Olbermann: GOP self-destruction imminent
Finally as promised, a Special Comment in the wake of the passage of Health Care Reform and it's a first step, there's a lot wrong with it, but the penalty for not paying the fine for not buying the mandatory insurance has been reduced to nothing.So, blessings nonetheless on those ...
Rep. Randy Neugebauer: I yelled 'baby killer' during Rep. Bart Stupak's speech
The 'baby' talk can now stop.Randy Neugebauer, a Republican Congressman from Texas, has stepped forward and admitted to yelling 'baby killer' while Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak was addressing the House floor Sunday night. But Neugebauer says he was referring to the health care bill, not to Rep. Stupak."In the heat ...
House Committee Allows States to Create Single-Payer Healthcare ...by David Swanson
After Downing StreetOn Friday morning at 9:45 a.m. ET in the House Committee on Education and Labor, the committee members voted 25 to 19 to pass Congressman Dennis Kucinich's amendment to the healthcare reform bill. This amendment, if it survives the full House, the Senate, the conference, and the President, ...
Judge hits White House with preservation order
By Pete Yost WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration has been hit with a last-minute court order to preserve electronic messages, the result of long problems with the White House's e-mail system.The preservation order comes amid fears by two private groups that the White House has failed to take the ...
Democrats may seek McClellan's testimony over Plame leak
By Ken Harman / Cox News Service WASHINGTON — Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, branded a "miserable creature" by ex-Sen. Bob Dole, could be headed for a congressional hearing examining his new book's account of Bush administration involvement in the disclosure of a CIA operative's identity. House Judiciary ...
Rove's visit fraught with protesters
By Mason Kerns / Des Moines Register Iowa City, Ia. — By the time Karl Rove took the stage at the University of Iowa this evening, groups from around eastern Iowa had been protesting his presence for two hours. The protesters staged a mock trial for President Bush’s former top ...
House Judiciary Trio Calls for Impeach Cheney Hearings
By John Nichols / The Nation Three senior members of the House Judiciary Committee have called for the immediate opening of impeachment hearings for Vice President Richard Cheney. Democrats Robert Wexler of Florida, Luis Gutierrez of Illinois and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin on Friday distributed a statement, "A Case for ...
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Bush commutes Libby's prison sentence
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush commuted Monday the prison term of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, facing 30 months in prison after a federal court convicted him of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators. A commutation is distinct from a pardon, which is a complete ...
By John Nichols / The Nation It is no secret that Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich has been toying with the idea of moving articles of impeachment against a member of the Bush administration. And he appears to be focusing more and more of his attention on the man that many ...
Bush administration loses some spin control in Washington
By Ron Hutcheson / McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - If President Bush ever thought things couldn't get any worse, he might want to reconsider. After six years of setting the national agenda, with help from a compliant Congress, Bush is losing control of events in Washington. The new reality hit home ...
Prosecutor says Vice President behind CIA name leak
By Brian Mooar / NBC News A federal prosecutor claims Vice President Cheney was behind the leak of a CIA operative's name. That's the headline from opening statements Tuesday in the CIA leak trial of Cheney's former Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Vice President Cheney approved and orchestrated the ...
'Lift Your Head' ...by Cindy Sheehan
"I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life." -- Gandhi "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from ...
Air Force Reservist Sen. Lindsey Graham served in Afghanistan
By James Rosen / McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON - Col. Lindsey Graham, wearing Air Force desert fatigues and carrying a loaded 9mm pistol and, was growing frustrated as he stood before a roomful of Afghan military lawyers on a steamy August day in Kabul. Graham was trying to use his Southern ...
Cheney Authorized Leak Of CIA Report, Libby Says
By Murray Waas / National Journal Vice President Dick Cheney directed his then-chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on July 12, 2003 to leak to the media portions of a then-highly classified CIA report that Cheney hoped would undermine the credibility of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, a critic ...
Bush acknowledges declassifying Iraq intelligence
By Steve Holland / Reuters WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday he ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq to respond to critics who alleged he manipulated intelligence to justify the war. Bush offered his first comment on a prosecutor's disclosure last ...
W.House does not dispute Bush leak allegation
By Steve Holland / Reuters WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday chose not to challenge a prosecutor's disclosure that President George W. Bush authorized top official Lewis "Scooter" Libby to disclose intelligence on Iraq in 2003, as Libby alleges. Spokesman Scott McClellan noted that the White House released declassified ...
By Cindy Sheehan Being a so-called anti-war movement leader (at least to the MSM), brings much responsibility and so much love for the people and the groups who are working hard to end this insane occupation, but is this enough? Recently, a blog written by an acquaintance, Scott Ritter, on ...
Affidavit gives few hints to CIA name leaker
By Joel Seidman / NBC News WASHINGTON - In a filing Thursday at U.S. District Court in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby CIA/Leak case, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald -- in a 19-page affidavit -- offered few clues about the identity of the official or officials involved in the leak of ...
Libby knew CIA spy by name before it was published, filing shows
By James Gordon Meek / New York Daily News WASHINGTON - Handwritten notes taken by the CIA show Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide knew the name of CIA spy Valerie Plame Wilson a month before her cover was blown. It appears to be the first known document in the ...
Poll of troops in Iraq sees 72% support for withdrawal within a year
By Leo Shane III / Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — Seventy-two percent of troops on the ground in Iraq think U.S. military forces should get out of the country within a year, according to a Zogby poll released Tuesday. The survey of 944 troops, conducted in Iraq between Jan. 18 ...
The CIA Leak: Plame Was Still Covert
Newsweek Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame, the wife of White House ...
What Viveca Novak Told Fitzgerald
By Viveca Novak / Time It was in the midst of another Washington scandal, almost a decade ago, that I got to know Bob Luskin. He represented Mark Middleton, a minor figure in the Democratic campaign-finance scandals of 1996. Luskin kept Middleton out of the spotlight and never told me ...
Defense hawk Dicks says he now sees war as a mistake
By Alicia Mundy / Seattle Times WASHINGTON — It was after 11 p.m. on Friday when Rep. Norm Dicks finally left the Capitol, fresh from the heated House debate on the Iraq war. He was demoralized and angry. Sometime during the rancorous, seven-hour floor fight over whether to immediately withdraw ...
New Disclosure Could Prolong Inquiry on Leak
By Todd S. Purdum / New York Times This article was reported by Todd S. Purdum, David Johnston and Douglas Jehl and written by Mr. Purdum. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 - The disclosure that a current or former Bush administration official told Bob Woodward of The Washington Post more than two ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
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