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Yep, that's right, Halliburton. Investigation courtesy of, you guessed it, my favorite ugly little s#%t in Congress, Henry Waxman. This man is right on top of this stuff, and the hits keep on comin'. I wish I was his constituent so I could vote for him until the day he dies. Read all about it...

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/10561636/detail.html Christopher Beard, another pastor at New Life Church (formerly Ted Haggard's stomping grounds) has stepped down due to admitted sexual misconduct. excerpted from the article: The article doesn't mention the gender of the unmarried adult...

Investigate journalists from the Danish State Broadcasting system, on a tip, went to Spain to investigate whether some doctors there would have no problem performing an abortion on a woman 8 months pregnant. Turns out they were right. The revelation, using hidden cameras etc, was just shown on...

The gist of this scandal is that Mehlman (currently Republican Chairman) when he was working in the white house successfully worked to get a state department employee fired at the behest of Abramoff. I would have thought something like ths would have been big news. But it seems like it's been...

So far I've seen: Foleygate Predatorgate Which one will stick, if either? What are some other possibilities?

"Intersex" fish found in the Potomac River. Quite a few stories on Google News, but it looks like they all have the same original source. So...any fish experts here? How unusual is this? Are other fish hermaphrodites? The news here suggested that the river water had elevated the fish's...

The link is to a story about a Congressman that sold his home for what appears to be an over inflated price to a defense contractor that then saw it's defense contracting business significantly increase. I'm surprised that the mainstream press hasn't picked up on this story yet...

I saw a little bit about this on PBS news last night, but didn't see enough to get a sense of the magnitude. Is it as widespread and covered up as long as oil-for-food, and Annan is just now pronouncing himself to be 'Shocked, simply shocked' ? "The UN secretary-general, buffeted by the...

Scandal Generator Hours of fun.

Why is war-torn Iraq giving $190,000 to Toys R Us? Naomi Klein on why Iraqis are still being forced to pay for crimes committed by Saddam quote: Saturday October 16, 2004 The Guardian Next week, something will happen that will unmask the upside-down morality of the invasion and occupation...

Given that a good half of Clinton's presidency seemed to be taken up with the 'blow job' scandal, I wonder why Dubya and his friends appear to be getting off so lightly with the plethora of scandals developing, not just about Iraq, but the corruption involved with Cheney and his links, the...

First came the shock that United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan’s son, Kojo was connected to the ill-fated program. According to the New York Post On-Line edition, family members of former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali are officers of a Panamanian-registered company in which...

Yesterday Dorian Gray posted a link to this news story about the United Nations bowing to international pressure to investigate allegations of corruption surrounding its oil-for-food programme. Grammatron was correct to suggest it is important enough to have it's own thread. Here's more...

Personally, I don't give a hairy hoot whether or not W didn't show up for all his guard duty. What bothers me is that this was a guy that favored the U.S. govt policy to prosecute the war in Vietnam, yet used his father's political connections to jump to the top of a 500 person waiting list for...