Intercepted Al-Qaeda Letter Says They're Weak, Losing

The letter, found in the headquarters of Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi...[says] that Al Qaeda is weak both in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region and in Iraq. Perhaps the anti-terrorism policies of the US is working after all...

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Bill Clinton Loves Ubuntu!

Bill Clinton has embraced the concept of Ubuntu, the concept of "I am because you are". The ancient african concept which is known by most as an open source OS.

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New York Post, right-wingers, ridicule terrorist attack on Keith Olbermann

Apparently, Rupert Murdoch, Michelle Malkin, Hugh Hewitt?s producer, as well as other right-wingers are happy that a liberal who criticizes George Bush has been the victim of a terrorist attack and are enjoying ridiculing the victim for taking it seriously. Let?s not forget that people died in an earlier round of anthrax letters. Here's a list.

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Republican candidate for NY Attorney General under federal investigation

Jeanine Pirro, speaking at a Manhattan news conference, said she was under federal investigation for plotting to secretly record her husband to find out whether he was having another affair. She also said that any probe into her troubled marriage was "highly improper" but she had no intention of quitting her campaign.

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Giuliani defends Clinton on 9/11 efforts

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani defendedBill Clinton on Wednesday over the former president's counterterrorism efforts, saying recent criticism on preventing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is wrong.

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Bush's Imaginary Foes

President Bush's angry nonanswers to two straightforward questions yesterday were among the best illustrations yet of his intense aversion to responding to his critics' actual arguments.

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Olbermann Reveals What Little the Bush Administration Did Before 9/11

Keith Olbermann responds to Bush?s non-response to Bill Clinton. He goes over his first months in office leading up to 9/11. It?s not a pretty picture.

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Tony Snow:

In today?s briefing, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow challenged a reporter who said the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluded that we?re not safer. Snow retorted, ?Look for, ?We?re not winning.? Please show me. Well, the President says we?re winning

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MySpace Launches Voter-Registration Plan

The youth-heavy online hangout MySpace.com is launching a voter-registration drive to engage its members in civics. In partnership with the nonpartisan group Declare Yourself, MySpace is running ads on its highly trafficked Web site and giving members tools such as a "I Registered To Vote On MySpace" badge to place on their personal profile pages.

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Musgrave: Gay Marriage Is "The Most Important Issue That We Face Today"

ThinkProgress has the video of this congresswoman. She warned that the ?future is grim? if gay marriage is not banned.

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Bush's Terror-Fighting Takes a Bruising

Former President Clinton has revived charges that Bush didn't take the threat of terrorism seriously enough before Sept. 11.

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House aide resigns over fake blog posts

A top aide to U.S. Rep. Charles Bass resigned Tuesday after disclosures that he posed as a supporter of the Republican's opponent in blog messages intended to convince people that the race was not competitive. Tad Furtado, Bass' policy director, posted messages to two liberal blogs who traced the postings to the House of Representatives server.

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WAKE UP AMERICA!

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill this month that would allow, but not require, the administration to submit its warrantless wiretapping program to a secret national security court for constitutional review.

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New law to create online budget database

WASHINGTON - President Bush said Tuesday that Americans will now be able to "Google their tax dollars," as he signed a law to create an online database for tracking about $1 trillion in government spending on grants and contracts. The law is aimed preventing wasteful spending by opening the federal budget to greater scrutiny.

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Former Governor Jesse Ventura Questions Official 9/11 Story

Former Governor Jesse Ventura Questions Official 9/11 StoryGoes further than ever before, cites Northwoods, Gulf of Tonkin, NORAD stand down, staged war provocationsFormer Minnesota Governor, actor and wrestling star Jesse Ventura has publicly questioned the official version of events behind 9/11 and gone further than ever before in citing Op

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Bush's Response to Clinton, 9/11

A woman asks Bush at a recent press conference if Clinton's allegation is true that Bush had no meetings about dealing with Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda threat for nine months after Clinton left office, and left Al Qaeda intel for Bush. Bush's response? "No comment."

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Democrats Bury John Bolton's Confirmation

That meeting has been cancelled -- and with it even the dimmest chance of John Bolton being confirmed as US Ambassador to the United Nations.

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Retired military officers criticize Rumsfeld at Democratic hearing

Retired military officers on Monday bluntly accused Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of bungling the war in Iraq, saying U.S. troops were sent to fight without the best equipment and that critical facts were hidden from the public.

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Colo. Judge finds voting machines flawed - approves them for use anyway

The judge chastised state officials for botching efforts to ensure that electronic voting machines are tamper-proof and added that the office had done an "abysmal" job documenting which tests were performed on the machines -- but he cleared them for use in the November election, saying it is too late now to change course.

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42% Americans: Bush Administration Manipulated Gas Prices

Almost half of all Americans believe the November elections have more influence than market forces. For them, the plunge at the pump is about politics, not economics

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Bush Has Met Privately With 1, 149 Relatives Of Dead Service Members...

Title says it all...Lets see how fast this gets buried by the leftist wing of this website.

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U.S. rejects visa for Muslim scholar critical of Bush's Middle East policie

The American Civil Liberties Union said the U.S. government notified Ramadan he was being excluded because he donated $765 to French and Swiss organizations that provide humanitarian aid to Palestinians.

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Olbermann's Special Comment: Are YOURS the actions of a true American?

Another Monday, another brilliant delivery from Keith Olbermann, who is quickly becoming the voice of reason on television. Tonight's topic: Clinton versus Faux News.

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Americans want universal health care

So what do Americans want when it comes to health care? Two things, according to a citizens group created by Congress: protection for all from high medical expenses and guaranteed coverage for specific checkups and treatments. The group's call for universal health benefits will be delivered to President Bush on Monday.

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NSA Cases Face Secret Tribunal

A sprawling array of cases challenging the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of American's domestic and international communications may be moved to an obscure secret court in Washington, if a pending bill to alter the nation's surveillance law is voted on before the upcoming recess.

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Army Warns Rumsfeld It's Billions Short

The Army's top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders last month after protesting to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the service could not maintain its current level of activity in Iraq plus its other global commitments without billions in additional funding.

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Teammates: George Allen used "N-word" in college

Three former college football teammates of Sen. George Allen say that the Virginia Republican repeatedly used an inflammatory racial epithet and demonstrated racist attitudes toward blacks during the early 1970s.

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Pre 9/11: Powell and Rice Say Iraq NOT a Threat

Uh huh.

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The Big Gamble on Electronic Voting

HANGING chads made it difficult to read voter intentions in 2000. Hotel minibar keys may do the same for the elections in November.

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Woman Arrested For Refusing To Play Along With Eminent Domain

You do not own ?your? property. It belongs to the state. And whenever the state decides it wants to, it can take ?your? property from you, and give it to whomever it wishes, for whatever reason, or no reason at all. A friend of mine, Lauren Canario, was just arrested for failing to scede her home to the government.

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Political Ad Claims Democrats Started Ku Klux Klan

A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican, a claim challenged by civil-rights researchers.

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Europe Breaks With Bush Over Iran

France, Britain and Germany would be willing to begin talks with Iran even if it has not suspended its nuclear enrichment programme. It is likely Russia and China will join them. Bush's Iran strategy has failed. Unless he plans to attack Iran unilaterally, which will be very costly.

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VIDEO: SNL 9/11 TRUTH!?

An unexpected reference to insider trading and other suspicious stock market activities prior to 9/11 featured in SNL skit. WTF!?

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Bush "People are poor because they are lazy."

When called to discuss how the Depression affected people, Bush answered: "Look. People are poor because they are lazy." A professor said Bush "came across as totally lacking compassion, with no sense of history, completely devoid of social responsibility and unconcerned with the welfare of others." Diggers please read.

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FDA Told U.S. Drug System Is Broken

The federal system for approving and regulating drugs is in serious disrepair, and a host of dramatic changes are needed to fix the problem, a blue-ribbon panel of government advisers concluded yesterday in a long-awaited report. The 15 experts drawn from academic and professional organizations were unanimous in endorsing the recommendations.

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Audit: Bush reading program beset by favoritism, mismanagement

A scorching internal review of the Bush administration's reading program says the Education Department ignored the law and ethical standards to steer money how it wanted.

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ID Program Will Cost States $11 Billion, Report Says

In a report released by the National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, state motor vehicle officials estimated it would cost more than $11 billion over five years to implement the technology required by the Real ID Act.

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Fitzgerald given way out of Libby CIA leak case

The judge in the CIA leak case ruled Thursday that if Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald feels that admitting certain classified documents at the upcoming trial of I Lewis "Scooter" Libby can jeopardize national security, Fitzgerald can then move to dismiss the perjury charges against Libby.

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Diebold Whistleblower: 5000 Machines Hacked in '02 Georgia Election

"There was a universal key to unlock the machines, and it's easy to get access. The machines in the warehouses were unlocked. We had control of everything. The state gave us the keys to the castle, so to speak, and they stayed out of our way."

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Innovator Devises Way Around Electoral College

Now, a 63-year-old eminence among computer scientists who teaches genetic programming at Stanford, Dr. Koza has decided to top off things with an end run on the Constitution. He has concocted a plan for states to skirt the Electoral College system legally to insure the election of whichever presidential candidate receives the most votes nationwide.

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BBC Reveals 'Direct Link' Between Big Tabacco And Global Warming Deniers

Video of a segment on Newsnight yesterday, the BBC revealed a ?direct link between the tobacco companies and the claim that climate change isn?t happening.?

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Wiretap Case: 'Drop It,' Say Feds

The Bush administration asked an appeals court Thursday to step in immediately and dismiss a lawsuit over the government's warrantless eavesdropping program, calling a lower judge's ruling dangerous and wrong.

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Hillary presidential bid taboo subject at home, says Bill Clinton

Former president Bill Clinton praised wife Hillary's prospects to be elected the next US leader, but said her possible White House run is a taboo topic at home. "I'm superstitious about it," Clinton told NBC television in an interview, saying that, for the moment, his wife's sole focus is her bid for reelection to the US Senate in November.

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Bush : "Democrats will Raise Your Taxes

If they get control of the House of Representatives, they'll raise your taxes. It'll hurt our economy. And that's why we're not going to let them get control of the House of Representatives," Bush said.

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Major Voting Rights Lawsuit to Be Filed Against Ohio Officials

Voting rights groups, including the National Voting Rights Institute, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Project Vote, Demos, and the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), will announce the filing of a federal lawsuit charging that Ohio has violated federal voter registration laws despite repeated ...

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Why Bush's War Can't Be Won

America tends to treat Middle East diplomacy as a win/lose or zero-sum game in which "terrorist" gains are by definition US losses. If, like Bush, you insist that Muslims choose between their own Islamic regimes, or Israel, the US, and UK, they will pick their own side every time. Bush's "clash of civilizations" approach means endless war.

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US Voting Bill: Bring Your Passport To The Polls

The House passed today the Federal Election Integrity Act of 2006 which would require anyone wanting to vote in a federal election to present polling place officials with a government-issued photo ID. So under the legislation a lot of people may wind up needing to take their U.S. passports with them to vote on future election days...

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Top Republican Says Ney Should Resign

A member of the Republican leadership added his name to the list of GOP lawmakers calling for Rep. Bob Ney to resign. When reporters asked some GOP leaders Wednesday whether Ney should resign, House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier, R-Calif., responded, "Absolutely."

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Congressman Blocking Crackdown on Predatory Lenders Targeting U.S. Troops

Predatory lenders are seriously harming the U.S. military, and one member of Congress is fighting to keep it that way.

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Bush at the U.N.: Another Political Masterstroke?

Democrats and some observers have argued that the old strategy ? that making the election about national security, a traditional G.O.P. strength ? wouldn't work this time because voters have gotten wise to it and are generally fed up. But this morning's Gallup Poll suggest otherwise.

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