Category: Politics
A New Book Smearing Senator Clinton Sells Well
by Fredric Alan Maxwell | Aug 1, 2005 | Books, PoliticsIt is called: The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President. It is by Edward Klein, and has a title almost as slimy as its text. The Klein book, with its ugly rhetoric, insinuations and smears, has dropped from No. 2 to No. 4 on […]
A Multimillion-Dollar Scam Finally Gets Some Close Scrutiny
by Roberta Baskin | Jul 15, 2005 | EconomyWhen we heard about a stunning report on lobbying that was discussed on National Public Radio, we presumed there wouldn’t be much coverage of it in the major media, and we were right. But the Center for Public Integrity, the non-partisan Washington research group that compiled the report made it all fairly visible. We asked Roberta […]
Pruning the Patriot Act | Unpopularity Contest | P.B.S. Reprieve | Tongues Wag in Congress
by WS Editors | Jul 1, 2005 | National Security, PoliticsA Patriotic House—Well, sort of. The House of Representatives voted to strike Section 215 from the notoriously nosy USA Patriot Act, thereby barring searches by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies of citizens’ public library records. The American Library Association says it has found 200 cases in which law enforcement officials made requests for […]
A Coming Energy Crisis Is Being Ignored
by Tom Halsted | Jul 1, 2005 | EnvironmentTom Halsted is a former longtime Washingtonian who had a career here as a high-level public information officer for the government, specializing in energy, arms control and intelligence issues. That put him in close contact with the working press, and he eventually became a journalist himself. He became a columnist for the Daily Times of Gloucester, Massachusetts, […]
Someone Needs to Keep Focused On Ballot Fraud—So We Are
by Margie Burns | Jun 15, 2005 | PoliticsOut west in Washington state—not in a decisive state like Ohio or Florida—a state-court judge ruled last week that Governor Christine Gregoire, a Democrat and former state attorney general, had actually, and factually, won the governorship seven months ago. She won by a margin of 129 votes after the tallying of nearly 3 million ballots […]
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