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Car bomb kills at least 40 in Iraq - Four police officers die in separate attacks
by CNN
At least 40 people were killed and dozens more wounded Tuesday morning in a car bomb attack south of Baghdad, a senior Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.The blast took place near a police station and courthouse in Iskandariyah, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Baghdad. |
Bush Aides Testify in Leak Probe - Grand Jury Called McClellan, 2 Others
by Mike Allen and Susan Schmidt
A federal grand jury has questioned one current and two former aides to President Bush, and investigators have interviewed several others, in an effort to discover who revealed the name of an undercover CIA officer to a newspaper columnist, sources involved in the case said yesterday. |
Dean Now Says Wisconsin Loss Wouldn't End His Campaign
by Jodi Wilgoren
In an abrupt reversal, Howard Dean said Monday that he would not back out of the Democratic presidential race regardless of what happened in Wisconsin's primary on Feb. 17.Acknowledging that it was an "obvious contradiction" from his fund-raising e-mail message to supporters last week saying he would be "out of the race" unless he won Wisconsin, Dr. Dean said supporters urging him in recent days not to quit had persuaded him to stay for the long haul. He said he was unsure what a post-Wisconsin strategy might look like if he lost, promising only that it would not be a "quixotic campaign that's going to attack the nominee of the Democratic Party." |
Bishop testifies that he heard a loud crash but never saw anyone
by Anabelle Garay
Catholic Bishop Thomas O'Brien testified at his hit-and-run trial Monday that he heard a loud crash on the night he struck and killed a jaywalking pedestrian but never saw anyone in the road.Because he didn't realize he'd struck someone, ''it never entered my mind'' to stop, O'Brien said, making his first public comments about the accident that ended his 21-year career as head of the Phoenix Diocese. |
Diana Ross convicted of DUI
by AP
Diana Ross was convicted Monday of driving under the influence and ordered to spend two days in jail.The R&B diva, who telephoned into the city court hearing from New York, pleaded no contest to DUI. Two related charges were dropped.Tucson Magistrate T. Jay Cranshaw found Ross guilty of DUI and sentenced her to serve 48 hours in jail before March 9. |
Re-igniting The Religious Left
by Joe Feuerherd
In the 2000 presidential election, 60 percent of the 42 million adult Americans who told pollsters they attend church weekly supported George W. Bush over Al Gore. Today, even higher numbers of weekly churchgoers say they’re likely to vote Republican in 2004. |
Howard's End
by Doug Ireland
Howard Dean finally won a first-place victory this weekend—he came out on top in the caucus run by Democrats Abroad in... Sweden.But here at home, he was again ignominiously crushed by John Kerry.In Michigan, where Dean had insisted (in abandoning mini-Super Tuesday’s seven states) he’d make a strong showing, he had based his hopes on the fact that Michigan’s new Internet voting was supposed to start at the beginning of the year, when Dean was still riding high in the polls. |
Mission (not) Accomplished
by Katrina vanden Heuvel
If Bush hoped to use his appearance on Sunday's "Meet the Press" to restore his vanishing credibility regarding the war in Iraq, his National Guard stint, and his stewardship of the economy, he failed.As millions of Americans headed to church, I sat down to watch what Calvin Trillin calls "the sabbath gas bags." The big gas bag this Sunday--President Bush--was questioned by Tim Russert for an entire hour in the Oval Office. Yet, the gravity of the surroundings did little to obscure the fact that Russert's pointed questions were met with the usual Bush meets-the-press treatment: mislead, deny, deflect and hide. |
Warrant Issued for Top Miami Recruit
by Tim Reynolds
An arrest warrant was issued for Miami's top recruit on Monday, accusing him of violating his probation while on a recruiting visit to Florida last month.Willie Williams, 19, has been charged with misdemeanor battery by state officials in Gainesville after a woman said he hugged her without permission. That charge spurred the issuing of an arrest warrant in Broward County, where Williams is on probation for pleading no contest to felony burglary in 2002. |
Political psychosis and Election 2004
by Nat Parry
Election 2004 is shaping up not only as a choice of presidential candidates but a test of whether reality still matters to the American people, whether a new paradigm of lies and distortions that has taken hold since Election 2000 will be extended indefinitely. |
Dubya: A good ole sport
by Walt Brasch
You can tell a lot about a person from whom he chooses to have dinner with.The day after he delivered the State of the Union, George W. Bush was in Mesa, Ariz., to push one of his programs and to campaign for re-election--although the White House was firm in stating the trip was presidential not political. Had it been political, the Republicans, not the taxpayers, would have had to pay for it. |
Not very ducky with Cheney and Scalia
by Bruce S. Ticker
That Antonin Scalia and at least two colleagues should never have joined the Supreme Court has never been questioned by many of the court's critics. The court's 2000 recount ruling proved that yet two more of Scalia's colleagues do not belong on the court. |
Bush Family Values: War, Wealth, Oil - Four generations have created an unsavory web of links that could prove an election-year Achilles' heel for the president
by Kevin Phillips
Four generations have created an unsavory web of links that could prove an election-year Achilles' heel for the president.Despite February polls showing President Bush losing his early reelection lead, he's still the favorite. No modern president running unopposed in his party's primaries and caucuses has ever lost in November. |
Mr. Bush's Version
by Editorial
When Americans choose a president, their most profound consideration is whether a candidate can make the wisest possible decisions when it comes to war. In the case of George W. Bush, they will not only judge whether the invasion of Iraq was the right decision, but what our president has brought away from that experience. If there were misjudgments about the nature of Iraq's weapons programs or in the ways the administration presented that intelligence to the public, we need to know whether he recognizes them and has learned from them. Yesterday, in an interview with NBC's Tim Russert, after a week in which it became obvious to most Americans that the justifications for the war were based on flawed intelligence, Mr. Bush offered his reflections, and they were far from reassuring. The only clarity in the president's vision appears to be his own perfect sense of self-justification. |
In a Tight Spot on Iraq, Bushies Just Lie
by Dave Zweifel
Don't look now, but you're about to see this administration pull another fast one on an all too gullible American public.Now that the claims about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and his supposed ties to al-Qaida have been debunked, George Bush's cadre of handlers has come up with another idea: It wasn't our fault, it was the CIA's. |
10 Questions Russert Didn't Ask - The Missed Opportunities for Follow-ups
by Greg Mitchell
Partisans may debate whether Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday morning was too tough or too easy on President George W. Bush in his questioning. Certainly, Russert challenged Bush sharply on several occasions, but he also missed opportunities to raise at least 10 highly relevant questions: |
Kerry, Too, Needs to Clear the Air
by Scott Ritter
On April 23, 1971, a 27-year-old Navy veteran named John Kerry sat before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and chided members on their leadership failures regarding the war in Vietnam."Where is the leadership?" Kerry, a decorated hero who had proved his courage under fire, demanded of the senators. "Where are they now that we, the men they sent off to war, have returned?" Kerry lambasted those who had pushed so strongly for war in Vietnam. "These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude." |
Lobbyist Offers Make Jaws Drop
by Janet Hook
It is hard to shock people in Washington with tales of powerful people who parlay their expertise and influence into well-paying jobs in the private sector. But the revolving door has spun to a new level lately, raising even the most jaded of eyebrows. |
The WMD Inspector No One Heeded
by Harley Sorensen
St. Matthew wrote: "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country."Rodney Dangerfield would have put it differently. He might have said, "They love me over there, but here at home I get no respect."Scott Ritter is a prophet of sorts, and if we had listened to him and respected his intellect, knowledge and honesty, we could have avoided the war in Iraq and its cost in lives and dollars. |
Rise Of The Righteous Army
by Morley Safer
Evangelical Christians form one of the most potent forces in American politics and society. They are people who place their faith, a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, above everything else in their lives and hope to spread that Gospel to the world. |
Two US soldiers killed, six wounded in blast in northern Iraq
by AFP
Two US soldiers were killed and six wounded in an explosion as they tried to dispose of weaponry in northern Iraq.US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt told reporters Mondat that the blast at Sinjar, 120 kilometres (74 miles) west of the main northern city of Mosul, did not appear to involve hostile action. |
