Now, the remark in question was obviously hateful and asinine. But does it justify yanking Stern? I’m not so sure. Stern didn’t say it and certainly didn’t endorse it. He hung up on the caller and rebuked him on air.
First Janet Jackson, a black woman, has become the object of the right’s cultural demonization. (Not Justin Timberlake, the pretty white boy.) Now it’s Howard Stern, a Jew. Who’ll be next?


Near as one can tell, the administration's only plan for a post-Aristide Haiti is to send the Coast Guard to prevent anyone from fleeing the place as it descends into anarchy. This will not improve our image around the world, and our image around the world does have something to do with the terrorism we are supposed to be fighting.
In one of the mind-boggling deceptions wrought by said CEOs, the cost of the war isn't in Bush's budget, even though Bush is blaming his budget deficit on the cost of the war.

Therefore, by relying more on Iraqis to fight Iraqis, the Bush administration may be giving ample time for the insurgency to better organize and plan new stunning methods of attack. Having less to fear from attacking Iraqi police and members of the Civil Defense Corps, it is likely that attacks against such targets will escalate and become more successful.


U.S. administrators lowered their death count from 143 to 117, a senior coalition official said Wednesday. Iraq's Health Ministry said 185 people died.

"Forget trying to justify the death of a 6-year-old... Better to kill the boy and just feel guilty about it."

Shortly after the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, the Pentagon reversed course and allowed Padilla to meet face to face with Newman. But the Pentagon emphasized that Newman´s meeting with Padilla was discretionary and would be "subject to appropriate security restrictions."

Public Citizen's report finds that the 416 Bush Rangers and Pioneers have bundled together at least $58.1 million for the 2004 campaign and that 90 percent of them (374) represent the special interests of America's corporations.

"...former National Assembly (AN) president Willian Lara says that out-of-control radicals in the loosely-formed Coordinadora Democratica (CD) coalition of opposition parties have been discovered in conspiracy plans to assassinate one or more of their own leaders. Intelligence reports delivered directly to President Hugo Chavez Frias show well-advanced plans by anti-government conspirators to assassinate several high-profile (though presumably politically dispensable) opposition personalities and then to put the blame on President Hugo Chavez Frias as the supposed author of the crime." http://vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=16220



"The real issue here is that we are allowing scientific advisory committees to be contaminated by people who have clear bias, clear financial conflicts that will not allow them to make unbiased scientific decisions." This was written by Dr. Bruce Lanphear, Director of the Children’s Environmental Health Center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

McDonald's Corp.'s sales jumped a whopping 22.6 percent in February over last year's numbers, the fast-food chain said Friday, extending a recovery that began last spring and sending its stock to a nearly two-year high.
The hamburger giant's 13,000-plus U.S. restaurants had the best showing, with comparable sales up 20 percent. Europe, where the recovery has been slower to take hold, posted a solid 7.7-percent increase.

We are and rightly ought to be concerned about the possible scope of these words from the Homeland Security Act: “Acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws if they appear to be intended to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.”

The US economy is down 718,000 jobs since the official November 2001 end of the recession
Instead, many economists argue that the rapid pace of productivity growth - to which offshoring is just one contributor - is enabling companies to produce more without stepping up hiring. Productivity at the end of 2003 was about 5 per cent higher than the previous year, well above the 20-year average for productivity increases of just over 2 per cent.
Hiring may also have been constrained by the rising costs of providing benefits for permanent staff. Last year the cost to US companies of providing benefits rose by 6.3 per cent, more than twice the pace of wage growth.
This may help explain one of the more worrying trends in the US labour market: of the 294,000 jobs created since April last year, 215,000 have been temporary positions.

In 1971, while Richard Nixon's re-election committee was committing the felonies they were indicted for the next year, and CIA pilot Barry Seal was conspiring with the Mexican Air Force in a CIA plot to invade Cuba for which he will be indicted the next year, George W. Bush was either a) scouting orchids for a plant nursery or b) working for the CIA in Central America.
This is a strange truth, and it grows even stranger when one learns that the current Pretender to the Throne, John Kerry, is also a member. And so is Robert Gow, George W's employer in 1971.
Going from President of Zapata Offshore in 1969 to heading a plant nursery in Houston a year later is a good start on what's known as a ”checkered business career.”
Gow’s company entered into what must have been a truly unique joint venture with the Jamaican Government, reported the Aug 29, 1973 Wall Street Journal with a suitably straight face, “to grow floricultural crops in Jamaica.”