GOP Senators Kill Minimum Wage Boost
Jun 22, 2006 Not even a week after the Congress voted itself a pay raise, the not-so-compassionate conservatives in the Senate voted down any bump in the $5.15 national minimum wage.
Fox News Debunks Santorum’s WMD Claim
Jun 22, 2006 Mere hours after Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) announced breathlessly at a press conference that ?we have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,? a Fox news reporter found out that Santorum was hyping a document that describes degraded, pre-1991 munitions already acknowledged and dismissed by the White House?s Iraq Survey Group. Watch Santorum dissemble when confronted with these truths on air. (h/t: Think Progress)House Delays Renewal of Voting Rights Act
Jun 22, 2006 House Republicans canceled a vote to extend the historic act because some said it unfairly singled out Southern states. The "rebellion" was "a significant embarrassment for the party leadership," according to the N.Y. Times.Joe Conason: On Capitol Hill, a Burning Issue
Jun 22, 2006 As the Fourth of July approaches, show your support for our hard-won freedoms: Urge your senator not to make a mockery of them by voting for the flag burning ban.
Hollywood Studio Produces Ad Against Suicide Bombing
Jun 22, 2006 A Hollywood studio and a Lebanese production company have produced a $1-million public service ad aimed at discouraging suicide bombings. Their funding came from "an independent, non-governmental group of scholars, non-political people," according to an exec. (Via Huff Po)Suskind: Western Union Gave Transfer Info to Feds
Jun 22, 2006 In the wake of 9/11, the parent company of Western Union gave the FBI information on financial transactions and wire transfers, Ron Suskind charges in his new book, "The One Percent Doctrine."
Bush’s Phony Momentum at Home and Abroad
Jun 22, 2006 Last week the media seized upon several issues in Iraq, Afghanistan and the White House that supposedly had Bush "on a roll" But after a subsequent negative turns of events, Media Matters asks whether the media will give the same amount of attention to Bush's roll in the opposite direction .
Conservative Encyclopedia Omits O’Reilly, Coulter, Norquist
Jun 21, 2006 It seems that the editors of this massive tome have some taste and intellectual integrity.Dems’ Young Guns Launch Journal of Ideas
Jun 21, 2006 Two young Democratic intellectuals have founded Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a quarterly publication modeled after conservative publications like Commentary and The National Interest. Sen. Barack Obama is already lined up to write. This comes on the heels of Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg's new publication.Pollster Greenberg Launches Political Journal
Jun 21, 2006 Democratic powerhouse pollster Stan Greenberg has launched The Democratic Strategist, a publication that "brings together the latest solid research on public attitudes and social trends with extended, ongoing discussion of long-range Democratic political strategy."
