He's a doctor and a pol, the Senate leader and a White House wanna-be. It's not always easy being Bill Frist. By Howard Fineman / Newsweek April 25 issue - Sen. Bill Frist is a heart surgeon who admires what he calls "the surgical personality": precise, sensitive to details, focused. ...
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CBS News This column from The American Prospect was written by Michael Tomasky. Did you notice this one? A Gallup-CNN-USA Today poll at the end of last week found that 50 percent of American adults now believe that the Bush administration "deliberately misled" them about why we had to go ...
DeLay Apologizes for Schiavo Case Rhetoric
By David Espo / Associated Press WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay apologized Wednesday for using overheated rhetoric on the day Terri Schiavo died, but refused to say whether he supports impeachment of the judges who ruled in her case. DeLay backtracked as White House spokesman Scott McClellan said ...
Republicans Step Up Attacks on Judiciary
By Alan Elsner / Reuters WASHINGTON - Christian conservatives, led by some top Republicans, are stepping up their assault on the U.S. judiciary in response to the Terri Schiavo case, saying judges are attacking religion and must be reined in. At a conference on Thursday and Friday organized by the ...
Bush Declines to Endorse DeLay's Comments
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) - President Bush on Friday said he supports "an independent judiciary" and declined to endorse comments by House Majority Tom DeLay that were critical of judges. "I believe in proper checks and balances," Bush said. The president, speaking with reporters as he flew to Texas ...
DeLay Says Federal Judiciary Has 'Run Amok,' Adding Congress Is Partly to Blame
By Carl Hulse and David D. Kirkpatrick / Washington Post WASHINGTON, April 7 - Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, escalated his talk of a battle between the legislative and judicial branches of government on Thursday, saying federal courts had "run amok," in large part because of the failure ...
DeLay Defiant Over Ethics Allegations
By David Espo / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Defiance defines House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who has three lawyers, one crisis consultant with Justice Department experience and a new support group of conservative activists as he tries to survive allegations of ethical misconduct. "He is the number one enemy to ...
Political Battle in Schiavo Case Rages On
By David Espo / Associated Press WASHINGTON - In death as much as in life, political controversy surrounds Terri Schiavo. "The actions on the part of the Florida court and the U.S. Supreme Court are unconscionable," Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., said Thursday, attacking judges who repeatedly had refused to order ...
DeLay Targets Legal System in Schiavo Case
By Jennifer Loven / Associated Press WASHINGTON - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Thursday blamed Terri Schiavo's death on what he contended was a failed legal system and he raised the possibility of trying to impeach some of the federal judges in the case. "The time will come for ...
On Vermont's Ballots: Iraq War
Annual Town Meetings Feature Both Discussion, Discontent By Jonathan Finer / Washington Post NORWICH, Vt. -- The resolution calling for the return of U.S. troops from Iraq was the 31st item on the town meeting agenda here in the white-walled gymnasium they use for square dances and thrift sales. After ...
Rehnquist lashes out against bashers of `judicial activists'
By David G. Savage / Chicago Tribune Ailing Chief Justice William Rehnquist said in a report released Saturday that judges must be protected from political threats, including from conservative Republicans who maintain that "judicial activists" should be impeached and removed from office. "The Constitution protects judicial independence not to benefit ...
MoveOn.org Moves on to New Battles
By Beth Fouhy / Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - After President Bush won re-election, many political observers expected MoveOn.org to move into retreat. The sentiment surrounding the liberal online powerhouse was neatly summed up by the satire publication The Onion in its spoof headline: "MoveOn CurlsUp InCorner." But on a ...
Blair's Gov't Accused of Exploiting Fear
By Ed Johnson / Associated Press LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair's government was accused Wednesday of playing politics with fear and using the threat of terrorism to boost its chances of re-election. Political rivals are outraged at comments by Cabinet minister Peter Hain, who insists Britain would be ...
Blair Impeachment Probe to Be Sought by 23 British Lawmakers
Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Tony Blair tomorrow will become the first U.K. prime minister in 156 years to face a call for an impeachment investigation as 23 lawmakers accuse him of misconduct in taking Britain to war in Iraq. Adam Price, a member of Parliament with Plaid Cymru, the Welsh ...
How a Movie Can Move the Voting Public (Part 3)
“I have been a dedicated Republican for all of my life. Never really depended what they supported. I would vote because they were Republican. I saw ‘F/911 today.’ I was moved beyond words. I had to write and simply say thank you. Because of this movie, this year I will ...
More Views from America #4: New York to South Dakota
NEW YORK Albany: "Our political group, Democracy for America, organized and got 140 people from our group into the 6:50 PM showing. People drove in from more than hour away just to see this film. We nearly bought out that show, but the entire show did sell out easily, as ...
More US casualties in Iraq. Casualties Come Home Stress epidemic strikes American troops. More details emerge in the probe of US military abuse of Iraqi detainees. An influential Sunni group in Iraq has said that America must get out before Iraq votes, while a Shiite cleric flexes his political muscle. ...
September 11 attacks were preventable. Saudis also warned of terror threat. Thousands gather in Houston to pay their respects to a fallen soldier (Bush couldn't make it). The search for Iraq's WMD loses its leader, but then, Bush doesn't really care. The slaughter in Iraq continues. More soldiers die. Truck ...
Crap. The Sequel: The Crap Ends Here
Dear friends, Well, the mail has been pouring in since my last letter. It's been running about 5 to 1 in support of my view that Bush's "reversals" of Clinton's last-minute orders were not only made possible by Clinton's 8-year postponement of them, but were not even reversals -- as ...
Get Ready, Folks -- Those Democrats Are About to Cave. Should We?
Dear friends, As I write this, the Supreme Court is deciding what to do. And the Democrats are running for cover. They are expecting to lose. They always do. No faith in their own position. No guts. The pundits are screaming for Al Gore to throw in the towel. He ...
Mike's Dinner at the White House
Dear Friends, I met Bill Clinton outside a Port-O-John last night and told him what he needed to do. Earlier in the week, I had received a call from the network chief at Britain's Channel Four Television (the producer of our upcoming show, "The Awful Truth") asking me what my ...
Good News, Bad News, Really Bad News
Dear Friends, It's been one of those weeks. First the good news, then the bad news, then the really bad news… GOOD NEWS: We beat the mayor! After some fast work by our legal team and a public outcry from many of you, New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani rescinded ...
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March 23rd, 2013
This evening is going be a big moment in turning our country around on the issue of gun violence. That's why I desperately want you ...
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March 21st, 2013
I am hosting a nationwide series of house parties this Saturday night where tens of thousands of people will gather together in living rooms to ...
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March 15th, 2013
The response to my Newtown letter this week has been overwhelming. It is so very clear to everyone that the majority of Americans have had ...
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March 13th, 2013
America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
The year was 1955. Emmett Till was a young African American boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Mississippi. One day Emmett was seen "flirting" with ...
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February 26th, 2013
My Final Word on Buzzfeed and Emad Burnat's Detention at LAX
Thanks to everyone for bearing with me as I spend so much time on what happened to Emad Burnat. It's important to me because he's ...
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February 26th, 2013
Michael Moore Responds to Buzzfeed Story on '5 Broken Cameras' Co-Director Emad Burnat
On Tuesday, February 19th, Emad Burnat, the Palestianian co-director of the Oscar-nominated documentary '5 Broken Cameras,' was detained with his wife and son at Los ...
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February 20th, 2013
Last night was the Motion Picture Academy-sponsored dinner in Beverly Hills honoring the directors and producers of this year's five nominated films for Best Documentary. ...
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September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
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December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
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May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
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November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
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September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
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December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
