by Charley James
Over the past week, President Bush held a state dinner for Ghana’s president, surveyed Texas hurricane damage, posed with Youth of the Year award finalists and met with Army General David Petraeus. 
But, according to the White House web site, he’s publicly uttered roughly 300 words about the worst Wall Street crisis since the [...]

 
by Denis Campbell
The rhetoric of fear made its way into the election as still President Bush (for 111 more days) put on his serious face, stared into the camera and lied to bail out his Wall Street pals just like he did for his oil buds 6-years earlier. They need us to buy into this [...]

John McCain has abandoned any premise of controlling his campaign, his party or even his own destiny. As Charley James writes today, he has chosen an obscure, mean-spirited and vindictive running mate who, as more and more reporters scrape back the patina and veneer of, seems frighteningly similar to the current resident of Navy Observatory [...]

Country first, ha(!), this was pure red meat GOP partisanship at its best as hitwoman Governor Sarah Palin gave a speech thin on specifics but loaded in every sense of the word with snarky attacks on Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
In the diversity challenged (read lily-white) Excel Centre, the red meat thrown up by Huckabee, [...]

Investigative journalist Charley James offers this detailed opinion piece looking at the growing possibilty of US military action in Iran.
By Charley James
After being quietly notified by officials in Dick Cheney’s office, Kuwait – situated between Iraq, Iran and an un-enviable geographic hard place on the northern end of the Persian Gulf – has activated its [...]

Al Gore in April said of plans to extract oil from shale, “a junkie injects drugs between their toes when the veins in their arms collapse.” We’ve talked for decades about needing to reduce energy dependence whilst driving SUVs the size of small homes, living in uninhabitable southern areas where silence is impossible with central [...]

The advert headline blared: “if he were anyone else he’d be dead.” He is Dick Cheney, age 67, Vice President of the United States, with a bionic reconstructed heart with built-in defribulator to maintain a regular heartbeat. The Vice President joined the government healthcare program in 2001 when he became a federal employee. Had he [...]

On 1 May 2003, President Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier in San Diego in front of 5,000 soldiers and Declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Mission Accomplished said the banner behind their Commander in Chief. Every night MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann signs off his Countdown show by saying “That’s it [...]