Meanwhile, the owner of Port Newark filed a lawsuit in New Jersey to block the sale, citing security concerns. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the deal violates a 30-year lease signed with the authority in 2000.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in state Superior Court in Newark, asked a judge to block […]
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More Americans than nearly ever before now say the war in Iraq is a “mistake” for the United States, according to a new Gallup poll. That figure now stands at 55%, up 4% point since late January.
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Gallup noted that it had asked this question about other wars involving the United States, “and only […]
Guhhhhh. Do you ever just have a moment where you hate that guy? Just really hate him? Reading stuff like this is sickening.
Have I ever mentioned that BradBlog is a great daily resource for voting news? Maybe I’ll do a Daily Source on it. It’s obviously an important issue, and although BB covers other topics as well, it’s great to have a prominent voting-blog in the blogosphere. I anticipate it’ll become more and more popular as this […]
Yesterday, I tackled the ports issue. I closed that post with the following:
I think our government should be protecting our ports. Instead of hiring another government to protect our ports. What a novel concept. More updates as the story develops.
I’ve been doing some thinking. At the end of the day, I don’t believe that if […]
Last night I managed to get a nasty papercut from the very angry upper edge of a manila folder on my left middle finger (the one that usually rests on the D key), and so I’m having trouble typing. If this hadn’t happened, I would be writting up a roundup on that whole South Dakota […]
Secret Service agents guarding Vice President Dick Cheney when he shot Texas lawyer Harry Whittington on a hunting outing two weeks ago say Cheney was “clearly inebriated” at the time of the shooting.
That’s TalkLeft quoting Capitol Hill Blue. Go read (extended quote, 2 links to full articles).
AMERICAblog says Reuters picks apart the “but he didn’t know about it” defense.
The obvious problems with this defense that I see, are that firstly, if he didn’t know about it, the President was defending something he didn’t know about until the day before or whatever. Along those lines, if he wasn’t informed, it makes him […]
Oh, this is rich. Associated Press writes the following about Lewis Libby’s lawyers latest legal defense (it’s surely a winner) :
Lawyers for Vice President Cheney’s former top aide asked a federal judge Thursday to dismiss his indictment because the special prosecutor in the case lacked authority to bring the charges.
In a court filing, lawyers for […]
As I mentioned earlier, it’s not just progressives who are conserned sbout the ports deal. In fact, Conservatives are just as worried, if not more so (usually for racist reasons though). Editor & Publisher:
Cal Thomas of Tribune Media Services (TMS) said in his column: “There have been some dumb decisions since the United States was […]
RAW STORY has obtained a copy of a letter sent from 11 members of congress (all of them Democrats) to Attorney General Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Snow and Chertoff, raising questions about the legality of the Port deal. Go read the letter in its entirety here.
Update: BradBlog has more on the legal angle:
Patrick Malloy is an attorney […]
Editor & Publisher points out the glaringly obvious.
I’ve mentioned a few times lately that there seems to be a certain amount of internal turmoil in the White House lately. MyDD blogger Matt Stoller says that the Republican Grand Old Party (GOP) is having its problems too.
Okay, this Ports deal story. I covered it briefly before, but its time for a little more depth.
The basic story is that the Administration is turning over control of 6 large ports in the United States to the security control of a company which is owned by the United Arab Emirates (a state which apparently […]
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