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Bush’s Appoints Washington Editor as Policy Adviser
May 26, 2006 It seems Bush has a thing for "Karls" as policy advisors. On the heels of Karl Rove's departure from his policy-advising position at the White House, the president has chosen Karl Zinsmeister, editor in chief of the magazine published by the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute. He has had some eyebrow-raising things to say on the subject of race over the years. (Biographical info on Zinsmeister here.)
Report: Feds Suspect Novak Promised to Cover Up for Rove
May 26, 2006 Muckraking journalist extraordinaire Murray Waas reports that investigators suspect that columnist Robert Novak called Karl Rove to concoct a cover story that would protect Rove in the Valerie Plame leak investigation.
A Verdict on an Era?
May 25, 2006 That's what the N Times calls the conviction of Enron honchos Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling But Truthdig contributing cartoonist Mr Fish has a different perspective (click here to see the full cartoon) Truthdig editor Robert Scheer has written about the crooks from Texas in his new book, "Playing President" Click here to read some of those classic columns.Lay, Skilling Convicted in Enron Collapse
May 25, 2006 The "smartest guys in the room" weren't smart enough to avoid conviction on securities and wire fraud conspiracy charges in one of the biggest business scandals in U.S. history. After six days of deliberation, the jury rejected Ken Lay's and Jeff Skilling's testimony as lies.
Cheney May Be Called in CIA Leak Case
May 25, 2006 Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald wrote that Cheney would be a logical witness in the proceedings against his former chief of staff, Scooter Libby.Bush Increases Use of ‘State Secrets’ Privilege to Quash Lawsuits
May 25, 2006 The administration is using this tactic at a rate of three lawsuits per year--purportedly to keep national security information safe. But one expert says that in cases like these, "the principal concern of the classifiers is not with national security, but with governmental embarrassment of one sort or another."
‘Big Gay GOP Fear Factor Fever’
May 25, 2006 Singer/songwriter Paul Hipp releases a satirical ode to the GOP's attempts to drive a wedge between voters on the issue of gay rights.
Mike Farrell: HBO’s ‘Baghdad ER’ an ‘Excruciating’ Must-See
May 25, 2006 The actor best known for portraying an Army doctor on the TV show "M*A*S*H" writes that the HBO documentary series "Baghdad ER," about an Army emergency hospital in Iraq, made him want to scream in rage and frustration at the people who created this war.
‘The Most Powerful Person You’ve Never Heard Of’
May 25, 2006 It's David Addington, Dick Cheney's new chief of staff, who has been instrumental in fashioning legal arguments to support presidential-sanctioned torture, the attempt to discredit Joe Wilson, and the bogus Niger uranium story. U.S. News has the goods in this fantastic profile. Sickened by those "signing statements" that Bush uses to essentially ignore the laws Congress has passed? Addington has his fingerprints all over those.
DeLay Doesn’t Realize Colbert is a Satirist
May 25, 2006 To raise funds for his legal defense, Tom DeLay is showcasing a clip of Stephen Colbert "defending" DeLay against the allegations in an anti-DeLay documentary. DeLay's only hope is that his contributors are too dim to realize that Colbert is a satirist.Tolerance for Gays Thawing in Muslim World?
May 25, 2006 In Tunisia, an independent magazine has dedicated a series of articles to homosexuality--an uncommon initiative in the Arab press.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.