Notes"Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said. "Unfurl
Notes"In fact, by analyzing income and tax data, it appears that the higher up the income ladder you climb, the less subject you are to paying taxes in the United States."Unfurl
Notes"For the first time since the war in Iraq began, more than half of the American public believes the fight there has not made the United States safer, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll." Any voters' remorse, maybe?Unfurl
Notes"THE IMPEACHMENT of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, under Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution, should be part of mainstream political discourse."Unfurl
Notes'What happened to the urgent call for" broadband" -- the new information infrastructure that is vital to success and survival in the global knowledge economy -- President Bush promised he would push in his second term?'Unfurl
Notes'Unfortunately, the mainstream media in the United States was too busy with wall-to-wall coverage of a "runaway bride" to cover a bombshell report out of the British newspapers'Unfurl
Notes"This budget isn't about finding numbers that lead to deficit reduction, it's about using the pretext of deficits to limit government's role to help those most in need."Unfurl
Notes'My grandfather got one of those "frivolous asbestos claims" that Bush referred to in the State of the Union speech tonight, not too long before he was killed by a malignant mesothelioma.'Unfurl
Notes"The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope from its 2006 budget request and directed NASA to focus solely on de-orbiting the popular spacecraft at the end of its life, according to government and industry sUnfurl
Notes"President admits U.S. image problem in Muslim world" I'm also glad that he clarified that the "somebody" who needs spying on is "the enemy".Unfurl
Notes"I have to be cautious about conveying thoughts in a way that doesn't send wrong impressions about our country." He's uhh just learnifying this now?Unfurl
Notes"I've taken the liberty of going through some of the president's pre-war speeches and making subtle alterations so we could see what the run-up to war might have looked like had we known..."Unfurl
Notes"The White House confirmed today that the search in Iraq for the banned weapons it had cited as justifying the war that ousted Saddam Hussein has been quietly ended after nearly two years, with no evidence of their existence."Unfurl
Notes"If Mr. Bush were to say in plain English that his plan to solve our fiscal problems is to borrow trillions, put the money into stocks and hope for the best, everyone would denounce that plan as the height of irresponsibility."Unfurl
Notes"Foreign Minister Alexander Downer conceded Wednesday that the Iraq conflict may have increased the threat of Australians becoming a terror target, supporting a claim by the country's top spy." Yup, thanks Team Bush. World's a safer place since we gaveUnfurl
Notes"A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals."Unfurl
Notes"President Bush plans to send Congress a request of up to $75 billion early next year to finance wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and operations against terrorism, congressional aides said Tuesday." We're almost up to $300 billion - whoo hoo!Unfurl
Notes"The fact that, under the circumstances, Bush didn't deliver a major policy address after all, despite his advance word, should embarrass not only CNN and MSNBC but, still more, President Bush."Unfurl
Notes"We need steady leadership in times of change. And steady leadership does not include being yanked to heaven during the time of tribulations."Unfurl
Notes"As John Kerry and George W. Bush get down to business in their series of three debates, it's worth taking a look back at the 2000 debates for a reminder of the positions Bush took in his three contests with Al Gore."Unfurl
Notes'... group of Congressional Republicans ... have proposed that US law be amended to remove protections against torture ... for people we label “terrorists”...'Unfurl