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Yesterday, Bob Herbert reported on another highly suspicious Florida initiative: state police officers have gone into the homes of elderly African-American voters – including participants in get-out-the-vote operations – and interrogated them as part of what the state says is a fraud investigation.
Read moreThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has been questioning political demonstrators across the country, and in rare cases even subpoenaing them, in an aggressive effort to forestall what officials say could be violent and disruptive protests at the Republican National Convention in New York.
Read moreIt seems that a report last Friday in the Wall Street Journal indicates that the National Archives and the Justice Department (that would be the Bush/Aschcroft Justice Department) have indicated that “no original materials are missing and nothing Mr. Berger reviewed was withheld from the commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.”
Read moreA four month investigation by a Philadelphia researcher, independently confirmed by a RAW story, “finally proves that President George W. Bush did not successfully complete his service with the Texas Air National Guard.
Read more“Politicians will stretch the truth. They’ll exaggerate their accomplishments, paper over their gaffes. Spin has long been the lingua franca of the political realm. But George W. Bush and his administration have taken ‘normal’ mendacity to a startling new level far beyond lies of convenience. On top of the usual massaging of public perception, they traffic in big lies, indulge in any number of symptomatic small lies, and, ultimately, have come to embody dishonesty itself. They are a lie. And people, finally, have started catching on. “
Read moreCan you get any more controversial than mixing politics and religion? While George Bush is trying to lay claim to
Read moreApparently, during a phone call transfer of a reporter, Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt, was overheard by the reporter to say, “Why don’t they get new jobs if they’re unhappy — or go on Prozac?”
Read moreApparently, during a phone call transfer of a reporter, Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt, was overheard by the reporter to say, “Why don’t they get new jobs if they’re unhappy — or go on Prozac?”
Read moreA great laugh about the hypocrisy of the republicans.
Read moreThe dirty little secret of the White House’s trial lawyer attacks is that a cadre of key Republican Senators started their careers as trial lawyers.
Read moreBloomberg News reports “Halliburton Co., the biggest U.S. contractor in Iraq, has lost $18.6 million of government property in Iraq.
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