According to a Pew Global Attitudes Survey completed in April and May, most people in the world continue to have a low, if not downright hostile, opinion of the United States (surprise!). The poll surveyed 17,000 people in 16 countries, and found that the U.S.’s rep is even worse than its president’s approval rating here […]

You think it can’t happen here? It already has, baby! California elected a governor whose father, an Austrian policeman, was (at best) a Nazi sympathizer - and who has himself expressed admiration for the Nazi cause. Now comes this:
Last month, a group of anti-war activists, including the parents of American soldiers killed in Iraq, held […]

MoveOn.org is currently running a poll to see if its supporters want to back a movement to get U.S. troops out of Iraq — ASAP. The proposed campaign would support the Jones-Abercrombie resolution currently before Congress that would require Herr Bush to put together a plan by the end of 2005 for bringing home all […]

Here in the States, we have Operation Yellow Elephant, a netroots effort to encourage young conservatives to put their patriotic fervor for President Bush, the military and the USofA into action by volunteering for service in Iraq.
I’m not sure if there is an equivalent organization in the U.K., where the prime minister, Tony Blair, […]

An American prisoner claims to recognize the behavior at Abu Ghraib and other detention facilities. It’s just like home, he said in a column published in the Northeast Florida independent, Folio Weekly. (Articles from Folio are not available online.)
Louis Templeman, who occupies Bunk E2207-L at Baker Correctional Institution in Sanderson, Florida said while it hasn’t […]

When feminist leaders are discussed, it’s not likely the name Katherine Harris crops up. But Harris wants to be a role model for women in her upcoming campaign. And I have to admit I’ve wondered if the Bushes would treat a man who laid facedown in the mud for them to walk over the way […]

Katherine Harris, who claims a nationwide fundraising base after her starring role in the 2000 general election, might be right. The defense contractor that’s being investigated for disguising – through a home sale – a $700,000 illegal campaign contribution to a Republican California legislator wrote big checks to Harris too.
St. Petersburg Times:
A defense contractor […]

“Motherfucker, if being a soldier is so goddamn great, you can sign up at any recruiter you fucking choose. I see a bunch of healthy young men and women here. So why the fuck are they here and not at MCRD Parris Island or Ft. Jackson. If you love soldiers so goddamn much, go fucking […]

Arianna Huffington had the scoop yesterday:
Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to the cardiac unit of the Vail Valley Medical Center Friday. Contrary to Associated Press reports that he went to see orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Steadman, at the Steadman Hawkins clinic for a knee injury, Vice President Cheney passed through the Steadman Hawkins clinic and […]