Investigative reporter Greg Palast has a story on his website about the firing of Federal Prosecutors. His take on this story is quite interesting and makes connections that the MSM has missed.
From his story:
The Mister Big behind the scandal of George Bush’s firing of US Attorneys is not a ‘mister’ at all. The House Judiciary [...]
Archive for March, 2007
Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Race in Rhyme
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Dr. James Knodell, director of the Office of Security at the White House, told a congressional committee today that he was aware of no internal investigation or report into the leak of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
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Rep. Waxman recalled that President Bush had promised a full internal probe. Knodell repeated that no probe took place, [...]
Ry Cooder recently put out a concept album titled My Name is Buddy that follows the adventures of Buddy the cat, Lefty the mouse, and Reverend Tom Toad as they journey through dustbowl-era America.
The music is styled after Woody Guthrie’s folk tunes of the day with a little down-home blues thrown in once and a [...]
I read this in a column by E.J. Dionne today:
The old conservatism is in crisis, Bush Republicanism (of the son’s variety but not the father’s) is a tainted brand, and no candidate has emerged as the Next New Thing that the party wants or needs.
That reminded me of another article that I had read about [...]
Lyric’s from Patti Smith’s “New Party”
You say hey
The state of the union
Is fine fine fine
I got the feeling that youre lying
Lying lying lying
I think we need
Think were gonna need
A new party
They say to me
They say whats the word
I say its thunderbird
I say its thunderbird
Why dont you
Fly fly fly
Fly away hey
And while youre at it
Why dont [...]
Patti Smith in today’s New York Times:
Rock ’n’ roll. It drew me from my path to a sea of possibilities. It sheltered and shattered me, from the end of childhood through a painful adolescence. I had my first altercation with my father when the Rolling Stones made their debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Rock [...]
Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s trial and conviction on obstruction of justice and perjury charges shone a much needed light on the sordid and ruthless attempts of the Bush/Cheney White House to disparage an outspoken opponent of the invasion of Iraq and, in the process, expose the identity of his wife as a covert CIA agent.
The trial [...]
Today I Saw Pan’s Labyrinth
Published by March 10th, 2007 in Arts & Leisure and Politics. 0 CommentsThere are few films that affected me the way this one did.
When I think of what makes a great film, I think of the first movie I ever saw that took me away to another place for a couple hours and presented ideas and themes that have stuck with me for years. That first experience was one of [...]
Newt Gingrich admited to having an affair during the same period of time that he was trying to get Bill Clinton impeached. Am I surprised? No.
The most surpising aspect is that his admission is intended to clear the slate for a possible presidential bid.
You can hear the interview over at Focus on the Family.
Will voters forgive him, [...]
Is anyone surprised by today’s headlines about the FBI’s illegal use of the Patriot Act?
The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, underreporting for three years how often it forced businesses to turn over customer data, a Justice Department [...]
