Government screwed up in classifying documents
The government improperly sealed hundreds of previously public CIA, Pentagon and other records by reclassifying them as secret on questionable grounds, an internal review said Wednesday.…
GAO says FEMA can’t control fraud, waste
With hurricane season approaching, FEMA is destined to repeat million-dollar mistakes of disaster aid waste and fraud unless it can quickly establish controls for verifying names and addresses, congressional investigators…
Rebuilding a life
By AARON BLAKE
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
Karen Edmonson was a drug abuser by age 11, a high school dropout by 10th grade…
Energy policy? What energy policy?
President Bush prides himself on being a "plain-spoken fella," but a few straightforward words he uttered earlier this year still have a lot of people perplexed about his energy policy.…
Playing politics with gas prices
President Bush and lawmakers from both parties vied with one another Tuesday to demonstrate their concern over escalating gasoline prices in a barrage of speeches, news conferences and bill introductions.…
Flight 93 families step up pressure for memorial
Family members of those aboard United Flight 93 are lobbying Congress to persuade a Republican lawmaker to lift his hold on funding for a memorial where the plane crashed in…
Mid-term elections could be nightmare for Bush
President Bush is not on the ballot in November, but he might as well be. Republican losses could make an already difficult situation in Congress almost untenable for him. …
The decider in chief: Drunk with power
A drunk: That’s the title George W. Bush deserves most. He is a drunk even if he doesn’t get blasted on booze. He’s drunk with power and that’s the most…
Just another scam at 1600 Penn
The so-called shakeup is cosmetic, a reshuffling of the same power players who have advised and served Bush's agenda of false optimism, fake assessments and outright deceit since they took…
Some proposals for reform
Let's brainstorm for a bit about how we can really reform the American political system.…
