Tainted seafood risks China’s stake in U.S.
By Evan Osnos and David Greising
(Chicago)Tribune correspondents
Published July 1, 2007
TAOYU, China — This tiny village near the Great Wall is crowded with 20 household trout farms, which have cropped up in less then a decade to join China’s booming seafood trade.
Yet, in a tale mirrored across the industry, the […]
FEAR INC.
Ex-Soviet sold threat of bioterrorism
Dr. Ken Alibek’s influence on U.S. policy and spending was based on dubious claims, a Times investigation finds.
By David Willman, Times Staff Writer
11:40 AM PDT, June 30, 2007
WASHINGTON — In the fall of 1992, Kanatjan Alibekov defected from Russia to the United States, bringing detailed, and chilling, descriptions of his […]
Philly Mayor John F. Street Gets IPhone
RUBINA MADAN
The Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Mayor John F. Street was among the first to get a coveted iPhone on Friday, waiting in line, on and off, for almost 15 hours and forced to defend the effort when a passer-by asked about the city’s skyrocketing murder rate.
Street, who said he […]
A Reversal of Fortune for Bush’s Political Capital
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Published: June 30, 2007
WASHINGTON, June 29 — After a string of Republican defections this week — on Iraq, immigration and domestic eavesdropping — President Bush enters the final 18 months of his presidency in danger of losing control over a party that once marched in […]
The CIA’s torture teachers
Psychologists helped the CIA exploit a secret military program to develop brutal interrogation tactics — likely with the approval of the Bush White House.
By Mark Benjamin
Salon Magazine
A detainee is escorted by military police at Camp 4 of the maximum security prison Camp Delta at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Aug. […]
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Posted on Thu, Jun. 28, 2007
Half of Americans say they wouldn’t vote for Clinton in ‘08
William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers
last updated: June 28, 2007 07:59:19 PM
WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans say they wouldn’t consider voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton for president if she becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new […]
By the times of touble at Little Rock’s Central High School,
he was nine-years of age.
Could it have been the future
Supreme Court Justice?
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New York Times
June 29, 2007
Editorial
Resegregation Now
The Supreme Court ruled 53 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated education is inherently unequal, and it ordered the nation’s schools to integrate. Yesterday, the […]
Putin’s Arctic invasion: Russia lays claim to the North Pole - and all its gas, oil, and diamonds
Last updated at 00:37am on 29th June 2007
Russian President Vladimir Putin is making an astonishing bid to grab a vast chunk of the Arctic - so he can tap its vast potential oil, gas and mineral wealth.
His scientists […]
“Old timers’ day: record 7 40-year-olds to start Wednesday
By ROB MAADDI, AP Sports Writer
June 27, 2007
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Break out the Geritol, Ensure and Bengay.
It really will be old-timers’ day in the major leagues on Wednesday, when a record seven pitchers in their 40s are scheduled to start.
The New York Yankees’ Roger Clemens (44), Philadelphia’s […]
My photo-montage may have beaten Mr. Thompson at being over-the-top. Maybe. Maybe not.
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The Rant
A government unto himself
June 26, 2007 - 8:47am.
“Dick Cheney was starting his second term in Congress when I arrived in Washington in 1981 as Press Secretary to then-Congressman Paul Findley of Illinois.
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He is, he believes, a power unto himself, a second-in-command […]
I don’t like Giuliani, but I like foolish statements less. He did not want to be celibate? He did the right thing because this same writer may have been the first to attack him for having sex as a priest. There are certainly more important reasons to vote against Giuliani.
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Giuliani admits he steered clear of […]
Thursday June 28, 08:23 PM
Iraqi police find 20 beheaded bodies near Baghdad
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When one considers that it could have been twenty, beheaded, drawn & quartered corpses. Things are looking up. A more balanced view would be to assume that these folks are getting a real taste for murder and mayhem. Would it be unpatriotic to say […]
Dick ‘n W are spokesmen for the World Wildlife Foundation.
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Fred Thompson defends his lobbying past
By ERIK SCHELZIG, Associated Press WriterTue Jun 26, 5:41 PM ET
Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because “government’s […]
Sen. Mike Gravel
Why Hillary Scares Me
Posted June 25, 2007 | 10:14 AM (EST)
During one of the debates I mentioned that my fellow Democratic candidates scare me. Hillary’s speech last week to the Take Back America conference gives me yet another reason to be afraid.
In an indignant voice she decried the Bush administration’s ‘’stunning record of […]
PARIS WAS PIG IN A POKEY
FREED JAILBRAT LIKED TO ‘GRUB’ OFF THE GUARDS
By MARIANNE GARVEY and DAVID K. LI
June 27, 2007 — Paris Hilton scurried home to Mommy and Daddy yesterday after spending three weeks in a jailhouse medical unit receiving special treatment and living the life of a snack-ravaging college student.
Sources said the celebrity […]
Could it be that both of them want to hold their breath so no one will know their background. Tin Horn does it by carrying W’s water and Alito apparently joined a club at Princeton which was a bit against minorities. While I do not like Scalia’s politics, he does not seem embarrassed by his […]
1. How long before the plaintiff appeals because his attorney was weak?
2. What is the time frame for the plaintiff to find a literary agent to market a possible book?
3. When will a local television producer announce a proposed and warmly received concept for a made-for-tv movie?
4. How soon before the plaintiff begins to make […]
Obviously, scientists found them at an 80,000-year-old pawn shop.
Heather Whipps
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com 2 hours, 29 minutes ago
Even the very first modern humans may have spruced themselves up with beaded bling.
Twelve shell beads discovered in a cave in eastern Morocco have been dated at more than 80,000 years old, making them one of the earliest examples […]
ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency
‘A Different Understanding With the President’
Web Q&A: Monday, 1 p.m. ET
By Barton Gellman and Jo Becker
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 24, 2007; Page A01
Just past the Oval Office, in the private dining room overlooking the South Lawn, Vice President Cheney joined President Bush at a round parquet table they shared once […]
Straight-talkin’ John McCain–11
Barak Obama–0
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Thomas B. Edsall
The Huffington Post
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HuffPost Exclusive: More Lobbyists On McCain Staff Than Any Other 08 Candidate
June 23, 2007 11:54 AM
John McCain, who made his name attacking special interests, has more lobbyists working on his staff or as advisers than any of his competitors, Republican or Democrat.
A Huffington Post examination of the […]
by such behavior. Of course, that was before the hi-jinks of Dick ‘n W and the video releases from Abu Ghraib, the trips to fantasy island which is Gitmo and the Tin Horn Torquemada aka Attorney General Gonzalez. Certainly photographs like this would be common in the USA if the conservative ‘chrishin’ fundamentalists achieved […]
…instead of shying away from Rep. Kucinich’s (and about 8 co-sponsors) articles of impeachment of Cheney.
Rollingstone.com
Back to The Secret Campaign of President Bush’s Administration To Deny Global Warming
The Secret Campaign of President Bush’s Administration To Deny Global Warming
TIM DICKINSON
Posted Jun 20, 2007 12:49 PM
“That’s a big no. The president believes . . . that […]
Moore Says Weinstein Wanted Clinton Scene Cut
By Politics
Friday, June 22, 2007; A05
Michael Moore is getting a lot of mileage out of the hit he takes on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in his provocative new movie “Sicko,” which made its Washington premiere Wednesday night at the Uptown theater.
Moore said after the premiere that movie mogul […]
Bush claims oversight exemption too
The White House says the president’s own order on classified data does not apply to his office or the vice president’s.
By Josh Meyer
Times Staff Writer
June 23, 2007
WASHINGTON — The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, President Bush’s office is not allowing an independent federal watchdog to […]
No veep is an island
Cheney has been instrumental in eroding privacy rights for all Americans — except himself.
Los Angeles Times Editorial
June 23, 2007
VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney’s refusal to comply with a presidential order regulating the handling of classified information might be scary were it not so ludicrous.
Cheney’s rejection of mandatory inspections required of all federal […]
Bush Pick for No. 3 at Justice Withdraws
MARY CLARE JALONICK
The Associated Press
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Maybe he felt he didn’t look enough like Karl Rove.
I believe that is the determining factor for all of these guys.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush’s pick to be the No. 3 official in the Justice Department asked to have his nomination withdrawn Friday, four […]
Post-Katrina New Orleans death rate shoots up
By Ed StoddardThu Jun 21, 5:37 PM ET
Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly 50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
“The city lost half of its public health workers after […]
U.S. hospitals try to pick up the ER pace
By Carey Gillam 2 hours, 10 minutes ago
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - It’s the sort of promotion you might expect from a pizza delivery chain, not a U.S. hospital system.
Like the pizzeria that picks up the bill for taking too long, a Kansas City hospital offers cinema […]
Airline apologizes for sewage on plane
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Thu Jun 21, 12:59 PM ET
Continental Airlines Inc. is apologizing to its customers for “poor conditions” aboard a transatlantic flight where one passenger described sewage spilling down the aisle from a lavatory.
“I’ve never felt so offended in all my life,” passenger Collin Brock of Washington state told Seattle’s KING-TV. “I […]
Cheney claims a non-executive privilege
He asserts he’s exempt from showing an agency how his office keeps secrets because he’s not fully part of the administration.
By Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writer
June 22, 2007
WASHINGTON — For the last four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has made the controversial claim that his office is not fully part of […]
Committee on Oversight & Government Reform
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Administration Oversight
Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information
The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice […]
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As secretary, Lawrence Small, aided by then-Deputy Secretary Sheila Burke, took advantage of the lack of oversight by the Board of Regents and others, according to an independent report on Smithsonian management abuses. (Charles Dharapak - AP)
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Report Slams Small’s Tenure
Smithsonian Had ‘Ill-Suited’ Leader
By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 20, 2007; 4:58 PM
Former Smithsonian […]
Commentary: Re-open investigation of Abu Ghraib
By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wed, June 20, 2007
We were reminded again this week that in this administration, no good deed goes unpunished, and that no scandal is so great that it can’t be hidden until it’s forgotten.
The sad spectacle that transpired inside the crumbling walls of […]
TheBostonChannel.com
Vatican Reverses Kennedy Annulment
Sheila, Joe Kennedy Divorced After 12 Years Of Marriage
UPDATED: 6:44 pm EDT June 20, 2007
BOSTON — It took 10 years, but on Wednesday, Joe Kennedy’s first wife got the decision she had been waiting for.
NewsCenter 5’s Amalia Barreda reported that Sheila Kennedy asked the Vatican to overturn the annulment granted to her […]
Daily Times - Site Edition Thursday, June 21, 2007
Osama may have arranged family’s US exit: FBI
WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden might have chartered a plane that carried his family members and Saudi nationals out of the United States after the September 11 attacks, said FBI documents released on Wednesday.
The papers, obtained through […]
June 20, 2007
Lawmakers to Investigate Bush on Laws and Intent
By CARL HULSE
WASHINGTON, June 19 — Lawmakers say they plan to dig deeper into the Bush administration’s use of bill-signing statements as ways to circumvent Congressional intent.
In a limited examination of the administration’s practice of reserving the authority to interpret legislation, the Government Accountability Office determined […]
Remember our good pal, Ralph Nader who said there was no difference betweeen the parties’ candidates in 2000. Thanks again in your display of foresight, Ralph the Petulant.
President Bush Bucking the Stem Cell Trend?
ANALYSIS By GARY LANGER, Director of Polling, ABC News
June 20, 2007 —
President Bush’s pending veto of stem cell research legislation comes […]
I imagine Bill ‘n Hillary have taken W at his word–Americans just won’t do certain jobs. As anyone who has read this blog, I am no flag-waving jingoist, but for appearances sake; could not the most consulted candidate in the history of American politics have not out-sourced her campaign song?
Clinton unveils campaign song
Wednesday, June 20, […]