WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A federal court ruling striking down key provisions of the “USA Patriot Act” is “a major victory for the U.S. Constitution and the civil liberties of Americans, and a stunning rebuke of the Bush Administration’s abuse of power and of the Congress that permitted and reauthorized such abuses,” said […]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Today Senator John Kerry(D-Mass.), Chairman of the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, made the following statement in response to President Bush’s remarks on the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina:
“President Bush showed once again that he hasn’t learned the lessons of Katrina. Empty claims […]

Two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Harry Smith…

Tag:Gulf Coast, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans

An unclassified report released by the CIA’s watchdog is critical…

Comment: This report is total horsecrap. September 11th, 2001 was an intelligence success for the US Government.
Always remember that both Bush and Cheney refused to testify under oath to the 9-11 Warren Commission. They must have been worried about something…
Tag:9 11, Bush Administration, […]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As President Bush
prepares to address the 108th annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars in Kansas City tomorrow, Democrats today called on the President to
offer more than the same empty rhetoric and broken promises on the issues
that matter to America’s veterans and military families. Despite years of
promises, on President […]

WASHINGTON, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As President Bush,
Republicans in Congress and the GOP presidential contenders continue to
play politics with immigration reform, Democratic leaders in Congress are
moving forward with a comprehensive plan that offers a practical, tough,
and fair solution. Today, Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
announced that the Senate will vote on Tuesday on whether […]

WASHINGTON, April 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The following statement
was issued today by Eleanor Smeal, President of Feminist Majority:
In upholding the Bush Administration’s abortion ban in Gonzales v.
Carhart, the Bush-stacked majority of the U.S. Supreme Court showed its
true colors: that it does not care about the health, well-being, and safety
of American women. In this first decision […]

DALLAS, April 16 /PRNewswire/ — The Dallas Morning News on Sunday,
April 15 ended its century-old support of the Texas death penalty and
devoted its editorial section, Points, to establishing its strong
opposition. In doing so, the News became the largest newspaper in the state
to call for the abolition of the death penalty. In the Monday, April […]

The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency presided over a…

Tag:fema, hurricanes

BAGHDAD, Feb. 28 — The top Iranian national security official, Ali Larijani, indicated Wednesday that Iranian officials would probably take part in a regional security conference on Iraq next month, which would include the first high-level diplomatic contacts between American and Iranian officials in more than two years.
The Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, […]