This is unacceptable in this country. Over half of LA’s potential workforce is functionally illiterate: Continued immigration and a stubborn high school dropout rate have stymied efforts to improve literacy in Los Angeles County, where more than half the working-age population can’t read a simple form, a report released Wednesday

Let’s take a break from the AWOL/Kitty Kelley stuff for a minute…it looks like the House is about to stomp Bush’s new overtime rules that took effect in August. This is a big story, since Republicans joined to stick it to Bush. Bush could still veto this, but it’s not

Dave Moniz and Jim Drinkard of USA Today have an unusually hard-hitting and lengthy piece (for that paper) on the Bush/AWOL/coverup story. It also includes a colorful description of our drunken, partying, lazy-at-work future president. Bush’s military records show gaps in drill attendance from May 1, 1972, to April 30,

Sully’s looking for the GOP to give a rational explanation for this, lol. Hope he doesn’t hold his breath: This isn’t getting any prettier, is it? But it’s always been obvious that, during Vietnam, George W. Bush benefited from the soft affirmative action of pedigreed privilege. The CBS-recovered forms are

Looks like Larry King isn’t willing to have Kitty Kelley on, and Kelley thinks it’s because King is compromised by a friendship with the Bush family.

So, poor Sharon Bush is probably worried that her alimony is on the line, now that Kitty Kelley has revealed that she’s the source of “Bush doing blow at Camp David.” Too bad she had a third party at the table during that lunch when she spilled the beans. Hahahahaha.

The NYT Editorial today slaps Darth Cheney on his implication that if BC04 isn’t re-elected, we’re all going to die. here are some things a presidential campaign should steer clear of, through innate good taste, prudence or just a sensible fear of a voter backlash. We’d have thought that both

As John Aravosis at AmericaBlog points out, the AP released a story on the bombshell documents that the White House released (that they claim they didn’t have), after the 60 Minutes interview. But the AP story initially ran this info way down in the article: After the [60 Minutes] broadcast,

The AWOL Project has just added the new documents. This is an online resource on the body of evidence against Bush on this issue.

Want to see one of the unearthed memos indicting pressure from Bush to get out of service? CBS has it here.