2 Democrats: Bush Let Guard Down Gore Surrogates Revive Issue of Apparent Laxity in Candidate's Military Service By George Lardner Jr. and Howard Kurtz Washington Post Staff Writers Friday, November 3, 2000; Page A22 Two high-profile surrogates for Vice President Gore, in an 11th-hour attempt...

Hey Art. Check this out: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Prices for medicines most used by older Americans rose steadily after the Bush administration enacted the new Medicare law late last year, the nation's largest group representing the elderly said on Wednesday. AARP, formerly known as the American...

Today's NY Times: "It would be silly, of course, to overstate the parallels between 1776 and 2004. The signers of the declaration were colonial subjects of a man they had come to see as a foreign king. One of their major grievances had to do with the tax burden imposed on them to support the...

"In the years between his arrival at Yale and the end of his military service, Mr. Kerry lost his first political heroes to assassination and cherished childhood friends to combat. He killed a Viet Cong fighter on the banks of the Dong Cung River, earning the Silver Star. He also earned a Bronze...

To put it in perspective, here are 9 ways Bush got favored treatment in the service due to his political connections (he was then son of a Congressman and grandson of a former Senator): 1) He got into the Guard by pulling strings, avoiding the year and a half waiting...

Gary Younge in New York Friday September 3, 2004 The Guardian The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his father's former confidants...

Bush fell short on duty at Guard WRONG. According to new documents obtained by the Boston Globe, Bush signed a statement that he would find a new drilling unit in the Boston area within 60 days of locating there. He never did.

BUSH SERVED HONORABLY AND HE'S GOT THE MEDALS TO PROVE IT __________________ At least one picture exists that shows Bush wearing ribbons that don't appear on his discharge. Walt

"Al Qaeda will be weighing its options for staging an attack against the continental United States before the presidential elections in November. Stratfor believes that an attack is possible, though not certain -- and the decision likely will be made at the highest levels of the organization, based...

Re Moore's movie: http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/feature.php?feature=1150

This has been shown on TV some in the last couple of days. This is the incident where Cheny flatly lied about saying meetings between Atta and Iraqi intelligence did happen: During the CNBC interview , Cheney also dissembled in the following exchange about Mohammed Atta, an Al Qaeda member who...

Analysis - By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON, Jun 1 (IPS) - Fourteen months after reaching the zenith of their influence on U.S. foreign policy with the invasion of Iraq, neo-conservatives appear to have fallen entirely out of favour, both within the administration of President George W Bush and in Baghdad...

Oh, yes. There is a Republican party dirty tricks apparatus: "Donald H. Segretti (born September 17, 1941) was a political operative for the Nixon White House during the 1970s. Segretti ran a campaign of dirty tricks against the Democrats. His actions were part of the larger Watergate Scandal. He...

"TALLAHASSEE =B7 The head of Florida's elections division resigned = Monday=20 amid reports he was feeling political heat over a push to purge=20 thousands of suspected felons from the state's voter...

"Five months before the election, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered the removal of 57,700 names from Florida’s voter rolls on grounds that they were felons. Voter rolls contain the names of all eligible, registered voters. If you’re not on the list, you don’t get to...

Let's compare and contrast here, shall we? Three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, FDR has the Germans and Japanese by the throat. Three years after 9/11, Bush 43 allows Al Qaeda to murder American civilians at will. Walt

"It wasn’t reported in mainstream press, but the NAACP sued Harris and the gang for the black purge, and won. The state threw up its hands immediately and said, ‘You got us! We’ll put these people back as soon as we can. The NCAACP simply wanted voting rights to be returned to those whom were...

"WASHINGTON, June 22 — Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz, a prime architect of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, said Tuesday that the Pentagon had underestimated the violent tenacity of an insurgency that formed after Baghdad fell, and he acknowledged that the United States may be...

St. Petersburg Times, November 10, 2000: "State prosecutors are investigating whether a forged absentee ballot in Escambia County was part of a broader voter-fraud scheme, as new reports of voting irregularities, including intimidation of minority voters, continued to surface around the...

We have two different threads in the War Against "Terror". They are working against each other. The one is our efforts to work with the intelligence services of many other countries to destroy Al Qaeda root and branch. We've done a lot of that. A large number of Al Qaeda "middle managers" have...