Today we found out that there is at least one senator who does not respect Bush’s “authority.” Democratic Senator Russ Feingold introduced a resolution to censure President Bush for illegally spying on Americans. Feingold’s statement opened with:
Mr. President, when the President of the United States breaks the law, he must be held accountable. [...]
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
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That’s one of the questions I asked myself when I first saw this photo. Was he an insurgent that was captured in battle? Was he one of the men rounded up by U.S. Armed Forces on one of their nightly raids of Iraqi neighborhoods? Was this guy caught with a stash of [...]
This story about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s agreement with the White House that allows President Bush to continue his domestic spying program “with oversight” instead of demanding that he comply with existing law only proves that we no longer live in a democracy. “We the people” have been hosed.
And just how craven are the [...]
I stopped by the One Good Move website tonight and came across some good video clips, like this one of Jon Stewart, and then I watched this Keith Olbermann clip. And I have to say, there is not doubt in my mind that Bill O’Reilly is certifiably insane. Really… threatening callers by telling [...]
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A perfect storm is any only-remotely-possible disasterous confluence of singly innocuous events. In such a situation, it is clear that if any one element had been the right displaced in time or space the result would have been far less powerful, but because just things were in the mix and with [...]
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Military scientists in the United States are developing a way of manipulating sharks by remote control to turn them into underwater spies or weapons.
Engineers funded by the Pentagon have created electronic brain implants for fish that they hope will be able to influence the movements of sharks and perhaps even decode what they [...]
I’ve been a huge fan of Jon Dee Graham ever since the first time I heard his cover of Tom Waits’s “Way Down in the Hole.” He made the song his own and made a fan of me.
I’ve seen him perform live a few times, and he puts on a hell of [...]
If Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas S. Monaghan has his way, a new town being built in Florida will be governed according to strict Roman Catholic principles, with no place to get an abortion, pornography or birth control.
The pizza magnate is bankrolling the project with at least $250 million and calls it “God’s will.”
Civil libertarians say [...]
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I cannot keep up with all the stuff that’s been going down, but I’ll try.
First off, if you haven’t read the latest poll results, you should. If you’ve always loathed Bush, the numbers will make you snicker with glee. Not that you take pleasure in the horrific decline of our country over the [...]
