As expected, Bush vetoed the “Emergency” War Funding Bill sent to him by Congress. He objected to the timetables for withdrawal.
Congress will have to reconvene to come up with a bill more agreeable to Bush, who wants to retain what has essentially been unlimited power to wage a never ending war.
So should the Democratic Congress [...]
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The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Paul Krugman
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Is anyone surprised by today’s headlines about the FBI’s illegal use of the Patriot Act?
The FBI improperly and, in some cases, illegally used the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about people in the United States, underreporting for three years how often it forced businesses to turn over customer data, a Justice Department [...]
On 26 September 2002, a 32-year old Syrian-born naturalized Canadian citizen by the name of Maher Arar was returning alone from a family vacation trip to Tunisia when his Montreal-bound plane made a scheduled stopover at JFK International Airport in New York. Mr Arar was detained by United States Department of Homeland Security officials and [...]
George Bush went to Mt. Vernon today and delivered a speech to honor George Washington.
During his speech, Bush spoke of Washington reluctantly accepting the job, the powers of the president, and yes… he even linked the American Revolutionary War to the “War on Terror.”
Bush said, “After winning the war, Washington did what victorious leaders rarely [...]
Thomas Paine was born 270 years ago today. Take some time to read some quotes from this brilliant man, or better yet, read a whole essay. Start with Common Sense.
Quotes:
“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right.”
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard [...]
“When the president does it that means that it is not illegal.” Richard Nixon
Today’s top story in The New York Times:
The Bush administration, in what appears to be a concession to its critics, said today it will allow an independent court to monitor its electronic-eavesdropping program.
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Mr. Gonzales’s letter, to Senators Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat [...]
The New York Daily News reports today that, once again, Bush has overstepped his authority and now claims, in a signing statement to a bill passed in December, that he has the power to open your mail without a warrant.
The President asserted his new authority when he signed a postal reform bill into law on [...]
Back in July 2006 I posted regarding a news story of a group of zombies being arrested for possession of “simulated weapons of mass destruction.”
The police in Minneapolis were really at the top of their game on this one. Who knows what could have happened had the zombie dance party been allowed to continue. By [...]
Nobody says it quite like Keith Olbermann says it. This is from his comments during last night’s Countdown about Bush’s signing of the Military Commissions Act:
“With the distance of history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what it takes to defeat [...]
Ted Rall on The Military Commissions Act:
The Military Commissions Act signals that our traditional system of beliefs and government has irrevocably devolved into moral bankruptcy. Memo to Senator McCain: You don’t negotiate with terrorists, and you don’t compromise with torturers.
It doesn’t matter how much food aid we ship to the victims of the next global [...]
