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February 2006



FAILING TO PREDICT THE INEVITABLE

Saturday, 25 February 2006 8:55 P GMT-07
I've been critical here and faulted the Bush administration for both their incompetence and their arrogance. Nowhere are those factors more evident than in the fact that they failed so miserably to understand what they were getting into in their foo

SUBVERTING THE CONSTITUTION

Saturday, 25 February 2006 3:16 P GMT-07
This trenchant commentary by Molly Ivins touches on several issues and reveals a slimy Attorney General, "too lightweight to even be a mediocrity," and a President "swollen with power and grown tyrannical" who, by Constitutional standards, should

A PARTISAN SCANDAL

Wednesday, 22 February 2006 4:01 P GMT-07
Paul Krugman deftly destroys the myth being spun by Republicans and much of the media that the Jack Abramoff affair constitutes a "bipartisan scandal." However, the truth is that this is strictly a GOP scandal and one that "dwarfs anything in living

THINK FAST !

Tuesday, 21 February 2006 4:40 P GMT-07
The American Progress Report Action Fund has added a new wrinkle to their outstanding daily analysis of news, the Progress Report. ThinkFast is composed of a series of brief notes on a number of wide-ranging events and happenings in the news.
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PAYING THROUGH THE NOSE

Monday, 20 February 2006 11:22 A GMT-07
Hunger-strikers at Guantanamo brutally force fed. This is not a pretty picture. Don't read just before a meal.

POWER FAILURE IN IRAQ

Sunday, 19 February 2006 4:33 P GMT-07
Bush's promise to institute "a new Marshall Plan" to rebuild Iraq has turned out like all of his other promises: no substance, just an empty sound-bite. The rebuilding program has run out of gas (and electricity) and is unlikely to ever be resumed.

THE NON-PEOPLE OF GUANTANAMO

Sunday, 19 February 2006 12:14 P GMT-07
What the Bush administration has created and is doing at Guantanamo Bay will leave a permanent blot on the previously good name of the United States.  Never again, I'm afraid, at least in the near future, will our country be admired and held on high
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PLANNING A PERMANENT PRESENCE IN IRAQ

Saturday, 18 February 2006 12:18 P GMT-07
News-Opinion has reported before on plans by the Bush administration and it's neocon (neo-fascist) puppet-masters to establish permanent military bases in Iraq. Bush continues to deny that the U.S. has any intention of maintaining a permanent presenc

TIPPING TOWARD A WORLD CRISIS

Saturday, 18 February 2006 10:06 A GMT-07
The Know-Nothing mentality of the Bush administration still refuses to believe that global warming poses any problem. In fact they continus to deny it exists. This report indicates that we may already have passed the "tipping point" where a worldwid
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THE UNMENTIONED WAR

Sunday, 12 February 2006 4:34 P GMT-07
The true number of casualties of the Iraq war are greater than the official number reported. One group not counted are returned veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) who take their own lives. They are fighting their own war,

PROGRESS IN IRAQ A DREAM

Saturday, 11 February 2006 1:21 P GMT-07
Nothing much at all is going right in Iraq. Progress is only a dream, despite the administration's efforts to deny that fact.

EMAILS LINK ABRAMOFF & BUSH

Saturday, 11 February 2006 12:27 P GMT-07
Columnist Bob Herbert recently wrote of George W. Bush, "His arrogance is exceeded only by his incompetence." As the scandals surrounding Republican Jack Abramoff broke, Bush quickly denied that he had any ties to the crooked lobbyist. It's not cl

"NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW"

Friday, 10 February 2006 4:03 P GMT-07
No one is above the law of the country, not even the president, is Sen. Feingold's main point -- and the president HAS broken the law. Bush loves to say that he's trying to spread "freedom" all over the world, at the same time as he acts in ways tha

BUSH'S 'STICK IN McCAIN'S EYE'

Thursday, 9 February 2006 11:27 A GMT-07
The Bush administration seems to be absolutely obsessed by it's determination to torture people.  Hard to understand why, since knowledgeable experts all agree that information obtained through torture is not reliable and therefore worthless.

TORTURE GIVES US "BLACK EYE"

Thursday, 9 February 2006 11:23 A GMT-07
News-Opinion blogsite has reached a milestone!  The number of people who have visited this site has now topped 50,000 !  Thanks to all who have visited.  I hope you'll keep coming back. We deplore the use of torture by dictators and t

ARE ALL LIES EQUAL?

Wednesday, 8 February 2006 3:58 P GMT-07
why the U.S. press corps does not treat all lies as equals, but turns it's spotlight on some lies and virtually ignores others. Do reporters and news commentators believe some lies are more important than others, that all lies are not equal? If so, t

CORRUPTION GROWING LIKE WEEDS

Tuesday, 7 February 2006 2:57 P GMT-07
More corruption involving Iraq reconstruction money brings a guilty plea and throws light on an "astonishing picture of incompetence and carelessness" that all leads back to the Bush administration.

THE A-BOMB HITS WASHINGTON

Tuesday, 7 February 2006 1:41 P GMT-07
Continuing the thread from yesterday's last comments by Jim Hightower, nationally syndicated radio show host and author of a new book, How the Republicans Stole Christmas, Bill Press looks at the likely effect on Washington of the repercussions of th

NEW LOW FOR HALLIBURTON -- LESSONS IN CIVICS

Monday, 6 February 2006 5:21 P GMT-07
Two short pieces from Jim Hightower's, January, 2005, newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown. In the first he notes that Halliburton's onerous operation in Iraq includes not only overcharging we taxpayers and cheating U.S. troops, but now is revealed to b

BOROWITZ WINS SUPER BOWL !

Monday, 6 February 2006 1:52 P GMT-07
Today's Borowitz Report with previously unreported "news" from yesterday's Super Bowl, is just too good not to post here.  If George Bush was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, certainly Andy Borowits was born with a silver tongue in his cheek.

THE PRESIDENTIAL POWER GRAB

Sunday, 5 February 2006 3:06 P GMT-07
Our imperial president, George Bush and his gang of neo-fascists, have just one solution to every problem -- give them more power. Power to invade any country they please with no declaration of war, power to torture and abuse prisoners, power to sno

TOWARD A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

Sunday, 5 February 2006 1:15 P GMT-07
Noting the continuing slide this country has taken toward becoming a military dictatorship, Gene Lyon's wonders whether or not Americans still have the guts for Democracy? We are increasingly being governed by a small group of people who repeatedly

TERRORISTS & INSURGENTS ARE NOT THE SAME

Saturday, 4 February 2006 4:25 P GMT-07
Bush never fails to try to make everyone believe that his "war" in Iraq is a "war on terror." There is no war on terror. You can't make war against a noun. Terrorism is a tactic, not on entity that you can fight, let alone win, a war against. Wha
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BOTH GLASSES ARE EMPTY

Wednesday, 1 February 2006 11:32 A GMT-07
Two "quickies" today.  One is funny.  One is not.  The funny one is courtesy of Air America Radio, http://www.airamericaradio.com .  The not funny one is from cartoonist Ward Sutton, www.suttonimpactstudio.com .