Another page from George Orwell’s 1984 comes to being in George Bush’s America. Ted Rall’s has a great article up explaining it: –“This is not a crime about thought,” says the assistant U.S. attorney. Then what is it? Mahmud Faruq Brent, a 30-year-old D.C. taxi driver, is about to spend the next 15 years behind […]
That is a possibility MSNBC is reporting tonight: The investigation must be reopened now. Considering there were calls from the military to the White House regarding the death, then the investigation must be fully opened to the White House. Executive privilege can not be used to cover up a possible murder either. If this is […]
That is something the wingnuts have been bolstering lately; “the insurgency is standing up to al Qaeda”. While it is true, they fail to mention the other part of that equation. The Guardian has published an article explaining this (and repeating what the left has been saying): Seven of the most important Sunni-led insurgent organisations […]
The one time pick of George Bush to be one of the top judiciaries in the nation did not show up for her subpoena today, paving the way for contempt charges. Let’s not forget George Bush in those charges either, who ordered Miers not to show up. As Josh posted yesterday: 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1505 […]
The obstructionists just filibustered Jim Webb’s amendment that would require troops have at least the equal amount of time off duty as they do on. Apparently they feel the troops can stay in Iraq as much as needed with little time home. Just to set the record straight, this amendment was taking our military back […]
Not a pardon, but rather he commuted the sentence. That means no jail for Scooter. Bush says he felt the punishment was too harsh. So is that saying that lying about a blow job is a worse crime than lying under oath regarding the outing of a CIA agent? It appears so. Bush just handed […]
This one from right here in the Buckeye state: A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees, a security procedure that ended up backfiring. The names and Social Security numbers of all 64,000 Ohio state employees were stolen last weekend from a state agency intern who […]
Which brings the monthly toll to 42. This is a little better than last month, but of course that is due in a large part to Iraqi’s targeting each other again. The surge is also now complete. Ironically it is complete with an additional “28,500 troops” in Iraq. Wasn’t it supposed to be 21,500? That’s […]
For our military that is. He told George Stephanopoulos this morning that he doesn’t think it’s write for Petraeus to have to prove progress to the Congress this September. Yeah – let’s not have any kind of tests or benchmarks for Iraq. That is basically the same strategy George Bush has used, the same strategy […]