Lindsey Graham [R-SC] is usually one of the nearly sane Republicans, but last weekend, he was an Administration hit-man. Shame on you Senator Graham… BLITZER: You just came back from Iraq, Senator Graham. You were on active duty as a reserve lawyer in the U.S. military and you’ve been a big defender of this so-called surge strategy, […]
Bring ’em home. They’ve done more than enough. They deserve bigger parades than the ones after World War II. They won a war, but lost an impossible occupation. When someone volunteers, and does a good job of doing something that cannot be done, that person derserve our greatest respect… The Real Iraq We Knew […]
I didn’t retire in order to be obsessed with National Politics. That came later thanks to the rape of America by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Four years ago when I retired, I cut a deal with my wife. If she would live in our "weekend cabin" in North Georgia and pretend it was […]
I just watched an older DVR’d Jon Stewart Daily Show – from a couple of weeks ago. He had Jack Goldsmith, the former DOJ Attorney who, with James Comey, stopped Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card from trying to get John Ashcroft to sign authorizations while he was delerious in the hospital. Goldsmith has written the […]
And while we’re on the subject of "protecting" Americans’ privacy, have you noticed that there’s one spot in Washington D.C. that’s been blurred in Google Earth? Take a look and guess who lives there… I don’t even mind Mr. Cheney having it blurred. What I mind is his excessive preoccupation with his own safety and […]
Tinker, Tailor, Miner, Spy Why the NSA’s snooping is unprecedented in scale and scope. Jan. 3, 2006 … The New York Times reported in December [2005] that since 9/11, leading telecommunications companies "have been storing information on calling patterns and giving it to the federal government to aid in tracking possible terrorists." Citing current and […]
Former CEO Says U.S. Punished Phone Firm Qwest Feared NSA Plan Was Illegal, Filing Says A former Qwest Communications International executive, appealing a conviction for insider trading, has alleged that the government withdrew opportunities for contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after Qwest refused to participate in an unidentified National Security Agency program that […]
Rice worried by Putin’s broad powers The Russian government under Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow’s commitment to democracy, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Saturday. "In any country, if you don’t have countervailing institutions, the power of any one president is problematic for democratic development," Rice […]
I was writing below about the ‘contempt machine’ – the rapidly generated mockery and sarcasm that spews from Fox News, Talk Radio, and the right wing blogs. Today has seemed more virulent than usual. Just a sample: Fox News And Right-Wing Bloggers Attack Gore’s Nobel Prize On Fox and Friends this morning, co-host Steve Doocy […]
I was just perusing the cyberspace for reactions top Gore’s Nobel Peace Prize. Everytone is asking if it means he’ll run for President. Al Gore didn’t need a Nobel Peace Prize to run for President. His credentials stand on their own yesterday as strongly as today. It’s one of those silly things newsmen write to […]