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"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow

Buyout Feels Like Being Sold Out - "We've spent our lives at these factories. So have our parents"

Iraqi Civilian Deaths Shrouded in Secrecy - "You just zap any farmer that's close to you"

Volunteers for Endless War - "George, and every person in his administration that lied to us, needs to be impeached"

Blaming the Media for Bad War News - "They're likely to escalate blame-the-media efforts as this year goes on"

Call for Bush Impeachment - "These abuses of power and corruption in the administration are deeply serious matters"

The Joy of Being Blameless - "Bush has refused to hold himself or any of his top political appointees accountable"

GM to Offer Buyout Deal - "Workers...can leave and receive payment of $140,000 and a pension"

Rewriting the Science - "He says there are things the White House doesn't want you to hear but he's going to say them anyway."

Someone Should Tell Bush Why We Went to War - "When he finally got to Iraq, he rewrote history again."

US Troops Investigated Over Iraqi Massacres - "We didn't do it. The Americans did it"

Bush Deals in Denial - "Tapes were obtained soon after the 2003 invasion, yet the Bush administration kept them secret"

We Played Football With Bricks of $100 Bills - "The UN entrusted $23bn of Iraqi money to the US-led coalition"

Iraq: US News Media's Waterloo - "The media's pro-Bush pandering reached new heights"

Deadly US Marine Raid - "A dozen Marines are under investigation for possible war crimes"

California Sued Over Diebold Voting Systems - "In 2004, Diebold paid $2.6 million to settle a lawsuit"

Oil Gushes Into Arctic Ocean From BP Pipeline - "The region's largest oil accident on record"

How the GOP Messes Up the House - "They mark up drafts of bills without holding any public hearings."

Concerns on Pension Bill - "The agency's report projects that the House and Senate bills would lower corporate contributions"

Bushies in Wonderland - " Bush swaggered across an aircraft carrier deck and declared 'Mission Accomplished.' "

Why Are We Here? - "Senator Dianne Feinstein accused the Bush administration of 'incompetence' in the Iraq war."

A Disillusioned American Soldier's Return From Iraq - "The situation in Iraq can't be fixed"

Bush Still Sees No Reason to Apologize - "Bush triumphantly proclaimed an end to the war in May 2003"

Lobbyists Foresee Business as Usual - "Some lobbyists might consider this a lobbying opportunity"

Rumsfeld Singled Out as Crisis Deepens in Iraq - "A former US army general yesterday called for Donald Rumsfeld to resign/"

Thousands Protest War - "People march to demand that troops be withdrawn."

Sky Falls in on Bush - "When even Jessica Simpson does not want to be seen with you, you know you are in trouble."

Before and After Abu Ghraib - "Prisoners at Camp Nama often disappeared into a detention black hole"

Judges Overturn Bush Bid to Ease Pollution Rules - "This is an enormous victory over the...Bush administration"

Two Thirds of Americans Dislike Bush's Handling of Iraq - "The Harris poll confirmed a growing erosion of public support"

Nuclear Reactors Found to Be Leaking - "Exelon found tritium in the ground at two others...another spill at Braidwood"

Dirtier Side of "Clean Coal" - "Kids call the plants 'cloud factories.' Clouds that can kill you."

Deranged, Disconnected, and Dangerous - "He loves his rug...I've heard him describe it countless times."

PM Calls for Guantánamo to Close - "Tony Blair joined the growing calls for...Guantánamo Bay to be closed"

Senate Approves Budget - "I really do believe this man will go down as the worst president this country has ever had."

Spitzer Charges H&R Block With Fraud - "The suit seeks $250 million in fines plus refunds"

GOP Again Bids to Take ANWR - "Just as the region suffers through one of the worst oil spills in history"

Why I Fully Support Bush Censure - "We have a President who likes to break things."

Iraqi Air Assault - "The death of a 24-year-old male detainee at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison...is being investigated."

Budget Bill and Oil Drilling - "A fool's errand search for the last drop of oil is all they can think about"

March to New Orleans - "Hurricane victims and war veterans set out Tuesday on a march to New Orleans"

War-Loving Pundits - "The third anniversary of the Iraq invasion is bound to attract a lot of media coverage"

Utilities Collect for Taxes They Never Pay - "Enron was a pioneer in turning taxes into profit."

A Climate Change of Heart - "Bush defectors on this issue...British Petroleum, General Electric, DuPont and Cinergy."

I Tried to Warn Lay About Enron - "I am incredibly nervous we will implode in a wave of accounting scandals"

Impeachment Talk - "The groundswell for President Bush's impeachment is growing"

Day of Reckoning for the Current Occupant - "He said that what most offended him about Bush II is the naked incompetence"

Bush's Fantasy - "How can you effectively sell democracy to the world when you mock it so contemptuously at home?"

Iraq Edges Closer to Open Civil Warfare - "Iraqi authorities discovered at least 87 corpses - men shot to death execution-style"

Extent of Surveillance - "An FBI counterterrorism unit monitored - and apparently infiltrated - a peace group"

Burst Oil Pipeline Causes "Catastrophe" in Alaska - "This historic oil spill is a catastrophe for the environment"

Bush's Fake Aid - "Maybe this is all bread and circuses, just a political game"

Dog Handler Laughed About Inmates - " Smith...is accused of using his dog to harass, threaten and assault detainees"

Anti-War Actions - "67% of the US public thinks the Iraq war has not made the US safer"

Reforming the Teamsters - "Strong Contracts/Good Pensions"

Mexico Compensates Rape Victim - "Reparations for forcing her to carry the pregnancy to term"

Lessons of Iraq War - "The administration so easily fooled so many people into supporting the war."

Iraq Strategy a Mess - "Senior British diplomatic and military staff gave Tony Blair explicit warnings"

The Right's Man - " It's time for some straight talk about John McCain. He isn't a moderate."

Rumsfeld's $5 Million Killing - "Upon taking office, he recused himself from participating in any particular matter..."

Arrest of Ex-Bush Aide - "His mother warned him that...he risked ruining his life...by becoming a Republican."

Soldier Quits Army in Disgust - "I did not join the British Army to conduct American foreign policy"

Is This War Worth the Price? - "Look closely at the face of collateral damage in Iraq before you answer."

Lap Dogs of the Press - "Why did reporters become cheerleaders for a deceptive Administration?"

Letter to Bush - "Illegal and immoral war, torture and confinement for life without trial"

Symbol of Abu Ghraib - "I forgive the people who did these things to us"

House to Vote on Ports - "The showdown vote was another blow to President George W. Bush"

Bush's Loss on Ports Deal Dents Image - "Bush found himself publicly rebuked by members of his own party"

Intellectual Corruption - "The Bush administration is intellectually corrupt."

Eavesdropping Violations - "The FBI reported more than 100 possible violations"

Oversight by Capitulation - "Bush's transformation of the United States into an authoritarian society continues apace"

The Progress Myth in Iraq - "Press briefings on Southeast Asia...made Baghdad Bob sound like a pessimist."

Contractor Bilked US - "You asked for trucks...it is immaterial whether the trucks were operational."

Murtha to Receive Award - "He reversed his support for the Iraq war and called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops"

Everyday Low Vices - "Why should we hate Wal-Mart?"

Warmongers Admit They Were Wrong - "The American objective in Iraq has failed"

They Wiped Their Feet With Him - "There needs to be a congressional hearing on the role of the administration"

Senator Resumes Lobbyist Huddles - "GOP leader...has continued to meet with many of the same lobbyists"

Iraq Through the Prism of Vietnam - "Those who say Iraq is nothing like Vietnam have another guess coming"

A Deaf Man Spouting - "After the hurricane hit, he stayed on vacation, went to a birthday party, strummed a guitar"

House Overrules Bush - "The Bush administration...tried to defuse the situation and to buy time to let the issue fade."

Five Vermont Towns Endorse Move to Impeach the President - "He said Bush had violated his oath of office"

At Conservative Forum on Bush, Everybody's a Critic - "Karl Rove's political strategy is 'pathetic.' "

They Came for the Chicken Farmer - "Now America is becoming the thing they sought to end."

North Carolina Utilities Commission - "Telephone Number: (919) 733-7300"

DeLay Film - "The Big Buy: How Tom DeLay Stole Congress"

Conduct Unbecoming of the Commander-In-Chief - "Only seven lower ranking military personnel were court-martialed"

Style Over Substance - "They will be remembered for converting the world's greatest democracy into the world's largest hypocrisy."

Lawmakers Work to Limit Probe of Domestic Spying - "Some key lawmakers are also working to legalize such spying"

Veep Doo-Doo - "The 'favorability' rating of Vice-President Dick Cheney has sunk to a new low"

Bush, Lies, and Videotape - "A hollow creature in the position of ultimate power."

Minister Admits 'Rendition' Planes Used RAF Bases - "Government breaks silence on CIA flights."

Enron Executives Approved Deals to Hide Losses - "We were using the equity to juice Enron's earnings"

Kabuki Congress - "Bush ignores the Constitution and the laws of the land"

The Court-Martial of Willie Brand - "We had a secretary of defense who had never served on the ground a day in his life"

Torture of Prisoners Still Seen in Iraq - "Many of the cases in the report involve detainees held by Iraqi authorities."

US Nuclear Plant Leaks Fuel Health Concerns - "They say they were brushed off by the NRC."

White House Media Leaks - "The administration is declaring war at home on the values it professes to be promoting abroad"

Army Ordered to Look Again at Battle Death - "The first criminal investigation into Corporal Tillman's death"

Military Will Keep Planting Articles in Iraq - "Revelations about the program brought fierce criticism from lawmakers"

'Ghost Walkers' in Congress - " 'Ghost Walkers' were delivering a message for those who cannot speak for themselves"

Violence Prevents Formation of Iraq Gov't - "Every drop of blood shed is a waste"

Cunningham Gets 8 Years - "He represented a Republican district in the affluent suburbs of northern San Diego County"

Pakistan Is Tense as Bush Arrives - "The people hate Bush - the demonstrations will show that - there is no doubt about that."

Ethics Office for Hill Rejected - "Bipartisan defeat for independent lobbying overseer."

Bush's Missteps - "The White House has been taking it on the chin lately"

Being 'Good Americans' - "I could not understand how the German people could claim to be 'good Germans' "

The Soul of This Country Is Being Eaten Away - "Do the honorable thing, and stop the unnecessary slaughter and deception."

Former Enron executive rocks court - "They're on to us"

Why We Act - "Is There a Case for Impeachment?"

I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture - "I abhor the corruption of the CIA in the past several years"

Reducing Safety Penalties for Mine Flaws - "In these mines, laws don't matter"

Not One More Dime, Not One More Life - "And never again send our soldiers to fight in a war based on lies."

Burying The Lancet Report - "More and more cracks appear in the 'official story' "

$8.5 Million for Largest Donor - "It shows that, more and more, Washington is for sale"

Scandalous State of Affairs at Gitmo - "We should promptly bring an end to this national disgrace."

Iraq Abuses - "They arrest people, they torture people, they execute people, they detain people, they negotiate ransom"

Son of Gitmo - "The Bush administration has undermined international legal norms."

Cheney's Canned Kill - "Bird-shooting operations...often dizzying the birds and planting them in front of hunters"

What Bush Was Told About Iraq - "The White House declined to comment for this story"

The Most Dangerous Days - "The soldiers he lionizes and hides behind...have run out of patience with him."

The $80 Billion Medicare Sellout - "They let their big-donor oil friends write the energy bill"

Video: Bush Warned before Katrina - "Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck"

Tens of Thousands Protest Bush - "Bully Bush, Go Home"

'I Trusted My Country' - "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder has become the norm amongst these soldiers"

A Common Cause - "Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and Condi Rice move from one lie to another"

Bush Job Rating Falls - "Bush's job rating has fallen to an all-time low of 34 percent"

US Troops: 72% Say End War in 2006 - "Majority of troops oppose use of harsh prisoner interrogation"

Bush Says 'We're Doing Fine' - "The gap between wealthy and poor also has widened"

Iraq Vets to Testify before Congress - "Group to tell Congress to stop war funding, bring troops home now"

White House Rejects Special Counsel - "A special counsel to investigate the Bush administration's eavesdropping program."

Coast Guard Worries Reanimate Ports Debate - "I am more convinced than ever that the process was truly flawed"

Enron Trial Avoids the Real Ripoff - "Cheney adopted seven of Ken Lay's suggestions"

The Case for Impeachment - "Why we can no longer afford George W. Bush."

Human Rights Hypocrisy - "The US has a history of scuttling Commission investigations"

Graduates versus Oligarchs - "Income at the 99.99th percentile rose 497 percent. No, that's not a misprint."

Younger Workers Losing Ground - "Median income fell eight percent for householders under 35"

Halliburton - "The Pentagon's own auditors had identified more than $250 million in charges as potentially excessive"

Pension Reform Bill Faces Tough Talks - "Employers already have begun to lobby legislators on several issues"

Homeland Security Protested Ports Deal - "Maybe we need to get a second opinion"

Death in US Custody - "Commanders have failed to report deaths of detainees in the custody of their command"

It's the Corporation, Stupid - "A corporation is like a shark, designed to do two things: kill and eat."

Port Deal - "Dubai is paying her husband...presents both a financial and ethical conflict of interest for Senator Dole"

It Didn't Work - "One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed."

On the Brink in Iraq - "The utter failure of the Bush administration's policy is revealed with starkest clarity"

Increase in Illegal Political Activity - "The agency said it was seeking to revoke the exemptions"

Latest Claims - "Votes were time- and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election"

Drug Plan Sales Tactics Probed - "Seniors allegedly steered into HMOs"

Ports - "Politicians and lobbyists hunt together, dine together, drink together, play together, pray together and prey together"

White House 'Discovers’ 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak - "The emails are said to be explosive"

FBI 'Warned Military on Guantánamo Techniques' - "Some aggressive interrogation techniques were illegal"

UAE Gave $1 Million to Bush Library - "A sheik from the United Arab Emirates contributed at least $1 million"

Contractor Pleads Guilty in Cunningham Case - "Mitchell Wade pleaded guilty on Friday to bribing former congressman"

Playing with Pension Reform - "Falling victim to lobbying, partisan politics and all the other usual suspects."

Lobbyist's Ties to Lawmaker - "It was like something done behind closed doors in the middle of the night."

Port Security Scandal - "Our government takes its orders from corporate interests"

Medicare Numbers at Odds with US Claims - "The government's efforts to make a flawed plan look successful."

White House Ties to Firm Taking Over Ports - "It always raises flags" when administration officials have ties to a firm"

Cheney's Canned Kill - "Cheney's hunting trip strikes me as emblematic of the Bush Administration's callousness"

Port Deal - "Bush yesterday strongly defended an Arab company's attempt to take over the operation of seaports"

Lay Hid Bad news - "Lay and Skilling are accused of repeatedly lying to investors about Enron's financial health"

Propaganda Spending - "We need a full accounting of the Bush administration's spending on advertising, PR, and fake news"

Nearly 100 Dead in US Custody - "At least 98 deaths occurred, with at least 34 of them suspected or confirmed homicides"

Overtime Suits - "A lot of companies tried to drive up their short-term results by misclassifying employees"

US Church Alliance Denounces Iraq War - "We lament with special anguish the war in Iraq"

Privacy Guardian Is Still a Paper Tiger - "The White House civil liberties board has yet to do a single day of work"

Iraq Vet Takes on Politics - "She believes the decision to invade was an error, and a badly executed error at that."

Pentagon Lawyer Broke Ranks on Detainees - "The authorized interrogation techniques could rise to the level of torture"

37 Million Poor - "Under President George W Bush an extra 5.4 million have slipped below the poverty line."

Tollbooths on the Internet Highway - "Americans feel strongly about an open and free Internet."

Industries Get Protection from Lawsuits - "This is the most aggressive federal government in the history of the United States"

Ethics Hall of Shame - "An unprecedented wave of corruption, cronyism and special-interest sleaze"

Prosecutors Seek 10 Years for Cunningham - "Cunningham, in effect, erected a 'for sale' sign upon our nation's capital"

Bush's Policies Don't Promote Growth - "Bush's tax policy has created a ballooning federal budget deficit"

Our Nation's Principles - "Congress had no business authorizing an unspecified war against an unspecified enemy"

Gonzales Won't Step Aside - "Gonzales brushed aside requests on Thursday that he remove himself"

Moving Mountains - "Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back."

DeLay Sees His Pet Project Fade - "House members are not eager to be associated with their former boss."

Asbestos Bill Is Sidelined - "The bill would restrict asbestos victims in bringing their claims to court"

Nuclear Contamination Penalties - "He and other jurors had found that the company had committed environmental crimes."

Full Extent of Abuse - "Bush administration officials had already been fending off a new wave of anger"

Abramoff Bragged of Ties to Rove - "The disgraced lobbyist helped get Bush to meet the leader of Malaysia"

A Surge in Whistle-Blowing - "Young soldiers were scapegoated, while superiors misrepresented what had happened"

Guantánamo a US Torture Camp - "Amnesty International said the report was only the 'tip of the iceberg.' "

The Forgotten Victims - "Military under fire for "abandoning" more than 1,000 veterans with mental problems"

Doing the President's Dirty Work - "FISA was written to prevent the president from violating Americans' constitutional rights"

Man Shot by Cheney Has Mild Heart Attack - "200 other pieces of birdshot...might still be lodged in Whittington's body."

Senator Dick Durbin on Asbestos-Related Illness - "The persons diagnosed with mesothelioma have limited time to live."

Abramoff's Close Ties to Rove - "The White House said Rove shared a common past with Abramoff"

The War on Privacy - "Rumsfeld warns that the enemy can succeed in changing our way of life. It already has."

Lawyers Group Slams Bush on Eavesdropping - "The program bypassed secret courts"

Iraq: Billions Wasted - "Billions of dollars are unaccounted for...waste, fraud and war profiteering."

Bush Would Cut Health Programs - "His proposed budget for next year would zero out popular health projects"

Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter - "The vice president's office had made no announcement"

Bush to End Seniors' Food Program - "Choosing between utility bills and prescription drugs and whether they get to eat"

Cheney's Role in Leak - "Mr. Wilson has asserted that his wife's identity was exposed in retaliation for his public criticism."

Contractor Fraud Trial - "$74,000 generators were billed at $400,000"

Innocent, but in Limbo at Guantánamo - "Though the five are not considered enemy combatants, the men can be held indefinitely"

Political Heat over Disasters Rising - "Bush believed that New Orleans had 'dodged a bullet' after the storm"

US Is Abusing Captives - "It was brutality purposely applied to them to make them stop"

First Photo of Bush and Abramoff - "The President came over and shook hands with me, and we chatted and joked"

Doubt on Case for War - "Paint a U.S. spy plane in United Nations colors...tempt Hussein's forces to shoot at it"

Cheney - "Cheney Wants to Swing the Pendulum Back on the Executive Power Issue"

Abramoff's Charity Began at Home - "The lobbyist admits he used nonprofits to evade taxes, pad his pockets and bribe officials."

More Tied to Abramoff - "We can't ask the most vulnerable Republican…to put something in writing that can be made public"

Republican Speaks Up, Leading Others to Challenge Wiretaps - "Now they are speaking up - and growing louder."

The Shoe (Bomb) on the Other Foot - "Will the White House get away with using intelligence as a political weapon?"

Can We Come Home Now? - "We just wanted our lives back, and Doug knew, as I do, that this can never happen."

VA Nurse Investigated for 'Sedition' for Criticizing Bush - "Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, Brown, and Rice should be tried"

Standing Up for Employee Healthcare - "When you believe something is right, you have to stick your neck out"

Abramoff’s Contacts with Bush - "Bush met…Abramoff almost a dozen times…and invited him to Crawford, Tex."

Changing Winds on Surveillance - "Some brave Republicans stared the president down and said: Stop."

Big Firms Pushed to Bear Health Costs - "Employers offering health benefits has been dropping steadily this decade"

Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq - "Intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made"

Ex-FEMA Chief Blames Homeland Security - "The administration's fixation with fighting terrorism may have been to blame"

Old Report of LA Terror Plot - "Rep. Brad Sherman…described Bush's speech as a political stunt"

Bush's Job Approval Stuck near Bottom - "Bush's job approval is now at 40 percent"

Consensus Grows for Curbs on Surveillance - "Nothing I've heard convinces me that this was something that was legal"

The Next War - Crossing the Rubicon - "It intimidated and bribed the 'international community' into attacking Iraq"

White House Knew of Levee's Failure - "He personally notified the White House of this news that night"

Benefits Go the Way of Pensions - "When I retired I had a letter that said I would receive health care for life at no cost"

Bill Rigged for Drug Firms - "A backroom legislative maneuver to protect pharmaceutical companies from lawsuits"

The President, the Stripper and the Attorney General - "As you know...the president is not a lawyer"

Abramoff Paid for Aide's Trip - "House rules prohibit lawmakers and staff from taking trips paid for by registered lobbyists"

Energy Gaps Seen in Bush's Budget - "The reality in no way meets the rhetoric"

Calls for Wiretap Inquiry - "The administration has deepened her apprehension about whom the agency is monitoring"

White House Can't Sweep Aside Abramoff - "The scandal...has shaken up Capitol Hill"

Detainees Not Tied to 'Hostile Acts - "Some of these detainees were turned over to US forces by bounty hunters"

Cheney Spearheaded Effort to Discredit Wilson - "The vice president was obsessed with Wilson"

US Plans Massive Data Sweep - "Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails"

Bush Faces Republican Revolt over Spying - "Republicans are threatening to force a legal showdown with...Bush"

DeLay Lands Coveted Appropriations Spot - "DeLay...in charge of giving out money is like...Brown...in charge of FEMA "

Trapped Like a Rat - "When one speaks truth to power, especially arrogant power, that is usually the effect"

Torture Queries - "Republicans easily defeated three resolutions seeking information"

Body Armor - "How can it be that the Army is charging wounded soldiers for replacing damaged body armor?"

Cheney 'Authorized' Libby to Leak Classified Information - "Libby testified that Cheney told him about Plame"

Paradigm Shift - "Both were active in recent, large-scale union organizing campaigns that succeeded in the South"

Boehner Rents Apartment Owned by Lobbyist - "His firm overtly promotes its connections to influential lawmakers"

Take from the Poor, Give to the Military - "The Bush budget demands draconian cuts in 141 domestic programs"

Warrantless Wiretapping - "In a nation built on freedom, the President is not a king, and no one is above the law."

Social Security Sleight of Hand - "Bush stuck a big Social Security privatization plan in the federal budget proposal"

Lawmaker Seeks Probe of Logging Study - "The Bush administration tried to stop him from talking about global warming"

A Scolding for Bush - "For war, billions more, but no more for the poor"

Torture Ban Won't Work - "The Bush legacy of legalized torture."

Bush Lied, Again - "Boehner...once distributed checks from the tobacco lobby on the floor of the House of Representatives."

A Trillion Little Pieces - "The administration that produced shattering deficits is at it again"

Gonzales Defending His Credibility - "Credibility attacks left Gonzales acting as defender-in-chief"

GOP Senators Add Heat on Spying - "The administration's legal position 'just defies logic and plain English' "

Sucker Trick - "The prestidigitation of the AG (the "Amazing Gonzales") was on full display"

Bush Mouthpiece Defends Illegal Spying - "Gonzales would not tell...whether Bush has authorized other secret programs"

Abramoff's Grand Aims Came Early - "Jack was a freebooting pirate as far as I was concerned"

The Betrayal of Valerie Plame - "A judge's rulings make it clear that Scooter Libby did lie to the grand jury"

UAW Chief Urges GM Dividend Reduction, Executive Pay Cut - "We support...cutting the board's compensation."

Split on Spying - "Increasing numbers of prominent conservatives are breaking with the administration"

Deaths Tied to Diesel - "Study focusing on trains, boats aims to influence EPA rule making."

Surveillance Program Violated the Law - "The senator...said that it was clear to him that the law had been violated."

Budget Favors Defense Not Medicare - "Medicare takes biggest hit in $2.7 trillion plan"

John Boehner Disaster - "Election of Boehner as House Majority Leader Is an Affront to Voters"

The looniest of all 9/11 conspiracy theories - "Let us not tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories"

Prosecutors Come Out Slugging - "Prosecutors inflicted considerable damage against...Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling"

US Official Admits Iraq Aid Theft - "The signs are it could make embarrassing reading for many of those involved."

More Allegations of Libby Lies - "Judge's report shows Cheney aide is accused of broad deception"

Bush Is Wrong and Chirac Is Right - "The collapse of the neocon mission and the end of a one-superpower world"

Washington's Blindness - "Bush looked both tired and defensive as he made yet one more sales pitch for his failed Iraq policy"

The End of the Internet? - "Powell and his GOP majority eliminated longstanding regulatory safeguards"

CIA Leak Case - "He had heard directly from Mr. Cheney about the Central Intelligence Agency officer, Valerie Wilson"

Bring Regime Change Home - "Let's remove them...before we suffer another 9-11, another Katrina, another war like Iraq."

The Joyless Economy - "Average hourly earnings...adjusted for inflation, are lower now than when the recovery began. "

GAO Concern about Bush's Health Proposal - "This report screams 'buyers beware' "

Anybody Have a Leech? - " Most Americans will get nothing, and many could lose their insurance"

Deal before War Revealed - "PM promised to be 'solidly behind' US invasion with or without UN backing"

Former US Official’s Corruption Guilty Plea - "Bribery, conspiracy, money laundering and other charges"

Capitol Police Apologize to Activist Sheehan - "The wife of a House Republican...was told to leave the chamber"

Bush Discussed Drawing Saddam into War - "Using American spy plane in UN colors"

'Marlboro Man' Against War - "I could tell you stories...that would make the hair stand up on the back of your neck"

March of the Straw Soldiers - "Bush threw out a dizzying array of misleading analogies, propaganda slogans and false choices"

Investigate the Coup d'Etat in Haiti - "Determine the role of the Bush Administration in this travesty of justice"

What Isolationism? - "Contriving phony charges of isolationism…is not only dishonest, it is reckless and irresponsible."

The State of Energy - "Bush is in retreat"

Woolsey Statement regarding Cindy Sheehan - "By Representative Lynn Woolsey"

Two Presidents - "Five difficult years in office have left the White House straining under the weight of its own contradictions"

The Biggest Secret - "The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration"

GAO Faults Federal Government for Katrina Response - "The federal government failed to exercise adequate leadership"

Same Old Song - "Bush's State of the Union address played like a greatest hits of empty policy promises"

Put the Politicians in the Enron Docket - "There was perfect quid pro quo symmetry to Wendy Gramm's lucrative career"

What Really Happened - "He…shoved me up the stairs…By the way, his name is Mike Weight"

Gonzales Is Challenged on Wiretaps - "Feingold says attorney general misled senators in hearings."

Where's the Budget Outrage? - "They hope that the...names Tom DeLay and Jack Abramoff will become...unmentionable"

Is America Actually in a State of War? - "He will justify all of his policies, including the illegal ones"

Bush Administration Ignored 9/11 Warnings - "Your government failed you"

Asbestos Trust Fund Will Hurt Victims - "The federal trust fund is a corporate bailout in sheep’s clothing"

Corruption Scandals - "They were ignoring Boehner's own links to lobbyists"

Release Records on Abramoff - "Abramoff was a major fund-raiser for Bush's 2004 re-election campaign"

Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths - "It was there that male soldiers assaulted and raped women soldiers."

The Question Journalists Don't Ask Bush - "President Bush lied."

The Bush Administration's First Scandal - "Enron's ties to Washington lawmakers were stronger than...lobbyist Jack Abramoff's."

Budget to Hurt Poor - "Millions of low-income people would have to pay more for health care"

Is the World on a Path to Doom? - "With an Assist from the White House?"

A Tale of Two Companies - "The stark differences in how the companies treat workers."

NASA Tried to Silence Him - "They feel their job is to be this censor of information going out to the public"

Bush at War with Americanism - "Torture, wiretaps, planted news stories, secret prisons...war justification"

Spies, Lies and Wiretaps - "The secret program violates the law as currently written."

FEMA Workers Accused of Bribery - "The two were arrested hours after accepting envelopes containing $10,000 apiece."

US Releases Five Iraqi Women - "U.S. forces still hold at least four women"

Impeach or Indict Bush and Cheney - "We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Army Seized Wives as Tactic - "A secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby"

Most Think Bush Is Failing - "Fewer people consider Bush to be honest and trustworthy"

Prosecutor Will Step Down - "A special prosecutor would not be especially welcome at the White House"

Medicare Drug Problem - "Problems with Part D will change over time and they will get worse"

Nuclear Energy Plan Would Use Spent Fuel - "Many countries gave up civilian reprocessing years ago."

GOP Freezes Jobs List - "In the wake of the Jack Abramoff political corruption scandal."

More Americans Favor Impeaching Bush - "There will be an open-and-shut case for a high crime of breaking the law"

Medicare Drug Bill Tied to Abramoff - "Tom DeLay offered him a bribe in return for his vote on the bill."

Possible Cunningham-DeLay Tie - "We didn't have $10,000 to give away three years ago"

White House Rebuffed Effort to Relax Standards - "Officials said at the time that the legislative proposal was unnecessary"

'Medical Negligence' - "More than one-fifth of US troops returning from Iraq may suffer from PTSD"

US "Outsourced" Torture - "The United States flew detainees to countries where they would be tortured"

The Real State of Our Union - "Bush promised to bring 'dignity' to the White House but...he brought Jack Abramoff "

Bush on Trial for Crimes against Humanity - "You can't build security on evil"

Closed-Door $22 Billion Deal - "It happens in the dead of night when lobbyists get a [Republican lawmaker] in the corner"

Pressure on India Mounts in Advance of Bush Visit - "Welcome to a 'war criminal' "

The Great Rip-Off - "The situation is even more frantic for low-income Medicaid patients"

Nuclear Power Plant Cover-Up - "Geisen and Siemaszko could face up to 25 years in prison"

When George Met Jack - "TIME has seen five photographs of Abramoff and the President"

The Medicare Drug Mess - "They either were denied coverage or were asked to pay hundreds of dollars"

Human Pesticide Testing Plan - "The loopholes...allow continued testing on pregnant women, infants and children"

Homicide - "Welshofer told him he thought the Army's interrogation guidelines were being broken every day."

Top Brass Culpable for Abuse - "I wish I had done more to stop it"

Judge Alito's Radical Views - "He wants to reduce the rights and liberties of ordinary Americans"

Will Work for Less - "We're in a cycle right now where corporations have the advantage, and unions don't"

Congressman Ney No Stranger to Lobbyists - "Rep. Bob Ney. Under Investigation for Taking Bribes"

Sen. Burns Can't Escape Abramoff's Shadow - "Burns is front and center in the Abramoff scandal"

Officials Challenge Balloting Security - "In controlled test, results are manipulated in Florida system."

The Other Big Brother - "The Pentagon has its own domestic spying program"

CIA Role a Mystery at Court-Martial - "The CIA is 'the ghost at the banquet' "

Matriotism - "No, I am not giving my child to the fake patriotism of the war machine"

Political Spying - "Agents rummaged through the trash, snooped into e-mails,...and listened in on phone conversations"

Fishing in Cyberspace - "The government believes that it can invade your privacy without repercussions."

Corporate Policies - "Driving...workers out of...jobs, stripping them of health care and killing pension plans"

Hearing on Illegal Spying - "The president is openly violating our nation's laws"

Disregard for the Law - "Bush's latest tool for disrespecting the Constitution"

Republican Leaders Say They're Reformers! - "Mr. Blunt is quite literally wedded to influence peddling"

Breaking Ranks - "The worst ineptitude in governance, decision-making and leadership I've seen in 50-plus years"

Bugged and Tortured by Bush - "It's not really terrorists George W. Bush wants to bug and torture. It's YOU."

Dark Tactics of Interrogation - "Mowhoush, 57, suffocated in the sleeping bag as Welshofer sat on him."

Pentagon Analyst Sentenced - "A former Pentagon analyst was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison"

Medicare's Botched Drug Benefit - "Needy beneficiaries have been charged excessive fees or denied coverage altogether"

Group Sues Labor Department - "Entitled to $32 million in back pay"

Leaked British Government Memo - "Leaked memo reveals strategy to deny knowledge of detention centers."

Legality of Wiretaps - "The Bush administration appears to have violated the National Security Act"

The Congressman and the Hedge Fund - "Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress."

Republicans Gone Wild - "Smith confessed to the allegation of bribery and then withdrew the confession."

Plan for Rules on Lobbying - "This is a culture of corruption"

Wiretapping Ban - "After you get a thousand numbers and not one is turning up anything, you get some frustration"

Spying on Ordinary Americans - "Bush's secret program of spying on Americans"

Human Rights Watch World Report - "US Policy of abuse undermines rights worldwide."

The Forgotten Wounded - "This was never in the slick pamphlets they showed us!"

2002 Memo Doubted Uranium Sale - "The review concluded that Niger was 'probably not planning to sell uranium to Iraq' "

Does the President Really Know Best? - "Bush's illegal wiretapping program isn't just reckless and immoral"

White House Silent on Abramoff Meetings - "Abramoff was one of Bush's top fundraisers, having brought in at least $100,000"

ACLU Sues to Stop Illegal Spying on Americans - "Surveillance of Americans is a chilling assertion of presidential power"

The Latest Bush Mega-Catastrophe - "And now he is visiting disease and death on tens of millions of our elderly"

NSA Spying Evolved Pre-9/11 - "By law, the NSA is prohibited from spying on a United States citizen"

Data after Sept. 11 Led FBI to Dead Ends - "But virtually all of them...led to dead ends or innocent Americans."

Murtha and the Mudslingers - "Not to worry. The Swift Boat Veterans simply smeared him."

Bush Seeks His Enemies' Help in Iraq - "US officials in Baghdad are now pursuing contacts with both declared enemies"

Ohio Republican Tied to Lobbyist to Cede Post - "Rep. Bob Ney...said Sunday he will step aside"

US Constitution in Grave Danger - "A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government."

Problems with Medicare - "People are being told they need to pay hundreds of dollars"

Labor Coverage - "Up until the 1980s, most major newspapers...had a regular labor reporter."

The Web Widens - "Ney personally lobbied the then Secretary of State Colin Powell to relax U.S. sanctions on Iran."

Mother of All Budget Busters - "The war in Iraq will not be several hundred billion, but...US$1 trillion"

Soldiers Can’t Even Buy Own Armor - "Beneficiaries might not receive the death benefits"

DeLay Losing Support in Own District - "DeLay is charged with money laundering"

Ashcroft, The Lobbyist - "It seems a little demeaning of the office, honestly"

The Imperial Presidency at Work - "Bush, however, seems to see no limit to his imperial presidency."

Challenge to Bush Initiative Reinstated - "Bush sidestepped Congress by issuing executive orders"

Kickback Mountain - "Boehner's been swimming for years in the same pay-to-play pool as DeLay and Blunt."

Speaker Pressures Rep. Ney to Resign - "There are people that have pled guilty who have conspired to bribe him."

Men Intoxicated with Power - "Risen's book throws new light on just how Bush and Blair led their countries into war."

Army Dropped Abuse Probe - "No Americans involved in the case were questioned"

Bush Rejects Call to Shut Gitmo Prison - "760 prisoners brought to Guantánamo...nine have been charged with a crime"

Europe Complicit in CIA 'Dirty Work' - "There are those who do the dirty work...those who...close their eyes"

Pakistan Condemns Purported CIA Air Strike - "Our investigations conclude that they acted on a false information"

Trader Tapes Excluded from Enron Trial - "Skilling faces 35 counts of conspiracy, fraud, insider trading and lying to auditors."

Impeachment Calls Grow Louder - "Americans of almost every stripe don't want a President who puts a crown on his head."

Interrogation Tactics Were Opposed - "Pentagon task force was told not to use techniques approved in 2002"

Bush Authorized Domestic Spying Before 9/11 - "The NSA surveillance began well before 9/11"

Health Cost for Wal-Mart - "Don't dump the employees that you refuse to insure into our Medicaid systems"

Shadow Zones in Bush's Iraq Policy - "Coalition of the Not-at-all-Willing"

"Constitutional Crisis" - "The Bush administration has created a "Constitutional crisis"

NSA Used Police to Track Peace Activists - "We are absolutely no threat to anyone, and they know it."

Lobbyists Face Their Watergate - "DeLay began pressuring lobbying firms to hire or promote more Republicans"

Gold-Diggers Hit the Wall - "He grabbed the workers' pension fund and tripled the cut of the last unprotected redwoods"

The Impeachment of George W. Bush - "Violating his oath of office, the Geneva Conventions and the War Crimes Act"

Alito and the Ken Lay Factor - "Bush considers his commander-in-chief authority boundless"

Judge Alito - "The nominee has taken the side of big corporations against the 'little guy,' supported employers against employees"

General Asserts Right on Self-Incrimination - "Miller has long been in the spotlight of the Abu Ghraib abuse investigations"

Defeat - "The very existence of Guantánamo is a most serious defeat for democracy"

Mine-Safety Enforcement Eased - "A $55 fine for a coal company means nothing when they're making millions"

Rise and Fall of True Believers - "Bush, as he did with Enron...is reportedly looking to distance himself"

"Jazeera Bombing" Leak - "A plan by US President George W. Bush to bomb Arabic television station al Jazeera."

Bush's Con Jobs - "Bush has destroyed America's economy along with America's reputation"

Gitmo - "The hypocrisy of defending democracy around the world while continuing to curtail fundamental due process"

CIA Jails - "There were similar US detention centers in Ukraine, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria"

Blunt, Boehner Share Lobbyist Ties with DeLay - "Boehner is even closer to lobbyists than Blunt"

Evidence of Wider Problem - "Nine in 10 said it should be illegal for lobbyists to give members of Congress gifts"

The Abramoff Torpedo - "To feign disgust...amounts to taking Americans for imbeciles."

Blair Must Be Impeached - "The impeachment of Mr Blair is now something I believe must happen"

Ending Promises for Retirement - "Their C.E.O. has given himself a huge compensation package."

Bush Impeachment - "The actuaries were not allowed by the White House to tell us the real cost"

Drug Plan Hits Snags - "Medicare beneficiaries...were often overcharged, and some were turned away"

New Call to Impeach Blair over Iraq - "The mission has not been accomplished."

Bush Plan to Hit al-Jazeera - "Heavy-handed US military tactics...lost us much public support inside Iraq."

Losing the War on Terrorism - "Bush has lost the support of most Americans"

Troops Seize Iraqi Journalist - "Firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children"

Heck of a Job, Hayden! - "Gonzales twice let the cat out of the bag"

Bush's War on Professionals - "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration"

Anti-War Activist Cheered - "Sheehan urges about 750 to help stop the war and impeach Bush."

The Man Who Bought Washington - "Abramoff brought new excesses to the lobbying game"

2nd Firm Tied to DeLay - "The firm openly promoted the idea that it could deliver access to Mr. DeLay"

A Donor Who Had Big Allies - "DeLay and two others helped put the brakes on a federal probe of a businessman."

Wiretappers That Couldn't Shoot Straight - "The White House's...outrage about the Times scoop is a smokescreen"

Alito's Credibility - "The more we learn about him, the more questions we have about the credibility of his assurances"

Under Fire, DeLay Steps Down - "His about-face came amid growing pressure from fellow Republicans"

Basis for Spying in US Is Doubted - "One congressman said he was actively misled."

Demanding the Rule of Law - "The polls show...a majority of Americans wanting impeachment proceedings if Bush lied"


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