Although you don't hear a lot about it on t.v., and virtually nothing on the right's "squawk radio" territory, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been fairly active in investigating the offshoring phenomenon.

Former (retired) military men of the rank of General who have publicly called for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, as of today:

Read through the headlines below and see if you can identify the White House's favorite method of dealing with bad news.

For those interested in the underlying details of the Delphi bankruptcy, and the many other automotive industry bankruptcies in process or to come, check out this in Business Week.

For the millions of us who have watched inflation eat away at our ability to live, economist Mason Gaffney offers up a digestible explanation at The Progress Report.

Hats off to today's Morning Call for the intelligent quote of the day, made at the end of an editorial on the White House's role in leaking intelligence info in 2003:

"War isn't the time to be playing political games."

Too bad that conflicts with the mantras of RoveBush (It's always time to be playing political games) and Cheney (don't waste a war, you never know how long it might take for the next one to come around).

Jeff Skilling has been testifying at his trial for the past couple of days, and frankly, I never knew what an admirable guy he was until he told me.

I hate to write anything about Ann of Green Goebbels, since that just extends her unwarranted period of fame, but this is ironic enough to pass on.

In case you missed it, several people have been convicted in connection with Republican efforts to Jam the Democrats get-out-the-vote phones in New Hampshire in the 2002 mid-term election.  Among the convicted is James Tobin, who was working at the time as a regional political director for the RNC-affiliated National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee.  Shortly after being indicted for the offense, the RNC began making large payments for his legal defense.

Now come reports that Tobin was in heavy contact with a specific telephone number within the White House in the weeks leading up to the 2002 election, on election day (Nov. 5, 2002), and just after the election.  This included "two dozen calls to the White House within a three-day period around Election Day."

I'm sure you've already seen the recent news stories about Libby claiming that Bush authorized Cheney to authorize Libby to leak parts of the National Intelligence Estimate in 2003.  And I know you're aware that "somebody" leaked the fact that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent.

But did you know that Israel is reportedly extremely unhappy with the US for having leaked the text of the "al-Zawahiri letter" last October?

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