I seem to be taking a political sabbatical this week. I’ve been working on [obsessed with?] a local project that involves mapping the roads in the Cherokee Nation as they were surveyed in 1832. I’ll skip talking about the why of such an endeavor, but it has plunged me into a piece of Georgia history […]
It was a good Thanksgiving. Relatives came and went. Parties happened. Turkeys got cooked. We even had rain. In North Georgia that’s something to be thankful about. But on the side of my mind, Scott McClellan’s book teaser played over and over: The most powerful leader in the world had called upon me to speak […]
Bush’s Plame-gate Cover-up In early fall 2003, George W. Bush joined in what appears to have been a criminal cover-up to conceal the role of his White House in exposing the classified identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. That is the logical conclusion one would draw from a new statement by then-White House […]
from Thanksgiving, 2006 This year, we’re still in Iraq, and the President and Vice President are still in the White House, but the elections of 2006 are just over and were glorious. As far as we have to go to reclaim our country, at least we have a chance now. I’m going to be sure […]
"The McCarthyite hysteria that permits the anonymous smearing of any public servant who is now, or ever may have been, a member of the Federalist Society; a person of faith; and/or a conservative (especially a young, conservative woman of color) is truly a disservice to our country." Rachel Paulose, U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Remember her? […]
Grim climate change report spurs UN call for ‘breakthrough’ The Nobel-winning IPCC group of climate scientists on Saturday issued their starkest warning yet on global warming, prompting a UN demand for politicians to smash the deadlock on tackling the worsening threat. In a panorama of the evidence, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) declared […]
British General: Our Presence ‘Instigated’ Violence In Iraq, ‘90 Percent’ Reduction After Withdrawal After Britain partially withdrew forces from southern Iraq in September, the White House slandered its “closest ally,” claiming “British forces have performed poorly in Basra” and suggested “it’s best that they leave.” The White House should take notice of what has happened […]
Reid To Keep Senate In Session, No Recess Appointments From Reid’s statement: Even with all this hard work on our side, the commitments the administration made to me before August break were not met. In the almost three months since that break, we have received no Democratic nominees to full-time commission positions. For some, in […]
Panel Drops Immunity From Eavesdropping Bill Reflecting the deep divisions within Congress over granting legal immunity to telephone companies for cooperating with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping without warrants, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a new domestic surveillance law on Thursday that sidestepped the issue. By a 10 to 9 vote, the committee approved […]
UN envoy meets Myanmar prisoners A UN rights investigator Thursday met Myanmar’s longest serving political prisoner, journalist Win Tin, a key member of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told reporters he met Win Tin and other leading prisoners of conscience during a brief visit to Yangon’s notorious Insein […]