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"I knew a man who fell from a ten story window. As he was falling people kept hearing him say ’So far so good’"....Steve McQueen, The Magnificent Seven.
Let’s face it, the Neocons were right. After only 4 years in Iraq the isurgents are finally in their last throes. We’re turing the corner,realizing a new way forward,supporting a dynamic new purple democracy (Falwell didn’t like that!),and we’re chasing the terrorists down, smoking them out of their caves and bringing them to justice, (…)

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News: Iran ’accused of attacks in Iraq to bolster US strategy’ - “The Bush administration may be highlighting accusations that the Iranian government is behind attacks in Iraq in order to strengthen its hand in preparing for military strikes on Iran, according to a leading British think-tank.”
This analysis suggesting that the US is using Iran as a scapegoat for it’s failures in Iraq comes as “Iran says it will not succumb to "enemy" efforts to halt its nuclear program, (…)

Today,looking blustery and disturbed, George Bush took the podium in the Rose Garden and made a rank fool of himself yet again under fire from the usually wimpy Washington Press Corps.
Bush looked every bit like the well known horse who was "rode hard and put up wet". He was unusually rambly in his smirky responses to questions which were often barely polite. He kept mentioning al Qaeda and 9/11 and how we can’t give up the noble fight. He also stated that the American people whom he (…)

By Jason Miller
5/21/07
Larry Kudlow is CEO of Kudlow & Co., LLC, an economic and investment research firm. Kudlow is host of CNBC’s “Kudlow & Company” which airs weeknights at 5 p.m. He is the host of “The Larry Kudlow Show” on WABC Radio on Saturdays 10:00am. Kudlow is a nationally syndicated columnist and also hosts his own blog. He is a contributing editor of National Review magazine, as well as a columnist and economics editor for National Review Online. He is the author of (…)

by Stephen Lendman
This June will mark an anniversary that will live in infamy for the people affected by the event it commemorates following a far greater one 19 years earlier on May 14, 1948. On June 5, 1967, Israel launched its so-called "Six-Day (preemptive) War" against three of its neighboring Arab states - Egypt, Jordan and Syria - claiming it was in self-defense to avoid annihilation Israeli leaders later admitted was spurious and false cover for a large-scale long-planned, (…)

by David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru
Whenever I see images of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Katherine Harris and other minions of, or apologists for, the corrupt, inept, mendacious and venal Bush dictatorship, I am immediately reminded of this line from John Carpenter’s classic horror movie Halloween: “What is living behind [their] eyes is purely and simply evil.”
Yet in America there is a great (…)

By David Swanson
As illustrated in this graphic by Chris Jeffries, the Dems have surrendered. They’ve surrendered to Bush and Cheney and abandoned our troops to remaining in Iraq to kill, die, and suffer for - let’s be exact here - eternity. The votes this week are only happening because the Democratic leadership has chosen to make them happen. If members of the Democratic leadership vote No, that is only because they are hypocrits. They are only voting No because they know there are (…)

by Wayne Besen
In sports, it is known that confidence is the main ingredient that separates great players from those who are merely good. A legend, such as Michael Jordan, could miss ten shots in a row, but he would still expect the eleventh shot to fall. The average player, on the other hand, would start having doubts after a few missed baskets, even if he has the same physical talents as the star.
After tossing a generous number of political bricks, the religious right is in the midst (…)

by Diet Simon
A German farmer has been awarded 3,000 euros compensation for being roughed up by police during a transport of nuclear waste half a kilometre from his farm.
In November 2004 the farmer was working with his forklift near the railway line on which caskets containing the highly radioactive waste were to run to a dump in Gorleben, northern Germany.
Police yanked him brutally from his tractor and threatened him with a pistol. He was led off in handcuffs and taken to a detainee (…)

The Securities and Exchange Commission today unanimously approved interpretive guidance to help public companies strengthen their internal control over financial reporting while reducing unnecessary costs, particularly at smaller companies. The new guidance will enhance compliance under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 by focusing company management on the internal controls that best protect against the risk of a material financial misstatement.
“Congress never intended that (…)