Casualties of war from two generations.
As hundreds drown in New Orleans, Bush and McCain celebrate a birthday.
Predicted impacts of global warming sea level rise on Southern Florida. Red areas are submerged.
The ability of most Americans to afford a home is dropping, and the numbers are deceptive, because more than a third of new homes purchased are second homes. Those in the lower and middle class are losing their ability to buy at all.
Who owns the media?
The legacy of bloodshed and violence caused by the U.S. invasion of Iraq...another bombing. (Reuters)
Guess which party is most willing to pander to the 12% of Americans who belong to the radical Christian Right?
The President and ever silent and supportive first lady could not control the Coretta Scott King funeral eulogies: "We now know there were no weapons of mass destruction!"
The Right-Wing Family Research Council created this graphic to show how disappointed they were that Bush's 2006 SOU didn't focus on culture, values and abortion.
Millionaire power brokers Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld have been advocating for greater executive power (including wiretapping) for more than 25 years.
The many faces of neoconservative American values.
Another chapter in the Karl Rove legacy.
Grieving war mother Cindy Sheehan is arrested for wearing an anti-war T-shirt to the SOU address.
George W. Bush breaks presidential record for most days spent on vacation. Source: Washington Post, August 2005.
Low end of sea level rise predictions from global warming.
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was booed and heckled because during Hurricane Katrina's worst days, she remained on vacation in New York City, playing tennis, spending $7000 in a trendy shoe store, and attending a broadway show.
Homicide rates in many cities have shot up recently. Click for full-size image. (New York Times)
It's back. Actually, it never went away. John Poindexter's ultra secret "Total Information Awareness" domestic surveillance program was supposed to have been killed per order of the Congress in 2003. But Senator Ron Wyden has found that it may still exist as a secret program.
Cindy Sheehan is manhandled and arrested in New York City, as wealthy urbanites look on.
When not inspiring hatred throughout the civilized world, The New York Times reminds us, Condoleeza Rice likes to play chamber music with friends.
Family values advocate and Christian Right friend Sen. Rick Santorum is now facing questions about shady financial dealings.