Month February 2006

First Abramoff/Bush photo published

The photo is of Bush, Abramoff, and Chief Raul Garza of the Kickapoo tribe From Think Progress [The picture] “leaves unanswered questions about how Mr. Abramoff and the tribal leader, whom he was trying to sign as a client, gained…

Abramoff’s ‘charity’ began at home

The LA Times reams Abramoff today, detailing his sleazy “charities”, which were anything but that. There was the time he laundered money through a religious group’s accounts to try to bribe a congressional aide. He diverted funds from a youth…

Attack on LA?

Email from Joe Hartley One of the depressing facts of modern journalism is that few reporters do more than follow the story developed by others with no independent inquiry. Bush’s story of foiling an attack on the “Liberty” Tower in…

Watching us?

On some political blogs I frequent, some have been wondering if the government is watching leftie blogs and protesters. Well of course they are. They watch antiwar protests, and blogs too no doubt. I helped organize an antiwar march and…