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Where have we gone, America?
On Staged “Terrorist” Attacks and Dictatorship
Impeach Now or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy, Paul Craig Roberts, Counterpunch
Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for [...]

I was rereading a bit about Emerson and self-reliance earlier. It affected me, as it always does. Before I wade into current political statements of opinion on the recent Presidential Directives (I’ve seen blog headlines), I’ve decided to treat it like I would treat any document I wanted to interpret. What follows is my initial [...]

The Cheney-Specter bill makes following the protections in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act totally optional. The bill would change the law so that foreign intelligence surveillance of Americans could be conducted without following FISA’s requirement of individualized judicial review of wiretaps. The bill would change the law to allow the president to ignore [...]

Olbermann: ‘How dare you, Mr. President’
Half a lifetime ago, I worked in this now-empty space. And for 40 days after the attacks, I worked here again, trying to make sense of what happened, and was yet to happen, as a reporter.
All the time, I knew that the [...]

I am participating in this blogger action, in a limited way. I’m not following directions, which would be to replace my entire front page with the single word “Impeach.”
I am participating in this more limited fashion because we don’t have the congressional votes for an impeachment process and I think there are actually even more [...]

Mr. Cheney, Mr. Rumsfeld, Ms. Rice:
We are America’s citizens. We are not defeatists. We are not pessimists. We are not appeasers.
I don’t hear anyone arguing that the militant anti-USA movements in the middle east are not a threat.
Not “Dean democrats,” not anyone.
Many of us simply have come to believe that you back-alley players [...]

This was an excellent Frontline. You can watch it online if you missed it.
The Dark Side
“OOOOSH-Whooosh….Luke - I mean George -I am your President….whoosh.”
Oh, and on the Supreme Court ruling on Guantanamo… isn’t it pretty clear now that this administration is guilty of war crimes? So… what? Are the Republicans so tied to their funding [...]