Another Republican talking point bites the dust. The oil drilling in Cuba — that exists only in Republicans' imaginations

Seeded on Thu Jun 12, 2008 7:25 PM EDT (The Carpetbagger Report)

The desperation of the GOP and their absolute love-slave relationship to Big Oil continues to proliferate.

us-news, news, cheney, oil, drilling, vp, cuba, offshore-drilling, energy, energy-bill

Peru's poor left behind as growth soars , yet the population of the poor is going down

Seeded on Thu May 29, 2008 11:53 AM EDT (BBC News)

True, there is much improvement to be done to continue the promising economic growth and the reduction of poverty in Perú. Overall, I find the article to be accurate but I also find the conditions and optimism of Peruanos to be dramatically improved over the last 3 years.

world-news, peru, latin-america, south-america, world-economy, free-trade, economics, poverty, global-economy

Economically, things are not as rosy as reported, Economist challenges government data

Seeded on Mon May 26, 2008 12:48 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

It is very important to know how our national economic indicators and statistics are calculated and presented. While this is not a slam dunk indictment, I find the facts about how product cost inflation is lowered by product enhancements and improvements is shocking and very mis …

us-news, news, economy, u-s, inflation, unemployment, recession, wages, u-s-consumers, government

McCain Strongly Rejected Long-Term Iraq Presence in 2005

Seeded on Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:16 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

When it comes to getting U.S. troops out of Iraq, Sen. John McCain was for the idea before he was against it.

politics, mccain, iraq, 100-years, u-s-troops, surge, election-2008, war, iraq-occupation, oil

Paraguay joins the Latin America trend of democratic transition

Seeded on Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:10 PM EDT (The New York Times)

60 years of hegemony ends as Paraguayan voters choose popular Fernando Lugo, former bishop, who has pledged to crack down on corruption and channel Paraguay's wealth into social programs.

world-news, paraguay, latin-america, south-america, world-politics, democracy, dictatorship, lugo

The GOP's 'Culture of Corruption' lives on

Seeded on Thu Apr 17, 2008 5:28 PM EDT (The Carpetbagger Report)

The GOP's 'Culture of Corruption' lives on

politics, congress, gop, washington, corruption, law, don-young, alaska, florida, pork

Republican Sex Follies: We have some good news, and some bad news…

Seeded on Tue Apr 15, 2008 6:56 PM EDT (Talking Points Memo)

Apparently, Barclay thought his GOP and Rove connections allowed this type of Surveillance. David Vitter, relax…

us-news, gop, republicans, sex, scandal, news, pennsylvania

Extinguishing Hitler's Torch

Seeded on Wed Apr 9, 2008 7:51 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

The Olympic torch relay was invented by the Nazis.

olympics, china, usa, tibet, free-speech, protest, demonstration, torch, propaganda, human-rights

McCain has been more wrong than most

Seeded on Thu Mar 6, 2008 5:28 PM EST (The Carpetbagger Report)

With Obama generating so much attention, I'm concerned that John McCain is feeling a little neglected. So let us review his brilliant predictions about the recent war endeavour he thinks is going so well.

politics, mccain, iraq, obama

The price of the war in Iraq and the 'stuff of nightmares'

Seeded on Wed Mar 5, 2008 2:37 PM EST (The Carpetbagger Report)

On Thursday, the Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Senator Chuck Schumer, conducted a public examination of the costs of the war.

world-news, iraq, recession, u-s-economy, middle-east

Corruption in Iraq leads to shame and tragedy in US Officer corps

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:49 PM EDT (Raw Story)

This has nothing to do with fighting terrorism, this is just plain greed and criminally treasonous, and this administratraion embraces, encourages and allows it to continue by ignoring that it exists, thinking it is saving face by denying it.

us-news, paul-bremer, provisional-occupation-authority, petraeus, iraq, halliburton, dod