" Nearly a year after Congress demanded action, the Pentagon has still failed to figure out a way to reimburse soldiers for body armor and equipment they purchased to better ... Read More

Senator Mary Landrieu, the moderate Democratic senator from Louisiana who boasted in her 2002 reelection campaign that she'd "voted with President Bush 74% of the time," is taking a ... Read More

Time for a cyber-jog to update our Hillary Watch....Well, have you watched it yet? The new ABC show with Geena Davis not being Hillary.....just being a respected, intelligent, vaguely-liberal woman ... Read More

AP is reporting that Cindy Sheehan, middle-aged mother of a soldier killed in Iraq, was arrested this morning, along with about 25 other non-violent anti-war protesters, outside the White House ... Read More

Per today's Washington Post, reporting on the massive anti-war rally and march yesterday in DC, "Tens of thousands of people packed downtown Washington yesterday and marched past the White House ... Read More

There's something about Al Gore, the 45th US Vice President, that we can't seem to let go of. Maybe it's because he was right on just about everything in ... Read More

Tens of thousands are converging on Washington DC this weekend in a mass mobilization to non-violently protest the continuing War on Iraq and to gather for a massive interfaith ... Read More

This afternoon, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (D-NV), a key moderate, anounced his intention to vote against the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to be Supreme Court Chief ... Read More

As I write these words, Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is delivering an uncharacteristically fiery and outspoken speech at Brown University. In it, Kerry soundly condemns the Bush Administration on many ... Read More

Friends, brace yourself for this bit of inconceivable greedy cynicism.....Time magazine is reporting that some Republican Senators are "looking for a corpse to make a case" for repealing the federal ... Read More

In the presidential campaigns of 2000 and 2004, Republicans managed to portray theirs as the party of unbridled patriotism that fights for the United States and supports our brave men ... Read More

The post-Hurricane Katrina aftermath in New Orleans was first made chillingly real by CNN's Anderson Cooper, whose relentless reporting and persistent search for answers brought the horrifying debacle into homes ... Read More

For the second time in three years, the Pledge of Allegiance has been found in federal court to be unconstitutional because of the inclusion of "under God" in the oath. ... Read More

I received a solid tip last night from San Diego activist/writer Miriam Raftery that FEMA, and Louisiana Governor Katherine Blanco, have privatized the handling of post-Hurricane Katrina dead ... Read More

Amidst the lowest public approval ratings of his presidency.....lower than President Nixon's at the height of the Watergate scandal....President Bush said in a press conference today what has been widely ... Read More

In case you missed this AP story (via CNN) from last Saturday, " Al Gore helped airlift some 270 Katrina evacuees on two private charters from New Orleans, acting at ... Read More

Asked by George Stephanopoulos this morning on ABC's "This Week" whether racism was a factor in the lack of evacuation planning for poor, black residents of New Orleans, Senator Barack ... Read More

"Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans...." reports ... Read More

CNN's Anderson Cooper just anounced at the end of his 360 program breaking news that CNN won a temporary restraining order against FEMA and the Department of Homeland ... Read More

AP reports that "Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being relieved of his command of the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina onsite relief efforts, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff ... Read More

From the Wall Street Journal, via The Stakeholder, the blog of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: Republican Congressman Richard Baker of Baton Rouge is overheard telling lobbyists: 'We finally ... Read More

"Halliburton's stock hit a fifty-two-week high, presumably because Dick Cheney's former colleagues may reap the benefits of this tragedy securing government contracts to rebuild the Gulf Coast " reports ... Read More

From the New Zealand Herald newspaper today, "'We must ensure that the national nightmare that was Katrina never happens again,' said Joe Lieberman, the senior Democrat on the Senate's Government ... Read More

Late yesterday, on Labor Day, Senate Democratic leadership presented a comprehensive relief plan for survivors of Hurricane Katrina and its deadly aftermath. The detailed plan includes specific proposals to: - ... Read More

From the respected Bob Schieffer of CBS News, "There is no purpose for government except to improve the lives of its citizens......As the floodwaters rose, local officials in New Orleans ... Read More

As was widely anticipated for the past 12 hours, President Bush nominated Judge John G. Robert, Jr of the Washington DC Circuit Court of Appeals to be Chief Justice of ... Read More

From top blog TalkLeft....International Views of Bush: He Panicked Sometimes it's good to see how others view us. The headlines say it all: "England: The Week Bush Failed America Scotland: Bush Panics ... Read More

My favorite editorial of the day comes not from the leading newspapers or political pundits, but from blogger Lance Mannion, via eagle-eyed The Sideshow. Here is an excerpt. Please go ... Read More

From Frank Rich's New York Times op-ed today about post-Hurricane Katrina, "Falluja Floods the SuperDome,"..... "The captain in this case, Michael Chertoff, the homeland security secretary, was so oblivious to those ... Read More

From the FAQ page of the American Red Cross website.... "Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans? Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and ... Read More

CNN is reporting that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has died from complications of thyroid of cancer this evening. He was 80 years old. William Hubbs Rehnquist , ... Read More

This would be funny if it wasn't unimaginably horrifyng and painful. From liberal blog DailyKos, by Bill in Portland, Maine on September 2 about post-Hurricane Katrina.... "Just in case you missed ... Read More

Just in case you're tempted to fall prey to today's Bush Administration rhetoric and rationalizations blaming state and local officials ...and just about everyone else they can... for the humanitarian ... Read More

Spoken by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday on the floor of the House of Representatives.....

Here's one for the I-Could-Never-Have-Imagined-in-America books..... Guess who were the very first people bused out of the smoldering, diseased ruins of New Orleans? The desperately sick and dying? Babies and children? ... Read More

Here are three heartfelt sentiments about Bush Administration action and inaction in responding to the needs to the New Orleans victims of Hurricane Katrina and the broken levees....These passionate thoughts ... Read More

Reuters reports tonight that a bipartisan group of US senators said on Friday they will open a bipartisan investigation into what they described as an "immense failure" of the government ... Read More

"Representative Harold E. Ford Jr., Democrat of Tennessee, said in a statement that he was struck by Mr. Bush's 'cavalier attitude toward the plight of poor people across Louisiana, Mississippi ... Read More

CNN has done an extraordinary and electrifying job of covering the horrific conditons in New Orleans the past 24 hours. Writes Hunter at DailyKos.... "The last twelve hours of news coverage ... Read More

Here is the first listing at the FEMA donations webpage. It directs the world community to make cash only contributions to just these three organizations.... "American Red Cross 1-800-HELP NOW (435-7669) English, ... Read More

From Jillian at DailyKos.... "Anderson Cooper Goes Balistic on Mary Landrieu Right Now. She's thanking all the politicians. The Big Dog. Bush #1. Frist. Reid. etc. blah blah blah. Cooper goes off ... Read More

The US Senate will convene briefly tonight, Thursday, September 1, at 10:00 p.m., to vote on the emergency supplemental bill in support of relief efforts due to Hurricane Katrina. Vote ... Read More