Is the US led War on Terrorism a War with Islam? Muslims believe so

More than 70 percent of Egyptians, Pakistanis, Indonesians and Moroccans believe the United States is trying to weaken and divide the Islamic world. While U.S. leaders may frame the conflict as a war on terrorism, people in the Islamic world clearly perceive the U.S. as being at war with Islam



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Donald Rumsfeld Profits From Bird Flu Scare and Bush's Response To It

There's a pattern in this Administration where members (or former members) of the Administration benefit financially from decisions the Administration makes. In fact it's routine.



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Billions of bees vanish without a trace. (More serious than you think)

Go to work -- and vanish without a trace.Billions of bees have done just that, leaving the crop fields they are supposed to pollinate, and scientists are mystified about why.The phenomenon was first noticed late last year in the United States.....



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Army Sgt. Questions Why American Flags Lowered for VT, but not troops

But I find it ironic that the flags were flown at half-staff for the young men and women who were killed at VT yet it is never lowered for the death of a U.S. servicemember.



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“I Don’t Care What the Judge Said!” Marijuana user found Not Guilty

Juries in the United States have the power to effectively change law. In this case against a man for his 3rd possession of marijuana, a brave jury member stands up for marijuana users everywhere and convinces the jury to give him a 'not guilty' verdict.



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How U.S. farm policy makes us fatter and sicker

Why are Twinkies and sodas cheaper than fruits and vegetables? Commodity farmers get checks based on how many bushels they can grow. The result is a food system awash in added sugars and added fats.



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Bush to terrorists: Here is a map of our troop movements

Using photographs and maps displayed on monitors, President Bush on Friday offered a detailed defense of his strategy to increase the U.S. troop presence in Iraq. The president delved deeper into details of his Iraq strategy than he usually does in such appearances, using the monitors to illustrate troop movements.



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Man kept of flight because of book he was reading

A guy was kept off his flight to Disneyland with his family because of the cover of a book he was reading.



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Tillman killed by friendly fire - Army's immediate response: Cut off phones

Within hours of Pat Tillman's death, the Army went into information-lockdown mode, cutting off phone and Internet connections at a base in Afghanistan, posting guards on a wounded platoon mate, and ordering a sergeant to burn Tillman's uniform.



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University VP of Information Services Uses Patriot Act Against Students

University of Portland VP of Information Services has used the Patriot Act against several students. One student wrote a program to bypass Cisco Clean Access and distributed it to a select few. The programmer was suspended for a year and essentially told he was a terrorist. The VP of IS wasn't even able to recognize the code used. It was C++.



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Vermont Senate: Impeach the President

Vermont Senate Adopts Resolution Seeking Impeachment of Bush, Cheney. The non-binding resolution was approved 16-9 without debate all six Republicans in the chamber at the time and three Democrats voted against it.



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Pentagon Confirms: Bush Hyped False Iraq Deadline

The Associated Press has a major story out confirming that President Bush has been hyping a false Iraq spending deadline.



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(Video) Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) Tells Gonzales To Resign To His Face

A intense moment from the Senate hearing today, where Coburn tells Gonzales that he should suffer the same fate as the U.S. Attorneys he fired.



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Exclusive: Cheney impeachment articles due Wednesday, April 25th

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), the former mayor of Cleveland who is seeking the 2008 Democratic nomination for president for the second time, has selected a date to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. A source who asked to remain anonymous told RAW STORY that the articles of impeachment would be introduced next week.



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Wave farms are the hot new alternative energy source

After sputtering along for nearly a decade, marine power appears poised to join the alternative energy juggernaut, though the technologies are still in the early stages and have no guarantee of success.



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McCain sings 'bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran'

Sen. John McCain, in a "what was he thinking?" moment threatens Iran to the tune of "Barbara Ann." Is McCain is becoming the Sanjaya of this Presidential race?



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The history of cannabis and 4/20

Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug. The actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were de



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Noninterference vs Mass Broadcast

--We live in sad times. After two students are shot in the face and no one was caught for it, VA Tech decided it was best to send out emails to warn the students instead of a using the Public Address system to warn of the danger.
--Pre 9/11 there was a ton of information on Bin Laden using our planes against us, USA waited till after the attack then went to war with a different country, instead of making our airlines more secure. It cant be too difficult to make sure everyone going on a flight has proper identification and no metal objects.
--Thailand's tsunami is another example. A huge earthquake hit at 07:58:53 local time. Sensors around the world knew it hit 22 minutes after the huge quake. The first waves started hitting at around 10:00:00 local time. Between the 2 hours, there could have been MASS broadcasting to all coastal areas to get to higher grounds.

Why doesn't this occur? I have a few thoughts on it.

Leaders would rather have dead people on their hands then to be wrong, cause a mass panic, and be sued by everyone. Also, even though we can transfer data at light speeds around the world, the peoples airwaves have been stolen from them from the "leaders" who set up the system. And since the system has been divided up unequally between too few, nothing works together and at its no way near its full potential. The people on this planet need an awakening and it will never happen, we love competition, being better then other people, and having power over others. That's why when these events happen, it makes me angry at society for being so secretive. To exist in society (my job, my health, my food...not my private life), there should be NO encryption, which doesn't bother anyone other then the people in charge who have secret corporations, and money under the desk deals. We as a people should outlaw EVERY PRIVATE SECTOR and have a free and equal society. Every closed circuit, every government deal, every bandwidth should be out in the open for the world to see.

Please comment on how you feel, how you can improve this society, or why I am a total jackass.

"Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radical" pre 9/11 report by France

French secret services produced nine reports between September 2000 and August 2001 looking at the al Qaeda threat to the United States, and knew it planned to hijack an aircraft, the French daily Le Monde said on Monday. One document prepared in January 2001 was entitled "Plan to hijack an aircraft by Islamic radicals",



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Bush rejects any Iraq pull-out deadline

US President George W. Bush, ahead of talks with lawmakers pushing for an Iraq withdrawal timetable, warned Monday that he would reject a pending war-funding bill if it comes with a deadline. Bush accused Democrats of trying to "legislate defeat in this vital war."



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Free ride is over: IRS taxing online sales

As if there wasn't enough to complain about with the IRS, add this to the list. The US Treasury Department is making a charge at forcing Internet auction sites to turn over the identities and social insurance numbers of their users to the IRS so they can keep tabs on income made through these types of sales.



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FIFTY PERCENT of CIA hired since 9/11

CIA Director Michael V. Hayden, after nearly a year as head of the nation's premier intelligence agency, says his biggest challenge is absorbing all the newly hired analysts and the case officers who have been hired since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.



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Bush OKed the Firing of US Atty Iglesias, per Sen Domenici's Request

Gonzales told Domenici he would fire Iglesias only on orders from the president. Domenici called Rove, and told him he wanted Iglesias out and asked Rove to take his request directly to the president. Domenici and Bush subsequently had a telephone conversation about the issue. The conversation occurred sometime before Iglesias firing.



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Is Depleted Uranium Killing our Troops?

Dustin Brim went into the Army a healthy man. A year later, he returned home. His body was riddled with incurable cancer. Could his own weapons and armor — made with a byproduct of enriched uranium — have been the cause



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AMAZING eisenhower speech - Bush presidency is unamerican!

"Any nation's attempt to dictate to other nations their form of government is indefensible.""Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those"



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Stem Cell Bill Approved by Senate

A stubborn Senate voted Wednesday to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, ignoring President Bush's threat of a second veto on legislation designed to lead to new medical treatments.



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Bush's Sudan Ambassador: There Is No Genocide in Darfur (Video)

In an extremely heated exchange with Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday, President Bush's ambassador to Sudan Adrew Natsios defiantly refused to characterize the violence there as genocide.



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Jon Stewart Evaluates the ‘08 Republican Field

Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart ran through the GOP frontrunners and evaluated their electoral prospects. The jab at Senator Kerry at the end is hysterical.



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Senate Panel Wants Those Missing White House e-Mails -- Let e-Gate Begin!

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy challenged the White House assertion, saying, "It's not a question of e-mails being lost, it's e-mails they don't want to retrieve."



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Presidential Candidate: U.S. In Danger of Dictatorship

Congressman Ron Paul warns elite believe they own us and are “always prepared” to take our liberties. The US is now at a crisis point because the people have been so neglectful of protecting their liberties and big government has been so effective in eroding them.



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New Royal Dutch Shell Patent Could Mean Oil For $30 A Barrel, US #1 Source

Royal Dutch Shell is patenting a technique to convert shale to petroleum at a cost of only about $30/barrel. If it works, the world's single largest source of oil would be... the United States. What would the world be like if all the oil in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Russia, Iraq, Nigeria, and elsewhere was suddenly nearly worthless?



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Bush wants to create new "War Czar?"

The White House wants to appoint a high-powered czar to oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with authority to issue directions to the Pentagon, the State Department and other agencies, but it has had trouble finding anyone able and willing to take the job, according to people close to the situation.



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Fox News: If not for Clinton, Americans would be afraid of Black president

Dick Morris: "MORRIS: But you know, back to your question of scared. You have to ask yourself, the first black man is running for president and nobody's afraid of him, because everybody's afraid of Hillary."



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Black is White. War is Peace. It's just another White House press briefing.

WH Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino said Bush's "surge" strategy is a response to polls showing that most Americans disapproved of Bush's bungling of the war . "The American people have wanted change in Iraq " Perino said. "The president announced a new policy on January 10th that was quite different and divergent from where we were before."



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Right Wing Uses Cropped Photo To Downplay Size Of Iraq Protest

"After thousands of demonstrators gathered in Najaf, Iraq, yesterday to protest the U.S. occupation, the Bush administration was quick to downplay the size of the gathering. State Department official David Satterfield said, “I think the small size of those demonstrations is an indication of the limited appeal of Muqtada al-Sadr’s.."



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Bush's New Spy Chief Wants More Agressive Powers

Surveillance could include planting listening devices and hidden cameras, searching luggage and breaking into homes to make copies of computer hard drives.



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Obama challenges McCain on Iraq stroll

Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged Republican White House rival John McCain for using a heavily guarded trip to a Baghdad market as evidence thatIraq's security is improving.



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ARMY Proposes Extending Tours for Everyone in Iraq

A decision that effects tens of thousands of American families . . .



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Cheney Sticks to His Delusions

"Faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, even President Bush has backed off his earlier inflammatory assertions about links between al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein." -- Cheney still doesn't. That's the Veep for ya: living in his own political fantasy world where facts have no merit.



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Video: Tom Delay compares himself to the 6 million jews of the Holocaust

"it doesn't matter if it's 6 million jews or one man getting investigated, it's the exact same thing. " no Tom, no it isn't. shame on you.



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Google Earth maps out Darfur atrocities

As of today, when the 200 million users of Google Earth log onto the site, they will be able to view the horrific details of what's happening in Darfur for themselves.



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Spiderman 3 star Kristen Dunst likes Cannabis

Carl Sagan, the astronomer, was the biggest pot smoker in the world and he was a genius. I've never been a major smoker, but I think America's view on weed is ridiculous. I mean - are you kidding me? If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.



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NYPD Intelligence Op Targets Dot-Matrix Graffiti Bike

Joshua Kinberg's internet-connected, sidewalk-printing graffiti bike got him a lot of attention ahead of the 2004 Republican National Convention. Though he didn't know it at the time, his gadget also landed him a spot in secret files being compiled by the New York Police Department's intelligence arm against protest groups across the country.



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New York City Is Hell for Pot Smokers

If you toke in the Big Apple, chances are you've had a run-in with one of New York's "finest." If you're African-American or Hispanic, chances are you and the NYPD are on a first-name basis. "The New York State legislature should [also] be encouraged to consider making smoking marijuana in public a violation and not a misdemeanor."



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Obama declines Fox News debate

Barack Obama has chosen not to attend September's presidential debate co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Fox News, effectively dooming the debate.



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How Many in U.S. Military Begged Bush Administration to Stop Torture

"No. 1, it’s not going to work," said Col. Brittain P. Mallow. "No. 2, if it does work, it’s not reliable. No. 3, it may not be legal, ethical or moral. No. 4, it’s going to hurt you when you have to prosecute these guys. No. 5, sooner or later, all of this stuff is going to come to light, and you're going to be embarrassed."



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Pope: 'Nothing Positive' From Iraq

In an Easter litany of the world's suffering, Pope Benedict XVI lamented that "nothing positive" is happening in Iraq and decried the unrest in Afghanistan and bloodshed in Africa and Asia.



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U.N. Blasphemy Ban Called Threat to Free Speech, Church-State Separation

An Atheist civil rights group condemned Friday's passage at the United Nations of a proposal for a global ban on "defaming" religion. "This proposal amounts to an international 'blasphemy' statute, and punishes those exercising a right to question and criticize religious superstition," said Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists



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Why do U.S. presidential candidates need so much money?

The recent fund raising totals by candidates point to what many expect will be the first-ever billion-dollar election. While the figures are astounding, the mostly private campaign finance system currently in place virtually demands that candidates raise vast amounts early and never let up.



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Bush Pisses Off Senate Dems: Appoints Ambassador While They Vacation

Recognizing Fox did not have the votes to obtain Senate confirmation in the Foreign Relations Committee, Bush withdrew the nomination last week. On Wednesday, with the Senate on a one-week break, the president used his power to make recess appointments to put Fox in the job without Senate confirmation.



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Is there any truth to 'the enemy would follow us here?'

It’s become President Bush’s mantra, his main explanation for why he won’t withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq anytime soon. In speech after speech, in statement after statement, Bush insists that “this is a war in which, if we were to leave before the job is done, the enemy would follow us here.” But is it true?



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Cheney Still Insists Iraq/Al-Queda Link Before 9/11

This has been debunked about a million times, hasn't it? Saddam had no meaningful relationship and provided no meaningful support for Al-Queda. Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11 . . .



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Gonzales Aide Resigns Without Testifying Before Congress

CNN's Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer is reporting that the Justice Department's White House Liaison Monica Goodling will resign. But RAW STORY has learned that the move won't assure Goodling will shake the congressional investigators who are on her trail.



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FAA Warned 52 Times Before 9/11

The FAA's security branch generated 105 so-called daily summaries between April 1 and September 10, 2001, the report said. Fifty-two of those summaries mentioned bin Laden or al Qaeda, and five discussed hijacking "as a capability al Qaeda was training for or possessed." With 52 warnings, why [wasn't security increased] in 2001?



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Bush Bypasses Senate to Name Ambassador

President Bush named Republican fundraiser Sam Fox as U.S. ambassador to Belgium on Wednesday, using a maneuver that allowed him to bypass Congress where Democrats had derailed Fox's nomination.



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BREAKING NEWS: Iran 'to release British sailors'

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf will be freed. Tony Blair looked like a bitch apologizing! Was great.



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Blackwater seeks to build 800+ Acre Military Training Site in California

Residents in California are trying to fight attempts by military contractor Blackwater USA to build an 842-acre military training facility.



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UK deploying "talking" CCTV security cameras

The world's most monitored society is about to get talked to as well - with 20 regions getting trials of CCTV cameras that allow operators to talk to offenders via loudspeakers. The aim is to publicly humiliate people into behaving "correctly".



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Under the Influence: How Lobbyists Wrote and Bought the Rx Drug Bill -VIDEO

60 Minutes tells the story of how pharmaceutical industry lobbyists literally wrote the historic Medicare Prescription Drug Bill and twisted arms to get the necessary votes to have it passed in the middle of the night.



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Extraordinary move to legalize poppy crops in Afghanistan

Tony Blair is considering calls to legalize poppy production in the Taliban's backyard. The plan could cut medical shortages of opiates worldwide, curb smuggling - and hit the insurgents. Under this pilot program, farmers in Afghanistan, which currently produces 80% of the world's opium, would produce and sell their crop legally to drug companies.



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Bush just lied in his press conference about Iraq

Bush just spoke to the nation, trying to convince the public to support his Iraq quagmire, and he claimed again that the surge, the escalation, was the idea of his commanders in the field, and he's just following their advice. In fact, all of the Joint Chiefs, the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, ALL opposed the surge. He lied, again



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Only 35% of Americans now identify as Republicans

Down from 43% just five years ago. The GOP balloon continues to deflate.



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Breaking: Supreme Court rejects Guantanamo Bay detainees' appeal

The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from Guantanamo detainees who want challenge their five-year-long confinement in court, a victory for the Bush administration's legal strategy in its fight against terrorism.



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Detainee says he confessed to stop torture

The terrorism suspect contends he was forced to admit to a role in the Cole bombing. A military law expert isn't surprised.



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Chance gives Tango STDs, brought to you by NY!

Her nickname in high school was "D-Breath"—as in, D-I-C-K Breath. And now Tiffany Pollard is back to to whoring it up on VH1s I LOVE NY. Contestant "Chance" Kamal Givens
has given NY and competing contestant "Tango" Patrick Hunter more then they wanted! Chance, during Episode 11: "The Final Adios" (airs April 2, 2007) allegedly gave NY genital warts, which she then passed onto Tango. Patrick Hunter has filed a lawsuit against VH1 and Pollard. No one involved in the case has released a statement.

Henry Kissinger: "Military victory no longer possible"

FORMER US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who helped engineer the US withdrawal from Vietnam, said yesterday the problems in Iraq are more complex than in the Vietnam War, and military victory was no longer possible.



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New Bill in Congress Would Improve Science Outreach

The US Congress moves to help the National Science Foundation teach scientists to communicate what science is all about, while a visit to England suggests that the US has a long way to go in terms of science outreach.



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Homeland Security wants master Key for the Internet

The US Department of Homeland Security is insisting that Verisign hand over the master keys of the Internet. If it succeeds, the US will be able to track DNS Security Extensions (DNSSec) all the way back to the servers that represent the name system's root zone on the Internet. Effectively it would mean that US spooks could snoop on anyone.



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Dems to Close Guantanamo, Restore Privacy Rights, Civil Liberties, and More

Even as their confrontation with President Bush over Iraq escalates, emboldened congressional Democrats are challenging the White House on a range of issues -- such as unionization of airport security workers and the loosening of presidential secrecy orders -- with even more dramatic showdowns coming soon.



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McCain Strolls Through Baghdad, Accompanied By 100, 3 Blackhawks, and More

Sen. John McCain strolled briefly through an open-air market in Baghdad today in an effort to prove that Americans are “not getting the full picture” of what’s going on in Iraq. McCain recently claimed that there “are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods, today.”



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20 Computers Missing From US Counter-Nuke Intelligence Office

Office involved in this breach has a special responsibility, tracking and countering efforts to steal bomb information. Its computers would have material on what the department knew about foreign operatives and efforts to steal sensitive information.



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Politics and Risk

Some interesting fatality statistics. Most of these are from 2000, but I used 2001 statistics where I could find them. These are the number of deaths in the U.S. for various causes per year.



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US-Iranian firefight in Iraq. Iranian casualities.

US forces were engaged by uniformed Iranian soldiers with small arms and RPG's inside Iraq. At least one Iranian was killed and no American casualties were reported.



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How To Escape Professional Handcuffs

Handcuffed? Here’s how to escape just like professional escape artists, using only a hairpin. It might come in handy one day!



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Halliburton provided contaminated water to Soldiers [video]

this is sick sick sick



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Jon Stewart on “Executive Privilege” [video]

Jon Stewart and John Hodgman examine President Bush's claim of executive privilege.



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U.S. Unprepared For Oil Supply Crisis: Government Report

As crude oil prices surge on rising political tensions with Iran, a new government report from the US Government Accounting Office (GAO) released Thursday said that the U.S. is unprepared to face an oil supply crisis and urged U.S. policymakers to develop a strategy in order to reduce potential risks related to an oil shock.



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Giuliani Faces 9/11 Questions

``If Rudolph Giuliani was running on anything but 9/11, I would not speak out,'' said Sally Regenhard, whose firefighter son was among the 343 FDNY members killed in the terrorist attack. ``But when he runs on 9/11, I want the American people to know he was part of the problem.''



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House Gov. Oversight requests Condi to testify on Iraq-Niger claim

From John Byrne at Raw Story:"The House Government Committee today formally requested Secretary Rice to testify before the Oversight Committee on Apr. 18th regarding Iraq-Niger claim The wheels are coming off people. The wheels ARE COMING OFF! Here we go!



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WTF: MC Karl Rove Drops It Like It's Hot (Video)

Karl Rove, adviser to President Bush, put on an unusual display of rhythm, rap and beat-boxing during the Radio and Television Correspondents' dinner in Washington, D.C.



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Walmart Gives Up: No Stores For New York City

Although the major opposition to Walmart has come from blue-collar workers and union organizers who fear competition from non-union Walmart will force other stores to cut benefits and lower wages, Walmart's CEO blames New York snobbery for the defeat.



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Jon Stewart Slams Gonzales for Blatant Contradiction

how does this guy still have a job ??? how???



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North Korea's nuclear test a failure: CIA report

North Korea's nuclear test last October was a failure and gives no credence to Pyongyang's claim to being a nuclear weapons state, U.S. CIA Director Michael Hayden was quoted as saying by a South Korean newspaper on Wednesday.



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China and Russia plan a mission to Mars

China announced Wednesday it will launch a joint mission with Russia to Mars in 2009, marking "an important milestone" in space cooperation between the two countries. The trip to the Red Planet could be a case of Chinese money mixing with Russian science, according to observers.



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Breaking: Senate signals support for Iraq timeline

"Defying a veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Senate narrowly signaled support Tuesday for the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq by next March. Republican attempts to scuttle the non-binding timeline failed on a vote of 50-48, largely along party lines..."



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San Francisco officially bans plastic grocery bags.

".. city lawmakers today approved a ban on plastic grocery bags, a first for a U.S. city. The law adopted on a 10-1 vote requires large markets and drug stores to give customers only the choice of bags made of paper that can be recycled, plastic that breaks down easily..."



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Russian intelligence sees U.S. military buildup on Iran border.

Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran's borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. Get ready for some very high gas prices!!!



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“I dont know what part of Neverland Senator McCain is talking about…”

According to McCain, the surge is working! and the streets of Baghdad are safe for Americans to go strolling down. The only problem? Michael Ware, who is, ya know, in Baghdad, says McCain hasn't a clue…



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Hip Hop Isn't Dying, It Just Sucks

Hip hop sales are down. But why? Countless articles have said the problems with hip hop stem solely from its content. Not true. Hip hop first and foremost is a musical art-form. Right now, hip hop just isn’t living up to musical standards. It’s just plain bad.



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Military Responds To McCain’s Escalation Remark w/ ‘Laughter Down The Line'

CNN's Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware rebutted Sen. John McCain's statement that Bush's escalation is working. "To suggest that there’s any neighborhood in this city where an American can walk freely is beyond ludicrous. I’d love Sen. McCain to tell me where that neighborhood is and he and I can go for a stroll."



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Senators question FBI's Patriot Act powers & warn FBI could lose power

A Senate panel wants to know if the Patriot Act needs to be revised to keep the FBI from illegally or improperly gathering telephone, e-mail and financial records of Americans and foreigners while pursuing terrorists.



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The Pentagon’s Power to Jail Americans Indefinitely

The presiding judge in the José Padilla case has held that the Sixth Amendment’s guarantee of a speedy trial does not protect American citizens from being indefinitely incarcerated by the Pentagon.



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With Just Wind, Generate 10,000 kW Electrical Power in Your Backyard

The QR5, from U.K.-based Quietrevolution, is a residential-scale wind turbine that generates enough electricity to power a standard U.S. home or a small office. It also looks like a piece of wind-powered sculpture.



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Quote From Republican President Theodore Roosevelt - Criticism of President

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."-- Theodore Roosevelt



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Clinton Promises Universal Healthcare If Elected President

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is promising a universal health care system if she's elected president. How can we afford to provide health insurance for the entire UNIVERSE? You know how many illegal aliens will be coming to this planet?

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Drug Dealer Claims Sean Bell Shot Him In Turf War Last Summer

A new twist has emerged in the Sean Bell case, as a Queens drug dealer accuses Bell of shooting him last summer in a turf war. What does this have to do with THIS case at all? Throw those pork chops in JAIL.

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Con Ed To Spend Billions On Upgrades

Some business owners in northwest Queens say while they support Con Edison's plan to upgrade its power system, they want some guarantees from the utility and more compensation stemming from July's outage that left them in the dark for nine days.

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Banned UN Speech:

Wow. This is a must see clip from March 23, 2007, in which UN Watch director Hillel Neuer really unloads on the blatantly corrupt UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva
—and then is denounced by furious council president Luis Alfonso De Alba, who threatens to remove Neuer’s statement from the record.

The United Nations at work.
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Diebold Loses Massachusetts Contract

Diebold has lost their $9 million polling machine contact with the state of Massachusetts



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Gonzales aide to invoke Fifth Amendment

Monica Goodling, a Justice Department official involved in the firings of federal prosecutors, will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings, citing Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday.



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