Dugg News

I had just started doing this news compilation post and was having a good time with it, but I've been sick for the past couple of weeks and just couldn't summon up much energy to do too much web surfing and blogging. It all started with a bout of a stomach virus, then moved on to a case of strep and a head cold. Yes, three...three...three ailments in one. For about a week, I couldn't do much more than lift my head off the pillow. Then I went back to work. For the last week, I've usually been coming straight home and heading to bed. I'm feeling better now, but my sinuses will probably be screwed up for about a month. Anyway, here's the latest stories I've "dugg" on Digg.com.

More reasons to be counting down to January 20, 2009, when a new president will be inaugurated...

We've all watched in amazement as the administration's incompetence has made a bad war much worse. And we've all seen the money being squandered. The Times of London has an analysis of the money drain in Iraq and that other war, the one in Afghanistan...

The three trillion dollar war

The Bush Administration was wrong about the benefits of the war and it was wrong about the costs of the war. The president and his advisers expected a quick, inexpensive conflict. Instead, we have a war that is costing more than anyone could have imagined.

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An article in the Chicago Tribune suggests where much of the money has gone...

Inside the world of war profiteers

From prostitutes to Super bowl tickets, a federal probe reveals how contractors in Iraq cheated the U.S.

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And more Bush misdeeds. Illegal wiretapping is back...if it ever went away...

White House says phone wiretaps back on "for now"

The Bush administration said on Saturday U.S. telecommunications companies have agreed to cooperate ''for the time being'' with spy agencies' wiretaps, despite an ongoing battle between the White House and Congress over new terrorism surveillance legislation.

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In the ongoing battle between John McCain and the New York Times, finally a unlikely source confirms the story...

McCain: No favors for anyone - except that one guy...

McCain's campaign was quick to criticize the NY Times for the article suggesting he might have done some favors for lobbyists: "No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC," they said. But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an impeccable source: McCain himself...

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Last year, we got some new ethics legislation, but Congress left a big loophole...

Senators Diverting Campaign Funds to Kin

Under long-standing congressional ethics rules, corporations, unions and other large organizations cannot directly pay senators stipends. But their contributions to senators' election campaigns can be paid without limit to the children, spouses, in-laws and other relatives of the lawmakers...

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I guess this story belongs in the "Bush misdeeds" file since he pledged to do something about it. Just another empty promise. This is the story of immigrants fighting for this country, then waging another battle for citizenship...

After War, New Battle to Become Citizens

Some immigrant members of the military have waited years for their citizenship applications to be processed.

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And I love this story. A group of students fight back against an attempt to disenfranchise them...

Early Voting Wave as Reaction to Systemic Disenfranchisement

Texas Republicans have worked overtime to make it harder for key Democratic voting groups to vote and be represented fairly. The redistricting games they’ve played are infamous. And for the Prairie View A&M University precincts, they put the early-polling place more than seven miles from the school. So what did the students in this video do? They shut down the highway as they marched seven miles to cast their votes on the first day of early voting.

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