Staff / TruthdigJun 22, 2006
The House speaker cleared a cool $2 million from the sale of land near a highway project that he helped to finance with targeted federal funds. Two other GOP congressmen had similar questionable dealings in their own districts. The Washington Post has the goods. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 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) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJun 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Joe Conason / TruthdigJun 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. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 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) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 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." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 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
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Staff / TruthdigJun 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. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 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." Dig deeper
Staff / TruthdigJun 21, 2006
The author of the controversial new book "The One Percent Solution" charges in a TV interview that American forces purposely bombed the Arabic-language TV station in Kabul, Afghanistan, to "send a message." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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