Obama says he'll order review of executive orders

Barack Obama told House Democrats on Tuesday that as president he would order his attorney general to scour White House executive orders and expunge any that "trample on liberty," several lawmakers said. Presidents, as head of the executive branch of government, issue such orders to direct operations of executive branch agencies, li

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Documents show Georgia's Secretary of State knew of Diebold

Documents provided to RAW STORY by a whistleblower close to Cox’s office show that one of the key problems Georgia officials were trying to resolve was related to an unauthorized patch installed on machines prior to the election.

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WA Post: Justice Officials Repeatedly Broke Law on Hiring

Former Justice Department counselor Monica M. Goodling and former chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson routinely broke the law by conducting political litmus tests on candidates for jobs as immigration judges and line prosecutors, according to an inspector general's report released today.

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Way to spot suspicious activity, Bank of America. NOT.

I used to think identity theft was just an over-hyped gimmick to get people to pay for credit reports and monitoring. That is, until my checking account was cleared out. Turns out, most major banks are not well equipped to handle ID theft, or even your money for that matter.

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CBS Busted Violating its own Standards to Help McCain

CBS probably violated its own rules (Standards and Practice) by altering the video of Katie Couric’s interview with McCain that left out his major blunder on this issue and then broadcast it on our airwaves. CBS should not paste together separate answers from different questions to make it appear like an answer was fluid.

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Rights group wants US officials probed for ordering torture

A Nobel-prize-winning rights group said US officials committed war crimes by ordering what the group says was torture of detainees, and called for them to be probed and prosecuted.

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Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Presidency

Onion News does a satirical sketch of President Bush touring America to comfort those who have been hurt by his Presidency.

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Another Soulless Bush Appointee

The Office of Special Counsel (OSC) is latest in the long list of agencies tainted with the hallmark trio of Bush characteristics of cronyism, corruption, and politicization. The only thing surprising about this story is that Bush knows so many soulless people to appoint to ruin agencies. POGO reports:

"Last week, in an extraordinary letter of resignation obtained by POGO, Deputy Jim Byrne stated that the agency is in desperate need of a leader who can put "OSC's mission and OSC's people ahead of political agendas and personal vendettas." Bloch is currently being investigated by a Grand Jury, the Office of Personnel Management Inspector General, and the FBI for retaliating against career employees in his agency, obstructing justice, and using his office for political purposes, among other things."

Terrorism Funds May Let Brass Fly in Style

The Air Force's top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on 'comfort capsules' to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world, with at least four top generals involved in design details such as the color of the...

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GOP cyber-security expert: Diebold tampered with 2002 voting!

A leading cyber-security expert and former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) says he has fresh evidence regarding election fraud on Diebold electronic voting machines during the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senatorial elections. Stephen Spoonamore is the founder and until recently the CEO of an information technology policy and security firm.

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Bugliosi Lays Out the Evidence Against Bush

In this video, Joe Scarborough invites V. Bugliosi to talk about the case against Bush. Bugliosi comes loaded for bear.

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McCain's Brain? RANDY SCHEUNEMANN

Let's examine this fellow who is helping McCain formulate Iraq policy: Randy Scheunemann.

A news item today quoted this guy, saying that the real Bush III is Obama, giving some contorted pseudo-logic as evidence. He must have studied under Rove, but the statement is so wildly out-there as to provoke great guffaws of laughter. So, he is a failed Rove acolyte, unable to sell eyeglasses to the blindman.

According to Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo:

"Scheunemann was a core participant in the lobbying, plotting and organized
campaigns of deception that led America to war in Iraq. He was a close
collaborator with Ahmad Chalabi through the 1990s. He helped draft the Iraq
Liberation Act, which created the new funding stream for Chalabi's Iraqi
National Congress. At the start of the Bush administration he signed on as Don
Rumsfeld's 'consultant' on Iraq at the Pentagon. And then when the
administration started cranking up the machinery for the propaganda campaign in
favor of war he went back on the outside to form and lead the Committee for the
Liberation of Iraq, to lead the press and lobbying campaign to make sure the war
got started on schedule.
Remember, US intelligence later found evidence that
Chalabi, in addition to foisting a bunch of bogus intelligence and lying
informers on the US and pocketing a lot of US taxpayer dollars, had provided
highly classified US intelligence to Iran. Scheunemann worked closely with
Chalabi for years in his efforts to get the US into war with Iraq. He was also a
go-between between Chalabi and McCain. Now that he's taking such a high-profile
role on the Iraq issue in the 2008, Scheunemann's history with Chalabi and the
use of bogus intelligence to get the nation into war is unquestionably highly
newsworthy.

Bush has a Secret Presidential Succession Plan

This comes from Slate's Jurisprudence section. Apparently: "Nancy Pelosi would assert her claim as acting president under existing statutes while Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, or some other executive official, would simultaneously assert her competing authority under the executive order"...

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Hey all you "Strong on Crime" Hard-Asses!! Criminals Are About to Get Off Scot-Free!!!!!

What is our remedy if Bush pardons this sorry group of rogues? You KNOW he will do the deed on the last day of his term, just like Clinton pardoned so many.

How can we ensure that justice is done? How can we undo so much damage?

--How can we ensure that an administration can never "Go Rogue" again, with a stranglehold on the press, eliminating the checks and balances we once had.

--How can we ensure that future administrations can't get away with psy-ops, fascism, and mega-billions of gifts to their corporate buddies, while engaging in widescale destruction of evidence to hide their crimes, and walk away scot-free?

--How did this group of people get away with murder--literally--and walk away without SHAME!!, without a care, without a worry that Justice may prevail--and with their pockets stuffed with money, and promising futures as lobbyists for the oil and gas sector, or Halliburton, or big pharma companies, all of whom have benefitted from their odious policies, made by people who are so out of touch with the average American that they think that we're in a "mental recession"?!

I am furious. I want Justice.

Since rank incompetence and sociopathic disdain for the non-wealthy are not in and of thenselves crimes, these people must pay for their actual crimes.

Lying to the American people, to Congress, when they painted Iraq as an imminent threat from which would rain down nuclear bombs,

Conducting psy-ops on the country to convince us to go to war with Iraq, Controlling the media and thus the message is apparently not a crime, but it should be.

Not only do we need separation of church and state reinstated, we need an iron curtain between the press and the news makers. They are too cozy--yes, Ailes, calling the White House to get the days talking points is off-limits. So is receiving them by email or fax.

Refusing Congressional access to Executive branch documents is unconstitutional --they must be able to perform their Constitutional duty of Congressional oversight. The Constitution is the highest law of the land, but Bush thinks it is "just a piece of paper." There must be no doubt about ts standing after Bush leaves office.

When the illegitimacy of Bush's term is conclusively proven in a court of law, I submit that all of its secret executive orders, signing statements, and Supreme Court appointments can and must be overturned.

We must put the country back on an honest, transparent track.

You say there are no provisions in the Constitution for this? Well WRITE ONE, dammit. There must be someone courageous and intelligent enough to know what must be done in these extraordinary circumstances.

Our system did not work this time. The American system of justice provided for IMPEACHMENT in these cases, but for whatever reason, an opposition leader stood in the way of this mechanism of Justice and prevented impeachment.

Our system is broken. When the next President takes the oath of office, he must mend the Constitution and the courts so that an administration may never be permitted to Go Rogue again.

Major Discovery: Pathologists Have Found the Weakness of HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) researchers at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armor of the virus that continues to kill millions. The weak spot is hidden in the HIV envelope protein gp120, which is essential for HIV attachment to host cells.

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McCain slip: 'Get those offshore reserves exploited'

"I will do everything I can to get those offshore oil reserves exploited," GOP presidential candidate John McCain said at a town hall meeting Friday before quickly correcting himself: "explored."(Environmentalists say there's no difference)

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Not seen in American news. Bush can't stand up to real questions from a real journalist

Bush in 2004, a rarely seen interview with Irish journalist, a Ms. Coleman, who pulled no punches, It made me proud to share a common heritage with her.

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Rats Laugh When You Tickle Them (Here's the Sound They Make)

Scientists use a high frequency machine to listen it on the sound that rats make when they tickle them and it does sound like laughter. Pretty cute stuff.

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List of Dem Senators who voted to take away the 4th amendment

Rove disses Congress-isn't it time for a perp-walk?

Democrats subpoenaed Rove in May to force him to talk about whether he was involved in firing federal prosecutors or sought to influence prosecutors' decisions - including in the corruption case against former Democratic Alabama governor Don Siegelman.

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SQUIRMY McCain Dodges Birth Control Question

When McCain was asked for his position on insurance companies covering birth control, he said--with a nervous laugh-"I certainly do not want to discuss that issue." The reporter pressed. "But apparently you've voted against--"..... "I don't know what I voted," McCain said.

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Ancient 'Dead Sea' Stone Tablet Might Rewrite the Bible

A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew found near the Dead Sea in Jordan that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is raising eyebrows in biblical and archaeological circles.

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Kucinich to bring single article of impeachment Thursday

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) is sticking to his drive to impeach President Bush. After brining 35 articles of impeachment to the floor last month, Kucinich will return this week with a single article accusing Bush of misleading the nation into war.

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Tell Sen. Grassley he can't monitor your online transactions

Help stop this legislation! Hidden deep in the Senate housing legislation is a sweeping provision inserted by Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) that affects the privacy and operation of nearly all of America's small businesses. There is a good chance that we can still stop this, but not without everyone's help.

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UK Says US Lying Over Rendition Flights

They described false assurances given by the US for the controversial flights as "deplorable". MPs are to launch an investigation into US activities after accusing Washington of lying about extraordinary rendition flights.

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Raw : Bush Heckled at July 4th Speech

Raw : Bush Heckled at July 4th Speech

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Bush Edits Out Jefferson's Anti-Religious Views

President Bush was at Monticello for a 4th of July celebration and he delivered an address. But it's quite telling that his speechwriters, in quoting Jefferson, cut out an anti-religious statement from a long and famous quote.

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Flash Messages

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This is sweet!!  Imagine what we could do to promote progressive philosophy with this!   For example, go to where Reagan is buried and deliver the message "I was wrong to kill the electric car."