Nurses: Cheney 'would probably be dead' but for government healthcare

Dick Cheney, with his heart trouble, would probably be dead now if he were an ordinary American forced to search for cardiac care in a thicket of mercenary insurers and heartless HMOs,"

The Desperate Man

great analysis (and great photo!) by bagnewsnotes

Believe in the Constitution? Vote Kucinich!!

Lambasting Democrats in Congress for their refusal to pursue the impeachment of President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other members of the current administration, Penn praised Kucinich for his "moral courage," according to an advance copy of the speech provided to RAW STORY.

OPERATION LUCKY BAG

Find a wallet, go to jail?

what is the nypd thinking? un-freaking-believable!

‘Well-Informed’ Source Tells CBS That Tapes Were Destroyed To Prevent Prosecution

we need to hammer them on this! INVESTIGATE!

Big-wave surfer recounts harrowing survival off Maui


Lickle towed Hamilton into a wave, the second of a mountainous five-wave set. "The bomb set of all sets," as Lickle described it. A huge wall of water. "I'll say 40-foot Hawaiian," Lickle said. That's an 80-foot face.

"He was riding the wave, and all the sudden he kicked out and I'm like, 'Oh, my God,'" Lickle said.

He raced the Jet Ski toward Hamilton.

"We'd had a pretty clear zone to get out, but the area where we normally get out was all white water. A 20-foot closeout," Lickle said. "We realized we weren't going to make it, and eventually the thing caught up and just annihilated me."

Our Troops Must Leave Iraq


The American people no longer support the war in Iraq. The war is being carried on by a stubborn president who, like Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, does not want to lose. But from the beginning this has been an ill-considered and poorly prosecuted war that, like the Vietnam War, has diminished respect for America. We believe Mr. Bush would like to drag the war on long enough to hand it off to another president.



It's official now that Walter Cronkite has said so!