By Eric Haas, Rockridge Nation Last April, President Bush told members of American Legion Post 177 that “we owe the families and the soldiers the best health care possible.” That debt is still unpaid. According to a new report by Harvard Medical School researchers, published last week in the peer-reviewed American Journal of Public Health,…
Jay Janson, OpEdNews — Dear Sir/Madam: Tuesday, November 6, 2007, while the House of Representatives was voting on the resolution put forward by Rep. Kucinich and twenty-one other members to impeach the Vice President of the United States, C-SPAN had its viewing audience lectured by one Mr. Epstein emphasizing how ridiculous the proposed bill was….
A Firsthand Experience Before Decision on Torture By Scott Shane, New York Times The debate over torture here can get heated, as it did this month when a dispute over the legal status of waterboarding threatened to sink the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general. Still, it usually remains a matter of strictly…
By Manu Raju, The Hill The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee is drafting a compromise to resolve the thorny issue of whether to provide retroactive liability protections for the phone companies that allegedly participated in the Bush administration’s secret wiretapping program. At a markup on a bill to overhaul the 1978 Foreign Intelligence…
