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Western Union Blocks Arab Cash Deliveries
(via news.yahoo.com)

Western Union blocks cash deliveries if your name sounds Arabic. That's enough.

You're next, whoever you are.

Submitted: July 06, 2006


Bank Data Secretly Reviewed by U.S. to Fight Terror
(via www.nytimes.com)

It's not just your phone calls that the Dubya administration is tracking. They're watching your banking habits, too.

Submitted: June 22, 2006


Raising Taxes on People Who Work
(via www.tpmcafe.com)

Great essay on who the tax cuts really favor and how completely screwed-up the whole situation is.

Submitted: April 30, 2006


Iraqi Oil Exports Dive; There's No Telling Where The Money Went
(via www.btcnews.com)

How much oil is coming out of Iraq? No one knows. It hasn't been metered since the invasion.

Submitted: April 04, 2006


Pelosi Introduces Privilege Resolution Calling For Abramoff Investigations Of Congress
(via www.rawstory.com)

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants to require investigations into those members of Congress who allegedly received money from Jack Abramoff.

Repbulicans, predictably, sot it down.

Submitted: April 03, 2006


Predatory Lending & Campaign 2006 - A Sleeper Issue
(via www.davidsirota.com)

Lending institutions hate you and want all your money. That's the simple truth.

Many states have laws in place to protect citizens from predatory lending practices.

The lending industry, predictably, is trying to get Congress to invalidate those protections.

Submitted: April 02, 2006


O'Reilly Falsely Attacked Krugman Over Immigration Column
(via mediamatters.org)

Everyone knows that O'Reilly lies alot. Here's a real blatant example, where O'Reilly's claims are trivially disproved by simply reading the piece about which he's complaining.

Submitted: March 28, 2006


Working Class Fight War While Well-Off Defend It
(via www.ajc.com)

Opinion piece about how the working class shoulder the vast majority of the burden of war and how the US is shamelessly abusing them.

If the rich had to fight wars, we wouldn't have any.

Submitted: March 26, 2006


The 6 Major Problems of the Current US Economy [UPDATE]
(via www.dailykos.com)

Anyone with a brain can see that the US economy is a facade. This essay lays out the 6 major problems plaguing the economy.

It's long, but well worth the read.

Submitted: March 25, 2006


Barbara Bush Made Donation - Provided Her Son's Firm Got It
(via seattletimes.nwsource.com)

Barbara Bush, Dubya's mom, not Dubya's alcoholic daughter, donated a pot of money to Katrina relief.

With the caveat that it only be spent to buy educational software. Written by her son Neil's company. In which she has invested.

This happens alot with Neil.

Scum, all of them.

Submitted: March 25, 2006


Exxon Sockpuppet Sends The IRS After Greenpeace
(via www.dailykos.com)

Greenpeace often gets on Exxon's back. So a heavily Exxon-funded non-profit sent the IRS a letter hinting that Greenpeace needed an audit. And, like good corporate stooges, the IRS obliged.

Submitted: March 24, 2006


Losing Ground
(via www.msnbc.msn.com)

Dubya's approval numbers continue to fall. This articles lists a whole raft of them, on a number of issues including domestic spying, terrorism, homeland security, Iraq, energy policies, health care, and the economy.

Submitted: March 19, 2006


AFA's Wildmon Proposed A Hypothetical Tour Of Gay Bathhouses, Repeated Misinformation On Average Gay Incomes
(via mediamatters.org)

American Family Association's Don Wildmon proposed bus trips to gay bathhouses to confront them.

He goes on to lie about gay income levels.

At one point, this bizarre exchange happens:

BENSON: "Yeah, I mean, this is -- this is what you call -- what? -- chutzpah. This is -- this is --"

WILDMON: "That's a Jewish word, right? Be careful."

Be careful?

Submitted: March 17, 2006


AT&T is Ripping Off American Soldiers
(via blog.tomevslin.com)

AT&T abuses its monoploy position in Iraq to prevent soldiers from using other long distance carriers.

Submitted: March 12, 2006


At Conservative Forum on Bush, Everybody's a Critic
(via www.washingtonpost.com)

At the ultra-conservative Cato Institute, they hate Dubya almost as much as the left does.

No, really.

Submitted: March 08, 2006


Surprise! Exxon Mobil Chief Is Against U.S. Energy Independence
(via www.dailykos.com)

Exxon Mobile chief calls it "irresponsible" for the government to withhold possible domestic oil reserves from them.

Submitted: March 08, 2006


That Retrograde Feeling
(via www.mirocat.com)

Nice essay on the many ways the US is moving backwards.

Submitted: March 08, 2006


Fourth-Quarter Productivity Revised To -0.5 Pct
(via go.reuters.com)

The US economy continues to not improve, dropping at a 0.5 percent annual rate for Q4, the first drop in nearly five (5) years.

Submitted: March 07, 2006


Snowed In On Broke Strikeback Mountain
(via www.theleftcoaster.com)

Despite a lame headline that doesn't make much sense, this article compares Dubya's claimed growth rate of 3.5% with other countries. The US doesn't fare well.

It continues with additional information on the dismal state of the US ecomony.

Submitted: February 27, 2006


It Is Shaping Up To Be A Very Bad Year For The GOP
(via www.ndnblog.org)

Concise run-down of everything that's going wrong for the Republicans, including: approval ratings, the budget, the economy, energy costs, Katrina, Medicare, Homeland security, illegal domestic spying, Iraq, and terrorism and lack of stability in the Middle East.

Whew! Is there anything they haven't screwed up?

Submitted: February 20, 2006


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