Commission Criticizes 1973 Resolution Panel Calls for New War Powers Legislation The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan U.S. study group chaired by former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher. LAUNCH VIDEO PLAYER By Karen DeYoung Washington [...]
Archive for July 9th, 2008
9 Jul
Cheney’s Office Sought to Change Climate Testimony
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: July 8, 2008 Filed at 8:50 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to play down the effects of global warming, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office pushed to delete from congressional testimony references about the consequences of climate change on public health, a former senior EPA official claimed Tuesday. The official, [...]
9 Jul
Congressman plans hearing into FEMA supply ‘debacle’
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rep. Bennie Thompson wants FEMA to explain giveaway of hurricane supplies FEMA held $85 million worth of supplies meant for Katrina victims for two years Goods later given to federal agencies and states, CNN revealed Thompson’s state, Mississippi, didn’t give the goods it received to hurricane victims?? (CNN) — A Democratic congressman from [...]
9 Jul
McCain makes second controversial Iran joke of the campaign
July 9, 2008 Posted: 10:00 AM ET From CNN’s Victoria Riess McCain?s second Iran joke of the cycle is grabbing headlines. (CNN) Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain is raising eyebrows for a joke about killing Iranians the second time the cycle a stab at humor involving the rogue nation has landed him in hot water. [...]
9 Jul
Video: Moyers: The Iraq War Was About Oil All Along
Moyers: The Iraq War Was About Oil All Along Cross-posted at AlterNet: Oh, no, they told us, Iraq isn’t a war about oil. That’s cynical and simplistic, they said. It’s about terror and al-Qaeda and toppling a dictator and spreading democracy and protecting ourselves from weapons of mass destruction. But one by one, these concocted rationales [...]
9 Jul
McCain Kicks 61-Year-Old Librarian Out of Town Hall Event
From Lindsay Beyerstein: A 61-year-old librarian was ejected from an ostensibly public McCain campaign event at the Denver Center of Performing Arts in Denver, CO on June 7 because she was brandishing a deadly memetic weapon: a hand-lettered sign that read “McCain=Bush.” Carol Kreck was standing outside the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, which [...]
9 Jul
Detailed Timeline of Administration Statements On National Security
Center for American Progress By John Halpin | April 5, 2004 Download: PDF The Center for American Progress has compiled an exhaustive, day-by-day overview of the Bush administration’s public statements on national security, defense and international issues from Jan. 20 to Sept. 10, 2001. The 50-page compilation includes all official news releases, press briefings, press [...]
9 Jul
Idea of the Day: End the “War on Terror” and Refocus on Al Qaeda
Center for American Progress July 9, 2008 President Bush describes varied groups and state sponsors of terrorism as a single enemy, but only Al Qaeda has demonstrated the ability to attack the U.S. homeland from abroad or inspire one from within. The United States must shift its emphasis back to the perpetrators of the 9/11 [...]
9 Jul
Cheney’s Staff Cut Testimony On Warming
Health Threats at Issue, Ex-EPA Official Says By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 9, 2008; Page A01 Members of Vice President Cheney‘s staff censored congressional testimony by a top federal official about health threats posed by global warming, a former Environmental Protection Agency official said yesterday. In a letter to Sen. Barbara [...]
9 Jul
The push for a popular vote
By Scot Lehigh Globe Columnist / July 9, 2008 THIS MONTH, the Massachusetts Legislature can help nudge the nation into the modern age by taking a stand in favor of a national popular vote for president – and against that most antiquated of arrangements, the Electoral College. After hesitating last week, the House today will [...]
9 Jul
A stark choice on the economy
July 9, 2008 BARACK OBAMA and John McCain both reloaded their presidential campaigns this week with a renewed focus on the dire state of the nation’s economy. With gasoline more than $4 a gallon, 438,000 jobs lost since January, and 3 million Americans facing possible mortgage default, you don’t need a pollster to know the [...]
