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There has been a minor buzz on the internet in response to the decision Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan to uphold the seizure of papers from the office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.)   Actually, the reaction has been surprisingly muted. That just means that the blog-o-sphere has been swamped by other juicy worthy targets ranging from ( Read more... )

Now I’m not much on guilt by association. Particularly in politics. You know the kind. Bill Clinton used to get smeared with it all the time. He would have a picture taken with some mope, one of hundreds and thousands that were taken with citizens at all sorts of events and meetings. Two years later it would pop up when the guy turned out to be a ( Read more... )

According to an article by Mike Dorning and Andrew Zajac in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE (as posted at TRUTHOUT.ORG,) House Majority Leader Denny Hassert has made out very well on a land deal in the western suburban boonies.  As Gomer Pyle used to say, “Surprise, surprise!”

Hassert, first using his wife as a front and then hiding his interest in one of ( Read more... )

The scramble late last week, coming to a boil over the weekend, over the Justice Department Raid of Louisiana Democratic Representative William Jefferson’s House office, seemed like the ultimate Washington insider story.  It may have monopolized cocktail conversation and significantly raised the sales of antacids and Prozac among the cosignati.  ( Read more... )

Finally, someone said it.  I was beginning to think I was alone in my reservations.  Last week TRUTHOUT.ORG, ran a special perspective piece by David Bacon, “No Immigration Bill is Better”. In the piece Bacon quotes some immigration activists who have concluded that the supposedly “liberal” Senate bill is nearly as damaging at the House version- ( Read more... )