Homeland Security and FEMA’s failures in Katrina are now getting another round of attention from the President. Actually he is using the failures to support his long time plan of getting “faith based” and “community initiative” programs to take a larger roll in disaster relief. He did this by executive order today: By the authority […]
Raw Story has newly emerged pictures of Abu Gharib available. Check them out if you wish and have a strong constitution. It is time for total justice to be served in this case.
Senator Feinstein has just asked Gonzalez to pinpoint what in FISA gives them this authority. She said there are two provisions, one is the 15 days after a declaration of war and the other is the 72 hour window, which was changed since 9/11 to allow that extra time. He reference section 109 which does […]
Senator Grassley has just said he can not understand why their is no outcry over the leaking of this program as compared to the outcry of the Valerie Plame leak. Can this guy be serious or is a member of the judiciary committee that blind to the law? He also said that if hypothetically the […]
So I wake up, do my morning check of news media and blogs. I come to one of my favorite sites, Think Progress, and see a quote from Rep. Bill Young which appears in today’s Washington Post: Young said he wouldn’t be so mad if it were just Sheehan. “I totally disagree with everything she […]
In a speech ignored by cable news networks today, Al Gore sounds the alarm about our constitution being in crisis and the dangers our nation faces by an executive branch that is out of control and power hungry. Excerpts follow: [..] During the period when this eavesdropping was still secret, the President went out of […]
CensureBush.org has been launched in conjunction with afterdowningstreet.org to support new legislation introduced to the House today to censure President Bush and Vice-President Cheney when it comes to the pre-war intelligence on Iraq. It also supports legislation which was also introduced to set up a committee to investigate rather or not impeachable offenses were committed […]
Prisons are for reform. Most prisoners are not there forever so they must be reformed to operate in society once they are released. Part of that reform should include keeping up on current events, however for Supreme Court nominee Alito that is not necessarily the case. When Judge Alito served on the U.S. Second Court […]
Today we celebrate Veteran’s Day. It is a day to honor those who have served for our great country. The best way to honor those veterans would be to insure they have a life time of excellent health care and benefits. Showing them that their country truly cares about them and the service they have […]
Six soldiers were killed in Iraq today bringing the total amount of U.S. casualties to 2024 according to icasualties.org. In the month of October, 91 soldiers have been lost which makes it the fourth deadliest month since the war started. The most troubling of this data is the fact that we suffered 46 deaths in […]