Archive | March, 2007
The Gap Between Rich and Poor Grows…
While the Bush Administration continues to claim that their tax cuts have benefited average Americans, the real result of the Bush economic policy has been to exacerbate the shameful gap between the super-wealthy and the rest of Americans,a new study demonstrates. The New York Times reports: Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 [...]
Continue reading...The Party of Law and Order Strikes Again
21. March 2007
It looks like we finally have an explanation for the way Montana's Republicans in the Legislature have been acting: they're doing a lot of drinking. I guess that wouldn't be so bad, if they didn't get behind the wheel afterwards: A state lawmaker pleaded guilty Monday to drunken driving after being arrested over the weekend. Red [...]
Continue reading...Dennis Rehberg Votes Against the Troops–Again
20. March 2007
Remember step three of the Dennis Rehberg action plan for Iraq, to vote against the interests of the American military? well, he's back at it again. On a party line vote, Rehberg voted to support stripping a portion of the Iraq Supplemental bill that would ensure that all the troops sent to Iraq [...]
Continue reading...The Department of Justice Threatens Reprisals…
20. March 2007
The Justice Department is one class act. Once the U.S. attorneys and others began to suggest that the firings were not appropriate, the Bush DoJ began threatening the former attorneys with reprisal. One of the documents released by the Justice Department included an e-mail from H.E. 'Bud' Cummins to the group of US [...]
Continue reading...Fox News on Walter Reed
18. March 2007
Note: This is part of a series on why no rational person should get their news from Fox. First, FoxNews does deserve limited credit for reporting, in this piece, that the abhorrent conditions at Walter Reed were at least partially due to disputes around privatization. But that's where the credit ends, and the massive bias [...]
Continue reading...North Korea: Breakthrough or Deja Vu?
18. March 2007
I hate to put a damper on the otherwise good news of North Korea reaching an agreement with the United States, but it seems rather like deja vu. Back in 1994 , we reached a similar agreement with North Korea, to provide them with two light-wateer nuclear reactors (that is, reactors that cannot be used [...]
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