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Condi Rice Heckled by Antiwar Protester

A protester interrupts the secretary of state at a budget hearing: “The blood is on your hands and you cannot wash it away.”

Posted on Mar 10, 2006 READ MORE  |  4 COMMENTS


Iraq War Costing $5.9 Billion per Month

That’s according to the Wall Street Journal. Also, progressives in Congress want to divert $60 billion in defense spending to humanitarian assistance, social programs, energy conservation, homeland security and deficit reduction.

Posted on Mar 8, 2006 READ MORE


Libby’s Defense: The Dog Ate My Memory

Vice President Cheney’s indicted former chief of staff hires a Harvard memory loss expert for his defense, and hints in court filings that memory loss will be among the “central themes” of his defense. The National Review has a great follow-up on this.

Posted on Mar 1, 2006 READ MORE


Specter Denies Funneling Money for Lobbyist

You will be shocked, shocked to learn that Sen. Arlen Specter earmarked $50 million in defense appropriations for clients of a lobbyist married to one of the senator’s staffers.

Posted on Feb 17, 2006 READ MORE


Cheney Says He Has Power to Declassify Info

Apparently both he and President Bush have this power, but the VP was mum on details. The disclosure, in his interview with Fox News, could lay the groundwork for a criminal defense of his former chief of staff, Scooter Libby.
Read the full text of his interview here.

Posted on Feb 16, 2006 READ MORE  |  1 COMMENT


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Brownie Blasts Bush Administration Response to Katrina Disaster

Michael “Heckuva Job” Brown departs from the shameful “we didn’t know” defense regarding the breach of the levees, saying: “For them to claim that we didn’t have awareness of it is just baloney.”  story

Posted on Feb 10, 2006 READ MORE  |  2 COMMENTS


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U.S. Soldier Gets No Jail Time for Killing Iraqi General

The American interrogator sat on the general’s chest and covered up his mouth—both of which were apparently approved techniques. The defense claimed that the actions did not directly cause the general’s death. | story
We can’t help but suspect that much of the Arab world might come to a different conclusion.

Posted on Jan 24, 2006 READ MORE


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