Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, FBI Director Robert Mueller and some undetermined number of senior justice department officials have threatened to resign if President Bush is fool enough to return the documents seized in the search of Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson's Capitol Hill office. Good. Somebody gets it.
Apparently some psychotic "psychic" predicted that a 200 meter high tsunami was going to strike the Atlantic coast yesterday. In an update, the nut has now said that it will strike in a 48-hour window. See what truthout.org has wrought.
Moody's Investors Service downgraded the New York Times debt rating to Baa1. Just for comparison, the financial disaster that is the City of San Diego has its general obligation bonds rated A3. [PDF format] That's one grade higher than the Times.
For the June 6 Special Election for California's 50th Congressional District (disgraced Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's old seat), Hoystory reluctantly endorses Democrat Francine Busby. Today was the final straw. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's outrage at the FBI search of Rep. William Jefferson's office wasn't bad enough, but now President Bush has ordered all documents seized […]
Earlier this week the Union-Tribune published a front-page article that used the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refusal to list the California spotted owl as an endangered species as a news hook to hit at the Bush administration for listing fewer species than previous administrations. It's not until after the jump that you get a […]
You've seriously got to be kidding me. Some lawmakers are warning of a voter backlash against members of Congress "trying to protect their own" if party leaders keep escalating a constitutional dispute over the FBI's raid of a representative's office. Yet not long after House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded on […]
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this week turned back an appeal by parents of some seventh graders against a public school's curriculum that they said indoctrinated students into Christianity. Among the more objectional parts of the program: Students would practice saying prayers and conclude them "in Jesus' name, Amen." Memorization of the Lord's […]
For those of you, like me, too young to remember the Winter Soldier hearings, let me summarize: More than 35 years ago, Vietnam Veterans Against the War held hearings in Detroit where veterans testified to all sorts of atrocities and war crimes being committed by American troops in Vietnam. The vast majority of the "testimony" […]