JM Bell, Author at The LEFT Show

Giuliani Breaks Out His Administration Megaphone, Defends Gonzales

Keeping to a steady theme today, considering who is noshing over at the Harmsen Homestead this evening. Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani stood by embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Wednesday, saying the Bush administration appears to have...

Valuing Power Industry Profits Above Safety? Giuliani Won't Rule out Yucca Mountain

Giuliani said he was aware of the safety concerns with the proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain and “somebody would have to take a good look at that.” When pressed, he did not rule out the repository, however. “One of the things...

Romney Can't Seem to Settle On an Immigration Position, So He Tries Out a New One

Romney began his term as Massachusetts governor in 2003 with a view of immigration reflecting his background as chief executive officer of Bain & Co., a Boston-based venture-capital firm. Many lobbies representing U.S. businesses favor guest- worker programs and...

Quick Note: Military Funding and Ironic Head Shaking

So, I’m listening to the Doug Wright show right now, and I’m suffering from a fit of ironic chuckling. Doug is poised on his soapbox, “good grief”-ing left and right about the amount of pork, and non military spending, included in the current...

Army deployed seriously injured troops

This is a revealing article I read by Mark Benjamin on Salon.com earlier today. I’ve been seeing the beginning of Mass Media attention on it, but, when there are so many other, easier to explain targets for the media to focus their attention on, this sort of thing, no...