Month: May 2005

Laura Bush, that is. “First lady Laura Bush on Monday endorsed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s plan for presidential elections as ‘bold and wise,’ reports the AP/NYT, “despite complaints from...

(Cross-posted at Daily Kos) Last night I diaried the story of the Bush protest rally of up to 1200 strong held in downtown Rochester, NY, yesterday, while the President was selling his snake oil . . . er, Social Security Reform...

I’ve been steeling myself for disaster, as it’s been looking (to me) like she was going to be a juggernaut in primary season, then get slaughtered in the general.  But a couple recent articles have caused me to...

DID YOU KNOW… that the infernal Leave No Child Behind Act has a sneaky Pete section requiring high schools to turn over student information to military recruiters? Neither did I. I haven’t paid much attention to the...

Syria announced that it will stop all cooperation with the United States on Bush’s War on Terror.  Just in time for the Senate to confirm John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador to show us his proven diplomatic skills....