Bushs senseless veto of education, healthcare
funding

post from Crooks and Liars on 14 November 2007 12:50:20 PM. © Crooks and Liars

For a president that spent six years signing every bloated budget bill he could find, and who has been a bigger spender than any president since LBJ, Bush has suddenly found his inner tightwad, at least as far as education, healthcare, and worker protections are concerned.President Bush vetoed a $606 billion spending bill Tuesday [...]

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Krongard Recuses Himself from Blackwater
Investigations

post from TPMmuckraker on 14 November 2007 12:48:04 PM. © TPMmuckraker

Howard "Cookie" Krongard said he's just learned that his brother is on Blackwater's advisory board and has formally recused himself from investigating the company.

Rep. Patrick Lynch (D-MA) asked when Krongard learned his brother, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard was on Blackwater's board. Krongard said that he just learned about his brother's position, and had a single phone conversation with him in early October -- "about five, six weeks ago" -- in which Buzzy told Cookie that he didn't have "a significant financial interest" in Blackwater. Blackwater has multi-million contracts with the State Department.

Company spokeswoman Anne Tyrrell told me the advisory board was formed in the summer. I'm still trying to learn the exact date Buzzy joined up, but that would be before Buzzy's phone conversation with his brother. Cookie Krongard told Rep. Lynch that his brother didn't mention taking a position on the advisory board, although Buzzy "may have said" that Blackwater approached him about one. "I am not my brother's keeper," Cookie Krongard said.

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Matt Drudge Rules Their World

post from Eschaton on 14 November 2007 12:48:00 PM. © Eschaton

You know, I can actually remember a time when "saw it on the Drudge report" wasn't an automatic license to run with just any unsourced horseshit.

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Why do some countries never have to be subject to
oversight

post from The American Street on 14 November 2007 12:45:00 PM. © The American Street

Iraq must do this. Iran must do that. Cuba violates human rights. On the same island, so do we. As[...]

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FISA bill on its way. Telecom amnesty and basket
warrants, too

post from Daily Kos on 14 November 2007 12:40:03 PM. © Daily Kos

Firedoglake and the Chris Dodd campaign are kicking the Senate Judiciary whip operation back into gear again.

At stake: the giveaway of corporate welfare, law-busting ~~immunity~~ ~~amnesty~~ indulgences for the poor, oppressed telecommunications giants, and a Congressional green light on data mining and the resurrection of Total Information Awareness.

Call Senate Judiciary Committee Dems for free with Dodd's Citizen Whip widget:

Click the chart, choose a Senator, give 'em your phone number, and they'll call you up and connect you.

Some techmology, innit?

UPDATE: Also at stake -- "compromise" language that excuses the telecom companies from lawsuits, and puts the government it its place. So again, telecoms get to skate on the legal fees, and you pay them instead.

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On Hannity & Colmes, Bozell asserted
-- despite complete lack of evidence -- that Hillary Clinton was "behind" obtaining confidential FBI files

post from Media Matters for America on 14 November 2007 12:39:53 PM. © Media Matters for America

On the November 12 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, Media Research Center president L. Brent Bozell III said to co-host Sean Hannity, regarding his book Whitewash: What the Media Won't Tell You About Hillary Clinton, but Conservatives Will (Crown Forum, November 2007): "[W]ell, we've looked at every single story on [Sen.] Hillary Clinton [D-NY] going back to 1992. And you look at it and you isolate it, and you see what the American people were told, which was just a[...]

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Fixing Iraq's Internal Security Forces

post from IraqSlogger.com on 14 November 2007 12:36:03 PM. © IraqSlogger.com

Iraq's Ministry of the Interior could be considered to have "dissociative identity disorder," the bureaucratic equivalent of "a heavily-muscled and well-armed individual with extremely poor physical coordination who suffers from multiple personality disorder," according to a new CSIS report on Iraq's internal security forces.

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Blackwater Update

This issue may not be covered as much recently in the corporate media because apparently a 24 hour news cycle only allows any given media outlet to focus on the latest, dramatic one or two stories in the news- covering multiple ongoing stories is not really their strong-point.Here is an interview with journalist Jeremy [...]

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Why Labor Matters

I've still got my problems with Wal-Mart, but the health care offerings for their valued "associates" do seem to be getting better. This is, of course, entirely a function of the pressure unions have exerted on Wal-Mart -- pressure exerted...[...]

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Musharaf Goes to the Limit Arresting Imran Khan

The Musharaf rule in Pakistan is taking cues from the Bushies. They've arrested the most famous person in Pakistan, Imran Khan. I'm guessing this is not going to be a pretty end here.

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