes issue with James Dobson's assessment of his conservatism 5-24

Elton John Threatens Rick Santorum’s Marriage 5-24

Fabricating Intelligence as Justification for War 5-24

Here, for the person truly concerned with the welfare of humankind, American and non-American alike, may be the first lesson of bogus wars: never enlist in a war against something or someone that can't surrender. 5-24

Despite defining "hypocrisy", anti-gay gay-mayor Jim West refuses to resign 5-24

Former NJ Senate co-President, forced to step down over ethics issues, sees nothing wrong with representing his party as they attempt to clean their house of corruption 5-24

Antiwar Christians Protest Bush College Visit 5-23

Libya Lobbyist Holds Seat on Top U.S. Energy Board: the U.S. lobbyist for Muammar Gaddafi has for the past year quietly held a seat on the Energy Department's top advisory board, and the former energy secretary who appointed her now serves on the board of a major U.S. oil company seeking contracts in Libya. 5-23

It was intended to catch wealthy tax dodgers, but instead has crept closer to the middle class over the years. So a bipartisan group of senators wants to eliminate the alternative minimum tax even though it would deprive the government of billions of dollars in revenue. 5-23

Why didn't anyone notify the commander-in-chief that his wife was being evacuated and a plane was headed towards the White House until 36 minutes after the all clear? White House says it was post-9/11 "protocol" 5-23

All other witness testimonies for the hearings on the Oil for Food scandal are available on the Committee's website in PDF form. But Galloway's testimony is the only document not on the site. 5-23

The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes. 5-20

One of the best articles I've seen on the topic: WTC 7 Smoke & Mirrors On 9/11 5-23

The Christianity of George WMD Bush 5-23

Security At Any Price? Homeland protection isn't just Job 1 in Washington; it's more like a big old government ATM 5-23

San Francisco progressive begins her four-month journey through the Red States. Her first stop: the bluest town in Texas. 5-23

Cowboy Bush Returns From Michigan With New Saddle, still can't ride a horse -ed. 5-22 Cowboy Bush Returns From Michigan With New Saddle, still can't ride a horse -ed. 5-22

Republicans threaten to starve UN of funds 5-21

State Department says it's a terror group. Human Rights Watch says it’s a cult. White House calls it a valuable source of Iran intel 5-20

Sen. Rick Santorum compares Senate Democrats to Hitler 5-20

They keep going through the motions in Washington, much like the Roman Senate used to meet in solemn conclaves and pretend that their flatulent oratory had some effect on the real engines of imperial power. 5-20

Republican fundraiser accused of fraud so cozy with party big wigs 5 out of 7 Ohio Supreme court justices have to recuse themselves from case 5-20

Acu-weather pays Santorum $5,500. Santorum introduces legislation to ban the National Weather Service from posting on the internet 5-20

Lawmakers quietly eliminated a state office that was meant to review Florida education programs because the office was too often critical of state policy 5-20

Bush protects self confessed terrorist. Apparently when terror is used against an enemy of the US, that's not terror, that’s freedom marching 5-20

New nickname for President Bush, courtesy of Homer Simpson 5-20

Which false report did more damage? 5-20

US President George W. Bush has condemned stem cell research advances in South Korea saying he will veto any US legislation aimed at loosening restrictions on embryonic stem cell research. 5-21

Can The Bush People Really Be So Clueless? The author wonders how the United States could be so out of touch with what its own soldiers and investigators are doing, while it “rants around the world” about democracy and human rights. 5-20

Bush and bin Laden Say of Armageddon, 'Bring It On': “Al-Qaeda is working to turn the story of Megiddo and the End of Time into reality. And the president of the United States, George W. Bush, believes Armageddon is at hand.” 5-20

Porn Star Mary Carey to Dine With Bush and Rove 5-20

BUSH: WORST PRESIDENT EVER? Herbert Hoover may have triggered the Great Depression, but he didn't invade another nation on false pretenses, authorize torture of prisoners, or try to stack the courts. 5-20

Voters dissatisfied with Bush, Congress NBC/WSJ poll reveals 'angry electorate' 5-19

Frist Implodes on Senate Floor 5-19

FBI: Grenade at Bush Rally Was Live 5-19

Relying on an unreliable source? Causing harm to America's image abroad? Getting people killed? No, it's not WMDs, the war in Iraq, or Abu Ghraib -- it's a rush-to-judgement item in a popular newsweekly. Who is Scott McClellan to lecture the media on "credibility"? 5-19

U.S. House Votes to Replace Color-Coded Terror Threat Warnings 5-19

Frist talks of "assassinating" judges: GOP leader says Dems trying to assassinate judges, while judge whose family was murdered testifies 5-19

Conservatives call George Galloway an "arrogant, Saddam-loving, pro-terror, bully". Donald Rumsfeld whistles, shuffles his feet 5-19

Fear: The Foundation of Every Government's Power 5-19

George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America’s reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the US. America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable. 5-19

This is a must watch 4 Minute Video - Real Video and MP3 Galloway slams U.S. justice as he rejects charges 5-18

Video Of The Full Testimony Of British MP George Galloway Before The U.S. Senate 5-18

Senator Norm Coleman gets a second ass kicking at the hands of Mr. Galloway 5-18 Maybe we could get George Galloway to come over and be our opposition party.

Democrats Fight for America...When the Lights are on 5-18

The Bush administration knew about the illegal oil sales and kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's regime but did nothing about them, according to a report from Democrats on a Senate committee. 5-18

Former GOP official wants charges dismissed because the grand jury that indicted him included Democrats 5-18

Congress passes highway bill, could possibly result in first veto of Bush presidency 5-18

Bush serves $1,500 dinners, gets tipped $15 million 5-18

Jeb Bush's 2005 Losses Won't Hurt Presidential Prospects 5-18

The Scourge of Nationalism by Howard Zinn 5-18

Here's a question for international news hounds. Who is the ''son of a bitch'' referred to in this comment by a U.S. Defence Department spokesman? 5-18

May 18, 2005 U.S. Arrests Cuban Exile Accused in Deadly '76 Airline Bombing 5-18

Frist insists on going nucular 5-17

Democrat lawmakers demand greater accountability from contractors in Iraq 5-17

Republicans deny politics in base closings. Say it's just a coincidence that Blue states will lose 24,000 jobs while Red states will gain 12,000 5-17

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal promised Americans "cradle-to-grave security." Today, President Bush and big corporations are set to unravel that promise, replacing it with a Raw Deal. Under the guise of the "Ownership Society," President Bush is helping companies foist costs and risk onto American workers. 5-17

Social security, World War II, and Medicare were all achieved without a single republican vote. The budget was balanced in the 90's and an ethnic cleansing was stopped in Kosovo all without help from Republicans. In fact in the 90's the surplus was large enough to shore up social security for 100 years. 5-17

Report Critical of Rumsfeld Is Pulled After DOD Protest 5-16

Bush struggling to convince public on Iraq: poll 5-16

Dick Cheney a dark horse candidate for 2008 presidental race 5-16

The Office of Special Counsel exists to protect federal workers from job discrimination and whistle-blowing retaliation. Here's how Scott Bloch turned it into a haven for gay-bashing and partisan politics. 5-16

Dubyaman's Free Reich: In democracy, Bush has found a self-legitimising tool for world domination 5-16

Gagged, But Not Dead By Sibel Edmonds The Appeal Court’s decision on Sibel Edmonds’ Case is out: ‘Case Dismissed;’ no opinion cited; no reason provided. 5-16

Military Base Restructuring: "Red states will gain 11,863 jobs, while blue states stand to lose 24,979 jobs." 5-14

Bill Frist double parked and held up traffic, got ticketed, got protested - and all this to buy two pairs of shoes from Allen-Edmonds for $530 bucks 5-14

Bush , Cheney reveal assets 5-14

Judge who exonerated Cheney is on the payroll of Exxon 5-13

Current Sec of State Rice strongly supports Bolton. Now you know why she's where she is 5-13

In other news, the Iran-contra felons got great jobs from Bush and are back in business 5-13

Republican George V. Voinovich of Ohio put John Bolton's U.N. nomination in jeopardy by delivering scathing criticism of the nominee, then voting to send him to the Senate without a recommendation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. 5-13

The e-mails revive questions about the fairness, thoroughness and conduct of a government case that once was hailed by the Bush administration as a major victory in the war on terror before it collapsed. 5-13

Senator Chafee has decided to reluctantly support the Bolton nomination, I need you to do 2 things right now to personally lobby Senator Chafee to change his mind: 5-13

IN WEDNESDAY'S WHITE HOUSE EVACUATION, NO OFFICIAL NOTICE TO PRESS A public address system installed after the Sept. 11 attacks to warn White House reporters about an emergency was not used Wednesday when the building was evacuated after a small plane flew into unrestricted air space over Washington, D.C. 5-13

Bush's anti-abortion-refuses-to-prescribe-birth-control-to-unmarried-women appointee to head the FDA Advisory Committee of Reproductive Drugs forcibly sodomized his wife for years 5-12

John Bolton's divorce records allege that the potential future ambassador to the U.N. used to frequent notorious N.Y.C. swinger's club Plato's Retreat in the 70's and frequently forced his wife to participate in group sex. 5-12

Sessions' bill would end estate tax 5-12

President Bush's standing as a leader who can make trade deals come to fruition would be seriously undercut if Congress rejects an agreement with Central America 5-12

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio may again be abusing his police powers for political purposes. 5-12

The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says. 5-12

Cheney gets to keep his energy task force dealings secret 5-11

The State Department won't turn over more internal documents requested by Senate Democrats investigating John R. Bolton's fitness to be UN ambassador 5-11

Suspected Terrorist responsible for bombing of civilian airliner seeks asylum in the United States 5-11

Terror alert system based on politics, not terror 5-11

Orange terror alerts coincided with Bush's poll numbers 5-11

If you think that you got a good deal out of the tax cuts, consider this...5-11

Do we really want this man running the NY Stock Exchange? 5-11

Cheney Raises Cash For Anti-Gay Amendment Author 5-11

LUIS POSADA CARRILES - THE DECLASSIFIED RECORD CIA and FBI Documents Detail Career in International Terrorism; Connection to U.S. 5-11

Senate to pass a bill exempting Department of Homeland Security from all judicial oversight. 5-10

Could this have anything to do with Bush's little European trip? 5-10

Four bloody lies of war, from Havana 1898 to Baghdad 2003: The Bush Administration's lies about its rationales for attacking Iraq fit a pattern of deceit that has dragged America into at least three other unjust and catastrophic wars. 5-10

Kick the imperialists out of power and get rid of the lobbyists representing foreign governments. 5-10

Rumsfeld’s Mystery Contingency Operations CACI Gets Bigger 5-10

Governments protest Koran desecration at Guantanamo Bay 5-10

Republican-only poll shows majority support for stem-cell research. Same group indicates 90% approval of Bush 5-10

Sen. Clinton's Financing in the Spotlight: Clinton hasn't been linked to anything, but Republicans are trying 5-9

"We're just not very good at it," Mr Cannistraro said. "I'm talking about the whole US Government. It's pretty clear we have not been able to penetrate Zarqawi's group. Those in custody have been captured in operations. It does not appear we have agents in place – everything else is serendipity and happenstance." 5-9

Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11: Professor Griffin argues that "omissions and distortions" in the report amount to a cover-up by government officials and says that the available evidence suggests that the Bush administration was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. (Windows Media. right-click, save target as) 5-9

From Iran-contra to Iraq: The George W. Bush presidency has been one long rehab session for the Iran-contra scoundrels of the Reagan-Bush administration 5-9

Jack Abramoff led a Congressional delegation to Pakistan in 1997 but failed to disclose that he was a registered lobbyist for the Pakistani government. 5-9

How else do you call a "War President" embroiled for 3 years in 2 wars that he's losing? Embroiled for 4 years in a "War on Terror" that bred more terrorists than ever before? 5-9

What's being written elsewhere about West case 5-9

Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), has released a letter signed by 88 fellow Representatives. The letter demands an investigation into the revelation that the American and British governments colluded secretly to manipulate intelligence as a means of justifying a decision to invade Iraq that had already been made. The Conyers letter and names of the House signatories can be read here. pdf format 5-9

An Agent of the Dark Side: Jude Wanniski on John Bolton. 5-9

The Top 5 Things I Need When I Am Homeless 5-9

John Bolton: 'The Abhorrent Non-Diplomat' 5-7

Congressman tells special interest groups if they want his attention, fly him to Vegas 5-7

An Open Letter to My Husband's Chain of Command: The Players of the Game by Monica Benderman 5-7

Rats say goodbye to the sinking SS Tom Delay 5-6

Fraudulent Labeling by Bernard J. Fine 5-2

DeLay Fundraising Scandal Expands into White House; Bush Florida 2000 recount committee still owes lobbyist's former firm $314k 5-6

Bush Administration's World of Marmelade Skies 5-7

“BILL FRIST’S DECLARATION OF WAR”’ “The Coming 2nd Civil War,” No. 11 5-7

The unholy trinity of electronic snooping: The three key participants who have emerged as orchestrating the misuse of NSA and other U.S. intelligence resources to conduct surveillance of those who opposed neoconservative plans to invade Iraq and ratchet up tensions with North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, the Palestinian Authority headed by the late Yasir Arafat, and the former government of Haiti are Bolton, Negroponte and Hayden 5-6

"Academic Bill of Rights" could mean flat-earthers must be given equal time in class for their "theories".

"The intelligence was not simply mistaken; it was manufactured, with the president of the United States awarding George Tenet the Medal of Freedom for his role in helping supervise the deceit" 5-5

Bush the biggest spending president in 30 years 5-5

Labor Department warns unions against using their money politically 5-5 Since that's an exclusive right for corporations -ed.

In case you missed it, W's most recent radio address promoted investing in Treasury Bonds. You know, those things he referred to as "worthless IOUs" not all that long ago 5-5

Congressman apologizes for backrubbing and/or choking and/or pain that was caused by his adultery.. err ... um... “casual acquaintance.” 5-5

Not good enough for local paper, world 5-5

Analyst charged with passing secret info to Iran. 5-5

Lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid at least a portion of the expenses for two Democratic members of Congress also 5-5

Army immediately knew Tillman's death was friendly fire due to "gross negligence", but waited for the media coverage to die down before telling the public 5-5

Hillary Clinton brings home the dollars for New York's defense contractors 5-5

Rep. calls for deeper inquiry into secret Iraq attack plan 5-4

64 year old (and married) republican Congressman accused of choking 29-year-old woman during backrub in his apartment. Joe Scarborough unavailable for comment 5-4

"You could close down Amtrak and run the Iraq war for another six days" 5-4

A brief history of how both Republicans and Democrats have flip-flopped on the judicial filibuster 5-4

FBI agents questioned former Mossad senior official Uzi Arad, he said Monday, as part of the ongoing investigation into whether classified US material about Iran was improperly passed on to Israel. 5-4

Jack Abramoff: "I felt that the resources coming into my hands were the consequence of God putting them there." How is it that all these far right-wing guys think that the unscrupulous sh*t that they do is "God's will'?? This kind of behavior ought to be offensive and intollerable to all people who consider themselves "religious". 5-3

Cheney does a little fear mongering 5-3

Rice says nothing to fear from real threat 5-3

Vice President To Visit Law Enforcement Students In Brunswick 5-3

Former Attorney General John Ashcroft will open a new lobbying shop to provide "strategic consulting, security and internal investigative services, and crisis counseling" to corporations, political coalitions and trade associations. 5-3

WHO HAS THE WMD'S? WE DO 5-3

Bush's first 100 days of his second term 5-3

What Douglas Feith knew, and when he knew it. 5-3

Between Beasts and Gods 5-3

Florida minimum wage upped by one half gallon of gas 5-2

Rush Limbaugh's appeal thrown out by Florida Supreme Court 5-2

Anti-Nuke, Anti-War Activists Rally in NYC 5-2

American Indians are credited with inventing the roots of 10 Olympic sports. Why, then, has the International Olympic Committee (IOC) turned a cold shoulder to the idea of tribal members joining the games under the banner of their sovereign nations? 5-2

Reading classified government documents is as easy as cut-and-paste 5-2

Laura Bush has never seen Desperate Housewives and the whole routine was cooked up by the official White House joke writer 5-2

Bush Twins Unemployment Index: May Edition 5-2

President George Bush was bundled into an underground bunker, Dick Cheney was evacuated to an "undisclosed location" and heavily armed secret servicemen took up defensive positions when a fast-moving cloud scudded towards the White House, it was reported yesterday. 5-2

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