There are several blogs and websites now supporting a Condoleezza Rice
bid for president located here, here, here and here. Rice was recently
seen at the 5th Annual World Refugee Day celebration with actress Angelina Jolie.
Public support for war is dropping says Left Coaster.
In a Financial Timesinterview Bill Clinton says close down Gitmo or clean it up:
Bill Clinton has become the most prominent figure so far to add his voice to
criticisms of the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
In an interview with the Financial Times, the former president called for the camp, set up to hold suspected terrorists, to "be closed down or cleaned up".
Mr Clinton joined critics at home and abroad who have singled out the indefinite detention of prisoners without trial and widespread reports of human rights violations at Guantánamo. "It is time that there are no more stories coming out of there about people being abused," he said.
Mark Felt, also known today as Deep Throat, has landed his own book
deal.
Senator Chuck Hagel (R) doesn't think the situation in Iraq is getting
better like the Bush administration claims. From a US News article
"Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is
completely disconnected from reality," Hagel tells U.S. News. "It's like
they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're
losing in Iraq."
Warren Buffet told Lou Dobbs in a recent interview that the huge trade deficit will have consequences:
Everyone says that what is going on can't go on forever. We had, you know,
$618 billion trade deficit last year, and it's already grown a little bit
this year. The standard line is, it can't go on forever, but no one seems
to give an answer of what is going to be done about it. We exported $1.1
trillion last year, and we imported over $1.7 trillion. We are running up
obligations to the rest of the word, and they are buying our assets at the
rate of almost $2 billion a day. And that will have consequences.
Buffet also said there might be a soft landing or there might not:
Right now our net position versus the rest of the world is they own $3
trillion more of us than we own of them, and that number grows every day,
and at some point economists talk about a soft landing. Maybe there will
be a soft landing, but you know, who knows?
Blog Discussions: There are over 3,800 posts listed on Technorati
discussing the Schiavo autopsy results. The autopsy showed that Schiavo's severe brain damage was irreversible and that she was blind.
There are 2,501 posts discussing a plan by some Republican senators to raise the retirement age to 69. By comparison, there are over 18,900 posts discussing the not guilty verdict from the Michael Jackson Case.
