Driving up highway 101 south of Orick, Calif., I kept an eye out for a scenic rest area that, according to a memoir by his wife, Theodora, had once been the site of a cabin owned by Alfred Kroeber.

            It's through Kroeber that the Yurok people made their way in the world of learning, their lives distilled into a monograph and footnote. In 1900, Kroeber, the father of academic anthropology in California, began a series of encounters with the Yurok that lasted many years. Many of these Q & A sessions were at this cabin, formerly located in the scenic rest area where I was now peering under the hood of my wagon, trying to figure out why my brakes had stopped working.

            Here, at the place known as Sigornoy, Kroeber would interrogate Indians, chiefly Robert Spott, a Yurok theocrat. Their conversations eventually had academic consequence in such works as "Yurok Narratives" and figured in Kroeber's dispassionate reflections on the supposed "character" of the Yurok, scattered through various works. The Yurok were, he wrote on one occasion, an "inwardly fearful people . the men often seemed to me

I don't often get the chance to witness media bias up-close and personal.  But I did on Monday night, when CNN Headline News invited me on to talk about our campaign on the weapons of mass destruction and the new Misleader TV ad.

I was scheduled to go on air a little after 9 PM EST, and I arrived at the studio early.  After checking in, I was delivered to the studio where I would be speaking from, and I sat and listened to the show.

Rudi Bakhtiar was the anchorwoman, and as the clock ticked toward nine, she gave a preview of what was up ahead.  After a short clip from our ad, Ms. Bakhtiar gave a synopsis of the scandal over the President's State of the Union claim that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger -- a claim now known to be based on fraudulent evidence which even the White House knew was untenable.  Ms. Bakhtiar pondered whether there was going to be political fallout from Bush's "slip of the tongue," and then invited viewers to stay tuned.

"Slip of the tongue?" I thought.  "They're letting Bush off the hook."

WASHINGTON, D.C--A Pentagon committee led by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, advised President Bush to include a reference in his January State of the Union address about Iraq trying to purchase 500 tons of uranium from Niger to bolster the case for war in Iraq, despite the fact that the CIA warned Wolfowitz's committee that the information was unreliable, according to a CIA intelligence official and four members of the Senate's intelligence committee who have been investigating the issue.

The Senators and the CIA official said they could be forced out of government and brought up on criminal charges for leaking the information to this reporter and as a result requested anonymity. The Senators said they plan to question CIA Director George Tenet Wednesday morning in a closed-door hearing to find out whether Wolfowitz and members of a committee he headed misled Bush and if the President knew about the erroneous information prior to his State of the Union address.

Spokespeople for Wolfowitz and Tenet vehemently denied the accusations. Dan Bartlett, the White House

The Bush Administartion's recent tax giveaway to the richest citizens of this country have left progressives scrambling for an alternative way to stimulate the economy.  Simply opposing Bush's plan is not enough.  The answer may be found in the Apollo Project, which not only promises to create two million manufacturing jobs, but also promotes environmental sustainability and strenthgens our national security.

The Apollo Project was recently released by the Apollo Alliance, a colalition that aims to reduce our dependece on foreign oil by developoing alternative sources of energy.  The plan they have developed invovles spending $300 billion over a period of ten years to meet these goals.  Their ten point plan invovles the development of hybrid cars, investment in engergy effiecient factories, smart urban growth, and improving options for transportation.  In the process this would create between one and three million new jobs.   High paying manufacturing jobs, which for decades have been sent overseas to exploit cheap foreign labor, will bring relief to working class familes, whose wages and job opportunities have been in

      Wasington Post writer Howard Kurtz says, "But in the bluest of blue-state precincts, it's hard to tell which emotion is stronger: disgust with Dubya or anger at the American public for failing to share their outrage."

I am outraged. I know, because I hear from my readers that there are many more people who are outraged with the lying in the Whitehouse. It's a full-fledged, sloppy, incompetent cover-up and it's only a matter of time before the liars get their due comeuppance. One thing we know is that the CIA told the White house not to use the Nigerian Uranium claims of nuclear threat months before the State of the Union address. Condoleeza Rice already knew. You don't blame someone for not telling you twice.