I just lifted a set of quotes about war from a comment at the Huffington Post by fordperfect from some of mankind’s greats…
A former Defense Department analyst was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison yesterday for passing government secrets to two employees of a pro-Israel lobbying group and to an Israeli government official in Washington. … When he pleaded guilty, Franklin, an Iran specialist, said he was frustrated with the direction of U.S. policy and […]
I’ve been kind of conflicted about the current war between the political blogs and the Washington Post. I’ll not even link it. It’s everywhere. It’s around Deborah Howell saying that Jack Abramoff gave money to both parties. The bloggers went wild and filled the comments section with attacks. A similar thing happened with Kate O’beirn […]
The Huffington Post is commenting on Karl Rove’s Chutzpah in making a speech while under indictment. What struck me with both this speech and the one to the New York Conservatives was the distance from any recognizable reality. He spoke as if every policy had succeeded. Democrats are afraid to lower taxes. Republicans aren’t, says […]
from The Freeway Blogger
[Thanks to Dr. Steven Ruggles in the Department of History at the University of Minnesota for recently updating his comprehensive compilation of Bush’s Approval Ratings]. As his labels make abundantly clear, there’s a steady drift downward, punctuated by spikes when something favorable happens.
Kathleen Reardon for President! [ Not In This House You Don’t! ]
The ‘White Paper’ issued by the Justice Department [Administration Paper Defends Spy Program: Detailed Argument Cites War Powers] is classic Bush. "I can do what I want to do! Now go find me a way to do it." There is no question about the intent of the Constitution. There’s no question about the intent of […]
There’s a pothole in the road that’s tempting to step in. The Rovian methodology involves rapid fire Ad Hominem attacks with a few other classical logical fallacies thrown in. They generate these contemptuous counter attacks quickly, and move to the next one as soon as the last one gets refuted effectively. Only rarely do they […]
CONCLUSION For the foregoing reasons, the President—in light of the broad authority to use military force in response to the attacks of September 11th and to prevent further catastrophic attack expressly conferred on the President by the Constitution and confirmed and supplemented by Congress in the AUMF—has legal authority to authorize the NSA to conduct […]