In a not very surprising reaction to yesterday’s Supreme Court’s Boumediene decision, John McCain has stated uncategorically that this decision is "..one of the worst.." decisions ever.  Why would he say something this inflammatory?  Oh, right, because he’s a nasty Republican Bush clone.
He’d like nothing more than to deny these so-called terrorists the […]

During a speech in Munster, Indiana on Friday, Obama responded to the criticism aimed at him for not following along with the other Republican candidates in calling for a suspension of the national gas tax. 
Both the Clinton’s and McCain propose to eliminate the 18.4 cents-a-gallon federal gas tax as a short term […]

We all know that the Department of Justice is a little shorthanded.  After the celebrated faux pas of firing 7 U.S. Attorneys for political reasons (rather than performance issues), the DoJ has had some problems not only filling those positions, but retaining other top performers.
Case in point is the chief of the DoJ’s […]

For quite some time George ‘Dumbya’ Bush has maintained that future historians will view him and his presidency in a different light and his actions will be vindicated.  I guess he feels that the current generations are too stupid to appreciate his magnificence.
Well, oddly enough, 109 historians were polled recently and a whopping […]

In spite of veto threats from the lame duck idiot in the White House, the house of Representatives passed the FISA Amendments Act with a 213 to 197 vote last Friday.  Choosing legality over cronyism, the House has send a strong massage to the Bush/Cheney administration that enough is enough.
We may just be able to […]

After a misguided attempt at trying to hold out for some kind of immunity in forthcoming prosecutions, client #9, otherwise known as New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, has resigned.  After incorporating enforcement of ethics into his political platform, #9 really had no recourse but to step down.  His real mistake in all of this […]

The New York times reported that some of Clinton’s most stalwart supporters and donors are questioning her ability to manage her checkbook.  With $100,000 snack trays and $25,000 rooms at the Bellagio luxury hotel in Las Vegas, Hillary is having a real tough time managing her campaign funding.  She needed to loan her campaign […]

With a sigh of despair I’m ready to give up on ever knowing the true answers that burn in my heart about the CIA torture tapes.  Bickering among members of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee is going to diminish the credibility of any investigation not conducted under the bipartisan rules of the House and […]

From Boston.com, more reasons to dislike the current administration and call for impeachment.

Bush won’t yield on Justice choice
January 24, 2008
President Bush renominated Steven G. Bradbury as assistant attorney general yesterday, refusing to yield to Democrats who oppose a permanent job for the official who signed legal memos authorizing harsh interrogations for suspected terrorists. Bradbury […]

Attempting to block the adoption of the new FISA wiretap bill which would grant immunity to the telephone companies that illegally tapped American citizens phones, Senator Chris Dodd needs your help.
It’s important that your lawmakers know how you feel about the the president, the vice president and the NSA casually defecating on your rights and […]

  A brilliant Op/Ed piece from my local Seattle Times:

Democracies don’t torture
By Robert Crawford Special to The Times
Torture has re-entered the public domain. From Attorney General Robert Mukasey’s equivocation about waterboarding at his confirmation hearings to the current controversy over the CIA’s destruction of interrogation videotapes, […]

I signed up for e-mail updates from Congressman Robert Wexler recently.  Today I received the following e-mail which discusses additional lies coming out of the White House and being force fed to our Congressmen and mass media.  I’ve posted it below.  It’s worth a read if you are one of the three Americans who still […]

I was reminded of this 2000 election campaign promise in a very articulate article by Tom over at OpenEducation.Net.  This compelling piece explains how compounding of all of the lies and other unethical behavior on the part of not only our Commander-in-Chief but all of his political cronies and appointees, has put our teachers the […]

Let’s see, what kind of workload is Mickey carrying right now?

The construction and implementation of Torture-Gate, a cover-up at the highest level of our government of the CIA torture of suspected terrorists. Read about it Here & Here
The continued obfuscation of the person or persons who exposed Valerie Plame Wilson as an operative of […]

During the first two weeks in October out nations lawmakers tried to slip a bill through that would grant immunity from prosecution to the phone companies that collaborated with the NSA in the recent domestic spying.  I posted on it HERE and HERE.
The response from the ordinary citizen was so strong that the bill was […]

In direct violation of the Presidential Records Act, our President and his staff seem to have misplaced ten million e-mails. The Presidential Records Act is a post-Watergate law which requires the preservation of all presidential documents for the public record.
But apparently Bush and his posse have decided that their words and actions during […]

Our 81st Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, will likely go down in history as the man who couldn’t recognize that waterboarding is torture. Mukasey is in Saint Louis today expecting to speak at the 2007 Project Safe Childhood National Conference, but what will he bring to the table?
If the man can’t recognize that waterboarding […]

The common man has know for almost two terms just how contemptible the White House and its denizens really are.  But it appears as if the Senate might be poised to make it official.
The Senate Judiciary Committee and it’s chairman Patrick Leahy declared that certain members (both past and present) must begin to comply […]

With the Iowa Primary Election only 54 some odd days away the leading Democratic candidates have started taking pot-shots at each other regarding the issue of experience. If you want my opinion, neither one of them should be criticizing the other on that particular count. Neither of them has any more ’real’ experience than the […]

The White House has been reporting the cost of our little coup d’etat in Iraq as $804 BILLION dollars. The Joint Economic Committee, which has examined the hidden cost of the war, put the figure at a more accurate $1.5 TRILLION dollars. That is almost twice the figure as reported by the […]