From the New York Post (scroll to end): The hot rumor in New York political circles has Roger Stone, the longtime GOP activist, as the source for Dan Rather's dubious Texas Air National Guard "memos." Stone was
From the Evening Standard : US secretary of state Colin Powell is the main candidate to be the next American ambassador to London, the Evening Standard has learned. Mr Powell is widely expected to step down from his current post after the presidential electi
From 365Gay.com (headline from Morons.org , sort of): During the program, a rambling sermon by Swaggart who is trying to rehabilitate himself after an arrest for soliciting a prostitute, the televangelist turned to the subje
From the Associated Press : Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee said Monday he plans to support his party in November but may write in a candidate instead of voting for President Bush. Chafee has opposed the administration's push to drill in the Arctic National
From Yahoo News : NEW YORK - Staking out new ground on Iraq, Sen. John Kerry suggested Monday that he would not have overthrown Saddam Hussein had he known what he knows now, and accused President Bush of "stubborn incompetence," dishonesty and colossal
From http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=6271844 : LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's foreign secretary and senior officials warned Prime Minister Tony Blair a year before invading Iraq that chaos could follow the toppling of Saddam Hussein, a newspaper said Saturday. The Daily Telegraph said that Foreign Secre
From the Seattle Times : WASHINGTON — It was the first public allegation that CBS News used forged memos in its report questioning President Bush's National Guard service — a highly technical explanation posted within hours of airtime citing proportional spacing and fo
Lately, I've been posting links instead of writing articles. While I think that's probably a lot more useful for you folks out there, I do miss putting sentences together. Also, I want to draw some themes out of what I'm posting. Today I posted three articles: Most Senior Officers Say Iraq 'Graver th
My original title was "Soldiers Threatened with Iraq Duty to Force Re-enlistment". I've updated the title to better reflect the substance of the article. The JoeUser title field length limits are forever forcing me to edit, re-edit, and otherwis substantially rejigger my words. Sometimes, by the time I'm finished, I've forgotten what the hell the post was about.
From the Associated Press : COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Soldiers from a combat unit at Fort Carson say they have been told to re-enlist for three more years or be transferred to other units expected
From the Associated Press : A woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "President Bush You Killed My Son" and a picture of a soldier killed in Iraq was detained Thursday after she interrupted a campaign speech by first lady Laura Bush. As shouts of "Four More Years" subsided, Niederer, standing in the middle of a crowd of some 700, cont
This is from the Guardian : Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale. 'Bring them on!" President Bush challenged the early Iraqi insurgency in July of last year. Since then, 812 American soldiers hav
From the New York Times : A classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared for President Bush in late July spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq, government officials said Wednesday. The estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, wit
From the Center for American Progress : The question lingers: Could the $144.4 billion spent on Iraq been better used to protect the American people from terrorist threats? The Center for American Progress offers this answer. * $7.5 billion to safeguar
From the BBC News Senator Chuck Hagel, a Nebraska Republican described the rebuilding effort in Iraq so far as "beyond pitiful". "It's beyond embarrassing, it's now in the zone of dangerous," he said. Bush is dangerously incompetent. </fon
From the Barna Update : Multiple divorces are also unexpectedly common among born again Christians. Barna’s figures show that nearly one-quarter of the married born agains (23%) get divorced two or more times ... Bible scholars and teachers point out that Jesus taught t
From the Guardian : It was the deadliest single incident in the Iraqi capital for six months, but there was nothing unique about the explosion; it took place a few hundred metres from Haifa Street, a well-known centre of resistance to the American occupation and the scene of heavy
From the BBC : The US administration wants to re-allocate billions of reconstruction dollars for Iraq and spend them instead on security and other short-term needs. For those who have followed this, only about 5% of the reconstruction money earmarked by Congress has been spent. Now
From the Associated Press : Suggesting the government was acting as if it had something to hide, a federal judge Wednesday gave Washington one month to release records related to the treatment of prisoners in Iraq. <!-- Ju-Anchor-Footer-Start --
Fromt the Washington Post : Rhetorically, Bush has made the promotion of democracy, especially in the Middle East, a central theme of his administration. "This young century will be liberty's century," Bush said last month at the Republican National Convention. "By promoting li
From the BBC : "They've done so much with outlawing and restricting access to abortion that they've set their sights on birth control because there's nothing else really they can do to further restrict abortion here in Wisconsin," Ms Boyce says. "Which is counter-intuitive because if you'
This is Republican blogger Andrew Sullivan : THREE TRILLION DOLLARS: It doesn't even sound better when Dr Evil says it. That's what George W. Bush's proposals for his second term would <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A188
This is the Weekly Standard 's Jonathan Last, summing up a Washington Post piece. I'll quote at length. (1) They get Marcel Matley to give an interview. Matley now says he examined not
From the Washington Post : [Indiana Republican Congressman Mark Edward] Souder's bill ... would deny the District's elected officials "authority to enact laws or regulations that discourage or eliminate the private ownership or use of firearms." The legislation
From the Washington Post : Many people with advanced dementia appear to be voting in elections -- including through absentee ballot. Although there are no national statistics, two studies in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island found that patients at dementia clinics
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