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about now…

from: Slate Mind Games Are we going to attack Iran? Bad Party Line All the reasons to hate Bush’s wiretapping bill from: The Washington Post Bush Detainee Plan Adds to World Doubts Of U.S., Powell Says I’ll admit that this Administration has made me paranoid. Suddenly, there’s a flurry about detainees and the Geneva Conventions, […]

hubris, sure enough…

THINKPROGRESS and TIME magazine report that President Bush is lining up for war with Iran, or that it has already started. I don’t understand his authority for such an action. The war powers belong to the Congress. No rational stretch of the imagination would say he has Congressional approval for such an action. Equally important, […]

on torture, the current vote…

PARTY YES NO DEMOCRAT 0 44 INDEPENDENT 0 1 REPUBLICAN 48 7 Total 48 52

hold your breath as long as you’d like, Mr. Bush!

Kieth Olbermann has become the consistent voice saying, "The Emperor has no clothes!" This clip was as good as the last one, and the one before that. Kieth is like a good psychotherapist. He says what we feel but cannot quite say. The topic is President Bush’s absolutely shameful Press Conference last Friday – the […]

my Senator…

We get a lot of requests to write our senators, and I do every one of them. My senator always responds quickly: Thank you for contacting me. Representing the State of Georgia in the United States Senate is an honor and a privilege. I appreciate hearing from you and knowing your concerns. This automated response […]

a few good men…

Senator John Warner [Republican Virginia] served in WWII in the Navy, was Secretary of the Navy in the 1970’s, and currently serves on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Armed Services Committee. He is in his fifth term in the Senate. Senator John McCain [Republican Arizona] graduated from Annapolis, was shot down […]

the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end

Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War Geneva, 12 August 1949 …the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons: violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; taking of hostages; […]

weird science…

There’s something kind of strange going on in the comments section of The Next Hurrah of a post by emptywheel – "You Could Write a Book on the Bad Journalism". A commenter called "charles" jumps in with this: Good morning readers of The Next Hurrah This is my first time commenting here. I feel it […]

how unclear is this?

Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War Geneva, 12 August 1949 …the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons: violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture; taking of hostages; […]

the sky is falling! again…

Bush Says G.O.P. Rebels Are Putting Nation at Risk   President Bush made an impassioned defense on Friday of his proposed rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects, warning that the nation’s ability to defend itself would be undermined if rebellious Republicans in the Senate did not come around to his position. Speaking […]