Grants to Religious Groups Top $1.1 Billion (washingtonpost.com)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44442-2004Mar9.html?referrer=email

The federal government gave more than $1.1 billion in competitive grants to religious organizations in fiscal 2003 as President Bush’s efforts to support religious charities led to dramatic increases in such grants by key agencies

Justice Dept. Bid for Abortion Files Rejected (washingtonpost.com)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35155-2004Mar5.html?referrer=email

A federal judge in San Francisco yesterday rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to obtain abortion records from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a ruling likely to halt demands for as many as 1,000 patient files from clinics around the country

How Industry Won the Battle of Pollution Control at E.P.A.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/06/politics/06LOBB.html?th

Administration Sets Forth a Limited View on Privacy

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/06/politics/06PRIV.html?th

Federal law “does not recognize a physician-patient privilege,” the Justice Department said last month in court papers that sought abortion records from Planned Parenthood clinics in California, Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, New York City and Washington. Moreover, the department said in another abortion case, patients “no longer possess a reasonable expectation that their histories will remain completely confidential.”

So now the Bush administration is throwing out medical privacy when that conflicts with their Orwellian world view.

Science? What science?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/04/grist03/
The Bush administration’s effort to manipulate scientific research has scientists from both sides of the partisan divide concerned.

History of Marriage in America

Report Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/technology/01rights.html?th

The entertainment industry’s pursuit of tough new laws to protect copyrighted materials from online piracy is bad for business and for the economy…

Gee, is anybody surprised?

Utah Oil and Gas Leases Stir Criticism (washingtonpost.com)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17525-2004Feb29.html?referrer=email
The Bush administration has moved ahead with its plan to auction oil and gas leases on environmentally sensitive lands in Utah, reaping millions of dollars from broad swaths of lands near a national monument…

Halliburton’s Iraq gravy train

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/02/27/halliburton_whistleblower/

Park Service Continues to Push Creationist Theory at Grand Canyon

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000061.php

Ignoring recommendations by its own senior scientist to withdraw approval for a creationist book now being sold in park facilities, the National Park Service appears to be supporting religious doctrine over sound science...

Healthy Schools Net Zero Dollars in Bush Budget

http://www.bushgreenwatch.org/mt_archives/000060.php

Bush’s highly touted education reform law, “No Child Left Behind,” authorized the U.S. Department of Education to provide grants for states to improve indoor air quality and energy efficiency in America’s public schools.[1]

The program was created to combat problems such as mold, pesticides, lead-contaminated drinking water and asbestos exposure in aging public schools across the country.[2] The president’s current budget proposal, however, provides no money to launch the program.

Bush Misleading on Social Security Begins

http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df02262004.html

Bush implicitly acknowledged for the first time that his Administration could attempt to reduce Social Security benefits for workers - a reversal from one of his core campaign pledges in 2000...

Controversial Terror Research Ongoing

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/022604I.shtml

Congress eliminated a Pentagon office developing the terrorist tracking technology because of the outcry over privacy implications. But some of those projects from retired Adm. John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness effort were transferred to U.S. intelligence offices...

Putting Bias in the Constitution (NYT Editorial)

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/022604C.shtml

It would inject meanspiritedness and exclusion into the document embodying our highest principles and aspirations.

Bush Pays Back Drug Industry By Misleading Seniors

http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df02252004.html