We thought the revolution would be televised. It wasn't; it happened among a small group of very smart people dedicated to the Corporate Way. We were slow-witted and disbelieving.

Having been clever enough to steal an election, the administration may well be able to pull off an imaginary victory in Iraq. What's the point in being a Teflon president unless you can do that?

"When we arrived at the location, a police unit of 40-50 surrounded a group of 200 Koreans. While discussing what to do with the Koreans, 3 of the soldiers beat 3 of the Koreans with a rifle butt, which started a general commotion, and the soldiers decided to kill them all."

As Ashcroft wrote in an autobiography about his political career, "for every crucifixion, a resurrection is waiting to follow."

He was a Superior Court judge, a respected legal mind and decorated Vietnam War veteran who taught disabled kids how to ski.
And, if you believe federal investigators, a criminal mastermind who used the government-issued laptop he kept on the bench to order kiddie porn - and high-tech software called "Evidence Eliminator" to cover up his law-breaking tracks.

The report - entitled "Energy Task Force: Process Used to Develop the National Energy Policy" - and its accompanying Chronology strongly imply that the Administration has, in effect, been paying off its heavy-hitting energy industry contributors. It also very strongly implies that Vice President Dick Cheney lied to Congress.

That’s one feature you’ll find in every bad military plan ever devised: “…and then the people will rise up.”

Concentration camps were invented by the British for the Boer War.

Mao said guerrillas swim in the civilian population like fish in water.

U.S. investigators examining bank and government records here say they have unearthed evidence that high-tech hardware manufactured by at least 30 U.S. companies was sold to Iraq in violation of United Nations sanctions and U.S. Customs regulations.

The Vatican promoted a U.S. priest through its international diplomatic corps despite high-level warnings in the 1990s that he had sexually abused a girl

The figures - a new record in dollar terms - are markedly worse than the CBO predicted in March this year, when the 2003 number was seen at $246bn.
They suggest a near-$1.4 trillion deficit in the 10 years to 2013 where they had previously foreseen a surplus of $891bn.

``To me, the essence of the way racism works in this country is white people are seen as individuals, and so what they say or what they do is linked to them as individuals,'' said Boyd. ``Nobody will extend from their actions something one person has done to indict the whole race.''

The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."


In the running for the governor's office in California are two whores, too...that is, two women who perform indecent acts in front of the camera. One promised 'a date' to any contributor to her campaign fund who gave $5,000. Pressed for details, she maintained that the date didn't include anything dirty - which must make her the first and maybe only candidate in American history to publicly refuse to prostitute herself for the sake of public office.

`There is almost an umbilical cord in the way [Bush] reaches out to Israel.'

"No warnings," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer declared when asked if the president had been shown a sign that terrorists might strike with catastrophic fury.
we know now that the White House treated the well-being of the people who live and work in Lower Manhattan as it does everything else. It was not a public-health concern to be addressed, but a political problem to be managed. Through deceit, if necessary.
But the White House rewrote a draft EPA press release that initially had said some dust samples from Lower Manhattan showed asbestos at unsafe levels. It changed this to say there was "not a cause for public concern."

The Air Force awarded Boeing Co. a $56 million satellite project yesterday, waiving its suspension of the defense giant's bidding for new space business.

To someone who has fled the rule of revolutionary mullahs, America today must seem shocking: Though it boasts the world's first all-secular constitution, religion is far more pervasive in day-to-day public life in the United States than it is on the streets of Tehran.

whenever the United States takes part in a United Nations aid project, its officials insist on strict religious principles, such as prohibiting any discussion of abortion and insisting on sexual abstinence as the only means of preventing AIDS.

Although most Americans strongly condemn terrorist acts committed in the name of political agendas of which they do not approve, many turn a blind eye toward savagery done in the name of ideals they share.