Monthly Archives: January 2008

Bush Issues Signing Statement to Allow Permanent Bases In Iraq – Signing statement overrules law Congress passed to ban permanent bases. U.S. Troop Reductions in Iraq May Slow or Stop – The Bush administration is sending strong signals that U.S. … Continue reading →

FBI and CIA Using National Security Letters to Spy on Americans – After the 2001 USA Patriot Act loosened the guidelines, the FBI issued tens of thousands of national security letters, a kind of administrative subpoena that compels private businesses … Continue reading →

Fox Host Makes Gay Jokes about Death of Heath Ledger – On Fox Radio, John Gibson used the occasion of the death of actor Heath Ledger to crack jokes about the actor and play clips from his most notable film, … Continue reading →

From a 2005 article in Looking Glass News by John Walsh, here are some excerpts on Noble Lies as a primary tool of the neocons: All governments lie as I. F. Stone famously observed, but some governments lie more than … Continue reading →

White House Threw Out Clinton E-Mail Archiving System; No Reason Given – In 1994, after a federal court ruled that the White House must preserve e-mails under the Federal Records Act, the Clinton Administration instituted a custom archiving system known … Continue reading →

Month to Month Change In this twenty-seventh survey of the web, The WAWG Index monthly average was down by 40.3 percent from December 2007. Of the fourteen categories tracked, 2 were up and 12 were down. The largest decrease for … Continue reading →

Mitch McConnell Calls Himself an Environmental Leader While Helping Oil and Gas Companies Generate Dirty Energy – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has received more than half a million dollars in campaign contributions from the oil and gas lobbyists who … Continue reading →

Charity Paid US Commander $100,000 While Cutting Wounded Veterans Budget – A charity that has been accused of ripping off veterans — and donors — paid a former commander of the United States Armed Forces to endorse it, before he … Continue reading →

Bill O’Reilly Gets Facts Wrong About Veterans – Last night, in reference to our nation’s homeless veterans, Bill O’Reilly said: “They may be out there, but there’s not many of them out there. Okay? … If you know where there’s … Continue reading →

Romney Photo-op Was With Staffer’s Mom – Media outlets reported that Mitt Romney was the picture of empathy as he sat at the Marshall, Mich. kitchen table of 51-year-old Elizabeth Sachs, a single mother of two who lost her job … Continue reading →