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Robert Greenwald, the director of IRAQ FOR SALE, was invited to testify before Congress by Rep. Jim Moran. He prepared four minutes from the documentary to show.
On May 10, Republicans insisted this not be shown

I’ve grown so weary of being reminded of the disaster that has befallen this country thanks to Bush et. al. I want to lash out and blame everyone who voted for him. They are all around us here.
The Boston legal video reminds us that we must also blame democrats. Jim Matheson is a [...]

The profound incompetence of the Bush administration, their collective inability to actually do their jobs in anything like an effective way, has extensive implications for the American body politic.  Bill Scher of Liberaloasis had dedicated a great deal of time to pointing out the ways in which the Bush administration has followed the Heritage Foundation’s [...]

Matt at mydd posted about paying taxes that perfectly echoes my own sentiments:
I just paid my taxes, and I have to say, I always take pride when I do so.  I don’t like having less money to spend, of course, and the complexity of the process is really upsetting.  But I am proud to pay [...]

I have ceased to wonder who our National media are actually working for anymore folks. Newsweek has long appeared to me as a premier apologist for the Iraq War and Bush Administration policies. Someone bought me a subscription to the News magazine about 3 years ago. I could have just as well done without it. [...]

When is fighting for what you believe admirable and right or just plain stupid and self-destructive? The Bush Administration and the people and leaders of Utah are finding that out right now. As the U.S. Supreme Court and other judicial entities knock down case after case of administration environmental chicanery and other abuses of power, [...]

“An iconoclastic economist discusses how the White House cooked the books on its march to war.”
Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell
February 21 , 2007
Joseph Stiglitz has never shied away from using his platform as a Nobel Prize winner in Economics to point out policy follies in high places. In 2002, after he had left a post as the World [...]

You might have read that President Bush’s new budget would bring total proposed spending in Iraq to $683 billion through 2009– exceeding the total cost of the 13-year Vietnam War, adjusted for inflation. How is that possible?
Part of the answer came in yesterday’s hearing before the House Government Reform Committee, [...]

While the last Congress made sure that this year’s military budget included $20 million for a victory parade, they might better have used that money– and a lot more –to address the Army’s staggering equipment shortages. Logistics may seem like a boring subject compared to the death and destruction going on in Iraq. [...]

I have a relative who ran a successful small business for many years.  At one point, this relative was struggling in the business and asked me what I thought should/could be done.  After a couple hours of talking, I said, “You know, you keep saying ‘This is tax deductible’, and ‘That saves me money on [...]

Yesterday, Frank posted about a Heritage Foundation report that claims tax cuts, including the last round of tax cuts, pay for themselves through increased Federal revenues. Unfortunately for the Heritage Foundation, neither the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) nor the Treasury Department agrees with them.
From a Center for Budget and Policy Priorities report 
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