Cursor's Media Patrol - 02/10/06

While President Bush's budget calls for 141 programs to be cut or killed, Newsweek's Allan Sloan discovered that "with no fanfare whatsoever, Bush stuck a big Social Security privatization plan in the federal budget proposal." Plus: Senate Finance Committee chairman accuses the administration of seeking to end "a pittance for widows and widowers."

Although Bush delivered a speech Thursday at the National Guard Building in D.C., he was virtually speechless at what the National Guard delivered.

A nurse working for the Veterans Administration in New Mexico is under investigation for sedition, after writing a letter said to be critical of the war in Iraq, the federal response to Katrina, and "the government which employs you."

As the 'Climate-Change Fight' gets a referee, Michael Klare argues that the only way out of the 'Permanent Energy Crisis' will prove "costly and disruptive."