RCN Responds to My NSA Inquiry
To keep everyone abreast of who is or isn't conspiring with the NSA to violate our privacy rights, I thought I'd post this reply from RCN Customer Service. RCN is my telephone company (both local and...
View ArticleDeLay Donor Files Bankruptcy (Beats Deadline)
This is the most ironic and hypocritical thing I've seen from the GOP in the last...er, uh...hour. It seems that one of DeLay's businessmen cronies -- who served as Treasurer of the Texans for a...
View ArticleDonna Brazile: Shilling for the Prez
Americablog has a great entry on today's Washington Post column by Donna Brazile, wherein she embarrasses herself with praise for Bush's speech and a humiliating display of her aching desire to be a...
View ArticleNYT (& many others) Call on Bush to Rescind Wage Rule Suspension
In a new editorial, the New York Times is calling on Bush to rescind his proclamation suspending the Davis-Bacon Act -- the law that requires federal contractors to pay prevailing wages. Bush's move...
View ArticleOutrageous!!! - GOP taking from the poor to provide hurricane relief
Tomorrow the GOP is moving a bill "on suspension" through the House to provide $51.8 billion in hurricane relief. "On suspension" means there will be no opportunity to read the bill, no opportunity to...
View ArticleTwo ways to censor the press
These words from Carl Jensen, the director of Project Censored, seem pretty prescient in light of the new outright repression of press coverage of the Katrina disaster. He is describing two forms of...
View ArticleCar-free households in New Orleans
I just went to a site that promotes riding a bike to work. It happens to have a compilation of 2000 data on car-free households.In 2000, over 27% of households in New Orleans DID NOT HAVE AN...
View ArticleKatrina knocks out grain shipments
On top of the refinery and pipeline issues, now this:Katrina's economic impact is being felt far from the Gulf Coast. Barge operators in Missouri and farmers in Iowa are worrying about how long the...
View ArticleSilver Spring, MD, candlelight vigil
At the corners of Spring Street and Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland -- all four corners of the intersection were covered. Perhaps 250 people in attendance. TONS of supportive honks from...
View ArticleDid Gonzalez Conspire to Obstruct Justice in Plame Investigation?
In all the focus on the minutia of the Plame leak, and with a possible Gonzalez Supreme Court nomination, I wanted to remind everyone of this Harkin moment in the Congressional Record.Could Alberto...
View ArticleDid Gonzalez and Ashcroft Conspire to Obstruct Justice?
In all the focus on the minutia of the Plame leak, and with a possible Gonzalez Supreme Court nomination, I wanted to remind everyone of this Harkin moment in the Congressional Record (after the...
View ArticleSenior White House Official: Plame Leak "Purely and simply for...
This is an oldie but a goodie. Back in September 2003, an unnamed senior administration official came forward to the Washington Post because "he or she" felt the Plame leak was "wrong and a huge...
View ArticleNational Guard Pay on Hold
The Pentagon has enough money lying around to pay $30 million to Halliburton to build a new prison complex at Gitmo.But the Pentagon doesn't have enough money to pay for flak jackets, leaving marines...
View ArticleThe GOP Choice: Church vs. Wal-Mart
I nearly fell out of my seat after reading this one from DU. The GOP Governor of Texas had a bill signing (banning late-term abortions, banning same-sex marriage, etc.) at a huge rally in a church...
View ArticleWhen Wingers Debate...
In central Virginia, in one of the more conservative sections of what is known as one of the most conservative congressional districts in the country, two very rightwingers are running for the...
View ArticleBush Job Approval Rating: 65%
Yes, I'm afraid so. While everyone wastes money on these telephone surveys and internet polls and many good-hearted people receive false hopes from the results of surveys of "adults" or "likely...
View ArticleUPDATE: GOP Bill to Suspend Laws
H.R. 418, "The Real ID Act of 2005," the GOP bill that would give the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority to waive any and all laws he deemed necessary to expedite construction of border...
View ArticleALERT: GOP Bill to Suspend Laws IS MOVING!
The House GOP Leadership is apparently moving to pass H.R. 418, "The REAL ID Act of 2005," in the House THIS WEEK. This is the bill that would give Homeland Security the power to suspend all laws! The...
View ArticleGOP proposes bill that would suspend ALL laws
This is probably the wrong time of day to post something like this. But it needs to get out there. Please recommend this diary to keep it on the front page. On January 26, 2005, Rep. Sensenbrenner...
View ArticleBeing President is hard -- it's HARD!
Those were the words uttered by Will Farrel in a parody of Bush early in his presidency. We've come full circle. In the debate, Bush used the word "hard" to describe his job, various tasks, and various...
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