There's one man outside of the NSA who knows more about the agency than a lot of people inside of it. James Bamford, author of The Puzzle Palace and Pretext for War. Watch him calmly and plainly...
Author - Bob Cesca
Say it with me: ILLEGAL!
It's always with a sense of aggravation that I routinely watch cable news. The lack of the use of the word ILLEGAL in the context of "illegal wiretapping" is staggering. I've seen "wiretap flap" on...
More debunking of Drudge's propaganda
Think Progress. Again, I ask you... Does the president have to eat a baby for his cult worshippers to see the light?
Bush cultists dust off the old, "So did Clinton!"
Drudge and the right-wing blogs are wheeling out their latest ridiculous, weak, and pathetic attempt to dispell the very real fact that Bush is behaving like a dictator. Their argument according to...
King George: A "uniter" at long last…
Who would've thunk it... Bush had the capacity to be a uniter after all. BRUCE FEIN, constitutional scholar and former deputy attorney general in the Reagan Administration: I think the answer...
'Don't fuck with your own people.'
"It's drilled into you from minute one that you should not ever, ever, ever, under any fucking circumstances turn this massive apparatus [the NSA] on an American citizen," one source says. "You do a...
Pants on fire!
Bush on April 20, 2004: Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a...
Jon Alter: Bush was scared!
Read Jonathan Alter. I learned this week that on December 6, Bush summoned Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger and executive editor Bill Keller to the Oval Office in a futile attempt to talk them out...
Why the frig hasn't he been arrested yet?
Cindy Sheehan was arrested and hauled away the instant she stepped onto a forbidden sidewalk near the White House. A friend of mine was arrested, jailed, and lost his driver's license in New Jersey...
Five years in prison
The law via Atrios: * FISA makes it a crime, punishable by up to five years in prison, to conduct electronic surveillance except as provided for by statute. The only defense is for law government...
Just so long as I'm the dictator
This is the crossroads moment for America. Clearly the Bush Regime and their Congressional allies have disregarded the Constitution in so many ways -- and around half of America (on average) has gone...
Bush admits to breaking the law
"This authorization is a vital tool in our war against the terrorists. It is critical to saving American lives. The American people expect me to do everything in my power, under our laws and...
John Spencer 1946-2005
Los Angeles (December 16, 2005) John Spencer, the Emmy-winning actor best-known for starring roles in such popular television series as "The West Wing," and "L.A. Law" has passed away at 58 after...
Cruel and unusual
Twelve minutes. The LA Times: SAN QUENTIN — At 12:01 Tuesday morning, having exhausted all appeals, Stanley Tookie Williams walked slowly into San Quentin's death chamber, shackled at the wrists and...
Media Matters rips O'Reilly's Christmas "facts"
Media Matters continues to rip O'Reilly's "facts" to pieces. And, yep, we all know he's a lying liar. A splotchy lying liar. But it seems like his war on the "War on Christmas" has elevated his lies...
Open Letter to Larry the Cable Guy
David Cross writes. We all laugh. Check it.
Homophobes and racists mentally ill
The Washington Post: The 48-year-old man turned down a job because he feared that a co-worker would be gay. He was upset that gay culture was becoming mainstream and blamed most of his personal...
Go Neil Gabler!
This is a classic, must-watch clip from Fox News in which panelist Neil Gabler lets fly all over FNC for fabricating this ridiculous "war on Christmas" bullshit. Watch.
O'Reilly wages war on Christmas
O'Splotchy has been beating his annual War on Christmas drum lately, calling for his cult followers to boycott department stores which replace the word "Christmas" with the word "holiday" on displays...
Tax the shit out of Dobson!
Washington, DC – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today filed an Internal Revenue Services (IRS) complaint against Focus on the Family, a conservative, non-profit...