Monthly Archives: February 2007

FOX News Contributor Dick Morris One Of Top 100 Tax Delinquents In Connecticut – Republican political consultant and Fox News contributor Dick Morris owes Connecticut over $280,000 in taxes and has been on the state’s list of tax delinquents for … Continue reading →

Texas Governor Perry took Merck money before mandating cervical vaccine – Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) says that it’s just a coincidence that he and eight other lawmakers received donations of $5,000 each from Merck lobbyists just a few days … Continue reading →

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), President Bush’s political appointees have been hard at work pushing misinformation about science and scientific work since August 2001. Here is a list, by agency, of the 62 cases documented by UCS … Continue reading →

TXU Coal Plant Lawyer Says That Global Warming is “For Kings And Presidents…To Decide” – A lawyer for TXU Corp has told the judges who will rule on whether it can build a slew of new coal-burning power plants here … Continue reading →

Dick Cheney and Libby countermanded and misled colleagues as they pursued clearing Cheney’s name in connection with flawed pre-war intelligence – Hours of testimony and reams of documents in the trial of Lewis Libby has shown Vice President Dick Cheney … Continue reading →

Month to Month Change In this sixteenth survey of the web, The WAWG Index group average was up by 0.8 percent from January 2007. Of the fourteen categories tracked, 8 were down, 5 were up, and 1 was unchanged. The … Continue reading →

Consumer Product Safety Commission Kept Findings About Lead in Lunchboxes Secret – In 2005, when government scientists tested 60 soft, vinyl lunchboxes, they found that one in five contained amounts of lead that medical experts consider unsafe — and several … Continue reading →

Senator Ted Stevens wants to ban Wikipedia – Remember US Senator Ted Stevens, the guy who infamously called the Internet a series of tubes? Early in January, Stevens introduced Senate bill 49, which among other things, would require that any … Continue reading →

Cheney’s 2002 phone call set the stage for CIA leak probe – A story in Vice-President Dick Cheney’s morning newspaper reported that telephone calls intercepted by the National Security Agency on September 10, 2001, apparently warned that Al Qaeda was … Continue reading →

U.S. Election Assistance Commission Chair, Donetta Davidson, Knew About Problems of Voting Machine Test Labs But Kept Quiet – Bush-Appointed Chair Found Near Center of the Growing Scandal/Cover-Up Which Even Included a Stealth Attack on Election Integrity Advocate John Gideon. … Continue reading →