From Newsweek: March 20, 2007 - The poor conditions uncovered at Walter Reed Army Hospital may be only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to sub-standard treatment of veterans. At the Veterans Administration hospital in West Los Angeles, hospital administrators confirmed to NEWSWEEK and NBC News last week that five veterans there died of overdoses of illegal and prescription drugs in less than three months this winter. After learning that family and friends of a dead Iraq War veteran wer...

Nanci Pelosi defended her decision to allow Congressman Jefferson on the Homeland Security committee. She weakly contended that his district, which includes New Orleans was vital to the committee. Nonsense! Last year, after allegations and 90,000 of marked bills in his freezer came to light, Jefferson was rightfully kicked off the Ways and Means committee. Unfortunately, the people of New Orleans sent this soon to be felon back to Washington. Most of the nation cited corruption as a m...

Vice President Dick Cheney might be the most polarizing individual ever to hold office in the modern era of our politics. And in the past couple of years, his popularity has sunk to levels below 20%. Meaning more than 4 out of 5 people don't approve of his handling of his job. OF course, Mr Cheney's cavalierness towards the rest of our government is only fueled by the fact that elections simply don't matter to him anymore. He isn't running for President in 2008 and will probably just sit back...

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Last Sunday, on Fox News Sunday, Condi Rice once again proved she has no grasp of reality. If Congress were now to revise the Iraq authorization, she said, "… it would be like saying that after Adolf Hitler was overthrown, we needed to change, then, the resolution that allowed the United States to do that, so that we could deal with creating a stable environment in Europe after he was overthrown." Ummm, Ms. Rice, we did have a new authorization after Hitler was overthrown...it was cal...

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tx) was "treated like a rock star" delivering his anti war / limited government message in New Hampshire over the weekend. This according to the Politico's report on his trip there, which began Thursday. Link Paul got standing ovations on both his entrance and exit from the stage. His messages? On the Iraq war..."The worst thing that could happen to al-Qaeda is for that war to end," Paul said. On fiscal responsibility... "I think the Republicans have faile...

For years now, an increasing majority of scientists have gotten onboard with the concept that global warming is a very real phenomenon, and yes, we are causing it. Still, there has been a increasingly small minority that shuns these views and insists that everything is A-O.K. and we should just continue on as usual. Earlier this month, while the world was focused on the circus that was the death of Anna Nicole Smith, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the 1st of 3 phases o...

Over the past decade, CD sales have simply plummeted. A decade ago, it would have taken well over 100,000 sales just to crack the top 10, but today, some weeks a mere 65K will get you a #1 slot. And yet, the industry continues to charge exhorbitant rates for their products. CD's are still commonly sold @ 15-20 bucks a pop. Will the industry simply switch over to 99 cents a song downloads? Well, while I expect the download business to increase for some years to come, I still expect that ...

Some time ago now, Senator Joe Biden of Delaware put forth a plan for a way forward in Iraq. The plan consisted of 5 major points, as follows,,, 1. Establish One Iraq, with Three Regions Federalize Iraq in accordance with its constitution by establishing three largely autonomous regions - Shiite, Sunni and Kurd -- with a strong but limited central government in Baghdad Put the central government in charge of truly common interests: border defense, foreign policy, oil production and ...

I don't know about you, but in my opinion, the media coverage of the 2008 "hopefuls" has been plain awful. Out of the 20 some candidates for 08, seems like 6 get all the attention. If you are sold on Rudy, Hillary, Barack, John E, John M or Mitt, that's probably suits you just fine. But i'm not. I'm not saying that I wouldn't vote for any of the "rock star" candidates, but i'm simply not sold on any of em. And I want to know more about the rest of the field. I would like to see some mo...

Last month, Rupert Murdoch made a revalation at the World Economic Forum in Sweeden that went largely unnoticed. In a 1/2 filled hall, in a seminar about "who will shape the agenda in the future?," the media mogul, who owns Fox News , The New York Post amongst others, admitted to trying to assist the administration in it's efforts to "gin up" the Iraq War. Murdoch said "We tried [...] We basically supported the Bush policy in the Middle East." Tried? No point in being humble now Mr Mu...

Like many other bloggers, I can be a cable news junkie sometimes. unlike some, I try to get a good mix of views in. I'll catch some stories from conservatives like Wolf Blitzer, Joe Scarborough, Tucker Carlson and even Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. I also will catch some Olbermann and fellow libertarian Bill Maher for some more progressive viewpoints. But traditionally, my favorite news show over the last decade has been Chris Matthew's "Hardball." Matthews interviews with a polite, yet ...

A lot of what egomaniac Bill O'Reilly does is funny. Some of it is disturbing. every once in a while, he hits the proverbial nail on the head. And, in this case, Bill has stepped way over the line. On January 15th of this year, Mr O'Reilly had this to say concerning the abducted and sexually abused 14 year old, Shawn Hornbeck: O’REILLY: The situation here for this kid looks to me to be a lot more fun than what he had under his old parents. He didn't have to go to school. He co...