AP via CNN: Bush's new chief of staff invites aides to leave before shake-up WASHINGTON (AP) -- Signaling a possible shake-up among President Bush's senior advisers, the new White House chief of staff told top presidential aides Monday to expect changes that "refresh and re-energize the team." He invited anyone who is thinking of leaving before year's end to do so now. Joshua … [Read more...] about The White House to be Shaken, Not Stirred?

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If so, then stop reading and go get yourself some ice cream. Life is good. But if not, read about some solutions here. … [Read more...] about Like The Tax Code?

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A few months ago we added Rasmussen Reports to OTHER VOICES on our blogroll, because that poll proved so accurate in 2004 and its site offers a daily Presidential approval rating. Now Rasmussen has a new poll that shows President George W. Bush has broken a record for the lowest poll:Sunday April 16, 2006--Thirty-nine percent (39%) of American adults approve of the way George … [Read more...] about Bush Hits Record Low In Rasmussen Poll

Last week, six retired generals were pitchforked into the international headlines when, one by one, they blasted Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and suggested he resign. Now a classic "push-back" is in full force as the GOP and Pentagon have begun circling the protective wagons around "Rummy." It's a multi-fronted defense: Rumsfeld's defenders going on the offensive … [Read more...] about GOP And Pentagon Circling The Wagons Around Rumsfeld

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BBC: Rumsfeld resignation row simmersAnother two US generals have weighed into the row over whether Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should quit. Ex-Nato commander Gen Wesley Clark, who ran for the Democrat presidential nomination in 2004, backed calls for Mr Rumsfeld to resign.... … [Read more...] about Wes Clark Has Joined the Fray

How the West was really won. … [Read more...] about Illegal Pioneers

A tip from my brother, Stu in Phoenix: Fawaz Turki in The Washington Post: How to Lose Your Job at a Saudi Newspaper I was unceremoniously fired this month by my Saudi newspaper, a leading English-language daily called Arab News. It didn't matter that I had been the senior columnist on the op-ed page for nine years or that my work was quoted widely in the European and … [Read more...] about Journalism in an Arab State

Within the past one week India's two major dailies have carried in-depth news stories about the spreading terror of Naxalism (extreme Left) in India's 14 federal States; and, in Pakistan, the Taliban being on the verge of creating a new country of their own in the tribal area of Waziristan on Afghanistan border, an epicentre of USA's 'War on Terror'. "As if a hostile … [Read more...] about The Siege Within! A Wake-Up Call for Bush, Musharraf and Manmohan Singh

There are actually quite a few, and that's why the co-founder of Greenpeace has recently come out in favor on pursuing a broader, more aggressive nuclear energy policy. More here. … [Read more...] about The Upsides Of Nuclear Energy

A blogger's written words could influence a blogger's professional life as this controversy about a blogger and the writer who gave a post wider exposure indicates... … [Read more...] about Another Sign Blogging Could Have Consequences

Arizona Senator John McCain has said he's in agreement with the retired generals who are suggesting that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should consider moving onto new challenges or suddenly decide to spend more time with his family. But he has a qualifier: the President, he says, has the right to have whomever he wants as Secretary of Defense, the East Valley Tribune … [Read more...] about McCain Agrees With Retired Generals: No Confidence In Rumsfeld…BUT

The Scotsman reports that British Prime Minister has basically said "no dice" to Washington if it opts for a military strike on Iran:TONY Blair has told George Bush that Britain cannot offer military support to any strike on Iran, regardless of whether the move wins the backing of the international community, government sources claimed yesterday. Amid increasing tension over … [Read more...] about Blair Reportedly Won’t Back U.S. Iran Strike

The question is whether this report from Times Online is accurate or more of Tehran's psych-ops plan:IRAN has formed battalions of suicide bombers to strike at British and American targets if the nation’s nuclear sites are attacked. According to Iranian officials, 40,000 trained suicide bombers are ready for action. The main force, named the Special Unit of Martyr Seekers in … [Read more...] about Are Iranian Suicide Bombers In Place If Iran Is Nuked?

In 1999, the government began secretly reclassifying documents that were previously made public by the Clinton administration. One such document is the 1958 Department of Defense Emergency Plans Book. Washington Wire describes it as “an early Cold War description of response planning for a nuclear attack on the U.Sâ€?. However, you want to know the truly ironic part? You … [Read more...] about The Doomsday Scenario: An Apocalyptic Book Report

Despite suggestions on some talk radio shows and by some pro-administration commentators that the calls by six retired generals for Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld to step down are no big deal, it is indeed highly unusual. That's the view of Richard Holbrooke, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, writing in the Washington Post. In recent days some have tried to … [Read more...] about Military Criticism By Retired Generals Of Rumsfeld Is Not Routine