Social Security Warning System
Hello KOSites: I created this Social Security Warning System: Please comment onWhat do you think the different warning levels should say? I don't think I have them quite right yet. One person has...
View ArticleState Department Country Reports on Human Rights
There is already a diary entry on this, so I will supply links and a bit more detail. First, all the 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights are available here. Here is a sample of the detail from Iraq...
View ArticleKeep Michael Brown from Consulting for Halliburton
A request for input from all DKOSers: Something I feel that has not gotten enough attention in the Katrina aftermath is how Joe Allbaugh's clients, Halliburton and the Shaw Group, have garnered no-bid...
View ArticleBush and Martha : False statements all around?
Some bloggers have been comparing Martha Stewart's prison sentence with one they hope Bill Frist will serve. But, it looks like Martha Stewart's crime may be much closer to one commited by Bush than by...
View ArticleThe Dems dropped the ball on Miers
Let's face it: The Dems strategy on the Miers nomination was to let it implode. It should have been to demonstrate that there was bi-partisan hostility to the Bush White House's cronyism. Because of...
View ArticleA Modest Fundraising Proposal
As Kos readers undoubtedly know, Bush plans to sell off 300,000 acres of public American land, 85,000 acres of which is National Forest property in California. From the sale, Bush hopes to raise $1...
View Article40 mutilated bodies found in the streets of suburban Baghdad
The Bush administration and the increasingly pathetic GOP leadership can complain all they want about the media's lack of coverage of the good the administration says it has brought to Iraq. The...
View ArticleRove's WMD concerns suggests White House knew Iraq had none
Bush was caught on tape lying to America about Katrina. He was caught on tape lying to the American people, the UN, and the world about when and how he decided to go to war with Iraq. He clearly has...
View ArticleBiden Proposes Autonomous Regions for Iraq
Senator Joseph Biden has been one of the few congressmen actively thinking about how to best structure our mission in Iraq and the Iraqi government itself. Last September he encouraged compromise with...
View Article200,000 AK47s go missing in Iraq
The Pentagon is using blacklisted arms smugglers to get guns from Bosnia to Iraq, where they suddenly disappear. These are the largest arms shipments from Bosnia since World War II, and the guns have...
View ArticleHaditha: Three readings of Snow's 'Time told us' comment
The White House's line on Haditha is that Bush first learned about the killings from a Time reporter: Q When was the President first briefed about the events in Haditha? MR. SNOW: When a Time reporter...
View ArticleGetting Out of Lebanon: A $3000 helicopter ride
This morning when I checked my in-box, I read the following email from a friend:Some very close family friends of ours (Lebanese-Americans who are US citizens) were in Lebanon when the bombing started,...
View ArticleIf WH planned Leb attacks, why not plan to protect American lives there???
Hersh has reported that the Bush Administration was involved with planning Israel's attacks and viewed the campaign as a prelude to a US attack on Iran. Many on the right and in the MSM will overlook...
View ArticleSnakes on a Plame: Failed Iran intelligence
While Bush, Condi, Kristol, and even Chris Mathews begin to push the Neo-Cons' case for pre-emptive war with Iran, a House Intelligence Committee staff report released yesterday describes "significant...
View ArticleGen. Scheid: Rummy feared any post-war plans would hurt support
Many have wondered why the Bush administration and Rumsfailed's DoD sent troops into Iraq with absolutely no plan to secure Iraq and protect our troops after Bush's conquest ended.The Downing Street...
View ArticleBaker: NK had nuke 15 years ago
This may be old news, but I found no mention of it elsewhere on KOS. I just watched Stewart's interview with James Baker twice in order to write a transcript for a different post. But, this line stuck...
View ArticleEvidence the Hussein verdict is synched to elections
The verdict for the Saddam Hussein trial has been set to November 5th, 2006, two days before the US mid-term elections on November 7th. While White House Republicans have undoubtedly timed the verdict...
View ArticleScalia admits his positions not supported by Constitution
Justice Scalia, when he's not battling the freedom of the press or civil rights, occassionally has something honest to say. Today was one of those days:The more your courts become policy-makers, the...
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