Clinton invokes RFK assassination in summer 1968 among reasons to stay in race

"Sen. Hillary Clinton, in defending her decision to continue running for the Democratic nomination that almost certainly will go to rival Sen. Barack Obama, invoked the shooting death of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in the summer of 1968..."

America is rotting from the inside

Politicians are failing to comprehend the breadth of the US infrastructure crisis. Only disasters move our representatives to act — and in an election year, even those actions seem spotty at best and disingenuous at worst. The United States has much more than failing...

Matt Taibbi questions America's sanity

Writer Taibbi's new book 'The Great Derangement' goes on sale May 6 and he's put out a promotional video for it that roasts a corrupt White House and an acquiescent corporate media for eight years of greed, terror and blatant, murderous lies. His fellow citizens aren't...

Joint Chiefs chair says US prepping military options against Iran

Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that the Pentagon is planning "potential" military actions against Iran, a day after US forces reportedly fired warning shots at Iranian speedboats, a confrontation Iran denies took place...

Hillary told Bill Richardson that Obama can not win

ABC News reports that Sen. Clinton told Gov. Richardson during his call to break the news to her that he was endorsing the Illinois senator, "Barack Obama can not win."

Richardson endorses Obama

"New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has endorsed Barack Obama's bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. president, in a big boost for the senator..."

Cheney ties Iraq, Qaeda again after question from his own biographer

"The person at the press conference who first prompted Cheney about the link was right-wing columnist and official Cheney biographer Stephen Hayes, who wrote a book entitled 'The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America'"

Ralph Nader: George Bush is a war criminal

"Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, reflecting on the quick exit of former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, wonders aloud in a new essay how President George W. Bush has escaped the same fate despite Bush's role in considerably more damning and damaging crimes..."

Exhaustive Pentagon-sponsored study finds no Saddam-Qaeda link

"After reviewing hundreds of thousands of captured Iraqi documents, a Pentagon-sponsored review has found no evidence of operational links between Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaeda terror network, a McClatchy article reports..."

Exhaustive Pentagon-sponsored study finds no Saddam-Qaeda link

"After reviewing hundreds of thousands of captured Iraqi documents, a Pentagon-sponsored review has found no evidence of operational links between Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaeda terror network, a McClatchy article reports..."

Diebold already rigged election for McCain!

Satire: Onion News Network reports '08 elections results accidentally released. Said one "voter" on the street, "If you can't trust your shadowy overlords to keep a secret, what is the purpose really of voting?"

Nader reaction defines difference between Obama, Clinton

"Here's an illustrative difference between Obama and Clinton. These were their reactions to Nader's announcement. Guess which one gets it, and which one has taken command of the doomed and disgruntled Army of Whiners?"

MSNBC's 'Hardball' mixes up Osama, Obama

"MSNBC joins the club of network nitwits who cannot seem to differentiate between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden. This one was pretty blatant..."

Ari Fleischer speaks truth for once: GOP prays to run against Hillary

Ex-Bush information minister Fleischer said with a straight face on CNN tonight that [Republicans] "hope and pray every night to run against Hillary Clinton." And now you know why Fleischer, Coulter, Dobson, Malkin, Beck, Limbaugh, etc. are pulling for her. The one...

I am data; politicians micro-target me to get elected

"To our presidential candidates, I am not Denny Wilkins, an individual human being: I am a set of data points, one of about 168 million sets of data points collected by both the Democratic and Republican national committees. They are interested in me only because I am an...

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