New York Times
May 9, 2006
Bush’s Public Approval at New Low Point
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE
Americans have a bleaker view of the country’s direction than at any time in more than two decades, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. Sharp disapproval of President Bush’s handling of gasoline prices has combined with […]
Cox Newspapers
Abramoff’s White House visits
By Ken Herman | Wednesday, May 10, 2006, 03:54 PM
Secret Service records released today under court order show that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff made only two visits to the White House since President Bush took office in January 2001.
On March 6, 2001, Abramoff entered at 4:23 p.m. and left at […]
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Bush has charm and charisma.
Murdoch will host fund-raiser.
She was a member of Wal-Mart’s board.
She cozies up to Lott.
Her stance on the war is ephemerally vague.
She hides out during explosive discoveries.
Let’s have flag-burning lefislation.
AShe can talk about Jesus with the worst of them.
She’s a Goldwater Girl.
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Threat Seen From Antibacterial Soap Chemicals
The compounds end up in sewage sludge that is spread on farm fields across the country.
By Marla Cone, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
May 10, 2006
Tons of chemicals in antibacterial soaps used in the bathrooms and kitchens of virtually every home are being released into the environment, yet no government agency […]
Fri 5 May 2006
Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer
IAN JOHNSTON
BELIEVING that God created the universe in six days is a form of superstitious paganism, the Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno claimed yesterday.
Brother Consolmagno, who works in a Vatican observatory in Arizona and as curator of the Vatican meteorite collection in Italy, said […]
Mon, May 8, 2006 5:50pm EST
MEDIA MATTERS
Confronted by caller, Limbaugh denied any similarity
between his OxyContin issue
and Kennedy’s “cover up”
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Summary: Rush Limbaugh denied any comparison between his own prescription drug problems and those of Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who says he was under the influence of painkillers when he crashed his car into […]
Seattle-Times
U.S. to prohibit “water-boarding”
By Matthew Schofield
Knight Ridder Newspapers
GENEVA — The U.S. Army will prohibit “water-boarding” — the controversial practice of submerging a prisoner’s head in water in an effort to make him talk — when it issues its new interrogation manual, the State Department’s legal adviser told the U.N. Committee Against Torture on Monday.
John Bellinger […]
Republicans Set Aside Middle-Income Tax Cuts to Focus on Rich
May 8 (Bloomberg) — Republican lawmakers, facing the prospect that their power to cut taxes may soon be curbed, plan to extend breaks that mostly benefit the wealthy and Wall Street at the expense of reductions for middle-income households.
Six months before elections that may return a […]
Clinton gains unlikely support
BY GLENN THRUSH
NEWSDAY
WASHINGTON BUREAU
May 9, 2006
WASHINGTON — A founding father of the vast right-wing conspiracy is throwing a July fundraiser in New York for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s re-election campaign.
Rupert Murdoch, the devoutly conservative Australian-born founder of Fox News and owner of the New York Post […]
Frist and Hastert Let Vaccine Industry Write Its Own Multi-Billion Dollar Giveaway
Last December, Senate Majority Leader Bill First (R-TN) and House Speaker Dennis Hastert inserted a provision in the Defense Appropriations bill that granted vaccine manufactures near-total immunity for injuries or deaths (even in cases of “gross negligence”) caused by their drugs during a viral […]
Pfizer Illegally Tested Unapproved Drug On Children In Nigeria
Medical News Today
Article Date: 07 May 2006 - 7:00am (PDT)
During an epidemic in Nigeria in 1996, Pfizer illegally tested an unapproved drug on children with brain infections, says a panel of Nigerian medical experts. According to the report, published in the Sunday (today) edition of the […]
25 more years of Hugo Chavez?
Chicago Sun-Times
May 7, 2006
BY CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER
CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez said Saturday that Venezuelan voters should have the chance to decide whether he should govern the country for the next 25 years.
Speaking at a stadium packed with supporters in central Lara state, Chavez said he would hold a […]
In The Washington Post, the man who created the forty-year-old Republican Southern Stratery believes the Bush “administration may be over.”
Please find the article here.
Cardinal urges legal action against Da Vinci Code
By Philip Pullella 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -In the latest Vatican broadside against “The Da Vinci Code,” a leading cardinal says Christians should respond to the book and film with legal action because both offend Christ and the Church […]
The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS asks the musical question: Was Porter playing poker with Dusty Foggo?
Please find the entire article here.
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(Jason Reed/Reuters); fakecrap.com
There are two RANTS about the topic from Capitol Hill Blue. You may find them here and here.
“I wonder if this school benefits from Federal tax dollars because their policies seem to be skirting the edge of the Bill of Rights.–DBp”
‘Baptist school ousts gay student
LAFAYETTE GRAD’S WEB PAGE UPSETS UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS
By Art Jester
HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER
A Lafayette High School graduate has been kicked out of the University of the Cumberlands in […]
The Fox News Effect
By Richard Morin
Thursday, May 4, 2006; A02
We report. You decide. Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news?
Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted the Republican Party’s […]
CIA Director Porter Goss Resigns
AP - 12 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - CIA Director Porter Goss resigned unexpectedly Friday, leaving behind a spy agency still battling to recover from the scars of intelligence failures before America’s worst terrorist attack and faulty information that formed the U.S. rationale for invading Iraq. It was the latest move […]
Vatican Excommunicates 4 Chinese Bishops
By ALESSANDRA RIZZO, Associated Press Writer
May 3, 2006
The Vatican on Thursday excommunicated two bishops ordained by China’s state-controlled church without the pope’s consent, escalating tensions as the two sides explore preliminary moves toward improving ties.
The Vatican also excommunicated the two bishops who ordained them, saying church law mandates excommunication for bishops […]
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Chaos Feared in Pandemic Flu Plan
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer2 hours, 26 minutes ago
A flu pandemic would cause massive disruptions lasting for months, and cities, states and businesses must make plans now to keep functioning — and not count on a federal rescue, the Bush administration said Wednesday.
“Our nation will face […]
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Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images
May 3, 2006
After Press Dinner, the Blogosphere Is Alive With the Sound of Colbert Chatter
By JACQUES STEINBERG
Mark Smith, a reporter for The Associated Press who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, acknowledges that he had not seen much of Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central before he booked […]
May 2, 2006
Qatar Grants Millions in Aid to New Orleans
By STEPHANIE STROM
The nation of Qatar plans to announce today roughly $60 million in grants to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina, including $17.5 million to Xavier University of Louisiana, the only historically black Catholic university in the United States.
Other beneficiaries are Tulane University, Children’s Hospital […]
Exclusive: Top CIA Official Under Investigation
No. 3 Official at CIA Is Subject of Investigation Related to Bribery Probe
By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO and RHONDA SCHWARTZ
March 3, 2006 — - A stunning investigation of bribery and corruption in Congress has spread to the CIA, ABC News has learned.
The CIA inspector general has opened an investigation […]
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Garofalo gushes over Scientology-linked project
By Jeannette Walls
MSNBC
Updated: 2:45 a.m. ET May 2, 2006
Why is Janeane Garofalo touting a Scientology-linked project?
The actress and talk-show host has done two segments on her Air America radio show “Majority Report,” heaping praise on the controversial New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Project, a program based on […]
Most young Americans can’t find Iraq on map - study
Tue May 2, 2006 5:38 PM BST
By Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most American young people can’t find Iraq on a map, even though U.S. troops have been there for more than three years, according to a new geographic literacy study released on Tuesday.
Fewer than 4 in […]
Ordered to Iraq 10 months before retirement
Iowa teacher-grandmother, 52, in Navy Reserve deploys for security work
The Associated Press
Updated: 5:22 p.m. ET May 1, 2006
DUBUQUE, Iowa - A grandmother in eastern Iowa is getting one last call to duty.
Janet Grass, 52, had planned to retire from the military in about 10 months after spending 19 […]
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Bush team imposes thick veil of secrecy
By Mark Silva
Washington Bureau
Published April 30, 2006
WASHINGTON — As the Bush administration has dramatically accelerated the classification of information as “top secret” or “confidential,” one office is refusing to report on its annual activity in classifying documents: the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.
A standing executive order, strengthened […]
Powell: I wanted more troops in Iraq.
April 30, 2006
(CBS/AP) Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell advised President George W. Bush before the Iraq war to send more troops to the country, but the administration did not follow his recommendation, Powell said in an interview broadcast Sunday.
Critics accuse Mr. Bush and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald […]
April 30, 2006
Op-Ed Columnist
Bush of a Thousand Days
By FRANK RICH
LIKE the hand that suddenly pops out of the grave at the end of “Carrie,” the past keeps coming back to haunt the Bush White House. Last week was no exception. No sooner did the Great Decider introduce the Fox News showman anointed to repackage […]
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Abu Musab al Zarqawi (File photo) (ABC TV)
Bush turned down chances to kill Zarqawi: ex-CIA spy.
01/05/2006. ABC News Online
Monday, May 1, 2006. 7:55am (AEST)
A former top CIA spy says the United States deliberately turned down several opportunities to kill terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in the lead-up to the Iraq war.
Mike Scheuer headed the […]
Bush Voices Confidence in New Iraqi Leadership; Sen. Biden Suggests Decentralized Iraq
By LIBBY QUAID
WASHINGTON May 1, 2006 (AP)— Three years after declaring major military operations over in Iraq, President Bush said Monday that a report from his two top foreign policy officials on their visit to Baghdad shows that Iraq’s leadership is “more determined than […]