During the first presidential debate a few weeks ago, Bush was anxious to convince voters how successful he’s been in executing the war on terror. In particular, Bush boasted about bringing a notorious Pakistani scientist to justice who was selling nuclear secrets — design plans and components — to North Korea. “We continue to pursue […]
I’ve got to hand it Dr. James E. Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in Manhattan. He’s a brave man with a powerful message…who Karl Rove will probably destroy by the end of the week. Hansen, a top climate expert at NASA, has been trying to convince the White House for […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion since the invasion of Iraq early last year, Pentagon and congressional officials said yesterday…. The new numbers underscore […]
Nearly three years after the debacle, and after months of campaign charges from KE04, Bush finally talked about the failure to capture Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora in December 2001. That’s the good news. The bad news is, Bush, once again, didn’t make any sense. “Now my opponent is throwing out the wild claim […]
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) has been one of the nation’s leading advocates of reimportation of prescription drugs, but this week, he focused his attention on a specific medication in short supply — the flu vaccine. Blagojevich announced this week that his state government is prepared to buy 87,000 doses of the vaccine from Europe […]
I know this has been floating around the web for a while, but the Miami Herald had an interesting op-ed the other day from Glen Harold Stassen, a professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, and journalist Gary Krane on the issue of abortion. If you haven’t heard about this, their conclusions may surprise […]
I have good news and bad news. The good news is Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon have drafted a directive to decrease post-war instability in countries we invade. The bad news is they just came up with this plan — instead of 20 months ago. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s office has prepared a directive instructing […]
Scott McClellan was asked this morning for the White House’s reaction to the fact that 377 tons of deadly explosives went missing from the Al Qaqaa facility after the administration ignored requests to secure the site. True to form, he tried to accentuate the positive. White House spokesman Scott McClellan played down the threat posed […]
It’s a little tough to believe that Dick Cheney’s Halliburton received “no special treatment” when the top civilian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers points to all the special treatment the company received. The top civilian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers, charging that the Army granted the Halliburton Company large […]
It just doesn’t seem to end. Last week, the New York Times ran a stunning item about the Bush administration’s mistakes in Iraq allowing an insurgency to take hold and grow stronger over time. Today we learn that the administration was warned about the likelihood of an insurgency just before and after the invasion began, […]