Rumor has it, from D.C. Inside Scoop via Eschaton, that Congressional Republicans will appear at the State of the Onion tonight sporting purple fingers. This is how they show solidarity with the...
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Torture memo authors respond in LA Times
The Justice Department lawyers, Robert J. Delahunty and John C. Yoo, who wrote the infamous 2002 torture memos have penned a quaint op-ed piece for the LA Times: But the Geneva Convention makes...
What is torture? The GOP doesn't get it
The Senate floor debate on Al Gonzales is underway and Senator Specter (R-PA) just rattled off a series of quotes from Gonzales's confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee: a laundry...
The Democracy-for-Food Program?
Some Iraqis are now saying that in order to attain their food rations, they had to vote. Inter Press Service: Ra'ad, 23, said he saw the man who distributed monthly food rations in his district at...
Gonzales Senate debate happening now
Hide from your boss and crank this up. Orrin Hatch is speaking now and is calling the anti-Gonzales faction "small but vocal". Sounds like Bush isn't the only one living in a bubble. Watch on CSPAN 2.
Bush unfamiliar with Voting Rights Act
It comes as no surprise that the man who stood before the nation on inauguration day and spoke in lofty terms of freedom and liberty knows nothing about the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. The...
Is it really about democracy in Iraq?
Those of you familiar with the neocon PNAC will know this letter. Those of you who aren't, here's a classic document which verifies that the Iraq invasion and occupation has NOTHING to do with 9/11...
Trailer: "This Divided State"
Just a quick link to a trailer for an independent film about a red state battle that took place when Michael Moore was invited to speak at Utah Valley State College prior to the election. Watch the...
Global warming will destroy the Arctic
Saturday, CNN gave the following story about 2 minutes on their "lighter side" news show called "Next". Why this stuff isn't leading the headlines is beyond me. The Guardian is reporting that an...
David Corn: Bush lying or making it up?
David Corn has caught Bush either lying about or making up the existence of a gay-adoption study during his press conference last week. The bigger question is this: does Bush outright lie or is he...
Independent UK on the Iraq election
By way of further tempering the enthusiasm for the impact of yesterday's election, the Independent UK weighs in (via Free Press International): The big television networks have been given a list of...
Will it have a bulge?
The worldwide "deserving-a-statue curve" has been permanently shot to hell: The man replacing the mayor of Baghdad — who was assassinated for his pro-American loyalties — says he is not worried about...
The Iraqi election: In the long run…
Before we get back to discussing the current status of torture, propaganda, suppression of civil rights and liberties, the raping of the environment, and the lies of the Bush administration, I wanted...
Kids will say the darndest things
The Knight Foundation (press release here) issued the results of a poll today regarding high school students and their views on civil liberties here. The two most scary results: -Seventy-five percent...
Republicans? Civil Rights? Funny!
The Republicans are maneuvering to make themselves the party of civil rights. LA Times. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Republicans are so rarely the funny ones, but this is precious. Such cards, they...
Of cable news, neocons, and the election
By way of a follow-up to my previous thoughts (here and here) about the Iraqi election, the media coverage, and how the Bushies are reacting, this article from James Wolcott caught my eye: Yesterday...
Elections and Bush: does it matter?
Does it matter that voter turnout in central Iraq was light at best? Does it matter that voter turnout in the north and south was strong? Does is matter that an Iraqi election official is claiming...
The AP has a time machine?
It's now only 75 minutes into the Iraq election and the AP has written an item which sounds as if the polls are closed and Sunday has ended in Iraq. Does Hamza Hendawi of the AP have a time machine...
Iraq votes: riveting cable news coverage
The coverage is gripping. FNC is showing live footage of an empty polling place decorated with lovely flower arrangements and repeated footage of two empty plastic ballot boxes. In a split screen...
Freedom of assembly on trial
A diarist at dKos has the story. This is a tragedy. Plain and simple. Bubble Boy must not win this one. Brett Bursey, a long-time political activist, has been found guilty of violating a little-used...