I have mentioned this before, but since it has hit a more mainstream source, it bears repeating Sibel Edmonds, a former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she spent three hours giving testimony to the panel investigating the attacks, and told Britain’s Independent Friday information was circulating within the FBI in the [...]
Archive for April 2nd, 2004
US Knew of Al-Queda Plans to Hit Buildings With Planes
Posted in Politics on April 2, 2004 | 10 Comments »
Plame Investigation now Including Cover-up
Posted in Politics on April 2, 2004 | Comments Off
honor and dignity my shiny metal *ss Prosecutors investigating whether someone in the Bush administration improperly disclosed the identity of a C.I.A. officer have expanded their inquiry to examine whether White House officials lied to investigators or mishandled classified information related to the case, lawyers involved in the case and government officials say. In looking [...]
Max on Conservative Job Arguments
Posted in Economics on April 2, 2004 | Comments Off
MaxSpeak lays out the implicatiosn of current conservative arguments: The burden of the discussion among the conservatives is that the Bush Administration did no worse than predict that the economy would return to “trend” growth in employment. That it did not is described as bad luck, a peculiar economic turn of events, not any fault [...]
Ca-Ching
Posted in Politics on April 2, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Wow Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) will announce today that his presidential campaign has raised more than $43 million in the first three months of this year, smashing Democratic Party records and signaling a party-wide fundraising resurgence for Democrats, according to top party officials. Kerry, recovering from shoulder surgery in Boston, will report that he [...]
Tax Code Drives Job Overseas
Posted in Economics on April 2, 2004 | 9 Comments »
I don’t have much to add to this, I just thought it was a good look at the questions surrounding taxing companies who make money offshore.
Repeat After Me: Conservative != Religious Authority
Posted in Religion on April 2, 2004 | 4 Comments »
The New York Times, once again, acts as if conservatives hold the keys to religion. The article above is a front page article entitled Kerry, Candidate and Catholic, Creates Uneasiness for Church and sub headlined: Vatican officials are debating a response to a candidate who professes Catholicism, but takes stands contrary to church teaching. The [...]
Finally, Good Job News
Posted in Economics on April 2, 2004 | Comments Off
Report Is Better Than Expected; 308,000 Positions Created I am sure we will hear about the wondrous effects of Bush’s tax cuts. The tax cuts that have produced one month in three years that matched the Busies expectations. Notice also that the manufacturing sector showed no improvement — meaning that the jobs created skew toward [...]
Bush Hiding Clinton's Anti-Terrorism Papers
Posted in Politics on April 2, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Once again, the Bush Administration puts politics over security The commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks said on Thursday that it was pressing the White House to explain why the Bush administration had blocked thousands of pages of classified foreign policy and counterterrorism documents from former President Bill Clinton’s White House files from being turned [...]