John M. Peters at LRC has written a great bit about how much George Bush reminds him of an earlier born-again, ivy league, disaster of a mass murderer of a president: Woodrow "ruiner of all things good" Wilson. I'd have to say I agree.

From The Onion LANGLEY, VA

According to Joe Sobran: Seldom has one man gotten on so many people

Brian Ross at ABC News says that guilty-pleaders Rep. "Duke" Cunningham and Jack Abramoff have been singing like Lemmy about the corruption of other Republican friends of theirs - including the number one recipient of Abramoff money, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert. "Whether they like it or not, members of Congress, including Hastert, are under investigation," one federal official said tonight. Hastert, bribed? No Way! I'm shocked! No wonder Ol' Denny has...

by Gareth Porter Iran offered in 2003 to accept peace with Israel and cut off material assistance to Palestinian armed groups and to pressure them to halt terrorist attacks within Israel's 1967 borders, according to the secret Iranian proposal to the United States. The two-page proposal for a broad Iran-U.S. agreement covering all the issues separating the two countries, a copy of which was obtained by IPS, was conveyed to the United States in late April or early May 2003. Trita Parsi, a...

That's great. Try not to be such suckers for the neocons next time, jerk.

From the headlines at Antiwar.com, Seymour Hersh does the NSA in the New Yorker, Listening In: "A security consultant working with a major telecommunications carrier told me that his client set up a top-secret high-speed circuit between its main computer complex and Quantico, Virginia, the site of a government-intelligence computer center. This link provided direct access to the carrier

From Wired: "A file detailing aspects of AT&T's alleged participation in the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic wiretap operation is sitting in a San Francisco courthouse. But the public cannot see it because, at AT&T's insistence, it remains under seal in court records.The judge in the case has so far denied requests from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, and several news organizations to unseal the documents and make them public. AT&T claims information in the file is...

Makes me sick. Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by last summer.The total on June 30, 2005, was 56,428 more than at the same time in 2004, the government reported Sunday. That 2.6 percent increase from mid-2004 to mid-2005 translates into a weekly rise of 1,085 inmates. Of particular note was the gain of 33,539 inmates in jails, the largest increase since 1997, researcher...

Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith etc. lied us into a disasterous war. Says William Arkin: It was in particular his response to questions about his criticism of the intelligence shop set up by Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith, though, where Hayden provided a glimmer of insight and hope about a better future. Feith

Come to find out, that sick killer, Bill Clinton is in town. I'm splittin' to Dallas...

Some may not realize that the Bush Regime has started two wars it can't win. Afghanistan has yet to submit to the Awesome Power

Retired Colonel Sam Gardiner lays it out for Steve Soto at the Left Coaster: "I. Period of Building Pressure: This could be 60 days or even six months in which the US and European leaders continue to talk to their publics on the failure of the Iranians to comply with "the wishes of the international community." There will be talk and work on sanctions but those, will be for the purpose of building US and international support; they will not be done with any hope of changing Iranian behavior....

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