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Japan ratcheted up the rhetoric against North Korea over its missile tests last week as a top government spokesman said Monday that Tokyo should consider whether its Constitution would allow pre-emptive military strikes. A U.S. envoy reiterated his call for...
Apparently so... Mike Ferner: Has This Country Gone Completely Insane? This afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee while sitting in the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center on Chicago’s south side, a Veterans Administration cop walked up to me and said,...
The supreme court yesterday rolled back the sweeping powers appropriated by the Bush administration in the war on terror, ruling it could not order military trials for Guantanamo detainees without the protections of the Geneva Convention and US law. The...
Are there any legal limits to what the executive branch can do in the name of national security, or is it anything goes? In separate federal lawsuits challenging the warrantless surveillance of American citizens, the Bush administration argues that courts...
Ooooh, a "vile life-support system for a mane of blonde hair". The York Daily Record - Coulter mangles Dover case There is an irony buried deep under the vitriol, idiocy, slander, vileness, ignorance, stupidity and simply breathtaking inanity that passes...
The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked "sensitive," that it says shows that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Monday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, "the...
We're fighting a war against radical Islamist terrorists with ongoing campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, we're drowning in debt from our growing record trade and budget deficits and we're watching our public education system fail a generation of students. Congress...
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, dealing a defeat to President Bush and Republicans who hope to use the measure to energize conservative voters on Election Day. Supporters knew they wouldn't achieve the two-thirds...
George W Bush, the US president, will promote a constitutional ban on gay marriage on the eve of a Senate vote next week, weighing in on an issue that could rally his wavering conservative base in an election year. Though...
In the weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, Vice President Dick Cheney and his top legal adviser argued that the National Security Agency should intercept purely domestic telephone calls and e-mail messages without warrants in the hunt for terrorists, according...
A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk-show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George and Laura Bush unsmiling at its close. Earlier, the president had delivered his talk to...
The number of seized methamphetamine labs in the Washington area has been flat in recent years; the number of meth-related visits to emergency rooms has plummeted. National data show meth use falling off in recent years. Federal officials and local...
Maybe the Governor will intervene, or something. Homeland Security Official Arrested - CBS News Authorities say a deputy press secretary for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been arrested on charges of using the Internet to seduce a person...
Thousands of voters turned out in Wisconsin to offer a purely symbolic but heartfelt message: Bring the troops home from Iraq. By margins overwhelming in some places and narrow in others, voters in 24 of 32 communities approved referendums Tuesday...
Some good thinking going on here. Worth a read. Truthdig - An Atheist Manifesto It is worth noting that no one ever needs to identify himself as a non-astrologer or a non-alchemist. Consequently, we do not have words for people...
... that the Bush administration is repeating Top Ten Mistakes the Bush Administration Is Repeating from Vietnam: Newsroom: The Independent Institute Because the Bush administration, almost from the start, has eschewed any comparison of Iraq with Vietnam, officials apparently never...
When President Bush signed the reauthorization of the USA Patriot Act this month, he included an addendum saying that he did not feel obliged to obey requirements that he inform Congress about how the FBI was using the act's expanded...
When Governor Mike Rounds signed HB 1215 into law it effectively banned all abortions in the state with the exception that it did allow saving the mother's life. There were, however, no exceptions for victims of rape or incest. His...
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has stepped into the controversy between religious fundamentalists and scientists by saying that he does not believe that creationism - the Bible-based account of the origins of the world - should be taught in...
On his live television programme, The 700 Club, he said radical Islamists were inspired by "demonic power". A US religious liberty watchdog called the comments "grossly irresponsible". Mr Robertson had to apologise recently for calling for Venezuela's president to be...
Ah crap. "The bill would make it a crime to tell the American people that the president is breaking the law, and the bill could make it a crime for the newspapers to publish that fact," said Martin, a civil...
Isaac Asimov [1920-1992] Russian-born American author "I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say...
America was today accused of failing to learn the lessons of Abu Ghraib by continuing to hold thousands of Iraqi detainees in conditions that breached their human rights. Amnesty International, the London-based rights watchdog, criticised coalition forces and the Iraqi...
[Neat. So I take back everything bad I said about the church. Well, most of the things....] Evolution Sunday On 12 February 2006 hundreds of Christian churches from all portions of the country and a host of denominations will come...
[Well, even the DI doesn't advocate teaching ID in schools. Good for these people] The Capital Times Creationism or intelligent design could not be taught as science in Wisconsin public schools under a first-of-its-kind proposal announced today by Madison state...
In a protest with an unusual number of high-level signatures, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and each of its five members have fired off a letter assailing a Washington Post cartoon as "beyond tasteless." The Tom Toles...
... and Alberto Gonzales. Alberto Gonzales spoke before law students at Georgetown today, justifying illegal, unauthorized surveilance of US citizens, but during the course of his speech the students in class did something pretty ballsy and brave. They got up...
President Bush yesterday launched a weeklong blitz of election-style campaigning to build support for his domestic spying program, seeking to persuade the country to uphold his power to bypass laws in the interest of national security -- a power that...
A European human rights investigator said on Tuesday there was evidence the United States had "outsourced" torture to other countries and it was likely that European governments knew about it. But Swiss senator Dick Marty, who heads an investigation by...
The Vatican newspaper has published an article saying “intelligent design” is not science and that teaching it alongside evolutionary theory in school classrooms only creates confusion. The article in Tuesday’s editions of L’Osservatore Romano was the latest in a series...
The federal judge who overturned teaching ``intelligent design'' in public school biology classrooms in Dover, Pa., concluded that the local school board acted with ``breathtaking inanity.'' U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III (a Bush appointee) found the notion that...
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today announced that it has settled a lawsuit over a California school district’s decision to teach a course promoting creationism. Americans United, with assistance from the law firm Arnold & Porter LLP,...
The Bush administration cannot stop doctors from helping terminally ill patients end their lives under the nation's only physician-assisted suicide law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. By a 6-3 vote, the high court ruled that then-Attorney General John...
And there's even 2 Democrats listed... Beyond DeLay :: 13 Ethically Challenged Members of Congress Over the past year, the issue of Congressional ethics has taken on new resonance. Where questionable conduct was once shrugged off as "business as usual,"...
Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush--not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in Congress. As a former member of Congress who sat...
Democratic attacks led by Bay State Sen. Edward M. Kennedy left Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito unflappable yesterday — but drove his wife out of his confirmation hearings in tears. ... Challenged by Democrats, Alito repeatedly said he had no...
BottleOfBlog: Out With The Old Drunk, In With The New The dude is a serious boozer. He hasn't given up shit. Grown up people don't show up for work, Monday morning, all bloodied and bruised--what is this guy? In...
The NSA's domestic surveillance program is not the only offense with which the president could be charged. The House Judiciary Committee's Democratic staff recently released a report concluding that Bush "misled Congress and the American people regarding the decision to...
Found these on dailykos.com. Apparently they're officially unconstitutional. Daily Kos: Cobb County Evolution Sticker Update......
In 2004, Bush said the following (gathered from the White House website): "Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by...
"Intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial. ... "The citizens of the Dover...
“The FBI should use its resources to investigate credible threats to national security instead of spending time tracking Americans who criticize government policy, or monitoring groups that have not broken the law,” said Ann Beeson, Associate Legal Director of the...
In a lawsuit filed on his behalf by the civil rights group, a 23-year-old Catholic man from Genesee County is asking a federal judge to set aside a drug conviction, saying he was punished for not completing a Pentecostal rehabilitation...
The US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, has defended the US against allegations that it ran a network of "ghost flights" and secret prisons around the world where terror suspects could be interrogated with little concern for international law. The...
This time, someone really does have to be fired. The revelation that Defense Department money, not even authorized by Congress for the purpose, has been outsourced to private interests and then used to plant stories in the Iraqi press is...
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Democracy under threat In the background, at private meetings on the island of Aruba in the Dutch Antilles and in public declarations by Thomas Shannon, the US secretary of state for Latin American affairs,...
Foreign lawyers defending Saddam Hussein challenged the legitimacy of the U.S.-backed Iraqi court trying him and demanded more security for their team on Monday, after briefly storming out of the courtroom in protest. Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a...
The British government has responded sharply to the alleged leak of a government memo that said U.S. President George W. Bush had thought about bombing the Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera. The Daily Mirror, which published the story, said Wednesday...
Let's be clear. Intelligent design may be interesting as theology, but as science it is a fraud. It is a self-enclosed, tautological "theory" whose only holding is that when there are gaps in some area of scientific knowledge -- in...
Where are the copyright liberals when right-wing conservatives need us? Last week, the National Academy of Sciences, or NAS, joined with the National Science Teachers Association, or NSTA, to tell the Kansas State Board of Education that it would not...
Voters ousted eight Republican school board members who backed a statement on intelligent design being read in biology class, replacing them with Democrats who want the concept stripped from the science curriculum. The election Tuesday unfolded amid a landmark federal...
US museums are going where schoolteachers are increasingly wary to tread, with a series of exhibitions championing evolution at a time when Charles Darwin's theory is under fire from creationists. The exhibits include "Evolving Planet" at Chicago's Field Museum, "Darwin"...
It may not make the "creationist" crowd very happy, but their attacks on evolution might have to stop. According to an article from the Australian news.com website, the Vatican has issued a statement about the Darwinian theory of evolution and...
Nearly every country in the world joined on Tuesday to urge the United States to lift its four-decade old economic embargo against Cuba in a record U.N. General Assembly vote. The vote, held for the 14th consecutive year, was...
A federal judge is contemplating whether the mandatory teaching of "intelligent design" improperly promotes religion in schools, after the historic evolution trial drew to a close. Federal Judge John E. Jones III said he wanted to issue a ruling by...
The men from the pages of a bad spy novel throw people they don't like into secret prisons that officially do not exist, snug little dungeons hidden away in undisclosed countries. These spy-novel men keep to the shadows; if a...
The highest court in the Methodist Church yesterday defrocked a lesbian minister in Philadelphia, and reinstated a Virginia pastor who had been suspended for denying congregation membership to a gay man. The nine-member Judicial Council also voided a declaration by...
In an interview to be broadcast today in Italy, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, one of George Bush's closest allies, said he tried repeatedly to persuade the president not to go to war. The Guardian reports that, in a "behind the...
A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards... CNN International...
Dear Dr. Rice
Please accept my greetings and best wishes for your personal and professional success.
First an admission: I am opposed to the U.S. policy in the Middle East. I am not opposed to the whole U.S. foreign policy, but rather to that part of it that concerns our region. As such I consider myself a closer ally of the U.S. than Tony Blair. Also, many members of my immediate and extended family are American citizens. My two brothers, sister, their children, my mother and son are all American citizens. And they are good citizens; they don't indulge in double loyalty.
[Condoleezza] Rice's parents tried their best to shelter their only daughter from Jim Crow racism, and they succeeded. Forty years later, Rice shows no bitterness when she recalls her childhood in a town whose streets were ruled by the segregationist...
The grand jury probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's name has opened a new window into how the Bush administration used intelligence from dubious sources to make a case for a pre-emptive war and discarded information that...
A national movement to have intelligent design taught in science classrooms is "very dangerous," Cornell University's interim president, Hunter R. Rawlings III, said after taking up the issue Friday in a speech. But Mr. Rawlings charged that colleges were not...
A sandstorm that had closed Baghdad's airport cleared Tuesday, allowing officials to resume flying ballot boxes to the capital Tuesday so "unusually high" vote totals in 12 Shiite and Kurdish provinces can be checked by election officials. The investigation by...
It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution. "This...
Welcome to Florida, but avoid arguments or thanks to a new law you run the risk of getting shot, according to an ad campaign launched by a gun-control group. The campaign coincides with a state law that enters into effect...
Pepper Hamilton attorney Eric Rothschild opened the proceedings, telling the judge the school board ignored scientific knowledge and the advice of its high school science department to put the policy in effect. He said several board members wanted to teach...
'Intelligent Design' Court Battle Begins The opening day of a landmark trial over whether a school district should require students to hear about "intelligent design" felt a lot like a science lecture. Brown University biologist Kenneth Miller, the first witness...
A new battle over teaching about man's origins in U.S. schools goes to court for the first time next week, pitting Christian conservatives against educators and scientists in a trial viewed as the biggest test of the issue since the...
By PAUL WILLIAM ROBERTS All the television pictures from New Orleans of water with people and houses under it certainly captured the world's attention. What the world attended to, however, wasn't so much the feeble efforts to relieve the city...
We get so fixated on which version of the Pledge of Allegiance that we want to strong-arm children into reciting that every time the argument over its wording winds up in court, we blow our chance to teach kids everything...
In a ruling Wednesday that reverberated all the way to U.S. Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts' Senate confirmation hearings, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton breathed fresh life into a Sacramento atheist's campaign to ban the pledge from schools because...
A Louisiana police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to block a bridge over the Mississippi river and force escaping evacuees back into the chaos and danger of New Orleans. Witnesses said the officers fired their guns above...
The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to use them to preempt an attack by a nation or a terrorist group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft...
It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of...
This takes the cake. People unable to get chemotherapy because Bush wanted a photo-op -- and then passed on it. Ezra Klein: Man of the People Remember when Clinton's high-priced haircut allegedly (which is to say "didn't, but the right...
Californias gay and lesbian community is reacting with fury to Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggers announcement late Wednesday afternoon that he plans to veto legislation, headed for his desk, which would have legalized same-sex marriage in the nations largest state. Schwarzenegger...
The three top jobs at the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President Bush went to political cronies with no apparent experience coping with catastrophes, the Daily News has learned. Even if Bush were to fire embattled and suddenly invisible FEMA...
Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for...
This is from their website, folks: Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans? Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we...
A little cultural myopia is evident there. To return Bangladesh's gift of $1 million, for example, could be seen as generosity greeted with smug rejection. If a country wishes to give, and the amount is within reason, the response should...
In a stunning, historic decision, the California Legislature on Tuesday night became the first statehouse in the nation to approve same-sex marriage legislation. The Assembly's 41-35 vote -- the one-vote majority needed to pass the bill -- forces Gov. Arnold...
Over at the blog of my soon-to-be employer, they've got a great discussion of the ideological ramifications of Katrina, both for big government liberalism and small government conservatism. Bush, of course, has been this strange mixture of government growth and...
Even Republicans were criticizing Bush and his administration for the sluggish relief effort. "I think it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we can't respond faster than...
The California Senate voted on Thursday to allow gay marriage, giving an initial legislative boost to one of the state's most contentious issues. The Democrat-dominated Senate voted 21-15 in favor of making marriage in California "gender-neutral," thus open to couples...
A cameraman for Reuters in Iraq has been ordered by a secret tribunal to be held without charge in Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison until his case is reviewed within six months, a U.S. military spokesman said on Wednesday. But another...
Well, there you have it, folks.... Bush: U.S. Must Protect Iraq From Terror - Yahoo! News President Bush on Tuesday answered growing anti-war protests with a fresh reason for American troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's...
Finally, we've decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn out her welcome. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives. My opinion David Stoeffler: Opinion pages...
Perish the thought that Americans would actually *support* terrorism and harbour terrorists.... Politics News Article | Reuters.com A U.S. immigration judge ruled on Monday that if an asylum-seeking former CIA operative from Cuba is deported, he would be sent to...
In a mammoth 5,500-word piece Thursday headlined "A CIA Cover Blown, A White House Exposed," Tom Hamburger and Sonni Efron lay out in The Los Angeles Times what happened in the days leading up to, and beyond, the now infamous...
Here's an interesting piece of Flash animation. It's a funny, but chilling work, by Scott Bateman at Bateman365, with audio of the actual speech George W. Bush gave on February 6, 2003 a month or so before the Iraq invasion along with animated comments.
[Jon] Stewart likes to protest that he doesn't pay any mind to this. All he and his crew do, he says, "is try and put out a funny, well-written show about current events." But push a bit and he shows...
As more Americans wonder whether Cindy Sheehan is correct that the best way out of Iraq is to leave, President Bush reiterates, as he did in his most recent radio address, that the country "must finish the task that our...
In December 2002, [Afghan detainee] Dilawar died at the base - after suffering what an internal US investigation revealed were repeated beatings by American troops while chained to the ceiling by his wrists. The BBC correspondent in Kabul, Andrew North,...
So Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition, thinks the United States should assassinate Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president. Let's see. What are the options? The 30-year-old Senate reports of a body known as the Church committee give some options....
Prisoner interrogations at Guantnamo Bay, the controversial US military detention centre where guards have been accused of brutality and torture, have not prevented a single terrorist attack, according to a senior Pentagon intelligence officer who worked at the heart of...
(sigh) McCain Comes Out For Teaching "Intelligent Design" In Schools... | The Huffington Post U.S. Sen. John McCain knows why he wants to be president. He isn't running for the job - officially. That won't happen, if it happens at...
Televangelist [windbag] Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of leftist [and democratically elected] Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez provoked a storm of criticism yesterday, triggering condemnation from fellow religious leaders and international outrage, while the Bush administration said he was a...
Like the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay...
Famed entertainer and political activist Harry Belafonte told The Jerusalem Post Wednesday that he was retracting his recent statement that Jews had served "high up" in the Third Reich, a comment which angered several Jewish organizations. He continued, however, to...
Infants have been stopped from boarding planes at airports throughout the U.S. because their names are the same as or similar to those of possible terrorists on the government's "no-fly list." It sounds like a joke, but it's not funny...
One day a nurse came in to ask Rodgers if he wanted to meet President Bush, who was visiting the hospital. Rodgers declined. "I don't want anything to do with him," he explains. "My belief is that his ego is...
Via Atrios, we see that Rick Santorum "differed Thursday with President Bush's support for teaching an alternative to the theory of evolution known as 'intelligent design'": I think I would probably tailor that a little more than what the president...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will install radio frequency technology at five border posts with Canada and Mexico to track foreigners driving in and out of North America. In its ongoing efforts to tighten border security and monitor possible...
A leading Republican senator allied with the religious right differed on Thursday with President Bush's support for teaching an alternative to the theory of evolution known as "intelligent design." Republican Sen. Rick Santorum, a possible 2008 presidential contender who faces...
She said she decided to come to Crawford a few days ago after Bush said that fallen U.S. troops had died for a noble cause and that the mission must be completed. I want to ask the president, `Why did...
IRAN signalled a confrontation with the West yesterday by rejecting a European Union offer to help it to build a nuclear energy programme in return for scrapping operations that could lead to the production of nuclear weapons. In a terse...
The Irish Republican Army said today it was ending its armed campaign and ordered its members to dump their arms and pursue their political goals by "exclusively peaceful means". Unionist leaders were predictably sceptical, but Tony Blair hailed the long-awaited...
Now is a superb time to get that abortion you've been putting off. Officially, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' opinion of Roe v. Wade is "opaque," "mysterious," or -- my favorite -- just "unknown." But if I'm no genius, it...
In both statements, the military quoted an Iraqi calling the attackers "enemies of humanity" and vowing to "take the fight to the terrorists," the latter an expression President Bush frequently has used in speeches. After the media contacted officials Sunday...
The House voted Thursday to make permanent most of the key provisions of the USA Patriot Act, the sweeping law passed in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that expanded law-enforcement powers to investigate suspected terrorists. Hours...
"I know for an absolute fact that we have not been involved in anything related to promoting terrorism and yet the government has collected almost 1,200 pages on our activities," Romero said. "Why is the ACLU now the subject of...
A Chinese general said Beijing might respond with nuclear weapons if the United States attacked China in a conflict over Taiwan, news reports said Friday. The State Department rejected the warning as "highly irresponsible." The exchange could add to tensions...
As the scandal over the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity has continued to unfold, there is a renewed focus on Karl Rove -- the White House deputy chief of staff whom President Bush calls his political "architect." Newsweek...
It's treason, I say! Send him to Gitmo! US News Article | Reuters.com The White House faced fierce questioning on Monday over top political aide Karl Rove's involvement in a CIA leak scandal and Democratic calls mounted for President Bush...
Top White House aide Karl Rove discussed a former US ambassador and his CIA agent wife with a Time magazine reporter, according to a report. The Newsweek weekly quoted Rove lawyer Robert Luskin as confirming that Rove was the source...
Tony Blair will on Monday reject Conservative demands for a government inquiry into last week's London bomb attacks, insisting such a move would distract from the task of catching the perpetrators. As police and security services on Sunday continued searching...
Check out this map for a detailed placement of the bomb blasts in London. As of right now, the blasts this morning have claimed the lives of at least 37 people and injured some 700 others.
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Interestingly, the part that describes US troops killing an Iraqi Television News Director is buried in the body of this article. It's weird that 3 journalists killed by the US military within the span of 7 days doesn't make headlines...
US occupation troops killed an Iraqi television director, Tuesday, June 29, 2005, when he drove near a US convoy, colleagues and a hospital official said. The US military said it had no reports of the incident. Ahmad Wail Bakri, a...
Standing before a crowd of uniformed soldiers, President Bush addressed the nation on June 27 to reaffirm America's commitment to the global war on terrorism. But throughout the speech Bush continually stated his opinions and conclusions as though they were...
Iraq's U.N. ambassador Friday accused U.S. Marines of killing his 21-year-old cousin "in cold blood" during a June 25 raid in a village in the Sunni Muslim-dominated province of Anbar. Samir S.M. Sumaidaie called on the United States to investigate...
Driven in part by fears of terrorism, government secrecy in the United States has reached a historic high by several measures. Federal departments now classify documents at the rate of 125 a minute as they create new categories of semisecrets...
Most American media have focused on the allegations from the Downing Street memo that the Bush administration was going to "fix" the intelligence in order to justify the war against Iraq. Now the reporter who broke the original story says...
It's been a busy week... Spain OKs Gay Marriage, Defying Opponents - Yahoo! News Parliament legalized gay marriage Thursday, defying conservatives and clergy who opposed making traditionally Roman Catholic Spain the third country to allow same-sex unions nationwide. Jubilant gay...
Tonight at Fort Bragg, in front of a backdrop of American service members, President Bush will tell the nation that victory is at hand, as long as we stay the course. Add a banner praising a job well-done and an...
Northern European countries were the first to recognise same-sex unions - a trend that picked up in the 1990s and eventually crossed the Atlantic. It became a polarising issue in the 2004 US elections, with voters in many states banning...
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against the display of the Ten Commandments inside county courtrooms, but said it can be displayed on government land. In a 5-4 ruling, the judges said the posting of framed copies of the commandments...
Very scary. CJR May/June 2005: Stations of the Cross Evangelical news looks and sounds much like its secular counterpart, but it homes in on issues of concern to believers and filters events through a conservative lens. In some cases this...
Americans, along with the rest of the world, are starting to wake up to the uncomfortable fact that President George Bush not only lied to them about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (the ostensible excuse for the March...
An Air Force panel sent to investigate the religious climate at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs found evidence that officers and faculty members periodically used their positions to promote their Christian beliefs and failed to accommodate the religious...
A constitutional amendment that would allow Congress to ban flag burning passed the House yesterday, and congressional leaders said it has a strong chance to clear the Senate for the first time, sending it to the states for ratification. The...
Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum called for the withdrawal of foreign forces from their country in a letter released to the media on Sunday. The move comes as US President George W. Bush is under increasing domestic pressure...
There is no questioning public support for the troops in this river city, where yellow, curly ribbons pasted on the backs of motor vehicles are more common than street banners declaring allegiance to the beloved hometown Cardinals. But 27 months...
A British official's report that the Bush administration appeared intent on invading Iraq long before it acknowledged as much or sought Congress' approval -- and that it "fixed" intelligence to fit its intention -- has caused a stir in Britain....
Where responsibilities lie... George W Bush... Deanna Laney... God v Lucifer - Who's really to blame? Before you condemn this article in a fit of righteous rampage, stick with it. There is a point, and I have picked a specific...
In a slap at President Bush, lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips. Despite a veto threat from President Bush, lawmakers voted...
Neat essay on the politics and US foreign policy by Noam Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is a major figure in twentieth-century linguistics. Born in Philadelphia in 1928, he's taught since 1955 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he became a...
Hrmmm. Apparently now they consider creationism to be a "religion".... The Tulsa Park and Recreation Board voted 3-1 on Tuesday in favor of a display depicting God's creation of the world in six days and his rest on the seventh,...
U.S. government authorities may prosecute sick people who smoke pot on doctors' orders, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, concluding that state medical marijuana laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug. The decision is a defeat for...
HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of titles and then...
Sound the klaxons! Corporate Message breakdown at Fox News! This is not a drill. Repeat: This is not a drill. Assume battle stations! Fire in the hole! A-woo-ga! A-woo-ga! The usually disciplined foot soldiers at Fox News have long maintained...
The right-wing's multi-front war on American democracy now aims at our core belief in separation of church and state. It includes an attempt to say the founding fathers endorsed the idea that this is a "Christian nation," with an official...
Amnesty International said Wednesday that the United States' treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib had emboldened abusive regimes and weakened human rights around the world. The group's annual report, "The State of the World's Human Rights,'' provides...
I cannot get out of my mind the recent news photos of ordinary Americans sitting on chairs, guns on laps, standing unofficial guard on the Arizona border, to make sure no Mexicans cross over into the United States. There was...
British Member of Parliament George Galloway returned to the UK Wednesday confident he won a fiery showdown with U.S. senators who have accused him of profiting from the U.N.'s defunct oil-for-food program in Iraq. Galloway said he was "absolutely" convinced...
The Pentagon on Friday recommended closing 33 major military installations in the United States in a realignment that apparently also would cut 29,000 military and civilian jobs. The 28-page list of recommended changes appeared to show a net loss of...
Robert McNamara is worried. He knows how close we've come. His counsel helped the Kennedy administration avert nuclear catastrophe during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Today, he believes the United States must no longer rely on nuclear weapons as a foreign-policy...
Prime Minister Tony Blair paid at the polls for his friendship with George W. Bush and his backing of the Iraq war. Now he may have trouble playing the role of faithful U.S. ally on any future military mission. The...
Federal judges are a more serious threat to America than Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 terrorists, the Rev. Pat Robertson claimed yesterday. "Over 100 years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is...
The U.S. is not Argentina. Certainly not. Real wages in this country aren't 20 percent lower than they were seven years ago, goods imported from Europe don't cost more than four times as they did then and 40 percent of...
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes, according to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a cigar is an economic prop to a brutal totalitarian regime. Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro...
German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who was elected Tuesday to succeed Pope John Paul II, was a close confidant of the late pontiff and fellow conservative. The newly elected Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 78 on Saturday, will be expected to...
Iraq, Kashmir, Palestine, Northern Ireland: The root causes of the world's hottest conflicts lie in the break-up of Europe's colonial empires. But who dares admit it? Do you want to know the real scandal of the year 2005? According to...
Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians, fear not. The U.S. government will not use radio-frequency identification tags in the passports it issues to millions of Americans in the coming years. Instead, the government will use "contactless chips." Wired News: RFID Cards...
In a blistering report made public Thursday, a presidential panel said that U.S. intelligence agencies were "dead wrong" in almost all their assertions before the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The commission said that the...
In 2004 the atrocity of US troops abusing Iraqi POWs exposed the dark side of human rights performance of the United States. The scandal shocked the humanity and was condemned by the international community. It is quite ironic that on...
The religious right and the right to die This is the ballad of Doctor Lloyd Thompson, who may or may not have hastened a patient's death. This is a song about American secular democracy, which may be under a sentence...
A government official suggested Wednesday that three people who arrived at President Bush's town hall meeting here last week were removed by a Republican operative they mistook for a Secret Service agent. "It was somebody from the host committee," Secret...
The former top U.S. military chief in Iraq authorized the use of illegal techniques during interrogations, the American Civil Liberties Union said yesterday. In a memorandum, Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez authorized 29 methods of interrogation, including 12 that "far exceeded" U.S....
Afghanistan is the hub of a global network of detention centres, the frontline in America's 'war on terror', where arrest can be random and allegations of torture commonplace. Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark investigate on the ground and talk to...
Using information provided by the military and documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union, The Associated Press compiled a partial list of people who have died while in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan. Prisoner Deaths in U.S. Custody...
President Hugo Chavez has recently accused President Bush of plotting to assassinate him, made suggestive comments about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, visited Fidel Castro in Cuba, bashed the United States on the al-Jazeera television network and traveled to Libya...
A few weeks ago former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and Louis Boccardi, former head of the Associated Press, released their report on Dan Rather’s use of allegedly forged Texas Air National Guard (ANG) documents covering President George W. Bush’s military...
US marijuana policies, which rely primarily on criminal penalties and law enforcement, are wholly ineffective at controlling the use and sale of marijuana, concludes a comprehensive report issued today by the NORML Foundation. The report, entitled "Crimes of Indiscretion: Marijuana...
Egypt has rebuffed President George W Bush's claim that democracy is fast gaining ground in the Middle East. Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said the US is wrong to assume recent events vindicate its policies in the region. "What model...
Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced scientist dubbed the father of Pakistan's atomic bomb, provided Iran with centrifuges that can be used to purify uranium for nuclear weapons, the Pakistani government said on Thursday. Pakistan has admitted in the past that...
Israel has closed the case against soldiers accused of gunning down a British cameraman in the Gaza Strip, drawing charges of a cover-up from his relatives, who vowed to sue the army. James Miller was killed on May 3,...
The deadly shooting of an Italian intelligence officer by U.S. troops at a checkpoint near Baghdad on Friday was one of many incidents in which civilians have been killed by mistake at checkpoints in Iraq, including local police officers, women...
The Italian reporter wounded when American troops opened fire on the car carrying her and Italian secret service officers to the Baghdad airport just hours after her release from kidnappers rejected today the United States' version of the incident and...
China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing has warned Japan and the United States against interfering in internal matters, especially when it comes to Taiwan. "Any practice of putting Taiwan directly or indirectly into the scope of Japan-U.S. security cooperation constitutes an...
A divided U.S. Supreme Court outlawed executions of murderers who were under 18 at the time of the crime, saying the practice violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. The court today voted 5-4 to overturn a 1989...
Russia and Iran signed a nuclear fuel supply deal long opposed by Washington on Sunday which will pave the way for the Islamic state to start up its first atomic power plant next year, state media reported. The agreement, signed...
On Wednesday, the US President George W. Bush made a stopover in the German city of Mainz, but surprisingly faced hundreds of protestors on the streets, signaling of still hostile attitude towards the US's invasion to Iraq. Today he meets...
The Bush family friend and author who surreptitiously taped nine hours of conversations with George W. Bush insisted yesterday that he hadn't released their contents simply to promote his new book on the U.S. President. "I didn't do it for...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow will continue its nuclear cooperation with Iran and that he is convinced Tehran does not intend to develop atomic weapons. Iran's nuclear program is likely to be one of the top issues...
A British nuclear-reprocessing plant cannot account for nearly 30 kilograms of plutonium, but authorities believe it is an accounting issue rather than a loss of potential bomb-making material, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority said Thursday. The amount of material...
Iran and Syria directly confronted the Bush administration Wednesday by declaring they will form a "united front" to confront possible threats against them by the United States. The move was announced after a meeting in Tehran between the Vice President...
A mysterious explosion on Wednesday shook a remote Iranian province where a nuclear power plant has recently been built, wire services reported. Iranian state television described a plane flying over the area immediately before the explosion, which occurred near the...
Comedian and radio host Al Franken has ruled out a run for the U.S. Senate in 2006, but says 2008 is a different story. Franken, known for aggressively mocking right-wing politicians and media personalities, told his listeners on Thursday that...
The shared fear of nuclear weapons is so great that even when North Korea declares it has such weapons it's likely that its communist leaders simply hope to capitalize on those fears without ever proving they can actually explode an...
Karl Rove is now, officially, in charge of pretty much everything at the White House. But it's mostly just a title change. President Bush's long-time chief political strategist is now assistant to the president, deputy chief of staff and senior...
In his first public remarks since the United States dubbed Cuba an outpost of tyranny, Fidel Castro called President Bush "deranged" and belittled recent improvements in relations between Cuba and Europe. In a televised address late Tuesday, Castro maintained his...
There are times when one must give the devil his due. The American media is capable of carrying out extraordinary feats, turning lead into gold and an election held under foreign occupation into a victory for democracy. With near total...
... In fact, if you look at the recent record, the picture is not at all encouraging. The United States has intervened, in one way or another, in Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years, and not...
... although Bush used the words ''free," "freedom" and "liberty" 49 times in the speech, he didn't once use the words "terror" or "war" or "Iraq" -- even though his first term was defined by terror and war, and even...
Just hours before being sworn in for a second term, Vice President Dick Cheney publicly raised the possibility on Thursday that Israel "might well decide to act first" to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. In an interview on the...
The rest of the world will be watching with anxiety when President Bush is inaugurated Thursday for a second time, fearing the most powerful man on the planet may do more harm than good. Many world leaders, alienated by Bush's...
President George W. Bush is drawing heat over a $40 million (21.5 million pound) splurge on inaugural balls, concerts and candlelight dinners while the country is in a sombre mood because of the Iraq war and Asian tsunami. As Bush...
The US has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside the country to identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported on Sunday. The article was written by award-winning reporter Seymour Hersh, who exposed the extent of...
The 1,700-strong Iraq Survey Group (ISG), responsible for the hunt for weapons of mass destruction whose existence was the justification for the invasion and military occupation of Iraq, wrapped things up and called it quits yesterday. The CIA-affiliated group will...
Secret ballots are the cornerstone of any democratic process. But little more than two weeks before Iraq's first free elections on Jan. 30, the country is finding that secrecy is being taken to new heights. The identities of many of...
The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ended last month, but the analysis of documents seized in the hunt continues, U.S. officials have said. Charles Duelfer, the CIA special adviser who led the investigation, has returned home and...
Might there be any point in comparing and contrasting yesterday's Palestinian election with the upcoming Iraqi one? Yes, indeed there might. The first thing I would want to notice is this. The Palestinian people have a much more justifiable grievance...
The defense secretary has become the symbol of an accident-prone Iraq policy -- and even more, of the administration's refusal to admit or learn from its mistakes. The man who bears ultimate responsibility for Iraq policy isn't Rumsfeld, of course,...
As Ukraine prepares to vote - again -- for a new president this Sunday, the international online media continues to raise questions of outside interference and the disturbing possibility of violence. On Monday, the Kyiv Post reported that a Ukrainian...
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will now personally sign letters of condolence to families of troops killed in action, after the Pentagon acknowledged signing machines had been used in the past. In a statement provided to the military newspaper "Stars and...
Cuba put up two large billboards in front of the U.S. mission in Havana on Friday showing photos of abused Iraqi prisoners €“ retaliation for a contentious Christmas display set up by the mission's American officials. The photos show bloodied...
Britain's highest court has ruled that suspected foreign terrorists cannot be held indefinitely without trial. The ruling is a major blow to the anti-terrorist strategy of Prime Minister Tony Blair. Commentators say the law lords have dealt Mr. Blair's government...
Where's Kerik? This is the question I asked myself as, one by one, the pictures of the latest Presidential Medal of Freedom awardees flashed by on my computer screen. First came George Tenet, the former CIA director and the man...
The first full test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield failed Wednesday when one missile launched but a second shut down before leaving the ground, the Pentagon says. The Missile Defence Agency has tried to do...
A government watchdog group is investigating allegations made by a Florida programmer that are whipping up a frenzy among bloggers and people who believe Republicans stole the recent election. Programmer Clint Curtis claims that four years ago Rep. Tom Feeney...
Dissident groups asked the Ohio Supreme Court on Monday to review the outcome of the state's presidential race, hours before the Ohio delegation to the Electoral College was to cast ballots for president and vice president. Protesters who do not...
In an extraordinary exchange at this remote desert camp, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld found himself on the defensive today, fielding pointed questions from Iraq-bound troops who complained that they were being sent into combat with insufficient protection and aging...
President Bush on Tuesday thanked Canadians who waved a welcome to him "with all five fingers" on his first official visit to their country, but he also appeared defensive at a time when he was expected to reach out and...
Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on Wednesday called for a general strike in protest at returns showing his rival had won a disputed presidential poll and the outgoing president warned Ukraine could slide into civil war. With tens of thousands of...
Speaking with senior military leaders in Moscow on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin said research and testing are underway for new missile systems unlike anything in other countries' arsenals. "I am sure that they will be put in service within the...
It's a little like yelling an obscenity at a wedding. In the etiquette of Washington, it has always been an unwritten rule that members of the CIA don't publicly criticize the people they work for - namely the US government....
Secretary of State Colin Powell, who enjoyed enormous respect around the world, has resigned but will stay on until his replacement is named as Washington makes a new push for Middle East peace, officials said on Monday. Powell, who was...
It was an inadvertent tribute by President Bush to Yasser Arafat's 36 years as leader of the Palestinians and to a controversial man admired by some as a freedom fighter and reviled by others as a terrorist. Asked to comment...
President George W. Bush should stop flouting federal and international law over the legal status of detainees in U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The administration needs to move beyond the impasse that has now dragged on for three years....
The much-anticipated US-led offensive to seize the Iraqi city of Falluja from anti-American Iraqi fighters has begun. Meeting resistance that, while stiff at times, was much less than had been anticipated, US Marines and soldiers, accompanied by Iraqi forces loyal...
The lesson of the 2004 election is that we still haven't fixed our democracy. While our post-election limbo lasted less than a day because Ohio's vote tallies were "beyond the margin of litigation," we should not fool ourselves. We need...
A 25-year-old from Georgia who was apparently distraught over President George W. Bush's re-election shot and killed himself at ground zero. Andrew Veal's body was found Saturday morning inside the off-limits site, said Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port...
European leaders urged President Bush to work closely with America's allies on issues like terrorism and the environment in his second term, while critics of the president worried re-election would embolden him to pursue conservative policies more aggressively than ever....
In a resounding, coast-to-coast rejection of gay marriage, voters in 11 states approved constitutional amendments Tuesday limiting marriage to one man and one woman. The amendments won, often by huge margins, in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota,...
Public Records Request - November 2, 2004 From: Black Box Voting To: Elections division Pursuant to public records law and the spirit of fair, trustworthy, transparent elections, we request the following documents. We are requesting these as a nonprofit, noncommercial...
Democratic Sen. John Kerry phoned President Bush on Wednesday to concede the presidential election, a White House aide said. President Bush was to deliver a victory statement at 3 p.m. ET, Bush aides said. Kerry was expected to make a...
Anger over the lost votes of 2000 is still simmering in this mainly black town of south Florida, where voters turned out massively Tuesday, many vowing they would not be disenfranchized again. Residents, standing in long lines to cast their...
The spectral image that has haunted this presidential campaign finally surfaced last weekend on television with an attack ad of his own. All that was missing was the tag line: "I am Osama bin Laden, and I approved this message."...
In "Fascism Anyone?," Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, identifies 14 characteristics common to fascist regimes. His comparisons of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet yielded this list of 14 "identifying characteristics of fascism." George W Bush and the 14...
The men who wrote the Constitution of the United States knew that we human beings have a tendency to 'not get along with each other'. They knew that if power accrued into the hands of an elite the experiment...
There is a surreal quality about visiting the United States in the last days of the presidential campaign. If George W Bush wins, according to a scientist I met, who escaped Nazi-dominated Europe, America will surrender many of its democratic...
Every four years, liberals unhitch the cart and put it in front of the horse, arguing that the only way to a better tomorrow is to vote for the Democratic nominee. But unless the nominee and Congress are pushed forward...
U.S. rulers confront sharpening political, military conflicts, as imperialism enters opening stages of a world depression. Many members of the communist movement today have never lived through a ground war launched by the imperialist rulers, one involving large numbers of...
Uruguay made a historic political shift Sunday in electing its first leftist president, Tabare Vazquez, and giving his coalition a majority in Congress to face rebuilding the country after its recent economic crisis. Uruguay joins the ranks of South American...
Osama bin Laden accused George W. Bush on Saturday of deceiving Americans and said the Sept. 11 attacks would not have been so severe if the U.S. president had been alert. Bin Laden, appearing in a video on Al Jazeera...
More than 100,000 civilians have probably died as direct or indirect consequences of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, according to a study by a research team at Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. The report was...
Cubans jammed banks and exchange kiosks to swap their dollars for local pesos on Thursday, as the communist government, retaliating for tightened sanctions, moved to pull the U.S. currency from general circulation. Thursday was the first day Cubans were able...
The U.S. economic embargo of Cuba jumped to the top of the Castro government's agenda on Thursday. For the 13th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution condemning the U.S. embargo. The vote in favor...
In the week leading up to the US presidential election, the Bush campaign still finds itself answering renewed challenges on its handling of the war on terror. US Vice President Dick Cheney Tuesday called Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry an...
The United States has failed to guard against torture and inhuman behavior since launching its "war on terror" after Sept. 11, 2001, Amnesty International said Wednesday in a report just days before the U.S. election. The rights group called on...
The Democratic and Republican parties have warned that it could take weeks to decide the Nov. 2 election and have hired rival armies of attorneys and observers for the battle. With US President George W. Bush and Democratic Senator John...
"Bush Relatives for Kerry" grew out of a series of conversations that took place between a group of people that have two things in common: they are all related to George Walker Bush, and they are all voting for John...