Alito may just be another smoke screen. That remains to be seen. If he isn’t, and he is confirmed, he could turn out to be the best thing for The Democratic Party since “Scooter” Libby.

Ed Murrow would be ashamed of those who are in his profession today. I certainly am.

And when that happened great ire arose throughout the court of George the Idiot, and he babbled, but none understood his words for they were in tongues never heard by man before

IS THE UNITED STATES BECOMING HOSTILE TO SCIENCE?
In the past five years, the scientific community has often seemed at odds with the Bush administration over issues as diverse as global warming, stem cell research and environmental protection. Prominent scientists have also charged the administration with politicizing science by seeking to shape data to its own […]

WATERGATE JOURNALIST, CARL BERNSTEIN FINDS PLAME PARALLELS TO WATERGATE
As the anticipation over possible indictments in the Valerie Plame case reaches excruciating levels, Watergate legend Carl Bernstein warns that comparisons to the case that made him famous more than 30 years ago must be viewed carefully.
Still, the former Washington Post reporter who shared a Pulitzer Prize […]

ROVE WILL NOT BE INDICTED FRIDAY, SOURCES SAY
Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe, plans to ask members of the grand jury to indict Lewis “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, a lawyer involved in the case told CNN Friday.
The attorney said that Fitzgerald believes Libby misled investigators.
Indictments […]

Along with ebbing public support for the Iraq War, US President George W. Bush also faces diminishing backing for his domestic agenda, from tax cuts to homeland security, according to a poll published.
Forty-three percent of those asked by a Harris Interactive survey for The Wall Street Journal supported Bush’s proposal to make tax cuts […]

The Toledo Blade, which was first onto the so-called “Coingate” scandal in Ohio, broke another related story this afternoon, reporting that a federal grand jury has indicted the central figure in the coin scandal –Tom Noe, the former Maumee coin dealer suspected of laundering money into President Bush’s reelection campaign–on three counts.
Noe’s attorney, Jon […]

Harriet Miers withdrew this morning as a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court.
In announcing the decision, Miers and President Bush cited their concern with the requests of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee for documents dealing with her work as White House counsel that the administration has chosen to withhold as privileged.
But the nomination of […]

As a legal noose appears to be tightening around the Bush/Cheney/Rove inner circle, a shocking government report shows the floor under the legitimacy of their alleged election to the White House is crumbling.
The latest critical confirmation of key indicators that the election of 2004 was stolen comes in an extremely powerful, penetrating report from […]