For your weekend reading pleasure and edification, some delicious tid-bits you may have not yet savored ....
- Rove's New Mission: Survival
Here's the real meaning of the White House shake-up and the redefinition of Karl Rove's role in the Bush presidency: The administration's one and only domestic priority in 2006 is hanging on to control of Congress.
- "Cabal" Blocked 2003 Nuclear Talks with Iran
The George W. Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear programme in May 2003 because neoconservative zealots who advocated destabilisation and regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with Tehran, according to former administration officials.
- Getting Closer to the Top?
In less than a month, we may finally get to hear from the army general who ordered commanders at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison to "get dogs." Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, who ran the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and then was sent to Iraq to "Gitmo-ize" Abu Ghraib, has been ordered to testify in the trial of a military dog handler.
- The Bank of Mom and Dad
A growing trend: more and more grown children are being regularly subsidized by their parents.
- Tax Gimmickry
To make their budget-busting tax policy appear less costly than it is, the lawmakers are resorting to a gimmick that is even more egregious than their usual tactics.
- F.B.I. Is Seeking to Search Papers of Dead Reporter
The FBI is seeking to go through the files of the late newspaper columnist Jack Anderson to remove classified material he may have accumulated in four decades of muckraking Washington journalism.
- Busting empty bunkers
Military planners told the White House that if they wanted to be sure to destroy the underground uranium-enrichment bunker at Natanz – which is to eventually hold those 50,000 gas-centrifuges, but is now empty – they'd have to nuke it.
- Gallup: 57% Say U.S. Won't Win in Iraq
In a surprise, the new poll found that 44% of Republicans now back withdrawing some or all troops from Iraq.
- Robbery, not reconstruction, in Iraq
The great liberator of Iraq was actually the hyena that cleaned out the nation.
- Hopes for Trade Talks Dim After Personnel Switch
By switching his chief trade negotiator yesterday, President Bush sent a gloomy signal to many trade experts and policymakers about the prospects for achieving significant gains in trade talks with foreign countries anytime soon.
- Neil's Garage
Neil Young to Release New War Protest Song.
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