How awful - and how painfully familiar, that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles left priests accused of molesting children in active ministry for years:
One of the 11 cases involves the late Msgr. Leland Boyer, whose publicly released file summary revealed that three allegations of child molestation had been lodged against him. One of his alleged [...]

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It’s about time:
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The U.S. government released the most extensive list yet of the hundreds of detainees who have been held at the Guantanamo Bay prison — nearly all labeled enemy combatants, but only a handful of whom have faced formal charges.
In all, 558 people were named in the list [...]

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A new study shows that the worst-case climate change may still be avoided:
Even a few degrees increase can have significant environmental and economic impacts, but by downgrading the worst-case scenarios the new work may convince governments that it is not too late to take action, Hegerl said. Models suggest that carbon dioxide levels could reach [...]

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To Bush, loyalty is a one-way street:
McClellan was fairly candid about the forced circumstances of his departure. “The White House is going through a period of transition; change can be helpful,” he told Bush on the lawn. “I have given it my all, sir, and I’ve given you my all.” The few witnesses reported him [...]

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Oh yeah, I remember this. So many people told me they were for the war because “at least we’ll get cheap gas.”
That’s because the White House economic advisor said so at the time.
Guess what? Now the White House spokesman has developed a convenient case of amnesia.

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These bozos can’t do anything right:
THE United States has botched efforts to improve public health in Iraq and Afghanistan, missing a chance to gain support in those countries, an independent report said. US reconstruction efforts in Iraq following the 2003 invasion failed to maintain and improve basic sanitation and provide safe drinking water in heavily [...]

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Priceless:
With the expected passage this spring of the largest emergency spending bill in history, annual war expenditures in Iraq will have nearly doubled since the U.S. invasion, as the military confronts the rapidly escalating cost of repairing, rebuilding and replacing equipment chewed up by three years of combat. The cost of the war in U.S. [...]

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Worst president ever.

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We already know what their “policy” is. It’s to intimidate and bully anyone who gets in their way, and if they can’t win an election legitimately, they steal it. Any questions?
The man Bush tapped to fill Karl Rove’s spot as his policy wizard is none other than Joel Kaplan, who took part in the infamous [...]

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Breaking news:
KABUL, Afghanistan - A massive explosion rocked the Afghan capital late Wednesday near the diplomatic area where the U.S. Embassy is located.
A large plume of white smoke rose into the air.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor could not confirm if the blast targeted the heavily guarded American diplomatic mission, where staff rushed to a bunker [...]

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Oy vey, and I thought $2.89 was bad:
With pump prices rising fast, a gas station under the Brooklyn Bridge took a quantum leap into outrageousness - charging a jaw-dropping $4.50 a gallon!
That’s what the Gulf Station on Old Fulton St. in Brooklyn Heights was charging credit card customers for a gallon of premium yesterday.
A gallon [...]

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Congratulate me - today was the first day I successfully commuted from the new place.
The first week after I moved, I was still recovering from being sick and it was less stressful to drive. The second week, I had trouble deciding on (and then locating) which of the 12 train stations in my neighborhood [...]

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Just in via email:
(PHILADELPHIA) State Representative Babette Josephs today asked the Pennsylvania Department of State’s campaign finance division to investigate an apparently illegal contribution made to Larry Farnese’s campaign from a political action committee which is linked to controversial U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA).
The $1000 contribution, which according to FEC records was made [...]

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This should do wonders for the state’s tourism industry:
TALLAHASSEE - Day-cruise gambling ships still will be allowed to dump sewage in the waters off Florida’s coasts after a Senate committee killed a bill to prohibit such actions.
It’s a practice that has environmentalists and tourism interests worried because they say it fouls the state’s beaches.
A bill [...]

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Maybe he and DeLay can be cellmates:
A Washington watchdog called on the Justice Department today to begin an official investigation into whether Texas Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) received bribes from a San Fransisco defense firm in exchange for supporting earmarks that benefited the company, RAW STORY has learned.
Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington filed [...]

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I’m speechless:
Parents in Washington County’s Canon-McMillan School District called Tuesday for the firing of a suspended grade school teacher who described an abortion to students during a recent social studies class.
“You just don’t bring it up to a 9-year-old,” said Jim Stienstraw Jr., 43, of Cecil, whose daughter is a student in Katherine McGuire’s [...]

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Don’t you believe it for a minute. Rove has always tied policy to politics and he’s not going to stop now:
WASHINGTON - White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove is giving up his policy portfolio and press secretary Scott McClellan is resigning, continuing a shakeup in President Bush’s administration that has already yielded a [...]

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No link yet. Flounder McClellan has resigned. And (I swear to God, I’m not making this up) the White House offered the job to Tony Snow. That’s right, Fox News.
White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten “has offered Fox News Channel anchor Tony Snow the job of White House press secretary,” the D.C. Examiner reports. [...]

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Everything’s fine, couldn’t be better, Rummy’s doing a great job:
BAGHDAD, April 19 (Reuters) - Separate groups of gunmen entered two primary schools in Baghdad on Wednesday and beheaded two teachers in front of their students, the Ministry of State for National Security said.
“Two terrorist groups beheaded two teachers in front of their students in the [...]

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Oh, look. The only states where a majority still approves of Bubble Boy are Idaho, Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming.

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I posted this the other day, but the info about Anderson’s family being willing to go to jail is new:
Muckraking journalist Jack Anderson would have gone to jail to avoid giving his notes to the FBI.
And his widow and children are willing to do the same.
Anderson’s family has rejected the FBI’s request to [...]

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A small but determined group of Philadelphia lawyers are fighting to hold military contractors (and ultimately, the government) accountable for torture in Iraqi prisons (and they can use all the legal volunteers they can get):
The lawsuit lists even more egregious acts of malice. One client says he was tied to 11 other prisoners, all attached [...]

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If our kids don’t develop the ability to live on $3 a day, too, they’re in deep shit:
Washington, April 19: President George W Bush has warned the country’s schoolchildren that if they did not have the skills needed to compete with their counterparts from India and China, new jobs would go to those countries.
The [...]

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Seems only fair, doesn’t it?
LARGO - A group of veterans on Tuesday took a message to the Pinellas County School Board: Students who are considering joining the military are getting the pros, but not the cons, from military recruiters who visit high school campuses.
About a dozen members of a local Veterans for Peace chapter handed [...]

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WashPo has exhumed Mel Laird, secretary of defense under Nixon, to repeat the right-wing meme: If those generals attacking Rumsfeld didn’t speak up when they were on active duty, it don’t mean nothing.
I think they edited out the part where Mel bragged about how well things went in Vietnam.
Why, the Rummy self-defense show is so [...]

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Honestly? I preferred the blowjobs:
Freddie Mac will pay a record $3.8 million fine to settle civil charges that it violated federal election law by using corporate resources to raise $1.7 million at political fundraisers, most of them for Republican members of Congress and many involving House Financial Services Committee Chairman Michael G. Oxley (R-Ohio).
The agreement [...]

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My buddy Brendan writes a rather touching piece today about his first time killing a mouse.
I remember my first mice infestation. I was such a city girl, I actually believed traps worked the same as in the Tom and Jerry cartoons - it snapped shut on their tails, and then you took them outside to [...]

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Why the strongarm tactics?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jack Anderson’s son says the columnist “would be rolling over in his grave” if he had lived to see the FBI’s efforts to get his papers. Anderson died in December after a half-century of investigative reporting that exposed several scandals and put him on President Nixon’s “enemies list.”
The family [...]

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I’ve noticed that the more pissed off Alterman gets about this war, the pithier he gets:
TNR and the Weekly Standard both have cover stories arguing for a war in the Middle East. Here and here. There are three, count ‘em, three articles arguing for war in the Standard. Shouldn’t they be forced to [...]

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Even Gallup puts him at 36.

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