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According to a Canadian financial firm has published a report suggesting that the stock market is indeed being manipulated. By the U.S. Gove...

This is apalling. President Bush today invoked an exemption in the 1931 Davis-Bacon act to allow Federal Contractors to pay below the preva...

Today, a couple of stories came out about the effect of Katrina on the economy. The first, which was originally reported in the Wall Street ...

This is the kind of story that only a die hard Republican could excuse (and probably very few of them, even). Last week, FEMA, while respond...

President Bush says that he plans to personally lead the investigation into what happened in New Orleans. Now, if he and his administration ...

Rarely would I actually repost a post verbatim (in fact, this is the first time I have ever done that) but with the announcement today that ...

I am really tired of how those who seek to excuse the President's slow and ham-handed response to the tragedy that this nation suffered,...

Last week House Speaker Denny Hastert made headlines for suggesting that we bulldoze most of New Orleans rather than spending money to rebu...

Remember this ? March 2000. A massive airlift followed by a massive international rescue effort minimized casualties in the flooded country ...

One of my friends on the left side of the blogsphere, Chuck (a sometimes commenter on this board), runs a blog called the Divded States of B...

Once again, you hear people asking where our 'allies' are, and once again they are wrong. In fact, twenty-one countries and two trea...

Amid the horrific and heartbreaking stories this week from the Gulf Coast region, we have had the complete breakdown of civil order. One rep...

We will rebuild. Not only New Orleans, but also the Mississippi coast, and the many smaller cities and towns which people still call home. T...

As regular readers of this blog are aware by now, I have posted quite a bit on why Intelligent Design, a belief which I personally share (an...

Credit: I found the article referred to here on buzzflash.com Like many across the nation, our family today included the people in New Orlea...

This weekend I had a conversation with a Republican friend of mine who seemed genuinely surprised that we have mercenaries in Iraq. Of cours...

Once again, the Bush government has taken action against someone who said something they didn't like. In the latest hit, the Pentagon an...

Saturday, two soldiers from Tennessee, the latest casualties of our failed policy in Iraq were buried. Protesters showed up at the funeral, ...

I have had reason to post this on a number of blogs recently, but I just have one question: The 'intelligent design' hypothesis clai...

A circuit court judge finally came out and called the Bush administration for violating the endangered species act for a 2002 decision in w...