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White House Manual for Silencing Critics
By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive After a myriad of stories about people being excluded from events where the President is speaking, now we know that the White House had a policy manual on just how to do so. Called the “Presidential Advance Manual,” this 103-page document from the Office of Presidential Advance lays out the…
Dewalt: My Field Trip to the Statehouse
After Downing Street — I went into the Vermont Statehouse cafeteria at noon on Tuesday, and found an empty seat at a table with three members of the House Judiciary Committee, which is where an impeachment resolution is currently stalled. As they explained all the reasons why they couldn’t bring up the resolution for discussion,…
Army Suicides Highest in 26 Years
The Associated Press Army soldiers committed suicide last year at the highest rate in 26 years, and more than a quarter did so while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new military report. The report, obtained by The Associated Press ahead of its scheduled release Thursday, found there were 99 confirmed suicides among…
Senate OKs Iraq troop withdrawal bill
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Senate Democrats ignored a veto threat and pushed through a bill Thursday requiring President Bush to start withdrawing troops from “the civil war in Iraq,” dealing a rare, sharp rebuke to a wartime commander in chief. In a mostly party line 51-47 vote, the Senate signed off on a…
Robert Novak is a lying sack of shit
Media Matters for America Novak again asserted that Armitage’s role in leak case exonerates Rove Summary: In a column discussing Karl Rove’s resignation, Robert D. Novak asserted that “[a]lthough [special counsel Patrick] Fitzgerald knew from the start that not Rove but the politically nondescript Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was my primary source in…
