Month: December 2005

Big fuss about “turning” Abramoff. Big fuss about Delay. Big fuss about Butch and “his” wiretaps. Big deal. Abramoff and the rest…right on up to the White House…are just a SNAPSHOT of business...

The latest co-signed bit of sunshine from the Pennacchio team. Last week we showed how corporations and special interests hide behind hip, pastoral, patriotic sounding PACs to funnel huge sums of money to Congressional...

Sold American: The Plutocratic Pay-Off Crossposted at Empire Burlesque Here’s a cold, hard fact for you, dug up by the ever-intrepid Toledo Blade: "Since Mr. Bush took office in 2001, the federal government has...

I have noticed the community member who volunteered to write the diary for day 10 has not been posting any comments for a while. I have prepared a diary for today, however, I would like to give this person an opportunity. S/he...

See Senate blocks Alaska refuge drilling, A.P. story at the Seattle P.I.. Snippets: The vote was a stinging defeat for Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who for years has waged an intense fight to open the Arctic National Wildlife...