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2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Friday she was "outraged" that President Bush hasn't spent more money to beef up security on New York City's mass transit system in the wake of Thursday's train bombings in London. "I'm absolutely outraged by the failure of the administration to release the [rail security] funding that Congress approved last year," the top Democrat complained. "We are woefully behind where London and other subway systems are because London does have the video surveillance," she fumed. "I just don't understand what the holdup is." Even before the smoke cleared in London, Clinton was on the...

Newsweek's Isikoff in Middle of Koran Controversy By CHARLES McGRATH, The New York Times Who Is Michael Isikoff? Michael Isikoff, above, in 2001 (Getty) · Name: Michael Isikoff · Current Job: Reporter for Newsweek magazine · Also Worked For: The Washington Star; The Washington Post · Best Known For: Uncovering liaison between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See what bloggers are saying about the controversy. BlogZone Talk About It: Post | Chat (May 17) - Investigative reporters come in a couple of varieties. There are the quiet, scholarly types who troll the archives and pore over documents. And there...

The Sunni Arab media in the Middle East has gotten tired of blaming the United States for everything that doesn't work in Iraq. More and more reporting and editorials blame Iraq's Sunni Arabs for the terrorism, corruption and tyranny in Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East. This is part of a trend, the growing popularity of Arabs taking responsibility for their actions. This is a radical concept in Middle Eastern politics. For several generations, all problems were blamed on other forces. The list of the blameworthy was long; the United States, the West, Colonialism, Infidels (non Moslems, especially...

The CIA’s Plaster Disaster: How Kerry Crippled Intelligence Karen H. Pittman July 27, 2004 Victims. That's what we've become. A society of victims. But when we wallow in victimhood, we deny natural law. We shun nature. We reject the simple truth of cause and effect. But we do so at our peril. Consider the current brouhaha over the intelligence failures preceding 9/11 and leading up to the war in Iraq. (Case in point: If we blame the CIA, we--we who voted the CIA-degraders into office--cleverly sidestep taking responsibility. Thus we anoint ourselves victims. How convenient. How conscience-salving.) Here's how the...

NEW YORK — First, Martha Stewart declared she is used to hard work and is not afraid of prison. Later, in an interview with ABC News, the homemaking expert repeated that she would be able to handle it and compared her plight to that of anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. "I could do it," she said, according to excerpts released by ABC late Friday. "I'm a really good camper. I can sleep on the ground. There are many, many good people who have gone to prison. Look at Nelson Mandela." Stewart's confident demeanour was strikingly different from her attitude in the...

From beyond the grave, a woman who died of breast cancer is suing the late diet guru Dr. Robert Atkins for giving her the advice that she says ended up costing her life. The suit, seeking unspecified damages, was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court by the estate of Carol Rubick, a woman who died of breast cancer on Jan. 18, 2003, after receiving five years of oncological treatments at the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine. The plaintiff, Linda Lou Poag, executrix of Rubick's estate, claims that Atkins and two other doctors at the Atkins Center were negligent in treating Rubick's...

Morgan Spurlock got the idea for "Super Size Me," a documentary about what happens when you eat only at McDonald's for a month, after hearing about two obese teenagers who sued the fast food company. They contended McDonald's hid the health risks of its foods. Something clicked, and Spurlock, the creator of MTV's "I Bet You Will," made a bet of sorts with himself. He'd eat every meal at the Golden Arches, sampling everything on the menu, from Big Macs to vanilla shakes, and turn it into his first feature film. Like most Americans, the formerly fit director would quit...

The singer who brought us Nipplegate feels that she’s the victim of “a plot by conservative forces” in the U.S. according to the Sunday Express of London. “I was used just to take the attention off what was really going on in the world,” Jackson told the paper. “A lot of things that actually happened, the after-effects, all that was already on the desk but everyone’s trying to point the finger, ‘See what you did, see what you did.’ I didn’t do anything. It was going to happen at some point with someone, it just so happened to be me....

This week’s September 11 hearings and former anti-terrorism staffer Richard Clarke’s just released charges of Bush Administration incompetence should be seen as the latest example of how America historically has reacted to the outbreak of a major war. The sudden commencement of major war is so shocking and disruptive of normal civilized life that there seems to be a psychological need for the event to be explained in terms of treachery or stupendous incompetence. It is too disturbing to accept the reality -- that normal government officials, performing as they normally are expected to, were inadequate to avoid the catastrophe....

<p>SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Former television talk show host Rosie O'Donnell said she planned to marry her longtime girlfriend Thursday in San Francisco, where more than 3,300 other same-sex couples have tied the knot since February 12.</p> <p>Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," O'Donnell announced she would wed Kelli Carpenter -- two days after President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.</p>

WASHINGTON -- The nation's capital is still reeling from the firestorm set off by retired weapons inspector David A. Kay after he fingered faulty U.S. intelligence for the now-discredited White House claim that Saddam Hussein had large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. His targeted culprit, the CIA, is outraged over the Kay attack. President Bush told reporters that he wants to know "the facts" about intelligence failures concerning Saddam's alleged arsenal but he's not curious enough to endorse an independent commission inquiry that Kay recommended. Instead, Bush said he wants the weapons hunters to keep looking. Condoleeza Rice, the...

WASHINGTON - An Ohio utility at the center of the investigation into last week's widespread blackout says its high-voltage line failures could not have triggered the event, claiming there were numerous unusual power swings elsewhere in the Midwest hours earlier. The claim could not be confirmed late Sunday by independent sources. Engineers at another Midwestern utility reported no such unusual grid fluctuations, said an official at that company, who spoke only on condition of anonymity. Officials at FirstEnergy Corp., the company whose power line problems have been cited as key in the blackout investigation, sought to go on the offensive...

TORONTO - Canadian officials insisted a massive blackout Thursday across the Northeast and parts of Canada originated in the United States, though U.S. power workers denied that and American officials blamed Canada. In the hours of confusion after the outage — the biggest in U.S. history — Canada's government offered conflicting explanations for the blackout, blaming it first on lightning in Niagara, then a fire at a Niagara plant, and next a fire at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant. Canada's defense minister later backed off some of those theories, though remained firm that the source of the problem was in...

One can only gawk in amazement at the temerity of the Mexican government official -- it must be assumed he was speaking for the entire government -- who pointed his finger at U.S. military personnel as possible suspects in the killings of hundreds of women in Juárez. Since Fort Bliss is the closest military base to the killing fields of Juárez, there's little doubt about whom Deputy Attorney General Carlos Vega was talking. "Close to the border, we have some forts of U.S. soldiers where there is a very fluid movement on weekends," he said earlier this week. The implication...

The father of a Marine Staff Seargent killed in the war was shown on the news carrying a snapshot of his late son, blaming President Bush for killing his only son. Call me insensitive, but NO ONE forced his son to enlist, or in this case re-enlist more than once to serve his country. The son is a hero, as far as I'm concerned. The father, though I grieve with him, is a boob! I dare you to flame me.

Nasa chiefs 'repeatedly ignored' safety warnings Peter BeaumontSunday February 2, 2003The Observer Fears of a catastrophic shuttle accident were raised last summer with the White House by a former Nasa engineer who pleaded for a presidential order to halt all further shuttle flights until safety issues had been addressed. In a letter to the White House, Don Nelson, who served with Nasa for 36 years until he retired in 1999, wrote to President George W. Bush warning that his 'intervention' was necessary to 'prevent another catastrophic space shuttle accident'. During his last 11 years at Nasa, Nelson served as a...

Did anyone hear Fox TV report that an AP reporter added a smear in a profile of the crew? This was between 12:30 and 1:00 I believe. The Fox person apologized and slammed AP writer. Did anyone hear this besides me? What is AP thinking besides their normal hate selves.

THE fat is in the fire on the issue of media bias, and that is a good thing. It's time to revisit a matter on which the conventional wisdom is, roughly, 180 degrees off. You hear the conventional wisdom all the time from shrewd conservative commentators who understand that political pressure, relentlessly applied, usually achieves its purposes. They have sold the view that the media are dominated by liberals and that the news is skewed against conservatives. This belief fueled the construction of a large network of conservative institutions -- especially on radio and cable television -- that provides conservative...

<p>A Messy Divorce Will Democrats muster the courage to leave the Clintons?</p> <p>BY PAUL A. GIGOT Friday, February 23, 2001 12:01 a.m.</p> <p>"If there had been no so-called scandals, does anyone doubt who would be sitting in the Oval Office today?"</p>

Ex-President Bill Clinton, who collected FBI files on political opponents, targeted witnesses against him with IRS audits and hired private detectives to intimidate his ex-girlfriends, complained Tuesday that the Republican Party had a political "destruction machine." "They have a destruction machine. We don't have a destruction machine," Clinton told the Democratic Leadership Council in an address at New York University. The ex-president charged that "extreme right-wing elements in the media" were responsible for smearing Democrats on national security issues, saying he was particularly dismayed by attacks on Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. "What was done to Tom Daschle was...