Catching Up On The News

I am house and pet sitting at my sister's and have less internet access - AOL at under 30K, double ugh!! - so here are short takes.

MSNBC -- A South Africa private company was offering bioweapons for sale.

UK Independent -- "Liberal" Hollywood revives McCarthyist climate by silencing and sacking war critics.

Wash Post -- Citizen Groups and Local Officials Rise Up to Defy The Patriot Act

UK Independent -- Growing Evidence of White Hall and White House Lies On WMDs.

Wash Post -- Early, Early Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate Coming on ABC.

More on South African BioWeapons.

UK Guardian -- The Greatest Gulf, words like "self", "community," "brotherhood" and "nation" do not mean the same for Muslims - what is the prospect for democracy?

Wash Post -- The War at Home - Who Controls Foreign Policy? Gingrich to urge overhaul of State Department.

CNN -- Right Wing Smear Campaigns against the Left include Fake Emails.

Novak -- The GOP is tired of the Judicial Filibusters.

Liberal Quick Takes.

BBC News -- 10 Unanswered Iraq Questions - Errors or US Propaganda?

NY Times - Dowd -- The Pentagon's Deep Cultural Sensitivity.

CSM -- Venezuela's New Populist Oil Company.

CSM -- Iraqi Christians Worry About Democracy Considering Their Islamic Neighbors.

CSM -- US Companies Worry About World BackLash.

NY Times -- WAR! What Is It Good For? Bechtel Knows.

BuzzFlash notes a West Virginia Paper Calling For Cheney To Resign

NY Times -- Big Upcoming Supreme Court Case - Free Speech for Multinational Corporations?

Chicago Trib -- The "Islam is very evil and wicked" Evangelist Preached at the Pentagon Good Friday.

LATimes -- Art Looted From Iraq Showing Up Elsewhere.

LA Times -- Shiites Get Their Shot at Power, Iraq Minorities Wary.

Dean On Bush -- It's Not Just His Doctrine That's Wrong!

Wired -- Talk About Peace, We'll Pull Your Important Government Contract.

Common Dreams -- Rumsfeld Calls For Regime Change in North Korea in Secret Memo.

Digby's Blog -- What’s Wrong With The Democratic Party?

The Ranter In San Francisco Imagines What The Universe Should Say To Shrub Right Now.

Seeing The Forest -- Creating A Democratic Media Machine - An Amplifier Of Our Own, also in Digby.

LA Times -- Bush is a uniter not a divider - he unified all of the Iraqi neighboring states to issue a warning to us.

Official Transcript - Edward Kennedy -- The Bush / Republican Budget Disaster.

The budget that passed the Senate two weeks ago was not a good one. The budget which returned from Conference today is much, much worse.

Meanwhile, 42% of American's don't use the internet and most don't want to. They only have the American mass media for news. Aren't you lucky to find alternative sources?