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News Link • Domestic Policy
Happy Festivus from Freedom's Phoenix
12-25-2005
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Associated Press
The celebration of Festivus is alive and well in northwestern Pennsylvania, nearly a decade after the bizarre "holiday" garnered pop culture notoriety on "Seinfeld." Its roots actually go back several decades: a slap at the
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News Link • Domestic Policy
New Orleans Set to Begin Demolishing Homes
12-25-2005
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Associated Press
The city is ready to demolish some 2,500 houses deemed threats to public safety because of damage from Hurricane Katrina, but opponents said Saturday they will sue to stop the work to make sure homeowners' rights are respected.
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News Link • Bill of Rights
Sold: Home With Original Uncle Tom's Cabin
12-25-2005
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Associated Press
The 18th-century house had one thing the McMansions could never claim " the original Uncle Tom's cabin.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Bush proud he has cut 40¢ off of every $100 he has spent, promises more for elections
12-22-2005
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Reuters
The White House, gearing up for 2006 mid-term elections in which the budget and taxes may spark fierce debate, is eager to claim credit for a pending five-year spending-cut measure but faces tough decisions as it weighs a fresh round of reductions.
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News Link • Religion: Believers
Catholic church gets a big Christmas F.U.!
12-25-2005
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Associated Press
At least 1,500 people attended Christmas Eve Mass presided by an excommunicated Roman Catholic priest, despite warnings from the archbishop that participating would be a mortal sin.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Russia deploys new "evading" nuclear missiles
12-25-2005
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The Australian
The chief of Russia's strategic forces attended the deployment of a new set of state-of-the art intercontinental ballistic missiles today, boasting of their capability to penetrate any prospective missile defence.
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News Link • Police State
Top 12 media myths and falsehoods on the Bush administration's spying scandal
12-25-2005
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MediaMatters for America blog
Media Matters presents the top 12 myths and falsehoods promoted by the media on President Bush's spying scandal on his authorized the NSA to eavesdrop on American's communications without the required approval of the FISA court.
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News Link • Politics: Republican Campaigns
Abramoff's restaurant may serve up Congressmen's last meal
12-25-2005
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Boston Globe
Lawmakers routinely violating a congressional rule banning gifts over $50 by accepting free lavish meals and expensive bottles of wine at a lobbyists' restaurant blocks away from Capitol Hill. ''It's going to be this restaurant,"
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News Link • Bush Administration
Bush's 'imperial' drift could take at least short-term political toll
12-25-2005
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Agence France Presse
The ACLU took out full-page notices in newspapers demanding a special counsel to investigate whether the President violated the Constitution and his oath of office. "This man wasn't above the law," the ad said, under an image of preside
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News Link • Internet
Internet Fosters Local Political Movements
12-25-2005
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Associated Press
Frustrated by government and empowered by technology, Americans are filling needs and fighting causes through grass-roots organizations they built themselves " some sophisticated, others quaintly ad hoc. This is the era of people-driven pol
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News Link • Bush Administration
Barron's editor calls for Congress to consider impeachment
12-25-2005
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The Raw Story
Barron's editorial page editor Thomas G. Donlan penned a column entitled "Unwarranted Executive Power" which calls on members of the House to investigate if Bush violated the 1978 FISA and to either change the law or consider impeachmen
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
Congressman Benefits From Homeland Security Spending
12-25-2005
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Washington Post
As a small start-up company in Massachusetts sought to become a major player in the business of homeland security, it hired a lobbyist and attended a fundraiser for one of the most powerful members of Congress.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Pro-Iran official arrested in Iraq for election fraud
12-25-2005
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Iran Focus
US troops in Iraq have arrested a senior official of the Iranian-backed Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq in connection with the entry of forged ballots from neighbouring Iran prior to last week’s parliamentary elections in Iraq.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Is the US State Department still keeping April Glaspie under wraps?
12-25-2005
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The News International
The US State Department, placed a gag order on Ambassador April Glaspie in August 1990 prohibiting her from talking to the media about what had transpired at a meeting with Saddam Hussein, and is apparently still keeping her under wraps despite retir
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News Link • Israel
U.S. Congress approves transfer of $600 million in aid to Israel
12-25-2005
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Haaretz Service
The US Congress approved the transfer of $600 million in aid to Israel.
The money is to be used to fund joint security projects between Israel and the US. $133 million will develop the Arrow missile program, a collaborative project between Israel Ai
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News Link • Internet
Wall Street bets on Internet gambling
12-25-2005
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New York Times
Internet casinos are outlaw operations in the eyes of the federal government, but they look like solid investments to many of Wall Street's largest firms.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqi court begins to disqualify Sunni candidates who won
12-25-2005
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Knight Ridder
An Iraqi court has ruled that some of the most prominent Sunni Muslims who were elected to parliament last week won't be allowed to serve because officials suspect that they were high-ranking members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Novak had better sources on Iraqi WMDs than Bush
12-25-2005
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Think Progressive (video link)
NOVAK: I said several times on this network that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
BLITZER: How did you know that and the President was convinced there were?
NOVAK: My sources in the military didn’t think there were. A
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News Link • Domestic Policy
Justice Department Reveals Social Security Numbers
12-24-200
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Information Week
Acting on a tip, InformationWeek was able to access Web pages that include the names and Social Security numbers of people involved in Justice Department-related legal actions.
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News Link • Police State
Federal agents' visit over Mao book was a hoax
12-24-2005
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Standard-Times
The UMass Dartmouth student who claimed to have been visited by Homeland Security agents over his request for "The Little Red Book" by Mao Zedong has admitted to making up the entire story.
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News Link • Police State
Ohio police state law awaits gov. signature
12-24-2005
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The NewStandard (link to bill and OH ACLU)
A bill awaiting Ohio Governor Taft's signature would give state law-enforcement officials sweeping powers to question, detain and arrest people, allow authorities to demand identification in a broad range of circumstances, and it asks local law e
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News Link • Criminal Justice System
US judge wants Israel to provide documents in Hamas case
12-24-2005
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Agence France Presse
In a case that could have far-reaching implications for the prosecution of terrorists interrogated by foreign governments, the judge told Israeli security forces to turn over documents which could support the man's claim that his statements were
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News Link • Police State
Berkeyley professor has major role behind Bush torture and spying policies
12-24-2005
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New York Times
Within weeks, Mr. Yoo had begun to establish himself as a critical player in the Bush administration's legal response to the terrorist threat, and an influential advocate for the expansive claims of presidential authority that have been a hallmar
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News Link • Bush Administration
Whitehouse scolds 9/11 Commission for giving Bush bad information
12-24-2005
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Washington Times
The White House said it was "absolutely wrong" for the 9/11 commission to falsely accuse The Washington Times of breaking a story that Osama bin Laden used a satellite phone. Scott McClellan acknowledged he erred that President Bush was re
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News Link • Police State
Whitehouse: Security trumps your 1st and 4th Amendments
12-24-2005
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Washington Times
The Bush administration formally defended its domestic spying program in a letter to Congress late yesterday, saying national security outweighs the privacy of those who are monitored.
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News Link • Police State
Major corps. have always cooperated with NSA snooping
12-24-2005
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New York Times
The NSA's backdoor access to major telecommunications switches on American soil with the cooperation of major corporations represents a significant expansion of the agency's operational capability, according to current and former government o
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News Link • WAR: About that War
US confirms al-Jazerra report that Airstrikes have increased in Iraq
12-24-2005
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Washington Post
US airstrikes in Iraq have surged this fall, jumping to nearly 5 times the average monthly rate earlier in the year. Until the end of August, US warplanes were conducting about 25 strikes a month, this rose to 62 in September, then to 122 in October
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News Link • Bill of Rights
U.S. has been secretly testing Americans for radiation
12-24-2005
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Reuters
A classified radiation monitoring program, conducted without warrants, has targeted private U.S. property (i.e., mosques) in an effort to prevent an al-Qaida attack.
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News Link • Foreign Policy
Iran hails “first Islamist Arab state” in Iraq
12-24-2005
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Iraq Focus
“The American defeat and withdrawal from Iraq will forever bury the Neoconservative current in the US, while the formation of an Islamist state in Iraq, which will be a natural ally of Iran and form a contiguous link between Palestine, Syria and Leba
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News Link • WAR: About that War
Iraqis March, Say Elections Were Rigged
12-24-2005
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The Guardian
Several hundred thousand people demonstrated after noon prayers in southern Baghdad Friday, many carrying banners decrying last week's elections. Many Iraqis outside the religious Shiite coalition allege that the elections were unfair to smaller
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