BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

George Bush didn’t know anything about the slaughter of innocent civilians, including small children, at Haditha until months later when a reporter from Time asked him about it.
It’s hard to be surprised at this claim. The man has made a career of being out of the loop when anything potentially embarrassing was going on.
He [...]

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The projected cost of building the World Trade Center memorial complex at ground zero has soared to nearly $1 billion, according to the most authoritative estimate to date. (Full Story)
A billion dollars? A BILLION???
Why are we even building this thing at all, much less for a BILLION dollars?
Nearly 16,000 people were murdered in the [...]

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I realize it’s only Thursday and, with more than 48 hours left, it’s pretty risky to assume there won’t be something even more asinine to come than Martha Zoller’s bizarre performance on Lou Dobbs a few days ago, but this level of absurdity is going to be hard to beat.
From the Lou Dobbs show that [...]

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The weirdotainment extravaganza that was the Zacarias Moussaoui trial has come to an end, leaving us only with the hope of one last psychotic episode when he has a chance to speak at his sentencing today.
I was surprised and gratified to see the jury recommend life in prison rather than the death sentence. I [...]

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I never thought I’d live to see the day that loathsome tool of the Far Right, Fox “News,” would be linked on this blog. But I imagine it’s being gleefully linked on just about every left-leaning site in the blogosphere this morning. I’m sure the rightwingnutjob blogs are linking it, too, though with [...]

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The bad news just keeps rolling in for the Bush Administration. The poll numbers keep getting worse. A central figure in the 2002 illegal NH phone-jamming scheme is revealed to have made dozens of calls to the White House in the days surrounding the election. The “democracy” in Iraq, four months after [...]

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Families learn of emergency calls made by loved ones via a form letter. At least one recipient called the letters “totally crass.”
NEW YORK (CNN) — The mayor’s office is sending letters this weekend to the families of 24 victims of the 9/11 attacks, informing them of unreleased recordings of 911 calls made by their [...]

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