There’s not much I like about Rick Perry, but this idea from his book ‘Fed Up’ is one I can definitely get behind: One solution the governor embraces is to end lifetime tenure — a cornerstone of the Constitution, whose drafters worried far less about activist or senile judges than about meddling tyrants and political […]
A quick follow-up on my morning post about Indiana assistant attorney general Jeff Cox calling for “live ammunition” against Wisconsin protestors. Cox has now lost his job with the state: The Indiana Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday morning that Cox’s comments were under review. A later statement said Cox was “no longer employed by this […]
Glenn Greenwald has all the disguising details. I think most important is this part: Let’s just describe very factually and dispassionately what has happened here. Congress — led by Senators, such as Jay Rockefeller, who have received huge payments from the telecom industry, and by privatized intelligence pioneer Mike McConnell, former Chairman of the secretive […]
Our nation has now turned back the hands of time to a point in history before we were actually a nation: The Senate, siding with President Bush shortly after he personally lobbied lawmakers at the Capitol, rejected a move Thursday by a leading Republican to allow terrorism suspects to challenge their imprisonment in court. The […]
Protests were being held this week outside of the courthouse in sunny Aruba. The people gathering were protesting the negative press their justice system was getting by the United States Media and also by the mother of missing teen Natalee Holloway. Beth Holloway-Twitty, the mother of the missing teen spoke out this week against the […]