Thats why they
re trying to get all these cases thrown out of court because it is rather clear that what the president ordered was a federal crime, clearly defined in federal law. But that causes a problem because many of the Democratic leaders and Republican leaders have promised each other that they would not start […]
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As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.
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The federal official helming a probe into potentially illegal partisan political activities conducted by Karl Rove and other White House officials is himself the focus of a federal investigation.
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Speaking at the University of Colorado last night, former Attorney General John Ashcroft declared Guantanamo Bay “a good place” for detainees. He also defended waterboarding, suggesting he’d be willing to be waterboarded so long as it didn’t kill him.
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Cyberpunk cultural icon RU Serious has proposed the establishment of a new open source political party that will use technology to advance a libertarian agenda and break the “duopoly” of the two-party system.
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New Zogby poll shows Clinton struggling so her campaign manager is questioning the quality of poll.
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According to Karl Rove (on Charlie Rose), the Bush Administration did not want Congress to vote on the Iraq War resolution in the fall of 2002, because they thought it should not be done within the context of an election. Rove, you see, did not think the war vote should be “political”.
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We believe Bilal’s crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even more of a marked man.
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It’s amazing we tolerate this from our presidential candidates, especially one who has been the target of bigotry himself and who should know better.
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…Then In the mid-20th century, governments began to get out of the business of deciding which couples were fit to marry. Courts invalidated laws against interracial marriage, struck down other barriers and even extended marriage rights to prisoners…
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"We started working on developing the site back in October 2004," Kevin Rose told ZDNet "We started toying around with the idea a couple of months prior to that, but it was early October when we actually started creating what would become the beta version of digg. The site launched to the world on December 5th 2004."
Kevin Rose's friend David Prager (The Screen Savers, This Week in Tech) originally wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but Kevin wanted a simpler name. He chose the name "Digg", because users are able to "dig" stories, out of those submitted, up to the front page. The site was called “Digg” instead of “Dig” because the domain name “dig.com” was previously registered. “Diggnation” would eventually be used as the title of Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht's weekly podcast.