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COLUMBUS - Thieves targeted the Ohio Democratic Party Headquarters this week, stealing a computer and a high-tech communications gadget belonging to party chairman Denny White.
Police said yesterday one or more burglars appeared to have climbed a wall Monday and crawled through an unlocked second-story window overnight at the party headquarters about three blocks from the Statehouse.
The break-in occurs at a time when the Ohio Republican Party is threatened by one of the largest scandals (…)

It is clear that the Bush Administration made fraudulent statements about the threat that Iraq posed. However, there has been little analysis as to whether specific fraudulent statements about Iraq violated any specific criminal statutes, and thus are worthy of impeachment. A 23-page memorandum provides an analysis of one of the Bush Administration’s fraudulent claims, the claim that Iraq had recently sought uranium for a nuclear weapon.
In summary that analysis of the current public (…)

PRESIDENTIAL MANIC BEHAVIOR By Peter Fredson July 2, 2005
When President Bush pranced before a crowd of captive soldiers last Tuesday at Fort Bragg he swaggered, smirked, gesticulated, glad-handed, grinned, and in many respects acted as though he had swallowed a handful of uppers before coming on-stage. Yet, despite grandiose pronouncements about offering a new strategy, Bush gave the same basic speech he gave many times previously: staying the course, insurgents hating democracy, our (…)

The Transportation Security Administration is the all-knowing, all-seeing federal agency in charge of taking our shoes off at airports, and our heroic leaders there have recently rooted out a treasure trove of invaluable data. Unfortuately, it’s not information about some secret cell of terrorists—it’s a trove of your and my personal information.
If you flew in June of 2004, TSA snoops now have a file on you—even though Congress specifically told them not to collect such data. Agency (…)

Smug, self-righteous, ideologues wielding unproven cocktail party geo-political theories to coerce reluctant Americans into war? Check.
Original premise of war proven to be bogus long after country commits to ruinous quagmire? Check.
Old men wave flag, young men die? Check.
Sons (and daughters) of "Old Man Flag Waving Brigade" in government mysteriously absent from serving in military? Check.
Leaders promise war as show of American strength, expose to the world our powerlessness? (…)

President Urges Patience on War — but it’s LBJ, in 1965 "To abandon this small and brave nation to its enemies, and to the terror that must follow, would be an unforgivable wrong," Johnson said. "To withdraw from one battlefield means only to prepare for the next." At that moment, only 400 American boys had died in the rice paddies. Here’s the complete text.
By Greg Mitchell
(June 29, 2005) — As the press continues to argue over what President Bush said, didn’t say or should have said (…)

Published: July 01, 2005 11:30 PM ET
NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O’Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name—and it is, according to him, top White House (…)

This poll finding 42 percent of Americans favoring impeachment of Bush if he did not tell the truth about the reasons for war, puts support significantly higher than it was for impeachment of President Clinton.
average support for impeachment and removal was 27% (11 polls)
average support for impeachment hearings was 36% (6 polls)
http://www.democrats.com/clinton-impeachment-polls
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/610#comment

Indeed, our Congress critters take us for morons. Obviously, we will believe anything these people tell us, as is evident by the fact most Americans bought the ludicrous Iraq invasion pretext hook, line, and sinker, hardly any questions asked. Now, in the wake of Bush’s speech, once again linking Iraq to the “war on terrorism” fantasy story, we are told by people supposedly in the know that Saddam was behind nine eleven, even though this has been repeatedly debunked as neocon nonsense. (…)

A News from Underground Exclusive! by Mark Crispin Miller and Jared Irmas
A huge expense In the months before the presidential election, a firm called Sproul & Associates launched voter registration drives in at least eight states, most of them swing states. The group-run by Nathan Sproul, former head of the Arizona Christian Coalition and the Arizona Republican Party-had been hired by the Republican National Committee.
Sproul got into a bit of trouble last fall when, in certain (…)