Bush on King last night: KING: So there’s nothing you’ve done in the area of treatment of prisoners that causes you any kind of pause? G. BUSH: No. No. Everything we did was — you know, it had legal — legal opinions behind it. Look, you’re sitting there, you’ve captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He’s the […]
Looks like someone in our judicial branch is tired of the media trying to pick our leaders. I’m not a big Kucinich fan, but this is a really good thing. The media shouldn’t be allowed to pick who can debate and who can’t. It’s an insult to our democracy.
(image courtesy of Democracy Lost) Once again we have a scandal surrounding the current White House and once again we have the right-wing talking heads out there with towing their typical defense of “well Clinton did it”. This time the excuse is being applied to the U.S.A. purge. A lot of Bush apologists are out […]
Sincerely, the Judicial branch: A federal judge ruled Thursday that the government’s warrantless wiretapping program is unconstitutional and ordered an immediate halt to it. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit became the first judge to strike down the National Security Agency’s program, which she says violates the rights to free speech and privacy […]
We are now reduced from being Americans to being a string of ones and zeros: The Pentagon pays a private company to compile data on teenagers it can recruit to the military. The Homeland Security Department buys consumer information to help screen people at borders and detect immigration fraud. As federal agencies delve into the […]
The Boston Globe has an interesting article today that talks about the American Bar Association’s recent decision to investigate Bush’s signing power: The board of governors of the American Bar Association voted unanimously yesterday to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that […]
The Republicans are getting called on their continuous rubber stamping for Bush (Christy has the details). What is amazing is the rubber stamp works both ways on this. Not only does Congress use their rubber stamp for Bush, but Bush also uses his rubber stamp for congress. Bush has yet to veto anything. This is […]