Author Archives: Jim Vogas

Top Twenty Iraq Oversight Outrages Uncovered by the Democratic Policy Committee (Why we need a change of leadership and a Congress that will do the oversight and enforce corrective action.) Over the last three years, Senate Democratic Policy Committee (DPC) … Continue reading →

U.S. is Only Vote Against Limits on International Illegal Gun Trade The UN General Assembly’s First Committee yesterday overwhelmingly approved a proposal to develop a treaty aimed at combating the global trade in illegal firearms with 139 countries voting in … Continue reading →

IRS Ordered to Stop Collecting Katrina Back Taxes Until After Elections Mark W. Everson, the IRS chief with close ties to the Bush White House, has ordered his agency to delay collecting back taxes from Hurricane Katrina victims until after … Continue reading →

Oh, they been really bad today! – Long list. Rush Limbaugh Won’t Stop Challenging Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s Symptoms CIA Tried to Silence European Union on Torture Flights The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the … Continue reading →

Report Finds U.S. Freedom of Press Slipping The United States has dropped nine spots on Reporters Without Borders’ fifth annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index. When the list debuted in 2002, America was ranked 17 out of the 168 countries that … Continue reading →

You have read about countries that grab people off the streets and out of their homes to disappear forever.  Until today, you, as a citizen of the United States of America were protected from such abuse. Buried in complex new … Continue reading →

Bush Space Plan Reserves Right to Kick Others Out of Orbit President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to … Continue reading →

Bob “Swift Boat” Perry is finance chairman for Sekula-Gibbs’ congressional campaign Houston homebuilder Bob Perry funded the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth” ad campaign questioning Democratic nominee John Kerry’s Vietnam War record. Perry’s new group for spreading lies is “Americans … Continue reading →

Tom Delay says vote for Republican on “Dancing with the Stars”; then she withdraws; files for divorce; husband involved with George Bush, Christian Right, and pornography? A while back, Tom Delay sent a letter out to Republicans asking then to … Continue reading →

Number two person at the White House Office of Faith Based initiatives says administration repeatedly uses evangelical Christians for their votes while consistently giving them nothing in return, and routinely speaks of the nation’s most famous evangelical leaders behind their … Continue reading →