Category: News

U.S. Newswire – Press Release – Consumer Advocate Says Bush Cabinet Officials' Privacy Is for Sale, Bush Should Not Wipe Out Strongest State Privacy Protections. A California consumer advocate will expose how President Bush was reneging on campaign pledges by quietly backing federal legislation to override new state privacy laws. California enacted such a privacy… Continue reading Consumer Advocate Says Bush Cabinet Officials' Privacy Is for Sale, Bush Should Not Wipe Out Strongest State Privacy Protections

Postwar Deaths Exceed Wartime Casualties. With the death of a soldier in a roadside bombing on Tuesday, the postwar casualty number in Iraq now exceeds the wartime casualties. The sad thing is that the soldiers no longer get the touching eulogies on the news they did during the war. Does W. still call each family to… Continue reading Postwar Deaths Exceed Wartime Casualties

Bush in bed with FirstEnergy CEO. Sunday: FirstEnergy, Deregulation and the Bush Administration. A good article on the energy policy and campaign contributions behind the scenes of the blackout of 2003: Bush Turns … [istori/log] Well there's a surprise.  [Curiouser and curiouser!]

Ashcroft: Patriot Act on Parade. As the antiterrorism USA Patriot Act continues to lose public support, Attorney General John Ashcroft launches a coast-to-coast tour of political persuasion this week to boost the president's bid for re-election. [Wired News]

Ashcroft Pushes Defense of Terror Law. Attorney General John Ashcroft said today that the Patriot Act had proved central to efforts to thwart further terror attacks on United States soil. By Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

NYTimes.  Bush opts to delay power grid improvement proposal.  Why?  A more efficient power grid would save customers in the north east and CA $500 m a year.  It would raise prices for power in the south, Bush's political base.  Guess who lost that political equation?   Basically, CA (54) and the north eastern states NY (36), PA (23), CT (8), VT (3),… Continue reading NYTimes

Atlanta Journal Constitution, GA –Feds demanding more info about companies' customers . Firms add staff, spend more to keep up with requests Private businesses such as phone companies, banks and retail stores are facing more requests from law enforcement agencies for information about their customers, forcing many to deploy staff and upgrade equipment to meet the demand.… Continue reading Feds demanding more info about companies' customers

Which Party Gets the Blame? They Agree: It's the Other One. The blackout promised to heat up a political issue, energy policy, that until now had seemed remote to many Americans. By David M. Halbfinger and Katharine Q. Seelye. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Power Outage Traced to Dim Bulb in White House. by Greg Palast I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters — the Niagara Mohawk Power Company — some years back. You see, before I was a journalist,… [Third Party WatchBlog]

The Rebuke. This article from The Kansas City Star has been making the rounds, and it deserves the attention. It's a point-by-point rebuke of the main charges in Powell's UN speech regarding the call for war on Iraq…. [Democrats WatchBlog] I think that should be rebuttal.