Rise of the rural counties - zanesvilletimesrecorder.com: "Householder...is among the leaders in a revolution of political fund raising, where contribution limits are thwarted by routing money through county party funds....
Sam Miller, board co-chairman and treasurer of Forest City Enterprises, a $5.7 billion real estate development company based in Cleveland, donated $21,500 to the three counties through a series of small checks. Most were written on behalf of 10 members of the Ratner family, top executives of Forest City...."We divided it up amongst the family," he said. "I signed all those checks. I'm their political representative. They may not even know about the checks." "

Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.) Remarks at CDI Board of Directors Dinner, May 12, 2004 The books were cooked, in my mind. The intelligence was not there. I testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee one month before the war, and Senator Lugar asked me: "General Zinni, do you feel the threat from Saddam Hussein is imminent?" I said: "No, not at all. It was not an imminent threat. Not even close. Not grave, gathering, imminent, serious, severe, mildly upsetting, none of those."

Threat Warning Called a Surprise to Agency: "The Homeland Security Department was surprised by the announcement by Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III that a terrorist attack was increasingly likely in coming months, officials said Thursday."

Suspicion Surrounds Death of Iraqi Scientist in U.S. Custody: "Alazmirli's case raises questions about whether similar ones exist - suspicious deaths that are not on any official U.S. lists - and what method the military is using to determine which cases are worthy of review."

The Miami Herald | 05/27/2004 | Absentee ballot law is a joke that isn't funny: "``Every vote should count.''
-- Jeb Bush, upon signing into law a measure doing away with witness signatures for absentee ballots
...The problem with doing away with the witness signature should be obvious to anyone who has lived in Miami. Absentee ballot fraud has long been a problem in South Florida, with candidates often buying ballots, or worse, stealing them from unsuspecting people in nursing homes and condominiums. A city of Miami election in 1997 was overturned after such fraud."

MoveOn PAC Former Vice President Al Gore delivered a major foreign policy address in New York City Wednesday, sponsored by MoveOn PAC, linking the Abu Ghraib prison abuses to deep flaws in President Bush’s Iraq policy and calling for the resignation of 6 members of the Bush Administration team responsible for the failed policy and abuse of prisoners in Iraq.

As Ashcroft Warns of Attack, Some Question Threat and Its Timing

New Questions Arise About Touch-Screen Voting Machines: "Secretary of State Hood wrote to [county elections supervisor] Kaplan and said she was 'disturbed to have only recently learned that your office has been dealing with an equipment anomaly in the ES&S voting as early as May 2003.'...
On May 18, Kaplan responded to Hood, explaining that she 'must constantly strike a delicate balance between raising valid concerns, such as the ones in question regarding the audit trial mentioned in your letter, and not necessarily alarming the public.'"

Guardian Unlimited | World dispatch | 'Its best use is as a doorstop': "The book...takes some of the hoariest old prejudices about black people and applies them to Arabs....According to one professor at a US military college, The Arab Mind is 'probably the single most popular and widely read book on the Arabs in the US military'. It is even used as a textbook for officers at the JFK special warfare school in Fort Bragg....None of the academics I contacted thought the book suitable for serious study, although Georgetown University once invited students to analyse it as 'an example of bad, biased social science'."

Fear in the frame: "The fact that such horrific pictures emerge, day after day, should make us reflect on the deep, brutalising effects this war is having on many otherwise normal people....It is not just Bush, Blair, and Rumsfeld that should go -- it is the whole sickly zeitgeist that they have forced upon the world society that should be excised."

MSNBC - �The War on Terror Is Not Working�: "Our point here is that governments, in their response to these threats from armed groups, have resorted to many of the very same tactics that the armed groups themselves have undertaken. But in the case of the government, it's under the guise of fighting the war on terror or fighting an armed threat. By violating human rights themselves, those governments lend a degree of credibility to the use of those kinds of tactics in the first place."

MoveOn PAC: "George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world.
He promised to 'restore honor and integrity to the White House.' Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest President since Richard Nixon. "

The Sentinel Online - Archived Story: "This administration had no real mandate and they've taken us to the darkest place in our history"

TheStar.com - U.S. war policy 'grave error'

The Law: Who Would Try Civilians of U.S.? No One in Iraq And likely no one anywhere else, either.

News: "The US and British occupation of Iraq has accelerated recruitment to the ranks of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network and made the world a less safe place"

How Public is Public Radio?

Joe Bageant: The Covert Kingdom: "Given fundamentalist Christianity's inherent cultural isolation, it is nearly impossible for most enlightened Americans to imagine, in honest human terms, what fundamentalist Americans believe, let alone understand why we should all care."

Newsday.com - World News: "the FBI had launched an investigation into who in the administration had passed the classified material to his Iraqi National Congress."

Report: Nearly 45 Percent of Businesses Near Los Angeles Schools Are Illegally Selling Tobacco to Children

Guardian | US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war: "When the story ultimately comes out we'll see that Iran has run one of the most masterful intelligence operations in history"

nbc4columbus.com - News - Blackwell Asks GOP Party For Householder's Resignation

CBS News | Poll: Iraq Taking Toll On Bush | May 24, 2004�20:28:35

DenverPost.com - NATION/WORLD President Bush has installed more than 100 top officials who were once lobbyists, attorneys or spokespeople for the industries they oversee.

The Washington Monthly: "Why exactly is Ahmed Chalabi hated by so many people? And exactly who is he hated by? Here's an Ahmed Chalabi timeline to help sort it out for you:"

CBS News | Gen. Zinni: 'They've Screwed Up' | May 21, 2004�16:24:19

toledoblade.com: "Subpoenas hint trouble for speaker of House"

toledoblade.com: "vendors that received the extra money paid kickbacks to Mr. Householder and his campaign aides."

toledoblade.com: "vendors that received the extra money paid kickbacks to Mr. Householder and his campaign aides."