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Bush Team Tried to Suppress Pre-9/11 Report Into al-Qa'ida: "Bush Team Tried to Suppress Pre-9/11 Report Into al-Qa'ida "

FSU center spent public money to tout feds' policies

washingtonpost.com: A Quiet Revolution In Business Lobbying

Flat Earth Award | Honoring Climate Change Naysayers

Kurt Nimmo: A Ward Churchill Kind of Day

Privatizing Social Security too risky: "people are expected to take a loan from the government and use it to buy stocks, and if that turns out to have been a mistake -- well, too bad."

Forbes.com: Blame America "many, if not most, of the bad ideas come from America"

Seymour Hersh: We've Been Taken Over By a Cult

Al-Ahram Weekly | Region | The battle of posters: "The cost of one of those coloured posters is enough to feed a hungry child for days. The cost of the television commercial which portrays the Iraqi premiere as the new strong man of Iraq, could provide food and cloth for a five- person Iraqi family for one year."

WESH.com - News - Gov. Bush Wants To Use Genetic Testing To ID Newborn's Fathers

Rumsfeld's power grab from CIA is a threat: "Forty-five years ago, Dwight Eisenhower, in the prescient moment of his presidency, warned about the dangers of the military-industrial complex to American democracy. Bush's proposed military-political-intelligence complex looms as an even greater menace."

The Daytona Beach News-Journal Bush Family Values: Rob from the poor & give to the rich.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | A televisual fairyland

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: "Let's not miss the big news in today's article in the Times about Dick Cheney. The vice president supports putting over 95% of the employee-side contribution to Social Security into private accounts.

Unfortunately, the authors construct the sentence in a somewhat murky fashion. But the key passage is this one: 'Mr. Cheney is said by associates to favor creating investment accounts into which workers could deposit 4 percent to 6 percent of their earnings that are subject to the Social Security payroll tax.'

In orther words, Cheney supports putting 4 to 6 percentage points of each individual's 6.2% contribution into a private investment account and taking it out of the Social Security system.

(Just for maximum clarity, that means about 97% of the employee's payroll tax contribution, which is 6.2% of their salary up to $90,000. And it's about 48% of the total Social Security money going into the program for the given individual since the employer also kicks in another 6.2%.)"

Transcript of Bush Interview (washingtonpost.com)
"The Post: Why do you think [Osama] bin Laden has not been caught?

THE PRESIDENT: Because he's hiding."

The Vote on Mr. Gonzales (washingtonpost.com): "At a time when nominees for the Cabinet can be disqualified because of their failure to pay taxes on a nanny's salary, this reluctance to hold Mr. Gonzales accountable is shameful."

Moussaoui Asks Supreme Court to Ban al Qaeda Witnesses (washingtonpost.com) From Cassel's June, 2003 piece on Chertoff: "Next, we can expect the Supreme Court to be closed, can't we?" From this morning's Post: "The Moussaoui brief is classified and was filed with a court security officer yesterday in the basement of the federal courthouse in Alexandria before being sent to the Supreme Court....a redacted copy [will] be released after a security review."

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Iceberg Cometh: "It's the standard Bush administration tactic: invent a fake crisis to bully people into doing what you want."

Elaine Cassel: Michael Chertoff, Ashcroft's Top Gremlin