Source: cnn.com
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, visiting the White House, also brought birthday greetings and a surprise gift.
But Bush found out about it during a joint press conference in the East Room.
Source: cnn.com
LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Good evening. We're in the Blue Room of the White House. This is the first presidential interview ever done in this historic room and we're honored to have the president and first lady with us, President George W. Bush and Laura Bush.
Source: blog.wired.com
Nintendo sent a new DS lite and a copy of Brain Age to President Bush, who celebrates his 60th birthday on July 6th.
Either Nintendo was making a statement by sending Bush a copy of Brain Age, or they're just big fans of that new DS lite.
Source: kotaku.com
Nintendo of America sent President Bush an early baby boomer gift pack today. The bag of presidential goodies includes a DS Lite and a copy of Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day. Bush turns 60 tomorrow.
Letter to the President from NOA:
Source: newyorker.com
Seymour M Hersh: Inside the Pentagon, senior commanders have increasingly challenged the President’s plans, according to active-duty and retired officers and officials.
Source: progressive.org
Greg Palast: You’d think George Bush would get down on his knees and kiss Hugo Chávez’s behind. Not only has Chávez delivered cheap oil to the Bronx and other poor communities in the United States. And not only did he offer to bring aid to the victims of Katrina.
Source: alternet.org
You wouldn't know it from the media, but grassroots movements are afoot all over the country to hold the president legally accountable for his lies.
Source: latimes.com
Because Al Qaeda is not a state, the administration argued that the Geneva Convention didn't apply to the war on terror. These assertions gave the administration's arguments about the legal framework for fighting terrorism a through-the-looking-glass quality.
Source: whitehouse.org
Straight from the White House Showroom...
Source: townhall.com
""For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of America."
Source: realclearpolitics.com
"When General Douglas MacArthur delivered his farewell address to Congress in April of 1951, after President Truman had fired the general during the Korean War, he gave advice that yet can be of value both to President Bush's Democratic Party war critics, and to President Bush a …
Source: informationclearinghouse.info
Even generals and high ranking officials are speaking out against the Bush administration.
The Real Leo Strauss
Source: counterthink.org
Mike Adams: A professor of constitutional law at the Georgetown University Law Center, Susan Lo Bloch, said that Bush was "taking a hugely expansive interpretation of the Constitution and the president's power under the Constitution." That's a nice way of saying it.
Source: salon.com
Since 2001, the Bush administration has wielded the "state secrets" privilege as a wide-ranging weapon to snuff out legal challenges to its most Draconian tactics in the global war on terror. At stake are no less than bedrock American moral and legal principles.
Source: chris-floyd.com
Chris Floyd: What they want from Iran is nothing less than its return to quasi-colonial control by the crony conquistadors of the West. And they're willing to play a (reasonably) long game to get it.
Source: msnbc.msn.com
A Harris Interactive/Financial Times survey released Monday found that 36 percent of Europeans view the United States as the world’s greatest threat to “global stability.” By comparison, 30 percent of those polled named Iran as the biggest threat, while 18 percent named Chi …
Source: alternet.org
CBS canned Rather for his reporting on Bush's questionable military service -- but the BBC had already told that story to millions.
...
Source: newscientist.com
Overconfident people are more likely to wage war but fare worse in the ensuing battles [...]
optimism may have offered an evolutionary advantage in the past, allowing our ancestors to cope with adversity and bluff opponents.
Source: alternet.org
How messed up is America's health care system? Consider the case of the Leavitts.
Source: freemarketnews.com
Hearing the "news" these past two weeks as the death of designated al Qaeda leader Zarqawi was trumpeted to the world in endless waves, I got the feeling I was listening to some scripted propaganda piece rather than honest reporting.
Source: callingallwingnuts.com
O’Reilly: Now to me, they’re not fighting it hard enough. See, if I’m president, I got probably another 50-60 thousand with orders to shoot on sight anybody violating curfews. Shoot them on sight.
Source: today.reuters.com
Austrian right-wing populist Joerg Haider called President Bush a war criminal on Saturday, days before Austria's government hosts Bush and European leaders in Vienna.
An on line forum I frequent got a discussion going around this video which alleges in no uncertain terms that the Bush familyfortune was the direct result of family trading with the Nazi Government while the United States was involved in WWII.
Wayne Madsen: Last Friday, George W. Bush and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen conducted what has been termed "bicycle diplomacy" at the Camp David presidential retreat. They both rode around on mountain bikes.
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