Since Bush vetoed Congress’ Iraq funding bill – with Congress failing to override the veto – the Dems are in a bit of a tizzy. Some are willing to retreat to the useless and already-proven-pointless benchmarks approach: setting a timetable for the Iraqi government, while continuing an all-military approach toward getting the U.S. out of …
Want proof of a naïve voting populace? Look no further than the zany antics of Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, who resorts to non-creative name calling about western politicians who speak truth to power. Yup – Shurtleff still buys into the beat-to-death and entirely untrue argument connecting Iraq, 9/11 and Al-Qaida. He beats on a …
Watching Sen. Lieberman (CFL-CT) on Meet The Press shows that he doesn’t know a thing about international affairs. Seriously: he knows nothing. He doesn’t understand the way the Middle East works, he doesn’t understand how the war in Iraq has done nothing to improve the security of the United States, or of his beloved Israel, …
Three things I feel a need to address: To the guy in the black Impala who blared at me through his window while I rode south on MacArthur Boulevard this morning: shut the #@$% up! He yelled at me to “stay in the f—ing bike lane.” There are two problems with that: the bike lane …
Never in my life have I been moved to tears – of sadness, anger, passion – by a broadcast journalist’s commentary. Until tonight. Keith Olbermann’s commentary on the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was the ticket. Olbermann, using tones not heard on the U.S. airwaves since the days of Edward R. Murrow, fired on all …
“President” Bush signed an order today that prohibits other countries from using outer space for hostile endeavors, and gives the U.S. the power to stop said activities. Never mind that Bush is one of the leading proponents of a space-borne missile defense system that is, in all fairness, a hostile use of space. So do …
…..because if you are arrested for anything that could be seen as a crime against the United States, you can kiss your rights goodbye. Thanks to today’s signing of new detainee rights legislation, the president now has sweeping powers over prosecution of persons detained during anti-terrorist or so-called “wartime” activities. Habeas corpus be damned – …
Of course, I’ve felt this way about the “president” for years – since he was elected annointed in 2000. He came in clueless – like a frat boy who was having the ultimate keg party. Then 9/11 happened, and at the one point where he had both political parties, as well as a majority of …
The brains behind the brilliant A Prairie Home Companion penned a wonderfully haunting editorial about the passage of the recent Military Commissions Act of 2006. Keillor opens with a pointed warning: I would not send my college kid off for a semester abroad if I were you. Last week, we suspended human rights in America, …
After today’s votes in the Seante regarding S 3930: Military Commissions Act of 2006, here’s a list of Dems who feel that it’s OK to torture detainees captured during the so-called “war on terror,” as well as ignore the Geneva Conventions: Carper (D-DE) Johnson (D-SD) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Lieberman (CfL-CT – still technically a …
