Barack Obama has officially made the grade: with $32.5 million in second quarter campaign contributions, he's not only making history, but he's making the other democratic candidates green with envy. Hillary's pulled in a full $10 million less, and Edwards is following behind with a lowly $9 million. All this money talk makes us here at Veracifier wonder what he could do with all that cash.
"The vehicles are clearly linked," Peter Clarke, Britain's senior counterterrorism police official, told reporters of the bombing plots in London and Glasgow this weekend. But are they linked to al-Qaeda?
Lord Stevens, Gordon Brown's new terrorism expert, said that the "trick" of exploding one bomb and another soon after was "textbook al-Qaeda". But the cars, packed with nails and gasoline...
We'll always have Paris? Not for MSNBC's Mika Brzezinksi, who first tried to set fire to her lead story about Paris Hilton's jailhouse exodus and then shredded it — on air — on Joe Scarborough's "Morning Joe" Thursday. Saying it wasn't news, Brzezinski, forced Joe to skip the Paris start and go straight to the second story — the war in Iraq. Finally showing the footage of...
With traditionally strong black support waning over the past few years, Democratic candidates stumbled over themselves at debates Thursday night in an attempt to win the black vote. At the historically black Howard University, the candidates were up to their old tricks: rebuffing recent press, defending their plans one education and urban welfare, and — unlike the last debates —...
The Supreme court will hear the case of some 375 Guantanamo detainees about whether they have the right to challenge their incarceration in US Federal courts. For the first time the issue of the holding of "enemy combatants" without trial will be held in the highest court in the land. link
Veracifier asks- will Guantanamo still be around when Bush's leaves office in 2008?
Despite early morning phone calls to Republican Senators President Bush's battered immigration bill falls short of needed 60 votes to end Senate debate. End of the bill and de-facto Bush's domestic legacy? Update: Bush not happy in below press conference. Does he keep repeating the word "Congress" to imply immigration bill failure was the Democratic Congress' fault, even though it was really...
Issuing subpoenas for both the White House and Vice President Dick Cheney's office Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee breathed new life into one of the most contentious battles of the Bush presidency. Looking for more information the warrantless spying program, committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) also named the National Security Council and the Department of Justice in...
Elizabeth Edwards pleaded with Ann Coulter to "stop the personal attacks" on Chris Matthew's Hardball Tuesday night. Calling in, she told Coulter to put the vitriol on hold. "It debases the political dialogue," Edwards said. "It drives people away from the process."
Coulter refused.
This latest showdown between Ann Coulter and the Edwards campaign began Monday morning, when...