Author: Rick B2

The Republicans have wanted to cut government since the Gingrich revolution, but some programs were too popular for them to touch. Now, just as they used 9/11 to propel American into an unnecessary war in Iraq, they are...

What is the evidence that the Bush/Cheney White House set up 9/11 and allowed it to happen, then manipulated the threat to encourage the invasion of Iraq? Let’s start with the question of why the Bush administration failed...

This is from Jim Kuntsler by way of Atrios. The new assumption will be that when shit happens you are on your own. In this remarkable three weeks since New Orleans was shredded, no Democrat has stepped into the vacuum of...

Leon Fuerth Makes some really good points over at Kevin Drum’s “Washington Monthly”. Katrina has exposed major failures in our government, and there needs to be accountability. But the social problems coming up...

[From the diaries by susanhu. Essential information.] Terry Gross on “Fresh Air” (NPR) interviewed Douglas Brinkley, a history professor from Tulane University who was in New Orleans during Katrina. He said that he...