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April 3, 2006 April 3, 2006 April 3, 2006 And Dean has one supremely important new ally who, when he goes public, will almost certainly help with donors. In late February, Dean traveled to Harlem and sat down with former President Bill Clinton, often said to be privately disparaging of Dean. But as Dean walked Clinton through his 50-state capacity-building project, Clinton became a convert. He vowed to help Dean win the attention of donors. Until now, lawsuits brought by former detainees against top American officials have focused attention on the maximum security unit of a federal detention center in Brooklyn where the Justice Department's inspector general found widespread abuse. But today in Toronto, as Mr. Sachdeva, a Canadian citizen born in India, gives his first deposition for the class-action lawsuit, the spotlight will shift to the New Jersey jail. April 1, 2006 n one of the e-mails, written during the first presidential debate in 2004 and leaked to the Drudge Report, Green wrote to a colleague on his BlackBerry: "Are you watching this? Bush makes me sick. If he uses the 'mixed messages' line one more time, I'm going to puke." April 1, 2006 In his statement, Professor Stephan Walt, a Harvard dean, said he will resign in June as he has been subject to severe criticism from the Jewish lobby for co-writing an article with John Mearsheimer, a Chicago University professor, over the Jewish lobby and over the US foreign politics. April 1, 2006 The occasionally vitriolic anti-American sermons, often delivered by clerics close to the young cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, were the latest sign of souring relations between U.S. political and military leaders and the country's majority sect, which initially welcomed the U.S. effort to topple the Sunni-led regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003. April 2, 2006 However, deficits have a way of hitting home in much more personal terms. If they continue to rise, they will crowd out investment, slow economic growth and reduce the average family's annual income by $1,800 in just eight years. Government debt is also likely to drive up interest rates, making the typical $250,000 mortgage, plus the interest that Americans pay on other purchases, cost about $3,000 more a year. Moreover, if we keep our current promises to the elderly, without reforming entitlements, the average family would have to pay $7,000 a year more in taxes by 2030. April 2, 2006 December 9, 2005, posted April 3, 2006 "I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way." "Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution." "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!" April 1, 2006 April 1, 2006 Their statements, made at the conclusion of a peace conference in London on Tuesday, provided a stamp of approval from Iraq's most influential Sunni and Shiite Muslim clerics for their countrymen to step up attacks aimed at hastening the withdrawal of U.S., British and other troops. March 30, 2006 Fact: The Senate Judiciary Committee has held multiple hearings on the issue despite the refusal of the administration to cooperate. Further hearings and investigation are necessary but those hearings will not change the fact that the President broke the law. March 18, 2006
March 31, 2006 March 31, 2006 March 31, 2006 April 2, 2006 John McCain will be speaking at the commencement ceremonies of Liberty University in May. The founder of Liberty University is Jerry Falwell. McCain is going to Liberty to kiss the ring of Falwell (to put it politely). April 3, 2006 April 2, 2006 April 2, 2006 "We certainly aren't going to stop that 18-wheeler that's rolling down the hill. In the short-term, I'm not sure that anyone can stop it," said John Walsh, director of the Center for Global Change and Arctic System Research at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. There are limits, experts say, to how much individuals can do. The best we can hope for is to prevent the worst — world-altering disasters like catastrophic climate change and a drastic rise in sea levels, say 10 leading climate scientists interviewed by The Associated Press. They pull out ominous phrases like "point of no return." April 2, 2006 MR. RUSSERT: Should someone resign? GEN. ZINNI: Absolutely. MR. RUSSERT: Who? GEN. ZINNI: Secretary of defense, to begin with. MR. RUSSERT: Anyone else? GEN. ZINNI: Well, I think that, that we—that those that have been responsible for the planning, for overriding all the, the efforts that were made in planning before that, that those that stood by and allowed this to happen, that didn't speak out. And there are appropriate ways within the system you can speak out, at congressional hearings and otherwise. I think they have to be held accountable. March 31, 2006 March 31, 2006 "Mr. Bush is in the hands of a fortune that will be unremitting on the point of Iraq," Buckley said in an interview that will air on Bloomberg Television this weekend. "If he'd invented the Bill of Rights it wouldn't get him out of his jam." March 28, 2006 Federal debt today: $8.364 trillion March 31, 2006 March 31, 2006 March 31, 2006 March 30, 2006 March 29, 2006 As it turns out, the photo is a genuine street scene—from Istanbul, Turkey. March 29, 2006 March 1-7, 2006 March 26, 2006 The harm that has been done is irreparable. There are more than 2,000 American kids that have been killed. Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqis have been killed ñ which no one in the U.S. really cares about those people, do they? I never hear anybody lament that fact. It has been a horror, and this administration has worked overtime to divert the American public's attention from it. Their lies are coming home to roost now, and it's gonna fall apart. But somebody's gonna have to clear up the aftermath and the harm that it's done just to what America stands for. It may be two or three generations in repairing. March 31, 2006 The March 22 briefing involved between 50 and 100 congressional offices, participants said. It focused, they said, on an AP story being published the next day that disclosed that the Bush administration was hiring a Hong Kong conglomerate to help detect nuclear materials inside cargo passing through the Bahamas. March 29, 2006 March 28, 2006 March 28, 2006 March 28, 2006 The war in Iraq has been going on for more than a year now, and today it's just tragedy and scandal that make the headline news. Politicians who once supported the war now question our involvement in Iraq. My brother is stepping into a war that is now thought to be without glory or heroism. March 25, 2006 March 28, 2006 March 27, 2006 In this particularly fascinating case, the Pentagon investigated its own habit of paying people to make up lies about how well the war in Iraq is going, and then paying other people to put those lies in the Iraqi media, thus fooling the Iraqis into thinking everything in their country is tickety-boo. Well, if we can't fool them, whom can we fool? March 19, 2006 March 28, 2006 Drawing on exhaustive interviews with detainees and evidence from security services, the dossier gives the complete picture of the British government's co- operation with the US over a camp it now says should be closed. March 27, 2006 The Terrorist Surveillance Program intercepts only communications where one party is outside the United States and there is probable cause to believe that at least one party is a member or agent of al Qaeda or an affiliated terrorist organization. The Program does not include the opening of first-class United States mail. 13. March 27, 2006 We disagree with Professor Tribe's assertion that the Terrorist Surveillance Program runs into an "express congressional prohibition?" March 27, 2006 March 27, 2006 An Iraqi police official said the dead were Shiite worshipers at the Mustafa mosque in northeast Baghdad. State-owned Al Iraqiya television showed more than a dozen male corpses, at least one of them elderly, laid out in what appeared to be a prayer room as a grieving man in white robes stepped among them on a blood-smeared concrete floor. March 25, 2006 Back in the U.S., their music was boycotted and the Chicks said they received death threats, leading them to install metal detectors at their shows. March 27, 2006 The timetable came at an important diplomatic moment. Five days after the Bush-Blair meeting, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell was scheduled to appear before the United Nations to present the American evidence that Iraq posed a threat to world security by hiding unconventional weapons. March 26, 2006 The letter came from five retired generals and admirals: Navy Rear Adm. Donald J. Guter; Navy Rear Adm. John D. Hutson; Vice Adm. Lee F. Gunn; Marine Brig. Gen. David M. Brahms; and Army Brig. Gen. James P. Cullen. April 3, 2006 issue March 25, 2006 The hominid cranium found in two pieces and believed to be between 500,000 and 250,000 years old "comes from a very significant period and is very close to the appearance of the anatomically modern human," said Sileshi Semaw, director of the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project in Ethiopia. March 24, 2006 March 26, 2006> March 18, 2006 "I will not vote for or support any candidate for Congress or president who does not make a speedy end to the war in Iraq, and preventing any future war of aggression a public position in his or her campaign." The national poll found that 45.9% of US voters agree – 20.1% strongly agree and 25.8% somewhat agree. Among Democrats 67.1% agreed – 33.3% strongly, 59.2% of Independents – 25.3% strongly and even 25.7% of Republicans agreed – 5.5% strongly. The poll was conducted by ICR Survey Research of Media, Pa., which also polls for ABC News, The Washington Post and many corporations and research organizations. March 25, 2006 Thirty miles north, residents in four Vermont villages voted earlier this month at annual town meetings to buy more rock salt, approve school budgets and impeach the president for lying about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction and for sanctioning torture. March 25, 2006 March 25, 2006 March 24, 2006 March 26, 2006 March 24, 2006 I hope that nothing I've done as a teenager or in my professional life will reflect badly on the movement and principles I believe in. I'm deeply grateful for the love and encouragment (sic) of all those around me. And although I may not deserve such support, it makes it that much more humbling at a time like this. I'm a young man, and I hope that in time that I can earn a measure of the respect that you have given me. Regards, March 24, 2006 March 25, 2006 March 24, 2006 March 24, 2006 Our review unfortunately raises questions about several other pieces besides the one we apologized for this morning. March 25, 2006 "The fighting will only stop when a new balance of power has emerged," Fuad Hussein, the chief of staff of Massoud Barzani, the Kurdish leader, said. "Sunni and Shia will each take control of their own area." He said sectarian cleansing had already begun. March 24, 2006 March 24, 2006 These estimates may understate the potential rise. The teams say their studies provide the first hints that during the last interglacial period, ice sheets in both hemispheres worked together to raise sea levels, rather than the Northern Hemisphere's ice alone. This raises concerns that Antarctic melting might be more severe this time, because additional melt mechanisms may be at work. March 25, 2006 March 24, 2006 The net result of these changes is that independents' support for Bush is now quite similar to that of conservative Democrats (17%), and to a lesser degree, moderate Democrats (10%). Liberal Democrats are nearly universal in their opposition to Bush, just 4% approve of him. March 20, 2006 March 20, 2006 Abdul Rahman, 41, is being prosecuted for an "attack on Islam", for which the punishment under Afghanistan's draft constitution, is death by hanging. March 19, 2006 It's a harsh thing to say, but if Sunni and Shiite Iraqis insist on killing one another, let it be without American troops standing in the crossfire. March 21, 2006 March 21, 2006 March 19, 2006 March 21, 2006 The images were broadcast a day after residents of Haditha, 140 miles west of Baghdad, told The Associated Press that American troops entered homes and shot dead 15 members of two families, including a 3-year-old girl, after a roadside bomb killed a U.S. Marine. March 23, 2006 Rounds, who won his first run for governor in 2002, had looked to be unopposed until recently. Three Democrats are now mulling a run, including two who have officially announced. Candidates have until April 4 to file nominating petitions to be on the ballot for the June 6 primary. March 19, 2006 Then Gov. Rounds signed a bill that outlaws most abortions in the state this month. On March 13, SurveyUSA conducted a fresh poll that shows his approval ratings have fallen all the way down to 58 percent in just one month, with 38 percent disapproving and 5 percent unsure. March 19, 2006 By that rule, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is not competent to lead our armed forces. First, his failure to build coalitions with our allies from what he dismissively called "old Europe" has imposed far greater demands and risks on our soldiers in Iraq than necessary. Second, he alienated his allies in our own military, ignoring the advice of seasoned officers and denying subordinates any chance for input. March 12, 2006. March 13, 2006 Too many people run away from the label. They whisper it like you'd whisper "I'm a Nazi." Like it's dirty word. But turn away from saying "I'm a liberal" March 14, 2006 March 16, 2006 |