Current News Headlines
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Stewart takes a look at John McCain's reaction to some of the things being said by Rumsfield and
• News LinkStewart takes a look at John McCain's reaction to some of the things being said by Rumsfield and the top generals that just don't seem to jive.
Bicycle sales boom in US amid rising gas prices
• News Link"Bicycle sales are near an all-time high with 19 million sold last year -- close to the 20 million sold during the oil embargo in the early 1970s," said Blumenthal, whose association is based in Boulder in the western state of Colorado.
In the Beginning, There Was Abramoff
• News LinkThose who still live in the reality-based community, however, may sense they're watching the beginning of the end of something big. It's not just Mr. DeLay, a k a the Hammer, who is on life support, but a Washington establishment whose infatu
Bush Wants Right to Use Military if Bird Flu Hits
• News Link"If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country? And how do you, then, enforce a quarantine?" Bush asked at a news conference.
Forecasters thinking recession could be coming
• News LinkWachovia's Bryson puts the chance of outright recession, defined as two successive quarters of negative growth, at only 25 to 30 percent, but offered this caution: "I would agree that the risk of recession is greater today than it was a mont
We Will Not Be Intimidated
• News LinkThis student movement is significant, because it is students who are targeted daily by military recruiters asking us to leave school and become the next round of cannon fodder in a war most of us oppose. And it is the rising opposition to war among
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Espionage Case Breaches the White House
• News LinkOfficials tell ABC News the alleged spy worked undetected at the White House for almost three years. Leandro Aragoncillo, 46, was a U.S. Marine most recently assigned to the staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Halo movie recruits 'Lord of the Rings' director Peter Jackson
• News LinkOscar-winning film director Peter Jackson and his team will produce the forthcoming film based on popular video game Halo.
Noose tightens at the White House. State Department memo may be the key piece of Plame evidence
• News LinkThink it’s fair to say that the combination Sunday of the Walter Pincus-Jim VandeHei piece in The Washington Post and George Stephanopoulos’ bombshell on television’s This Week felt like a tug on the noose around the White House’s neck?
US 'aiming at Syria regime change'
• News LinkIsrael predicted yesterday that America would impose fresh sanctions on Syria in an attempt to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
DIEB-THROAT : 'Diebold System One of Greatest Threats Democracy Has Ever Known'
• News LinkIn exclusive stunning admissions to The BRAD BLOG some 11 months after the 2004 Presidential Election, a "Diebold Insider" is now finally speaking out for the first time about the alarming security flaws within Diebold, Inc's electronic
Why we Have to get the Troops Out of Iraq - by Juan Cole
• News LinkJuan Cole is Professor of History at the University of Michigan
"The federal tax code is a big beast that is beyond redemption," Forbes told an audience o
• News LinkIn a brief interview Forbes said he was not in the state considering another presidential run, but instead was merely visiting the state as a "flat tax agitator". More accurately, Forbes was in the state simply to sell and sign copies of hi
Sunnis see Shi'ite manipulation ahead of Iraq vote.
• News LinkBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sunni officials and independent Iraqi politicians reacted with dismay on Monday at a move by the Shi'ite and Kurdish majority to make it harder to defeat an October 15 referendum on a new constitution.
Grand Jury Re-Indicts DeLay on New Charges
• News LinkAUSTIN, Texas Oct 4, 2005 — Rep. Tom DeLay was indicted for a second time in less than a week by a Texas grand jury looking into campaign contributions, a development the former U.S. House majority leader called "an abomination of justice."
Convicted US soldier speaks of worse abuse at Abu Ghraib
• News LinkWASHINGTON (AFP) - A US soldier convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners said, in remarks recently made public, she knew of "worse things" happening at Abu Ghraib and insisted military commanders were fully aware of what was going on in Iraq
Real Estate Slowdown Spreads To Other, Fast-Growing Markets
• News LinkMore sellers are putting their homes on the market, houses are selling less quickly and prices are no longer increasing as rapidly as they were in the spring, according to local data and interviews with brokers.
Bill O'Reilly vs Wesley Clark
• News LinkO'Reilly used history to try and defend his position and Wesley Clark said that "his army" didn't torture prisoners.
ATTACK OF THE McCAINIACS Mad bomber McCain: Will he ever shut up?
• News LinkHere McCain exposes himself as a moral monster who positively revels in the prospect of innocent blood being spilled. Oh yes, we are supposed to "shed a tear" – a single tear, mind you – over all that has been lost in the march to war, but
Power grab could split the Net
• News LinkTurning over control of key Internet functions to the U.N. would invite a debacle. This is the bureaucracy that gave rise to the Oil for Food scandal and counts as its major accomplishment in the last decade a failed attempt at nation-building in Som
Magazine ad "unleashes hell" for Boeing and Bell
• News LinkBoeing and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized yesterday for a magazine ad published a month ago — and again this week by mistake — depicting U.S. Special Forces troops rappelling from an Osprey aircraft onto the roof of a mosque.
Iraq police arrest another Brit caught with unusual gear (and no papers).
• News LinkColin Peter,a British national who was arrested yesterday in southern Iraq, exits a police car at the Najaf, Iraq, police station Tuesday Oct.4 2005.
West Pointers, Where Are You?
• News LinkNow, Capt. Ian Fishback, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, has risked his military career by going outside the military chain of command to disclose systematic and routine torture of Iraqi prisoners and detainees at the hands of
Operation: Enduring Presence: (Permanent Bases in Iraq)
• News LinkEric Leaver of the Institute for Policy Studies put it this way: "These bases are made out of concrete. My house is made of concrete, and I consider my house to be pretty permanent."
Andy Rooney on the War Machine
• News LinkAndy: I'm not really clear how much a billion dollars is but the United States-our United States -is spending $5.6 billion a month fighting this war in Iraq that we never should have gotten into...
Tax Honesty Proponent Irwin Schiff Exposes Corrupt Federal Judiciary
• News LinkNow in the fourth week of his income tax trial, Irwin Schiff paints a sordid picture of the federal judiciary and the corrupt government that controls it by fear and intimidation. What this jury is seeing and hearing every day is shocking.
A 'Dear Judy' Letter from 'Scooter'--With 'Admiration'
• News LinkHe closed the letter on this personal note (although he wasn’t quite right on when autumn begins): “You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover—Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Irani
Torture of Iraqis was for ‘stress relief’, say US soldiers
• News LinkThree soldiers – a captain and two sergeants – from the 82nd Airborne Division stationed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Mercury near Fallujah in Iraq have told Human Rights Watch how prisoners were tortured both as a form of stress relief and as a w
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