Article of the Day: Howard Dean poses 16 questions for court-appointed president Bush. Who’s unpatriotic now? by Paul Krugman. Naked power, arbitrary rule by Jonathan Turley The British share the overwhelming worldview that the Bush tribunals are an affront to the rule of law: denying basic rules of evidence, allowing indefinite detention of suspects, barring [...]
The crime and the cover-up by William Rivers Pitt The last two weeks have shown decisively that the Bush administration used manufactured evidence, which had been denounced from virtually all corners of the American intelligence community, to justify their war. The administration’s explanation for this has changed by the hour – They weren’t told by [...]
Iraq evidence wrong, White House admits. Now watch them try to get away with a “mistakes were made”. Robert Scheer discusses diplomat Joseph Wilson’s account (whose allegations are mentioned in the above article), in A diplomat’s undiplomatic truth: They lied. David Corn comments on Iraqgate and the findings of Richard Kerr, “a former CIA deputy [...]
Via : Abolish Marriage: Let’s really get the government out of our bedrooms by Michael Kinsley It’s going to get ugly. And then it’s going to get boring. So, we have two options here. We can add gay marriage to the short list of controversies– abortion, affirmative action, the death penalty– that are so frozen [...]
U.S. develops urban surveillance system. ‘Scalia Constitution’ is scary by Jay Bookman. Tweet