OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Pelosi-Tells-The-Nation-Ma-by-David-Swanson-080730-90.html July 30, 2008 By David Swanson From The Nation: Katrina vanden Heuvel: “On balancing politics and staying true to values… If the book’s subtitle is A Message to America’s Daughters, what is your message to those daughters who will ask what our representatives did to hold this President and Administration [...]
Archive for July, 2008
30 Jul
Impeachment– Key To Dem Win In November
OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Impeachment—Key-To-Dem-W-by-Rob-Kall-080730-14.html By Rob Kall It’s time the Democrats in the congress did what the vast majority of democrats want, and the constitution demands– impeachment hearings for Cheney and Bush. I’ve had a chance, over the past few months, to get a feel for this. I commissioned a Zogby poll which found [...]
30 Jul
Goodlings Amok
A Common Thread in Bush’s Failings By Ruth Marcus Wednesday, July 30, 2008; Page A15 The improbable topic of today’s column is Monica Goodling and the federal budget deficit. You might think that the two of these have nothing in common save the happenstance that both are the subject of devastating new reports: Goodling about [...]
30 Jul
Finally, a little optimism on healthcare
By Charles Kenney Globe Newspaper July 30, 2008 SLOWLY BUT surely the long-held article of faith that the United States has the world’s finest healthcare is eroding in the face of mounting evidence. A fresh report from the prestigious Commonwealth Fund concludes that “despite spending more on healthcare than any other industrialized nation, the US [...]
30 Jul
Veterans get ALS disability, ‘Lou Gehrig’s disease’ to be listed as service-connected, U.S. says
By Josh Mitchell | Sun reporter The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to provide full disability payments for Lou Gehrig‘s disease, tacitly acknowledging for the first time a generalized link between the fatal neurological disorder and military service. Veterans and patient advocates have advocated the change for years, citing studies showing that former soldiers are more likely than [...]
29 Jul
The Two Party System
The two party system???? Remember Lee Iacocca, the VP at Ford credited with the birth of the Mustang, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from their death throes, and the owner of the famous quote “Lead, follow, or get out of the way”? He has a new book, and here are some excerpts. Lee Iacocca [...]
29 Jul
Screening For ‘Loyal Bushies’
Center for American Progress JUSTICE Yesterday, the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) and Inspector General (IG) released the findings of their joint investigation into “allegations of politicized hiring by Monica Goodling and other staff in the Office of the Attorney General.” The report found that Goodling and other senior Justice Department officials violated [...]
29 Jul
Sen. Reid Thwarted On Bundle Of Bills
GOP Sides With Coburn on Spending Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has placed holds on dozens of bills over the past two years, citing objections to wasteful spending. (By Melina Mara — The Washington Post) By Paul Kane Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, July 29, 2008; Page A03 Senate Republicans yesterday blocked consideration of 35 [...]
29 Jul
A poisonous mix in today’s wars
By H.D.S. Greenway The Boston Globe July 29, 2008 BACK IN the days when the Indochina wars were on everyone’s mind, a droll newspaperman, Martin F. Nolan, observed that “when the American people have to know when a country’s rainy season is, we are already in too deep.” I remembered that recently when I read [...]
29 Jul
Another Blow To Justice
By Jamie Gorelick Tuesday, July 29, 2008; Page A17 The Washington Post Another stunning report has documented the bold and illegal influence of politics at the Justice Department over the past eight years. For decades, Republican and Democratic attorneys general had protected from political influence the hiring of career prosecutors and administrative judges. There was [...]
29 Jul
A Torture Paper Trail
By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, July 29, 2008; Page A17 The Washington Post I still find it hard to believe that George W. Bush, to his eternal shame and our nation’s great discredit, made torture a matter of hair-splitting, legalistic debate at the highest levels of the U.S. government. But that’s precisely what he did. Three [...]
28 Jul
Bush Forced al-Maliki to Back Down on Pullout in 2006
Inter Press Service Analysis by Gareth Porter* WASHINGTON, Jul 28 (IPS) – Many official and unofficial proponents of a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq are dismissing Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s demand for a U.S. timeline for withdrawal as political posturing, assuming that he will abandon it under pressure. But that demand was [...]
