President Obama is vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard with his family. The healthcare debate is raging across party lines. The torture memos were re-released today. The Justice Department announced a criminal investigation into the actions of the Bush Administration in the torture of detainees during the Iraq War. So, you might have missed this... »
The Justice Department launched a criminal investigation into the tactics of US interrogators during the Bush Administration. This on the same day the Administration released torture memos from that period that reveals some of the inhumane tactics that were used, including threatening to kill detainee’s children, sexually assault their mothers and subject them to... »
Today the Justice Department released four memos dating back to August 2002 regarding American torture and interrogation techniques during the Iraq War and the Bush Administration. I have obtained copies from Talking Points Memo so you can read them here yourself: An 18 page memo , dated August 1, 2002, from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney... »
While Republicans and the Insurance Industry is spending $1.4 million a day on fighting healthcare reform and using fake corporate run “grassroots” groups to break up town hall meetings across the country, FireDogLake is fighting back. Their whipcount project is a real grassroots effort Their whipcount project is a real grassroots effort to get the 76%... »
As if the Democrats didn’t have enough of a battle on their hands with the healthcare industrial complex spending $1.4 million a day on lobbying against reform and the GOP provoking town hall mobs, now they are fighting amongst themselves. The Washington Post reports that several leading Democrats are concerned with President Who needs Blue Dogs... »
Investors Business Daily wrote and opinion article a couple of weeks ago that railed on Healthcare Reform and how it was going to kill grandma. In fact, the articles name is “How House Bill Runs Over Grandma”. Now, the link you have here has been corrected but these morons at IBD stated in the... »
Issues! She has Issues!!! Check out the video of Hillary ranting at an African news conference after a translator makes a mistake and she believes that she is being asked Bill Clinton’s opinion rather than her own… Was it just me or did she overreact there?!? Technorati Tags: Africa Visit, Hillary Clinton »
On July 29th I posted an article titled “Obama is Bush in Disguise” and followed it up on August 4th with “Another Sign that Obama is Bush in Disguise”. The premise, of course, was that Obama has maintained or even expanded many of the Bush Administration policies, has pulled back on many campaign... »
Kathy Castor (D-Florida) held a town hall meeting on healthcare reform in Tampa that was disrupted by a band of corporate lobby organized shouters. Violence broke out as organizers pushed disrupters out of the hall and local police showed up too. Our democratic process is being disrupted by a $1.4 million a day lobbying effort... »
The Republicans have their sex scandals, the Democrats have their entitlement scandals. Countrywide, who was purchased by Bank of America last year during the financial crisis, had a “VIP” loan program that gave under market rate loans to influencial government officials. This program was dubbed the “Friends of Angelo” program after Angelo... »
Democrats have spread out across the country to discuss and encourage the healthcare reform that is getting ready to be voted on after the August Congressional recess. Unfortunately for them, the healthcare lobby and corporate interests have followed them across the country and have been coordinating disruptions of town hall meetings, a staple of... »
This is awesome video that everyone should watch. Laura Ling and Euna Lee were the 2 journalists working for Current TV in around North Korea who were arrested and sentenced to 12 years in a North Korean work camp. They spent months away from their children, family and friends not knowing if they’d ever... »
It is being reported by the NY Times that court documents that have recently been revealed show that ghostwriters being paid by the pharmaceutical industry published 26 articles in scientific papers promoting the use of hormone therepy in women. “Newly unveiled court documents show… that the level of hidden industry influence on medical literature is... »
I don’t care what we had to give up or what kind of leverage North Korea gained by holding Laura Ling and Euna Lee prisoner, I’m glad they are free and heading back to America. Nobody yet knows what Bill Clinton and Kim Jong-Il discussed, although it is suspected that these talks could or did... »
