Peter Sprigg, vice president of policy at the Family Research Council, said, "I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society."

At least two Iraqi families of victims killed by Blackwater security guards in September tell ABC News they have refused compensation offered by the company.

Saudi Arabia's king Abdullah in a meeting with the US Vice president rejects any US military strike against Iran, Saudi official sources say. Saudi Arabia, along with other Persian Gulf Arab countries, sees negotiations as the best way to resolve the standoff between the US and Iran. The Saudis say any nuclear non-proliferation efforts should include Israel, which is widely believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East with around 200 nuclear warheads.

No problems so far, the immigration agent told the American citizen and his 22-year-old Colombian wife at her green card interview in December. After he stapled one of their wedding photos to her application for legal permanent residency, he had just one more question: What was her cellphone number?

"Five presidential elections ago, when another George Bush was in the White House and when Bill Clinton was the Democratic nominee, State Department officials conducted an improper search of Clinton’s passport files, an echo of the current case in which Barack Obama’s passport files were penetrated three times this year." --Here is another account of sleezy dealing under the first Bushevic regime. I wouldn't relax just yet as to where the Obama violations might lead.

The US has spent more than $102 billion on rebuilding rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan. In that time, the Justice Department has uncovered at least $14 million in contract bribes in those two nations. "Preventing fraud by contractors overseas should be a high priority," Democrats wrote. "Instead, the exemption for contracts to be performed overseas appears to have been inserted in the rule late in the process and against the wishes of the DoJ, which raises serious questions as to why and how such a policy was developed."

When U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last January, his primary focus was not on the impending global economic recession but on the world’s growing water crisis. “A shortage of water resources could spell increased conflicts in the future,” he told the annual gathering of business tycoons, academics and leaders from governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations.

“These were my remarks to several hundred activists and supporters participating in a die-in in downtown San Francisco at noon, March 19, 2008, on the fifth anniversary of the launching of shock and awe in Iraq. All those blocking traffic - surprisingly, for a couple of hours, before we were all arrested - were handcuffed, booked and released some hours later for a later court date."

Sean Penn, the actor-director-turned-political-activist, narrates a new anti-war documentary that alleges U.S. presidents since Kennedy have manipulated the public to wage wars. The searing documentary coincides with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and asserts that the mainstream media have been cheerleaders for a war that has cost the nation — according to Department of Defense figures this week — 3,980 lives.

What Limbaugh encouraged Republican voters to do in Ohio was a fifth-degree felony in that state, punishable with a $2,500 fine and six to 12 months in jail. That is because in order to change party affiliation in Ohio, voters have to fill out a form swearing allegiance to that party's principles "under penalty of election falsification."

President Bush contended that Iran has "declared they want a nuclear weapon to destroy people" and that the Islamic Republic could be hiding a secret program. Iran, however, has never publicly proclaimed a desire for nuclear weapons and has repeatedly insisted that the uranium enrichment program it's operating in defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions is for civilian power plants, not warheads.

Today’s Headlines 3/20/08 - Top Story - Bush defiantly defends war in Iraq - Bush says war is romantic. It’s proof positive that he’s never been in one.

I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was convicted of lying to prosecutors in an investigation into the outing of a CIA officer, was disbarred in the District of Columbia today. Though the move comes as little surprise — the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was suspended from the bar immediately after being charged

It's not well known, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has an additional anti-war primary challenger for her congressional seat. She's Shirley Golub, 61, who has worked on Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaigns this year and in 2004. The most prominent plank in her platform: impeachment of President Bush. "It is outrageous and unacceptable that any member of Congress, let alone our majority speaker, should unilaterally declare that impeachment is 'off the table'..."

The news story about how contractors working with a division within the State Department "inappropriately" accessed the passport data of Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama isn't quite "new" to the political arena: it actually suggests that the illegal access of passport data is SOP for the GOP, calling to mind a 1992 incident over the records of candidates Bill Clinton and Ross Perot...and the GOP had a heavy hand in it.

Barack Obama's campaign tonight is demanding a full investigation of reports that his passport files at the State Department were viewed without authorization. "This is an outrageous breach of security and privacy, even from an Administration that has shown little regard for either over the last eight years. Our government�s duty is to protect the private information of the American people, not use it for political purposes."

"Why? Because war in Iraq presented Dick Cheney with the means to fulfill his decades-old ambition: to invest the Executive branch with unprecedented and unlimited power, to settle a few festering scores with that nettlesome Legislature, and to cash in on the spoils of supremacy by rerouting every available dollar out of the Treasury and into tax-sheltered coffers of like-minded comrades in the oil and warfare industries, comrades who eagerly joined in the plunder and have happily fattened their fortunes with money...(cont.)

Members of one Native American tribe whose scattered settlements stud the rocky highlands of southern California and northwest Mexico anticipated the border fence coming years ago and have turned something they dreaded to their advantage.

One remarkable aspect of the Iraq invasion and occupation has been the administration's, mainly the president's, predictably awful and irresponsible habit of placing the burden of success or failure of this thing on the shoulders of an already overburdened military. Specifically, President Bush and all of his apologists have scapegoated the troops and the "commanders on the ground." It's a strategy that could only come from a group of cowardly old bastards who, for the most part, deliberately avoided military service themselves.

At a White House press briefing today, Press Secretary Dana Perino effectively tells veteran correspondent Helen Thomas that the American people's say in the Iraq occupation ended after the 2004 election. "You had input," Perino says. "The American people have input every four years and that's the way our system is set up." Perino's statement comes on the heels of a direct assertion by Vice President Dick Cheney that he doesn't care about public input on Iraq.