Pat Robertson Is a piece of shit

Along with the devastating news of the earthquake in Haiti today, comes the devastating news that 700 Club founder, Pat Robertson, has opened his mouth. In a time that tens of thousands are already known to be missing or dead, a number which potentially might reach 100,000 or more, Drudge reports fears in France everyone inside the U. N. headquarters is dead, Compassion International cannot get in contact with its Haitian office, Robertson, speaking on his CBN network today explored the possibility that the earthquake was another in a long line of curses on Haiti (and Haitians, one would presume) as a result of a pact made with the devil way back on August 14, 1791.

CIA role claim in Kennedy killing

New video and photographic evidence that puts three senior CIA operatives at the scene of Robert Kennedy's assassination has been brought to light.

Cheney Lying About Iran Nukes

History repeats itself. Be sure to pick up the Nov. 27 issue of the New Yorker, the one with the article by Seymour Hersh Vice President Dick Cheney is trying to bury a classified draft assessment by the CIA that shows Iran, like Iraq before it, might be telling the truth about its nuclear weapons program.

Democrat files suit in Sarasota election flap

The case hinges on more than 18,380 nonvotes -- called ''undervotes'' -- in Sarasota County, where numerous voters and a few poll workers complained the ATM-style touch-screen voting machines failed to register votes. Others said it had such a crowded ballot design that they missed voting in what turned out to be Florida's hottest congressional race.

A Socialist in the Millionaires' Club: An Interview with Bernie Sanders

Vermont's junior senator-elect has a modest proposal for Ted Kennedy's committee: Investigate "power and wealth in America."

Turkeys Refuse Ceremonial White House Pardon

Struggling to absorb his own abysmal approval ratings and the Republican party's landslide defeat in the midterm elections, George W. Bush took another shot to the gut today when both birds designated by Bush as the National Thanksgiving Turkeys, refused the president's ceremonial "pardon."

A Way Out Of Iraq: Sen. Russ Feingold

Democrats agree that we should begin redeploying troops, but some do not want to set a target deadline for the majority of troops to be withdrawn. That is a mistake. Without a target date, redeployment could drag on indefinitely.

Did Jesus Help Ted Haggard Out?

I realize Haggard is ancient fucking history at this point—there was an election last week, huh?—but there's something I just gotta get off my chest: For more than a decade, the religious right has insisted that homosexuality can be cured. Just give your heart to Jesus and—poof!—you're straight!

Bush owes troops an apology, not Kerry

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By Keith Olbermann

Papers sold to military: ‘Rumsfeld must go’

Just days after President Bush publicly affirmed Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's job security through the end of his term, a family of publications catering to the military will publish an editorial calling for the defense secretary's removal.

Maliki Fiddles As Iraq Burns

Maliki obviously is never going to have any part of disarming the Mahdi militia, the Badr Corps or any other Shiite militia, as his nation descends into civil war. He doesn't trust the Iraqi army or police any more than anyone else does. If there's going to be a fight to the finish, Maliki wants the deck stacked in favor of the Shiites. What Washington wants is irrelevant and immaterial to Maliki at this point. Benchmarking and videoconferences with President Bush and rush visits to Baghdad by national security adviser Stephen Hadley won't make any difference.

1999 war games foresaw problems in Iraq

The U.S. government conducted a series of secret war games in 1999 that anticipated an invasion of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, and even then chaos might ensue.

The Worst Congress Ever

How our national legislature has become a stable of thieves and perverts -- in five easy steps

AMERICANS GETTING RICH OFF IRAQ

Most people have long been aware of the money being made by contractors in Iraq such as Kellogg Brown & Root’s Halliburton, Dick Cheney’s old company. Not only has there been over-billing and more than eight million dollars that is simply unaccounted for, but those dollars just keep rolling in to Halliburton and others anyway. It is wonderful when a company does not have to submit a competitive bid in order to be awarded a very lucrative, non-competitive contract. But those companies are not the real reason our young men are dying every day in god-forsaken Iraq. And we all know it certainly wasn’t the Weapons of Mass Destruction either – that was a lie. In fact, the real and only reason the U.S. is in Iraq is to divide up the massive oil reserves.

Shiite militia briefly seizes Amarah

Black-uniformed, hooded gunmen loyal to an anti-American Shiite cleric briefly seized the major southern city of Amarah on Friday in an audacious drive against local security forces, largely controlled by Iraq's other main Shiite militia.

Beginning of the end of America

Olbermann addresses the Military Commissions Act in a special comment