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The Power of a 15-Year-Old Peace Activist
Jun 27, 2006 Ava Lowery, a home-schooled teenager from Alabama, has made over 70 antiwar animations, gaining her national attention in The New York Times, on CNN and in the progressive blogosphere. Check out her response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow's "it's a number" comment about U.S. deaths in Iraq.Supreme Court Rejects Vermont’s Campaign Finance Law
Jun 27, 2006 This is a complicated issue. We'll let the Washington Post take it: "The Supreme Court struck down Vermont's strict limits on campaign contributions and spending yesterday, in a splintered ruling that left intact the constitutional basis of current campaign finance laws but may make it difficult to put new curbs on money in politics."Survey: Dem Voters Ahead of Leaders on Iraq Pullout
Jun 27, 2006 Two-thirds of Democratic voters favor setting a timeline for withdrawing troops from Iraq, says a new Wash Post poll, while most of the Democratic presidential hopefuls for 2008 remain noncommittal. The poll also shows that Democrats are quickly losing ground to Republicans on key 2006 election issues.At Least 40 Killed in Two Iraqi Cities
Jun 27, 2006 The two suicide bombings came mere hours after seven Arab Sunni groups offered the Iraqi government a conditional truce.
Supreme Court to Fact-Check Bush’s Global Warming Distortions
Jun 27, 2006 On the very day that Bush again peddled the blatant misrepresentation that "there's a debate over whether [global warming] is man-made or naturally caused," the Supreme Court injected some sanity into our discourse by announcing it will decide whether the federal government must regulate emissions of new cars to combat global warming. Bush's claims are only slightly more ludicrous in light of the fact that he made them while Washington, D.C., stands submerged in 18 inches of global-warming-propelled storm water.
The Rejected Katherine Harris Campaign Video
Jun 27, 2006 Check out the wickedly satirical video that's leading the pack in this month's Huffington Post "Contagious Festival."
Former Bush Intel Official Derides ‘Crap We Give You’
Jun 26, 2006 Former Bush Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research Carl Ford tells members of Congress not to "accept the crap we give you" regarding intelligence data. (via Huff Po)A Ray of Hope From Iraqi Insurgents?
Jun 26, 2006 Several Sunni-led insurgent groups have begun talks with the Iraqi government in hopes of starting cease-fire negotiations. The talks began in the wake of the reconciliation plan that the Iraqi prime minister presented on Sunday.
Bush Condemns, Keller Defends Bank Data Story
Jun 26, 2006 President Bush said the N.Y. Times' disclosures about the administration's bank data-mining program did "great harm to the United States of America." The Times' editor, Bill Keller, said "nobody should think that we made this decision casually, with any animus toward the current administration, or without fully weighing the issues."
Mr. Fish – Biden’s Withdrawal Problems
Jun 26, 2006Afghanistan Spiraling Ever Downward
Jun 26, 2006 Afghan President Hamid Karzai is proving unable to control the insurgency that is terrorizing large swaths of the country.Death Toll Rises to 90 After Mexico Earthquake
Sep 11, 2017 President Enrique Pena Nieto says a third of the homes in the city of Juchitan are uninhabitable.