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Senator Wants to Sic IRS on Pimps

Staff / Truthdig Jun 30, 2006 When Republicans push good programs, we like to take notice. This is a great example. GOP Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa wants to establish an office in the IRS that will specifically go after sex traffickers -- to get them off the street and free their prey from lives of sexual slavery. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Web Ratings Down for Many Conservative Biggies

Staff / Truthdig Jun 30, 2006 According to Alexa ratings: AnnCoulter.com is down 10%; Fox News is down 13%; RushLimbaugh.com is down 18%; The Drudge Report is down 21%; Townhall.com is down 24%; the Washington Times? website down 27%. And BillOreilly.com down 40%. Meanwhile, traffic is up at lots of progressive sites. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Court Ruling: Gitmo Brass Shrugs, Bush Lawyer Shudders

Staff / Truthdig Jun 30, 2006 The admiral in charge of the Guantanamo military detention center said he doubts Thursday's Supreme Court ruling on presidential authority will have any effect on his operations. But a Bush administration lawyer wasn't as sanguine, saying about the decision, "It's very broad, it's very significant, and it's a slam." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Washington Post: Court Ruling a Body Blow to Bush

Staff / Truthdig Jun 30, 2006 In an analysis, the Washington Post says, "the Supreme Court has struck at the core of his presidency and dismissed the notion that the president alone can determine how to defend the country." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

George Bush, the Alcoholic (Pt. 4)

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 Yahoo! health columnist Patrick Moore continues his five-part series on what he terms President Bush's "untreated alcoholism." Today's update: "Mr. Bush lives by the creed, 'Stay the Course!' But that course is disastrous on everything from the environment to health care to education to national security. He is like a drunk who insists on driving even as the passengers in the car scream, 'Stop! For God's sake, stop!' " Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pentagon Says Homosexuality No Longer a Disorder

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 The U.S. military said it would revise an official medical document that classified homosexuality as a disorder alongside mental retardation, impulse control disorders and personality disorders. Original story Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Colbert Weighs In on N.Y. Times Bank Records Controversy

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 Stephen Colbert said the N Times could learn a thing or two about secrecy from Superman, who continued to be "a pretend journalist" -- "like Brit Hume" . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Berkeley Voters to Weigh Bush Impeachment

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 The City Council of the left-leaning Calif. municipality voted to put the question to citizens on the Nov. 7 ballot. It's symbolic, of course, because only Congress can impeach. And although some cities, like San Francisco and Oakland, have passed pro-impeachment resolutions, Berkeley will be the first city to directly ask its voters to decide. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Court Ruling May Cancel Bush’s ‘Blank Check’ for Terror War

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 Specifically, today's Supreme Court ruling held that the president overstepped his authority in ordering military war crimes trials for Guantanamo Bay detainees. But more important, Think Progress interprets the ruling to mean that "the Authorization for the Use of Military Force -- issued by Congress in the days after 9/11 -- is not a blank check for the administration." Also, SCOTUSblog says the ruling means that the Geneva Convention does apply to the conflict with Al Qaeda, and consequently "this almost certainly means that the CIA's interrogation tactics of waterboarding and hypothermia (and others) violate the War Crimes Act." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Joe Conason: Staying the Course, Without a Map

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 Bush's supporters will say anything to build support for the massively ill-conceived and unpopular Iraq war -- anything, that is, except speaking honestly, because the truth cannot accommodate their crude partisan rhetoric. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Net Neutrality Suffers Setback in Senate Vote

Staff / Truthdig Jun 29, 2006 The Senate Commerce Committee fell a single vote short of passing an amendment to safeguard the free and open Internet as momentum builds toward a full Senate vote on Net neutrality. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Daily Kos: Lieberman Campaign Comes Unhinged Over Ad

Staff / Truthdig Jun 28, 2006 Markos gets a huge laugh out of Sen. Lieberman's response to challenger Ned Lamont's latest campaign ad. (The ad Kos links to -- which The Hotline called potentially "legendary" -- is a must-see.) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )