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Groups Seek Independent Probe of DeLay

Two government watchdog groups asked the House ethics committee Thursday to appoint an independent counsel to investigate a complaint that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay traded political contributions for legislative favors. 

A spokesman said DeLay opposes the groups' request.

Election Troubles Already Descending on Florida

More Bush Family Ties to Money-Laundering

US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

"The worst is the soundtrack of the boys shrieking."

Natasha captures The Daily Show

JS: Rob, the government is now floating a plan to move the presidential election in the case of a terrorist attack. What have you heard about that plan?

RC: Well Jon, the plan is out there, it's a very smart move by the United States government, think about it. The terrorists are expecting us to hold our elections on election day. We'd be playing right into their hands.

JS: Rob, isn't changing the date of the election an, in some ways, a concession to the terrorists?

RC: It's not just changing the date, Jon. This administration has a number of proposals on the table, all designed to protect the sanctity of our democracy. One idea: the election shield.

Under the proposal, the states most vulnerable to terrorist disruption, those on the pereimeter, states like California, New York, Oregon, the whole New England region [each of these areas turns blue as he names them], and, these other states [the blue regions now match the map of states that went for Gore in 2000], they would form a protective shield. A no-voting buffer zone. Sacrificing themselves, to safeguard these states, designated by, let's say, the color red. [The rest of the states go red, and the picture of the 2000 election map is complete.] Who will then safely carry out the election, sending a clear message to terrorists: This red part of America will not be cowed.

The U.K. Butler Report

"The intelligence: flawed, The dossier: dodgy, The 45-minute claim: wrong... Iraq's link to al-Qaeda: unproven, The public: misled, The case for war: exaggerated, And who was to blame? No one."

MoveOn emails me that 11% of Presidential Voters Have Seen Fahrenheit 9/11

An additional 33% intend to see Fahrenheit 9/11, probably on DVD.

Max Boot argues for a 'speak softly' kind of U.S. Imperialism and control

Sign the petition to Extend the Assault Weapons Ban which the GOP is letting expire

Coca-Cola uses child labor produced sugar

Tom DeLay's Tainted Ethics Panel

WW2 Veterans Denounce Bush at Opening of WW2 Memorial Jimmy Breslin, Another WW2 Vet., Chimes In

Bush Speech On Gay Marriage was 'Uncivil, Error-filled, and Dishonest'

An amendment simply stating that heterosexuals alone can get married has been rejected by Bush and his allies, in favor of a far more sweeping attack on the basic protections of gay people across the country. In this respect, the president is simply lying. And anyone who takes a minute to read the amendment will see this beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Joe Trippi Interview -- The Revolution Will Not Be Televised excerpt -- Buy the Book on Sale at Amazon

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