This just in: President Bush more popular than Vlad the Impaler! - " Dear Leader is now down to his core following: CEOs, Freepers and unfortunates in persistent vegetative states."
Where Are the Good Americans? - "Anyone who sees the photographs of the victims of the Nazi concentration camps must wonder how human beings could ever have allowed such things to happen. They must wonder how people of good will could have stood by while their government committed atrocities in their name. In the wake of that nightmarish era, people often asked, "Where were the good Germans?" After the publication of the long-suppressed pictures of Abu Ghraib victims and the United Nations finding that torture and abuse are still taking place at the US prison in Guantánamo Bay, America has fashioned its own nightmare. We now must ask ourselves, "Where are the good Americans?""
UN watchdog refuses to give Iran clean bill of health in nuclear row - "A confidential report by Dr ElBaradei, supplied to Vienna diplomats ahead of next week's meeting and obtained by the Guardian, said that the IAEA was still not in a position to assert that Iran's nuclear programme was "entirely peaceful"."
US: Iran has one-week ’opportunity’ to defuse standoff - "The United States said that Iran had a one-week "opportunity," before the March 6 meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, to ease fears that it seeks atomic weapons."
White House Rejects Special Counsel - "The White House on Monday rejected the call by more than a dozen House Democrats for a special counsel to investigate the Bush administration's eavesdropping program."
U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006 - "Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 9/11." -- Hello? McFly?
Patriot Act Renewal Clears Final Hurdle - "Months overdue in a midterm election year, the USA Patriot Act renewal cleared a final hurdle in the Senate Tuesday on its way to President Bush's desk. But the bill's sponsor said he is unsatisfied with the measure's privacy protections and far from done tinkering with the centerpiece of Bush's war on terrorism."
Tortured Logic - "In late 2003 and early 2004, both men used their dogs to intimidate Iraqi prisoners during interrogations at Abu Ghraib prison. They maintain that they were following legal orders. Now they both face impending court-martial."
Prisoners without names, cells without number - "Hentoff asks the very pertinent question--apparently a topic of hot debate within the CIA--what will they do with the bodies, with prisoners they do not admit exist, whom they have no legal right to hold and whom they have tortured and dehumanized for years? Will they simply be disappeared? And then there is our own responsibility for letting it happen."
Congress Lives in a Bubble, Bloggers Know More - "During the last several years that I’ve been studying politics intensely, it’s become apparent that Congress is living in a bubble, an information vacuum - they don’t even know what’s really going on."
The World That Dick Built - ""It is a Dick Cheney world out there," Moyers writes, "--a world where politicians and lobbyists hunt together, dine together, drink together, play together, pray together and prey together, all the while carving up the world according to their own interests.""
Draft the Donald! Campaign Effort Begins - "The head of New York's Independence Party has launched a Web site aiming to draft Donald Trump into the 2008 presidential race as a third-party candidate." -- Ugh.
Global credit ocean dries up - "The cash machine that sustained a world boom is about to close, and it's going to get ugly."
Too hot to handle - "Recent efforts to censor Jim Hansen, NASA's top climate scientist, are only the latest. As his message grows more urgent, we ignore him at our peril."
US sees decline in housing sales - "Sales of new homes in the US dropped for the second time in three months in January, putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to ease interest rates."
FDA approves first patch to treat depression - "The first skin patch to treat major depression in adults has won final approval to be sold in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Tuesday."
Warning for Apple users after new security scare - "Users of Apple computers are being warned to stay alert after being hit by the latest in a series of security problems. The most recent flaw, which was discovered by a German student, could expose users to so-called "drive-by downloads"."
We don't know how to teach handwriting, teachers say - ""Many years ago, penmanship had a high value placed on it," Goodwin said. "Cursive is about to be a lost art in terms of beauty. Cursive is a beautiful expression form.""
Quote of the Day
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
~ George Bernard Shaw
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