They had lived under King George III and accused him of the things Bush wants to do: Usurpation of the power of the people; Being above the law; Criminal abuse of authority.

The Supreme Court handing the election to Bush committed the unpardonable sin of being a knowing surrogate for the Republican Party instead of an impartial arbiter of law.

Click headlines to view complete articles, bearing in mind that each and every point addressed should be moot. 1600 Pennsylvania is illegally occupied by squatters. Our Ship of State has been pirated. Our sheeple are being shackled and shorn...

Killing, or at least the worst of it, is over in Iraq. Although blood will continue to spill be prepared for this. For we are embarking on an occupation that will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige, power, and security. But this will come later as our empire expands and in all this we become pariahs, tyrants to others weaker than ourselves.

This didn't stop Rockford officials from pulling the plug on his mic three minutes after he began to speak. The college president told Hedges to wrap it up. He resumed his speech to the sound of boos and foghorns. Some graduates and audience members turned their backs to Hedges. Others rushed up the aisle to protest the remarks.

It may be instructive to learn what US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the "Prince of Darkness" Richard Perle were doing last weekend. From May 15 to 18 they were guests at the Trianon Palace Hotel, close to the spectacular Versailles palace near Paris, for the annual meeting of the Bilderberg club.

Calling stuff "SECRET" to cover up screw-ups that cost soldiers' lives or to protect war racketeers' pet scams violates what our country is about. Ditto the Pentagon spinmeisters and the big bucks they waste hiding the truth from U.S. citizens unknowingly footing the bill for their deceptions.

The proposed legislation makes sweeping changes to both military and civilian personnel systems. On the civilian side, the Defense Department wants unfettered freedom to hire and fire its nearly 700,000 employees.

We are governed by a gang of fanatics. The defining trait — be it Marxist, fascist, or, gulp, Wolfowitz — is the utter refusal to allow anything as piddling as evidence to get in the way of an unshakable belief.

A Presidential adviser arranges a photo-op air pageant that mimics real-peril campaign footage. An ideologue who has never heard enemy fire, except in the movies, casually refers to the invasion of Iraq as "a cakewalk." A candidate who avoided the draft wins election by slurring a Senator who left three limbs in Vietnam.

He insinuates Blumenthal is 'involved in every conspiracy and political dispute and personal grudge'. Nowhere does he address Blumenthal's substantive claims. Nowhere does he question the motives or actions of Ken Starr, The NY Times or any other major players. Williams shouldn't worry about losing his gig on Fox News.

That's the moral equivalent of an armed robber saying to the bank, "Here's an idea. You just give me the money now, and I won't have to hold you up. Therefore the tone of robber-bank relations will change."

It's an open secret that hard-right ideologues are jonesing for another war. After briefly flirting with the possibility of an invasion of Syria, Wolfowitz, Rice and Rumsfeld quietly plotting wars against Iran and North Korea.

Though Defense has long been notorious for waste, recent reports suggest the Pentagon's money management woes have reached astronomical proportions. A study found that the Pentagon couldn't properly account for more than a trillion dollars in monies spent.

Overshadow Government: Democrats need to start ACTING like responsible, capable Executive Branch officers who can be relied upon to offer a CLEAR ALTERNATIVE to the Bushites. Maybe then, the public would really listen and weigh alternatives.

This is not exactly what an [alleged "news"] commentator like Mr. Matthews wants out in the ether — an implication, even if unintentional, that he turned on a president after being refused a job in his administration.

Attack on Dixie Chicks a political maneuver no less calculated than Watergate break-in. Calls originating from Republican headquarters went out to stations, urging them to remove the Chicks from playlists.

After a thorough investigation, the British Broadcasting Corp. has presented a shocking dissection of the "heroic" rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch, as reported by the U.S. military and a breathless American press.

Even by today's standards a million bucks is a lot to pay for a TV ad, but George W spared no expense in putting together an ad for his upcoming election campaign. Unfortunately, he stuck us taxpayers with the bill.

Charges fall into four categories: use of cluster bombs; killing of civilians by other means; attacks on infrastructure essential for public health and failure to prevent the looting of hospitals.

Before 9/11 there would have been a court battle over this. A warrantless search! References to Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany would have been thrown around, but not this time.

Although the Americans say they are at war with Saddam Hussein -- not the Iraqi people -- and the altruistic goal is to liberate an abused nation from the brutality of the dictator, many Iraqis cannot discern a significant difference.

Two-thirds of Americans know we haven't turned up biological or chemical weapons. Nearly half believe the White House overestimated their existence and two-thirds believe the administration did so deliberately.

Despite the laughter, Clinton spoke seriously about what he said is the need to show that America takes care of its citizens of all races and all income levels through affirmative action and after-school care programs.

Two of the world's richest men - investment guru Warren Buffett and financier George Soros - today denounced President George W Bush's plans to abolish dividend taxes as an unjust gift to the wealthy.

Sharpening attacks on Resident Bush's policies, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean asserted that the nation will face an economic depression if Bush is re-elected.

Where is the humble foreign policy Bush promised? Where is the traditional GOP concern for deficits -- which under Bush are not only BIGGER, they're ENORMOUS?

Despite getting denounced by the Pentagon, knocked by U.S. media, having a reporter and cameraman attacked by a crowd celebrating the fall of Hussein's regime, being banned from the NYSE and NASDAQ, harassed by British troops in Basra, and having its headquarters bombed and one of its reporters killed by U.S. military, Al-Jazeera has done a bang-up job reporting on the invasion of Iraq.

The FDA and CDC get a big "F" in protecting children from the hazards of mercury poisoning. The House Government Reform Committee released a report this week that concluded the FDA and CDC failed in their duty to be vigilant as new vaccines containing the mercury-based preservative Thimerosal were approved and added to the immunization schedule.

It's basically this rabid nationalism that has its own kind of potential of being maniacal, in some sense. As we march down and wave the flags, we must be sure of what we're waving them for.

Although Strategic Assessment 1999 predicts adequate US energy supplies, it also finds that supply shortages could "exacerbate regional political tensions, potentially causing regional conflicts."

Bush administration warned the Senate that it must increase government's debt ceiling by May 28, putting new pressure on Republicans to acknowledge mounting debt as they push to enact Bush's tax cuts.

Retired Marine General Anthony Zinni favors peace over war in the Middle East, but the large media outlets ignore his message. While other Americans pontificate and theorize about war, we know about its cruel reality.

There is more shock than awe among Iraqis these days. Social disarray and increasing anti-Americanism (or "anti-occupationism") in Iraq have confused and dismayed the Bush administration as well as the American public. This is certainly not what we expected when we "won" this war.

"The land of Israel was originally owned by God," said Gary Bauer, president of American Values and a Republican presidential contender in 2000. "Since He was the owner, only He could give it away. And He gave it to the Jewish people." Can't wait'll these wingnuts start forging God's sig on some deeds.

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