The Truth Handler

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Secretary of Defense Gates gets serious, says the combat troops have got to get out of Iraq for the sake of security and common sense because we simply cannot let this chaotic violence drag on for years. Turkey's combat troops, that is.

Gates to tell Turkey to end incursion soon - UPI.com

Bush and his top associates have a tradition of selectively disclosing intelligence findings that serve their political agenda -- while aggressively asserting the need to keep secret the information that would tend to discredit them.

Dan Froomkin - Playing Politics With Intelligence - washingtonpost.com

Sunday, February 24, 2008

Chavez Says Venezuela Can Sell Oil Anywhere, Not Just to U.S.

Bloomberg.com: Latin America

Man, it's like Chavez thinks oil can be used anywhere, like a commodity or something.

Australia says job is done for soldiers in Iraq

Australia says job is done for soldiers in Iraq - Yahoo! News

Let's see if there are massacres, as the Neocons are predicting, after the foreign troops leave.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Congressman Paul Cosponsors "Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act"

Congressman Paul Cosponsors "Combat Veterans Debt Elimination Act"

Ron Paul doesn't "supports the troops," right?

Government officials claim that laptops and cell phones are no different from briefcases and they have equal rights to search all of them

Electronic searches prompt protests - Washington Post- msnbc.com

"Euros Accepted" signs pop up in New York City

Euros Accepted signs pop up in New York City | U.S. | Reuters

The George W. Bush legacy...making the U.S. a banana republic in 7 short years.

Fox News...profits before facts

Veterans not entitled to mental health care, Bush Administration argues

Veterans have no legal right to
specific types of medical care, the Bush administration argues in a
lawsuit accusing the government of illegally denying mental health
treatment to some troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Veterans not entitled to mental health care, U.S. lawyers argue

Support the troops...

Wednesday, February 6, 2008

McCain is totally against troop withdrawals, that is unless its a war during Bill Clinton's administration. Cut and run is totally acceptable then

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

FBI Prepares Vast Database Of U.S. Citizens Faces, Fingerprints, and Eye Irises

FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics - washingtonpost.com

Friday, February 1, 2008

Reminder: Bin Laden's Goal is to Bankrupt U.S.

CNN.com - Bin Laden: Goal is to bankrupt U.S. - Nov 1, 2004

Bush Budget: Freeze Domestic Spending to Keep Spending in Other Countries

President George W. Bush will propose freezing most domestic
spending in his upcoming 2009 budget and will seek big cost savings
from government health care programs, a U.S. official said on Thursday.

In a more than $3 trillion budget to be unveiled on Monday, Bush
wants to limit to less than 1 percent increases in spending on
discretionary programs like transportation and education, but excluding
national security, the official said.

Bush budget would nearly freeze domestic spending | Reuters

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Ron Paul Campaign Announces Minnesota Veterans for Paul Coalition

The Ron Paul 2008 Republican presidential campaign today announced the
formation of the Minnesota Veterans for Paul Coalition.Over 125 Minnesotan war veterans have endorsed ten-term Texas
Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, and have
signed onto the Minnesota Veterans for Paul Coalition in the past day.

Ron Paul Campaign Announces Minnesota Veterans for Paul Coalition: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Ron Paul's Responses in CA "Debate" at Ronald Reagan Library

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

National Taxpayers Union: Only Ron Paul Would Cut Spending

According to a report released Tuesday by the National Taxpayers Union, Texas Congressman Ron Paul is the only remaining presidential candidate who proposes net spending cuts. According to the report, Congressman Paul’s proposals would cut government spending by over $150 billion, a conservative estimate of the spending reductions Dr. Paul has proposed. The report concludes that the other remaining Republican candidates, Mitt Romney, John McCain and Mike Huckabee, have proposed spending increases of $19.5 billion, $6.9 billion and $54 billion respectively.

National Taxpayers Union: Only Ron Paul Would Cut Spending — Ron Paul 2008

Saturday, January 26, 2008

The great fiscal stimulus package ... of 1929

With that in mind, Herbert Hoover -- only nine months into his presidency -- assembled leaders from the public and private sectors to create an economic-stimulus package. Among the measures, Time magazine reported at the time, was a promise from Congress to offer bipartisan support for a tax-cut package. The proposal called for $160 million in tax relief -- only about $22 billion if adjusted against the gross domestic product at the time, and therefore much smaller than the plan under consideration here in 2008.

The great fiscal stimulus package ... of 1929 - MarketWatch

100% of Contributors to Ron Paul in Q3 Were Individuals

2008 Presidential Election: Ron Paul Campaign Money

"If you got rid of the income tax today you'd have about as much revenue as we had 10 years ago."

PolitiFact | It would be close to the same revenue

Going bankrupt: The US's greatest threat

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs

The Legacy of Bush's Presidency

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Friday, January 25, 2008

Rummy Resurfaces, Calls for U.S. Propaganda Agency

This was one of the major themes in one of Rumsfeld's first post-Pentagon public comments at a conference today on network centric warfare sponsored by the Institute for Defense and Government Advancement. According to Rumsfeld, the United States is losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, and the answer to that, in part, is through the creation of this new government agency.

Rummy Resurfaces, Calls for U.S. Propaganda Agency (Updated) | Danger Room from Wired.com

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Bush's Foreign Policy Making Us "Safer"

Hmmm...It's Such a Mystery

NeoCon's Idea of Keeping America Safe

Bush to let successor worry about paying for Iraq

Bush, before:

“I believe it is the job of a President to confront problems, not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.”

Bush, now:

The White House confirmed Wednesday that its new budget
next month will not request a full year’s funding for the war in Iraq,
leaving the next president and Congress to confront major cost
questions soon after taking office in 2009.

Crooks and Liars » Bush to let successor worry about paying for Iraq

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Media Study Claims Bush Administration Lied Hundreds of Times About Iraq

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
FOXNews.com - Media Study Claims Bush Administration Lied Hundreds of Times About Iraq - Politics | Republican Party | Democratic Party | Political Spectrum

Rudy's Take on Freedom

“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.” - Rudy Giuliani 1994

'Freedom Is About Authority': Excerpts From Giuliani Speech on Crime - New York Times

The U.S. National Debt

Which party is the fiscal conservative one?

Saturday, January 19, 2008

Good Ron Paul Video

Thursday, January 17, 2008

US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all 'Net traffic

In a long profile published by The New Yorker this week (not yet online, but there's an audio interview with the profile's author at The New Yorker's site),
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell discusses a plan in
the works to dramatically expand online surveillance. As The Wall Street Journal sums it up,
"in order to accomplish his plan, the government must have the ability
to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States
in order to protect it from abuse."

US intel chief wants carte blanche to peep all 'Net traffic

Bush Disowns U.S. Intelligence Community

In the latest Newsweek, Michael Hirsh
reports that, during a private conversation with Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, Bush "all but disowned" the agencies' Dec. 3 National
Intelligence Estimate on Iran. A "senior administration official who
accompanied Bush" on the trip confided to Hirsh that Bush "told the
Israelis that he can't control what the intelligence community says,
but that [the NIE's] conclusions don't reflect his own views."

Bush undercuts American credibility, again. - By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine

Bush has revealed here what we all suspected, that in the lead up to the war on Iraq, he was following "his own views" and not the studied ones of the intelligence agencies. Bush follows his "views" in all to many of his policy decisions, not facts.

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Ron Paul and Obama tied for first with me.

AMERICA lags behind other wealthy countries in the overall performance of its medical system

Health care | Could do better | Economist.com