Stories by John Byrne
John Byrne is editor of Raw Story.
GOPer Tom Tancredo suggests "literacy test" to protect America from presidents like Obama -- a segregation-era method employed by southern US states to keep blacks from voting.
Posted on Feb 5, 2010, Source: Raw Story
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair announced Wednesday that the U.S. may target its own citizens for death if it believes they are associated with terrorist groups.
Posted on Feb 4, 2010, Source: Raw Story
Krugman: "People did not know what was in the [health care] plan, and some of that was just poor reporting, some of it was deliberate misinformation."
Posted on Feb 1, 2010, Source: Raw Story
Democrats are now floating a provision that may eliminate a ban on pre-existing conditions, but only for people 19 and under. How many millions will this exclude?
Posted on Jan 25, 2010, Source: Raw Story
News in the UK: Iraqi cab driver was source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Posted on Dec 9, 2009, Source: Raw Story
New polling shows greater movement toward support of plan for government-run health care.
Posted on Oct 21, 2009, Source: Raw Story
Georgia Republican Johnny Isakson takes on Palin's fearmongering on health care reform.
Posted on Aug 11, 2009, Source: Raw Story
A stunning admission from General David Petraeus reveals that the US may have violated international law.
Posted on May 30, 2009, Source: Raw Story
The jurist is hard to pigeonhole.
Posted on May 26, 2009, Source: Raw Story
Host Erich Muller says "It was instantaneous...and I don't want to say this: absolutely torture."
Posted on May 22, 2009, Source: Raw Story
"Outrage" film goes after closeted hypocritical Republicans who push anti-gay legislation.
Posted on May 8, 2009, Source: Raw Story
In all, 98 detainees have died while in U.S. hands, with 34 identified as homicides, at least eight of which were tortured to death.
Posted on May 6, 2009, Source: Raw Story
The New York Times has confirmed Harman tried to keep the paper from publishing an article exposing warrantless wiretapping.
Posted on Apr 21, 2009, Source: Raw Story
In a legal filing on Friday, Obama lawyers claimed the government is shielded from lawsuits by a 'sovereign immunity' clause in the Patriot Act.
Posted on Apr 8, 2009, Source: Raw Story
