By Governor Eliot Spitzer, Huffington Post After months of negotiation and countless attempts at compromise, the Bush administration is still refusing to let New York and other states across the country expand their State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP). The president is refusing to back down from destructive new rules his Administration has imposed –…
Feministing.com Teenage girl beaten, expelled and arrested…for dropping cake This is going to ruin your day. A young woman of color in Los Angeles had her wrist broken by a school security officer after not cleaning up a piece of dropped birthday cake to his satisfaction. During the attack he said, “hold still nappy head.”…
NYDailyNews.com Gotbaum kin’s plea before dying: I’m not a terrorist! BY SOO YOUN in Phoenix and ETHAN ROUEN and ADAM LISBERG in New York DAILY NEWS WRITERS The daughter-in-law of one of New York’s top officials screamed, “I’m not a terrorist!” and fought with security officials in the Phoenix airport before being wrestled to the…
By Bill Maher, HuffingtonPost.com Iraq is Enron, and President Bush is Ken Lay. He’s fighting a war with phony accounting tricks. The Bush administration fudged the numbers to get us into Iraq, and cooked the books to keep us there. “The surge” is simply another in a long series of inflated stock quotes. This past…
