What are we to make of the recent FBI raid on the office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), Louisiana's most prominent black politician? Was this exercise Constitutionally sanctioned? Or was ... Read More

On Friday, media were reporting that US Treasury Secretary John Snow might step down in mid-to-late June. Now, we learn that Snow has resigned and President Bush is appointing Goldman ... Read More

What are we to make of the recent FBI raid on the office of Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA), Louisiana's most prominent black politician? Was this exercise Constitutionally sanctioned? Or was ... Read More

The Independent reports that the Federal Communications Commission is investigating the Bush Administration's use of video news releases (VNR) which are not clearly identified as "faux news." (tip) The range of ... Read More

US Liberals Guide Deborah White reports that two British CBS newsmen were killed and CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously injured "when a roadside bomb blast destroyed a U.S. military ... Read More

At its convention on Saturday, the Washington State Republican Party approved a platform that would not allow citizenship to children of illegal immigrants, according to the Seattle Times. The 14th ... Read More

Enjoy your Memorial Day holiday, which grew from its Civil War roots in 1868 (as Decoration Day) to become a national holiday (Congressional action, 1971) which is observed the last ... Read More

US Marines from Camp Pendleton (1st Marine Division, Third Batallion) will face charges in connection with with the "execution style" murder of up to 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, according ... Read More

Seemingly intent only in getting away from the District as quickly as possible for the Memorial Day recess, the Senate confirmed (78-15) Air Force General Michael Hayden as ... Read More

An analysis of the Science articles referenced in a series of ads on global warming shows that they misrepresent the research that purports to support their claims. The ads are ... Read More

A Texas jury has found two Enron executives -- Kenneth Lay (64) and Jeff Skilling (52) -- guilty of fraud and conspiracy in one of the largest corporate scandals ... Read More

Federal stats released Sunday show that from June 2004 to June 2005 the nation's jail and prison population grew 2.6 percent to 2,186,230. This is more than twice the rate ... Read More

Only three of the seven Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee voted against confirmation (12-3) of Gen. Michael Hayden as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Chairman Pat ... Read More

I've started the week off in a funk. Did you know that 20 percent of Americans believe the sun rotates 'round the earth? That 14 percent believe the earth rotates ... Read More

In primary news, Deborah White reports that Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) has been forced into an August 8 run-off to have the right to run for re-election in November. ... Read More

Carbon dioxide (CO2) rules the headlines this week. On Monday, 15 scientists filed a brief with the Supreme Court, claiming that a federal appeals court "misinterpreted science and the ... Read More

Fulton County (Georgia) Superior Court Judge Constance C. Russell has ruled as unconstitutional a 2004 voter-approved ban on homosexual marriage. The decision, made on procedural grounds, is based on Georgia's ... Read More

Updated: 3.10 pm Pacific The Senate cast four votes on immigration Tuesday, with the first vote providing tacit support to President Bush's call for a guest worker program and a path ... Read More

Tuesday is primary day in Kentucky (six House seats), Oregon (five House seats and Governor) and Pennsylvania (one Senate, 19 House and Governor). Both Oregon and Pennsylvania currently have Democrats ... Read More

BellSouth has denied media reports that it provided the National Security Agency (NSA) with customer phone records. BellSouth is alone among those firms fingered on Thursday by USA Today in ... Read More

ABC reports on its blog, The Blotter, that a confidential source reveals "the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to ... Read More

Congress continues along the merry path of deficit spending, with both the Senate and House passing a conference report last week that makes $70 billion in tax cuts over the ... Read More

In a filing late on Friday, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald referenced handwritten notes from Vice President Cheney that show he was concerned about Joseph Wilson's assertions and that he knew ... Read More

First, the Washington Post reports that most Americans approve of the National Security Agency collecting domestic telephone records for data mining purposes. Then Newsweek reports that no, most Americans believe ... Read More

The wide reach of the National Security Agency takes center stage at US Liberals, where Deborah White calls it the "single greatest fear of our founders." Robert Longley provides the ... Read More

Civil libertarians seem to be the only group truly incensed over a USA Today report that Verizon, AT&T and Bell South have complicitly handed over customer telephone records to ... Read More

How to spell back-pedal? On 28 April, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson -- a former Texas public official -- told a group of real estate executives, in effect, that if they weren't ... Read More

From the lightly (or almost not) reported news department: Last month, an audit by the special inspector general for Iraqi reconstruction noted even more problems with how we've spent $20.9 ... Read More

Former General Services Administration chief of staff and Office of Management and Budget staffer David Safavian, who was indicted last October, offered disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff assistance, according to an ... Read More

In the wake of escalating public debt (65% of GDP), the House of Representatives has passed (244-185) a $70 billion tax cut over a five year period. This can only ... Read More

Primary season continues today in Nebraska and West Virginia. Voters there are selecting candidates for the Senate and the House of Representatives. Polls in West Virginia close at 7.30 pm ... Read More

Doug McIntyre, KABC (Talk Radio 790, Los Angeles) has apologized to his listeners for voting for Bush in 2000. He recites a litany of faults, including lack of fiscal restraint: ... Read More

The latest casualty of White House restructuring is Porter Goss, Central Intelligence Agency chief. Goss, the former Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, stepped in 19 months ago to replace ... Read More

Ten states (California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont) as well as New York City and Washington, DC are trying to force ... Read More

About's Deborah White offers a real-time report on the rally that took place in her community of Santa Ana, CA. Her view of what's going on in this country is ... Read More

Perhaps the reactions of major media -- from silence to catty dismisal -- reflect the fact that much of Steven Colbert's monologue on Saturday night took aim at the cozy ... Read More

The primary season, which opened in March with two primaries (Texas and Illinois), takes a giant step forward today, when voters head to ballots in three states: Indiana (one Senate, ... Read More

One of the most profound eulogies on the passing of John Kenneth Galbraith is written by his biographer, Richard Parker: The Galbraith I knew -- and wrote about in my biography, ... Read More