DOES BUSH SHARE YOUR PRIORITIES FOR THE COUNTRY?
Yes 34%
No 61%
DOES CONGRESS SHARE YOUR PRIORITIES FOR THE COUNTRY?
Yes 20%
No 68%
BUSH’S OVERALL JOB RATING
Approve 46%
Disapprove 48%
DIRECTION OF COUNTRY
Right direction 34%
Wrong track 60%
Source: CBS Poll
Archive for May, 2005
‘Freedom Fries’ pioneer flip-flops
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq on May 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
North Carolina Republican Walter Jones, “the brains behind French toast becoming freedom toast in Capitol Hill restaurants” and critic of France in the lead-up to the Iraqi invasion recently told the North Carolina News and Observe that the U.S. went to war “with no justification.”
“If we were given misinformation intentionally by people in this administration, [...]
More money for Iraq
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq on May 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
A House subcommittee appropriated another $45 billion for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, bringing total military costs to more than $300 billion. The Pentagon had just received $76 billion for the wars from an $82 billion emergency bill Congress passed this month.
But fiscal discipline is still in effect, you see. Republicans just recently passed a [...]
With egg on their faces
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq, War-on-Terror on May 25, 2005 | 1 Comment »
“Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantánamo Bay military prison in Cuba told FBI interrogators that guards had mistreated copies of the Koran, including one who said in 2002 that guards “flushed a Koran in the toilet,” according to new FBI documents released today.”
Newsweek and Michael Isikoff should be ashamed for allowing themselves to be [...]
Funding embryonic stem cell research: Republican contradiction #439
Posted in Healthcare, Igor Volsky Posts on May 24, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The House voted to “lift limits on embryonic stem cell research.” Two different bills were passed. The more controversial measure “would lift Bush’s 2001 ban on federal funding for new research using stem cells from embryos that had not been destroyed before August 2001.”
William Saletan of Slate provides the appropriate background: “Four years ago, Bush [...]
Abstinence-only deception
Posted in Healthcare, Igor Volsky Posts on May 22, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The Bush administration has spent $1 billion over the past 5 years on abstinence-only education.
These programs are required (if they want to remain eligible for federal funding) to teach students that condoms don’t work.
88% of all the 20,000 teens that has taken the abstinence pledge have broken it and 1/3 of all schools teach an [...]
Privatizing Iraq
Posted in Debt and Trade, Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq on May 18, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Those familiar with the IMF/World Bank and “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” will find the following story troubling, but not at all surprising.
“Iraq’s Industry Ministry plans to partially privatize most of its 46 state-owned companies as part of the government’s plan to establish a liberal, free-market economy. Under the former regime of Saddam Hussein, [...]
Newsweek-Koran: a case study in misguided outrage
Posted in Igor Volsky Posts, Iraq, Media on May 17, 2005 | 1 Comment »
The Newsweek bash is a smokescreen. Previous accounts of ‘cultural defamation‘ and religious abuse have been widely reported. American corporate (and for the most part conservative) media chooses to focus on the messenger, not the message. They have also ignored our president’s culpability.
The deaths that resulted from the story are tragic. I just wish that [...]
