As the two rural Florida men who allegedly stabbed Ryan Skipper to death two weeks ago await trial in a local jail, questions are being asked about how the events leading up to the murder were described in the press.
At one point, Matthew Shephard’s killers tried to assert the “gay panic defense,” saying they [...]

As the two rural Florida men who allegedly stabbed Ryan Skipper to death two weeks ago await trial in a local jail, questions are being asked about how the events leading up to the murder were described in the press by investigators.
At one point, Matthew Shepherd’s killers tried to assert the “gay panic defense,” [...]

It’s not just because I finally watched “An Inconvenient Truth” this weekend that I find the news that Florida Power & Light is planning to build one of the country’s largest coal-fired generating plants in the Everglades so infuriating.
The plant would emit 16 million tons of climate- changing carbon dioxide, making it the largest single [...]

Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half.

— Gore Vidal

Robert Novak says Pres. Bush has lost GOP support on Capitol Hill:
The I-word (for incompetence) is used by Republicans in describing the Bush administration generally.
With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in [...]

The timing of the Sept. 11 terror attacks couldn’t have been better for al Qaeda and worse for us. When they launched the attacks, Osama Bin Laden and his henchmen were probably not aware that a radical coalition of neo-cons and Christian nationalists had gained control of the United States government — just as most [...]

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, revealed himself this weekend to be either the biggest fool on the Hill or a political hack who has sold himself out by shilling for the Rove machine. After a long silence on the federal prosecutor purge, Hatch came out with a statement of support for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [...]

Rightwingers can’t seem to grasp this:
Presidents Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Reagan replaced the 93 U.S. attorneys at the beginning of their administration as part of the normal turnover involved in the alternation of power. A report issued on Feb. 22 from the Congressional Research Service revealed that between 1981 and 2006, only five of [...]

Jon provided some background on the highest-ranking former Bushite convicted so far in the Abramoff scandals.
But while Jack is implicating others for doing the crime, it looks like he himself won’t be doing much more time.
I don’t know about you but I must have missed the meeting. Had I been there, I would have voted [...]

Oh no, she di-ent say that: Turns out Rudy Giuliani’s third wife is mathematically challenged. She — like her current husband — is currently on her third, not second, marriage.
Rudy’s third wife commenting on their six marriages: “It makes you appreciate marriage a little bit more”
She kind of forgot the five years she was married [...]