Author: Steven D

Bush to CIA: Shut the Freak Up!

Well, he didn’t actually say that, of course. Knowing Bush, he probably used language a tad more coarse than that, but the end result comes to the same thing, as demonstrated in this story by Shane Harris in the National...

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Russ Feingold is My Hero Open Thread

From Raw Story: Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) today introduced an amendment demanding redeployment of U.S. troops currently in Iraq by the end of 2006, RAW STORY has learned. The amendment is attached to an emergency supplemental...

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Your Daily Dose of Iraq

Where to begin? Politics or violence? Violence or politics? How about this story that combines a lot of both: BAGHDAD, Iraq — A sister of Iraq’s new Sunni Arab vice president was killed Thursday in a drive-by...

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Poll: Is Rove Going Down?

Karl Rove has now testified for the 5th time before the Fitzgerald Grand Jury investigating the Valerie Plame affair. That is unprecedented in my experience. Jason Leopold says he’s a target of the investigation....

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Talk to Iran, President Bush

Those aren’t my words. Somebody else thinks that the security of the Free World demands that the US and Iran start talking to each other directly before Bush chooses the military option to resolve concerns about...

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