Category: US Politics

  • Reporting, I Guess

    I see over at New West they are "reporting", I use that term loosely here, that Idaho has <a href="http://www.newwest.net/index.php/main/article/5160/">lost its brucellosis free status</a>. This peaked my interest as stories that involve cattle do so I looked into it. The "reporter", Bill Schneider, uses as source material for this report a website called <a href="http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/bisonrpt.html">Ralph…

  • The Uproar Continues

    I really hate to say this but "<a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/1404-Whats-the-Surprise.html">I told you so</a>." <br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/12/19/build/nation/35-spy.inc">Attorney general says Bush given authority for domestic spying</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Responding to a congressional uproar, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Monday that Congress had essentially given President George W. Bush the authority for domestic surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.</blockquote><br…

  • What’s the Surprise

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/12/16/build/nation/90-bush.inc">Report says Bush authorized NSA to spy on Americans</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Neither Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice nor White House press secretary Scott McClellan would confirm or deny the report which said the super-secret NSA had spied on as many as 500 people at any given time since 2002 in this country.<br />n<br />nThat year,…

  • Another Try at COOL

    Somebody's thinking. If we can't get <acronym title="Country of Origin Labeling">COOL</acronym> going let's take the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/11/16/build/nation/49-beef.inc"><acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym> label off foreign meats</a>.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., introduced legislation Wednesday that would prohibit labels such as "<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture,…

  • Captive Supply

    I picked this up over at <a href="http://www.worc.org/index.html#">Western Organization of Resource Councils</a> as something of interest here.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ranchers Want Hearings on Broken Livestock Market<br />nCaptive Supply Reform Reintroduced in House<br />n<br />nBillings, Mont. – The Western Organization of Resource Councils (WORC) urges Congress to hold hearings on legislation that would release the stranglehold packers…

  • Do More Than Criticize Please

    Maybe I am missing something here but can't Jan Tester articulate a position or is all he can do <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/11/10/build/state/70-tester.inc">criticize</a> other people's stands? Today he criticizes the President on Iraq and oddly enough it's timed just as a poll is realized saying the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/11/10/build/state/30-bush-poll_x.inc">President's approval numbers in Montana are low</a>. While I agree…

  • If You Can’t Stand the Heat

    It looks like the Republicans in Congress are starting to feel the heat about their out-of-control spending habits.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110401840.html">Some in GOP Regretting Pork-Stuffed Highway Bill</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In a speech to a group of conservative academics and policy experts, DeLay blamed the runaway spending of recent years on minority Democrats. When he took questions,…

  • Lack of Ethics

    <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110402040.html">Bush Orders Staff to Attend Ethics Briefings</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>President Bush has ordered White House staff to attend mandatory briefings beginning next week on ethical behavior and the handling of classified material after the indictment last week of a senior administration official in the CIA leak probe.<br />n<br />nAccording to a memo sent to aides…

  • Stranger Things Have Happened

    Well, I guess <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/bios/govbio.asp">he</a> can't always be wrong.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&amp;display=rednews/2005/11/04/build/state/18-schweitzer-military.inc">Schweitzer blasts Bush administration over National Guard policy</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana <a href="http://governor.mt.gov/governor/govbio.asp">Gov. Brian Schweitzer</a>, among the harshest critics of the idea, accused military leaders of being on the path for an "end run coup," citing an e-mail circulating this week among National Guard leaders.<br…

  • He Needs Some Better Material

    <blockquote>Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer said that the worst part of his job is consoling the families of Native American soldiers killed in combat.<br />n<br />nHe also said America is in Iraq because of oil.</blockquote><br />n<br />nSo, Schweitzer thinks we are in <a href="http://www.nativetimes.com/index.asp?action=displayarticle&article_id=7183">Iraq for the oil</a>. What a cliche. This one is so overused it…