During the next couple of weeks, the editor of this website will be moving to the United Arab Emirates to take a Professorship with the American University of Sharjah.
During the move, we will be taking a short break from updating the regular entries for the site. As soon as we have everything up and […]

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Seeking to defuse the campaign of Republican rival Arnold Schwarzenegger, California gubernatorial hopeful Arianna Huffington on Thursday blasted the movie star as a “good friend of the Bush administration” beholden to special interests.
“Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Bush Republican through and through,” said the best-selling author, who is running as […]

TALLAHASSEE — Undeterred by the controversy over school testing, Gov. Jeb Bush has asked a politically connected Texas company to do a computer analysis on the state’s FCAT scores and suggest more changes to Florida schools.
“I love it,” Bush said, when asked about the computer analysis program known as Just for the Kids. “They’re a […]

NEW YORK - Scientists and engineers with the National Research Council warned the White House and Congress about the vulnerability of the power grid as recently as November, saying nationwide weaknesses needed to be repaired

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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 — Before the first television ads have aired, the race to succeed California Gov. Gray Davis (D) if he is recalled came down to just two men, Republican action star Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz M. Bustamante, according to a nonpartisan statewide poll to be released Saturday.
The California Field […]

o this is the way public policy-making works in “conservative” Tallahassee.
Lawmakers spend literally months dithering over the fine details of a medical malpractice “reform” package that, in the end, may neither lower malpractice insurance rates nor protect victims of bad medicine.
And then in the space of just a day or two, the governor requests, and […]

by Greg Palast
I can tell you all about the ne’re-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters — the Niagara Mohawk Power Company — some years back. You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living, as an investigator of corporate racketeers. In the 1980s, “NiMo” built […]

The Pentagon wants to cut the pay of its 148,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, who are already contending with guerrilla-style attacks, homesickness and 120-degree-plus heat.
Unless Congress and President Bush take quick action when Congress returns after Labor Day, the uniformed Americans in Iraq and the 9,000 in Afghanistan will lose a pay increase approved last […]

Despite the progress in Florida schools under the A-Plus plan, many made only adequate gains at the federal level.
How embarrassing for Gov. Jeb Bush. His own brother has blown the whistle on Jeb’s FCAT school “reform” sham.
In Tallahassee, Team Bush has been bragging about the governor’s miraculous resurrection of public education with his A-Plus reform […]

President Bush asserted today that the sluggish American economy was on the road to recovery, and he said there was no need to push for a new round of tax cuts as he heads into his re-election campaign this fall.
“We are discussing a lot of things, and we believe that the tax relief plan we […]