Wednesday, November 5, 2008

NY Times: Cheney & Bush rev up their Wrecking Balls

Cheney, Bush and the White House cabal are busy issuing regulations which favor their friends, at a pace unheard of in history. You can bet their shredding machines are running full blast, and that computer files are being erased or modified at a record pace. INVESTIGATE. PROSECUTE. CONVICT. IMPRISON.

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Sunday, November 2, 2008

Vote-Flipping Diebold Machine Removed, Quarantined in CO

Karen Long, Adams County Clerk Takes Action After Voter Sees Vote Flip Repeatedly to Republican Candidate in State With Long History of E-Voting Failures | Watchdog Group Issues Press Release Calling for No 'Recalibration', Immediate Removal, Impounding of Such Machines...

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Saturday, November 1, 2008

Nevada Voting Suggests Obama Victory at Hand

Today is the final day of early voting in the key swing state of Nevada, and the question must be asked, has Barack Obama already won there? As of late Thursday night, registered Democrats had cast 51.5% ballots in the two most populous counties, while Republicans cast 31.3% with the remainder cast by Independents.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Pew Poll: McCain Support Continues Downward Spiral

Obama leading among registered voters 52%-36%, among those already voting it's 53%-34%, and among likely voters it's 53%-38%. Pew is one of the pollsters that emphasizes contacting cellphone-only voters.

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Monday, October 27, 2008

Ashley Todd, PA Racist Hoax "Victim," Was Paid Employee

Last week, a troubled young woman handed the McCain campaign a Willie Horton-style race card, and the media helped them play it. Something was missed in the reporting of the story, however. Though Ashley Todd was a paid employee of the College Republican National Committee, nearly every report demoted her to the role of volunteer.

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Dozens Of Call Center Workers Walk Off Job In Protest Rather

At least three dozen workers at a telemarking call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents. Nina...

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Saturday, October 25, 2008

Pennsylvania Republicans Send False Anti-Obama E-mail

A new e-mail making the rounds among Jewish voters in Pennsylvania this week falsely alleged that Mr. Obama “taught members of Acorn to commit voter fraud,’’ and equated a vote for Senator Barack Obama with the “tragic mistake” of their Jewish ancestors, who “ignored the warning signs in the 1930’s and 1940’s.”

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Friday, October 24, 2008

Foreclosure activity rises 70 percent

The number of homeowners ensnared in the foreclosure crisis grew by more than 70 percent in the third quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2007.

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Arne Carlson, Former GOP Governor, Endorses Obama

Carlson said Thursday that the Illinois senator's stances on the Iraq war, the economy and green energy goals won him over. Carlson, who served from 1991 to 1998, also cited recent comments by GOP Congresswoman Michele Bachmann questioning whether politicians have "pro-America or anti-America views."

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CC Goldwater: Why McCain Has Lost Our Vote

Barry Goldwater's granddaughter explains why she, and several other members of her family will be rolling up their sleeves with Obama/Biden

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Economy Crashes but War Profiteers Doing Fine

While Joe the Taxpayer is stocking up on canned spam, candles, ammunition, and recipes for dog meat, the war pigs from Raytheon, Northrup-Grumman, and Lockheed-Martin are popping the corks on the bubbly aboard their private yachts. The New World Order: by invitation only, peasants. Now get back to work.

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Monday, October 20, 2008

McCain Hired GOP Operative Accused of Voter Reg Fraud

A McCain campaign joint committee has paid $175,000 to the firm of a Republican operative who has been accused of massive voter registration fraud in several states. A joint committee of the McCain-Palin campaign, the RNC and the the California Republican Party, made a $175,000 payment to the group Lincoln Strategy in June.

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The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - New

3 Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week. This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for "Barack Obama" kept flipping

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California GOP had Same Voter Registration Problems as ACORN

Faked names on voter registration forms. Error rates as high as 60 percent. Firing the people responsible for these errors. Investigations launched by local and state police. Sound familiar? This is not ACORN in the 2008 election's final days. This is the California Republican Party and its contractors in 2006.

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BREAKING: Head of GOP Voter Reg. Outift Arrested

Head of California GOP voter registration outfit charged with voter registration fraud, according to CA Sec. of State's office. The firm, YPM, also under investigation in several states for allegedly illegally switching thousands of registrations from Democratic to Republican...

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Saturday, October 18, 2008

Documentary Banned By the Bush Admin to be shown on PBS

Scott Horton reports today that PBS may have refused to nationally air a controversial documentary on the use of torture by the U.S. government in order to protect its funding.

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The Acorn Story

ACORN accusations false and overblown!

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Friday, October 17, 2008

League Of Conservation Voters Gives McCain 0% Rating

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has repeatedly boasted about his record on the environment and energy issues. Today, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) released its 2008 National Environmental Scorecard — giving McCain a 0 percent rating

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Thursday, October 16, 2008

Steering Committee 2 Seek Prosecution of Bush For War Crimes

By Sherwood RossMassachusetts law school Dean Lawrence Velvel will chair a Steering Committee to pursue the prosecution for war crimes of President Bush and culpable high-ranking aides after they leave office Jan. 20th.

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Monday, October 13, 2008

Duncan Hunter's son caught receiving donations for earmarks

Defense contractors who received millions of dollars in government earmarks arranged by Rep. Duncan Hunter are now helping to fill the campaign coffers of his son. Officials at several companies have benefited from the pet project spending requests that the veteran Republican lawmaker inserted into often-unrelated legislation.

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