22 US Representatives – including two members of the Georgia delegation – have now signed on as co-sponsors of H. Res 635, demanding a probe which could recommend Bush’s impeachment.

Bush can run, but he cannot hide. He tries to hide behind fear, our fear.

The number of Members of US Congress supporting US Rep. John Conyers’s (D-MI) H. Res 635 has now jumped to 17.

The number of US House Representatives who have signed on to H. Res 635 – supporting a probe looking into the grounds for impeaching Bush – has jumped to fourteen.

This State of the Union contained more of the same from Bush that we have heard over the past years.

US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to have lied about the President’s approval of illegal domestic wiretapping, a letter from US Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) to Mr. Gonzales suggests.

The Democrats are fighting among themselves whether to sustain a filibuster against the Alito nomination, which all progressive forces in the U.S. should demand that they carry forward in the most militant way. Progressives also should make clear that a filibuster must be carried forward.

A new poll conducted in Pennsylvania (a battleground "purple" state) by Zogby International and commissioned by OpEdNews.com found that 84.9 percent of Democrats said they would be likely to vote for a congressional candidate who "supports having impeachment proceedings against President Bush."

When Gen. Michael Hayden, principal deputy director of National Intelligence and former director of the National Security Agency, displayed an equally astounding lack of knowledge about a matter just as basic to his job, media as a whole let it pass without comment.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Georgia released new documents on Pentagon spying on peaceful protesters, in a downtown press conference today at the Martin Luther King Federal Building.

The speech that will define U.S. politics throughout 2006 has already been given. The audience was the Republican National Committee and the date was January 19. The speechmaker was Karl Rove, top political adviser to President George Bush.

The investigate units of several federal agencies are denying their responsibility for probing Bush’s approval of – and the US Attorney General’s justifications for – wiretapping Americans without the consent of Congress, Atlanta Progressive News (APN) has learned.

Tens of thousands of Americans will phone their members of Congress on Wednesday, January 25, to urge them to repair the USA PATRIOT Act.  The Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) organized the National Call-In Day in response to a draft PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill that its network of grassroots allies nationwide strongly oppose.

Like Forrest Gump, Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a witness to history. He likes to say that he remembered the horror of Soviet tanks on the streets of his native Austria, even though he was born two years after the war ended and the Americans liberated Vienna.

On a global scale, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr is the most revered American of the second half of the twentieth century. His I Have a Dream speech, given at the August 1963 National March on Washington, is the most praised and admired speech by an American in modern history.

In December 2005, the reactionaries who are running the government and ruining the country decided to cut about $42 billion from the human services budget over the next few years. Most of the cuts will come out of the hides of the very poorest among us.

"Don’t they have anything to do? I am just a mom of a teenage son. I just don’t want my son or anyone else go to a stupid war," Susan Keith told Atlanta Progressive News.

Earlier this month President Bush took advantage of Congress’ winter recess to circumvent the Senate and appoint 17 individuals to various government positions. Article II of the Constitution allows presidents to make temporary appointments without Senate approval; those appointed can serve until the next Congressional elections.

When Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) threatened four Houston-area television stations that he'd sue them if they aired ads linking him with the Abramoff corruption scandal, they refused to air the ads or backed off, saying they wanted to check the facts.

When "Casino Jack" Abramoff pled guilty earlier this month to several counts of wire fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials, there was a palpable rise in blood pressure among Republican members of Congress who can expect close scrutiny from federal law enforcement officials as a result.