Quote of the Day

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

~Groucho Marx

Elected officials side with corporations over rape victims

These are the Senators who favor corporate protection over rape victims' right to sue:

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/07/meet-the-senators-who-vot_n_312976.html

Bush Invoked Biblical Prophesy as Reason to Invade Iraq

I could only find this story in a few places--in the Columbia Daily Tribune, I read that it was in GQ magazine but didn't find it upon searching--Jonathon Turley blogged about it, and so did one person in the Daily Kos.

Jonathon Turley's analysis May 25, 2009

Daily Kos fact check. May 27,2009

The story in Columbia Daily Tribune August 2009

Now, this leaves one to wonder why the major media outlets didn't pick up the story. I am not a fundamentalist Christian myself, and I find it dizzying that the leader of our country believed that going to war with Iraq was some kind of Biblical mandate.

I find this deeply disturbing. Why don't the editors of the major newspapers find this worthy of reporting? Is it too hot to touch? Is it being censored? If so, what is the reasoning behind suppressing the story?