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Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq ( Read more... ) -
Diversity in Congress
The 110th Congress will have 43 African Americans. All 43 are Democrats ( Read more... ) -
So happy for the Thursday
First, some non-political funstuff type news. This is about Passion Parties. I may have mentioned them before. One of my boss's projects works with African American Breast Cancer survivors across the country and that is how I first learned about this. It is really a very cool thing I think in working on our country's damanged relationship with sex ( Read more... ) -
Colombus Day - Daily Show
In fourteen hundred ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and discovered America. Now, some have argued Columbus actually discovered the West Indies, or that Norsemen had discovered America centuries earlier, or that you really can't get credit for discovering an indigenous people with a developed civilization. Those people are communists. ( Read more... ) -
Kinky News for Texas
I really wanted to vote for Kinky for a while, but the more I dig on him the more dissatisfied I am. I hate to say it. I was going to post a bunch of the different bits I have found, but I then came across this thread that sums it up pretty well. Signing the trigger law is really too much, even if he had no clue what he was talking about. politicsNPR Interview with President Clinton
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6113357
Talking about the use of torture. Listen to it if you can.Salon's shameful six
There was Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004. Here are the six states where vote suppression could cost voters their voice -- and Democrats the election -- in 2006 ( Read more... )Salon - The Neocons Next War
By secretly providing NSA intelligence to Israel and undermining the hapless Condi Rice, hardliners in the Bush administration are trying to widen the Middle East conflict to Iran and Syria, not stop it ( Read more... )