Politicizing the IRS is a Political Cancer Symptom: The NYT reports that the admonistration is manipulating the IRS for political gain: I.R.S. Going Slow Before Election, The commissioner of internal revenue has ordered his agency to delay collecting back taxes from Hurricane Katrina victims until after the Nov. 7 elections and the holiday season, saying […]

The Blog | Max Blumenthal: Sen. John Cornyn Meets the Racist Right | The Huffington Post: On Tuesday, September 18, inside the Dirksen Senate Office building, Republican Texas Senator and Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Citizenship Chairman John Cornyn spoke at a conference entitled, “Defending the Homeland: America’s Immigration Crisis.” The conference […]

Idéologie has taken over – Jeffrey Hart: But that was then. Today, the standard-bearer of “conservatism” in the United States is George W. Bush, a man who has taken the positions of an unshakable ideologue: on supply-side economics, on privatization, on Social Security, on the Terri Schiavo case, and, most disastrously, on Iraq. Never before […]

And we thought Clinton had no self-control – Joe Scarborough: This must all be shocking to my Republican friends who still believe our country would be a better place if our party controlled every branch of government as well as every news network, movie studio, and mid-American pulpit. But evidence suggests that divided government may […]

Beacon Journal | 07/24/2006 | Israeli court backs continued holding of UA geography professor: An Israeli court on Sunday decided to continue to hold a University of Akron professor, at least until Thursday. That’s when Ghazi Falah, 53, will be able to see his attorney for the first time. By then, he will have been […]

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