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Dear Mr. Holder
Dear Mr. Holder
lawyermommusings.blogspot.com — Holder speciously recast the arguments against a civilian trial for KSM in his testimony to Congress. This lawyer mom discusses the arguments against holding a civilian trial, none of which Holder could answer, and Holder's suggestion that Bush is to blame for the terrorists' trial delays. (more) Dear Mr. Holder
Why is Bush selling F-16s to Pakistan?
Why is Bush selling F-16s to Pakistan?
slate.com — With his decision last week to sell F-16 fighter planes to Pakistan , President Bush returns to a dangerous game of self-deception that hasn't been seen at this level of risk since Richard Nixon was in the White House. The deal involves a mere couple ... (more) Why is Bush selling F-16s to Pakistan?
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: The political assassination of WH counsel ...
americablog.com — Steve Clemons weighs in about the White House whisper campaign that eventually did in White House counsel Greg Craig. Steve notes, as I have before, that it's odd that a White House which prided itself on running a political campaign with no leaks and ... (more) AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: The ...
Bowing to Mao
Bowing to Mao
politico.com — A reader sends over this video clip of President Richard M. Nixon's historic visit to China, which includes, at 1:24, a rather deep bow to Mao Zedong. David Sanger also recalls the flap over a George H. W. Bush bow in what really does seem, by ... (more) Bowing to Mao
Keene, Norquist and Barr Back Obama on Gitmo « The Washington Independent
washingtonindependent.com — David Keene of the American Conservative Union, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform, and former congressman/Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr are backing a proposal to send Guantanamo Bay detainees to a prison in Illinois, as well as ... (more) Keene, Norquist and Barr Back Obama on Gitmo «  ...
God, the Army, & PTSD: For Veteran's Day, Tara McKelvey on how the Bush-era VA pushed religion ...
bostonreview.net — The massacre at Fort Hood highlights mental health issues in the military. McKelvey investigates the mistreatment of returning Iraq veterans and finds the key role religious ideology has played in the betrayal of an overwhelmingly Christian Army. (more) God, the Army, & PTSD: For Veteran's Day, Tara McKelvey ...
CIA Led Way With Cash Handouts (washingtonpost.com)
washingtonpost.com — "Bush at War" is based on notes taken during more than 50 National Security Council and other meetings. Many direct quotations of President Bush and the war cabinet members come from these notes. Other personal notes, memos, calendars, written ... (more) CIA Led Way With Cash Handouts (washingtonpost.com)
Bipartisan Logic
encyclopedia.com — IN THE DEBATE over Iraq policy, too many Democrats, including members of Congress, have hidden behind easy statements of support for U.S. troops and loathing for Saddam Hussein without clarifying how they would have put their loathing into action. Too ... (more) Bipartisan Logic
Bush Emerging for Speech to Kick Off Public Policy Institute
Bush Emerging for Speech to Kick Off Public Policy Institute
nytimes.com — DALLAS — Nearly 10 months after leaving office, former President George W. Bush plans to emerge from self-imposed political hibernation on Thursday as he starts a new public policy institute to promote some of the domestic and international priorities ... (more) Bush Emerging for Speech to Kick Off Public Policy Institute
George W. Bush Chooses UVa. For Oral History Project
George W. Bush Chooses UVa. For Oral History Project
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com — Former President George W. Bush has chosen he Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia to conduct a "comprehensive oral history of his presidency." The Miller Center and Bush's foundation announced the George W. Bush Oral ... (more) George W. Bush Chooses UVa. For Oral History Project
Bush Pushes Volunteerism, but a Senate Seat Shares the Agenda
nytimes.com — President Bush tiptoed into a Republican Senate primary here today, after conservatives warned that overt White House meddling could backfire. White House officials have made clear in private that their preferred candidate is the former Gov. Lamar ... (more) Bush Pushes Volunteerism, but a Senate Seat Shares the ...
Glenn Greenwald
salon.com — Glenn Greenwald's Unclaimed Territory I was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. I am the author of two New York Times Bestselling books: "How Would a Patriot Act?" (May, 2006), a critique of the Bush ... (more) Glenn Greenwald
Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush
Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful for George W Bush
telegraph.co.uk — Barack Obama standing in front of the American flag: Nobel Prize: Ten famous peace prize winners (more) Bloodless President Barack Obama makes Americans wistful ...
Minority Leader Reid Criticizes Bush
Minority Leader Reid Criticizes Bush
niacouncil.org — Image Washington DC - "The US must find a third, less bleak option beyond either bombing or appeasing Iran," according to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). Several panels of experts that included Iranians joined Sen. Reid to discuss the binary ... (more) Minority Leader Reid Criticizes Bush
An Evangelical Trojan Horse in the Democratic Party?
blog.sojo.net — A recent Daily Kos post asks this question : Does the Evangelical movement belong in the Democratic Party? Of course, many Evangelicals — probably most — can answer that question without a moment’s thought: absolutely not. The ... (more) An Evangelical Trojan Horse in the Democratic Party?
The Dems' Smart Abortion Move
thedailybeast.com — But had big-tentism been merely a strategy by Democratic leaders, it would have failed. Just as important was the emergence, in the Bush years, of a new liberal grassroots the netroots which is generally hostile to single issue litmus tests, ... (more) The Dems' Smart Abortion Move
Pelosi Tax Doublespeak (video)
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Pelosi Tax Doublespeak (video)
youtube.com — Speaker Nancy Pelosi on CNBC continues Democrat doublespeak with her explanation of why eliminating the Bush tax cuts was not a tax increase but rather a eli... (more) Pelosi Tax Doublespeak (video)
POLITICO 44: No 'dithering'
POLITICO 44: No 'dithering'
politico.com — A day after former Vice President Cheney charged the Obama administration ... ... with "dithering" over its strategy for the war in Afghanistan, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs returned fire with guns blazing. "What Vice President Cheney ... (more) POLITICO 44: No 'dithering'
Shoes fly as Bush tells audience, ‘I did not sell my soul’
Shoes fly as Bush tells audience, ‘I did not sell my soul’
rawstory.com — A day after an effigy of the Grim Reaper stalked his speech in Edmonton, Canada, former President George W. Bush was on the defensive over his personal salvation. Speaking to a $400-a-seat crowd in Montreal, Bush told the roughly 1,000 attendees that ... (more) Shoes fly as Bush tells audience, ‘I did not sell my soul’
Specter Reconsidering His Position on OLC Nominee Dawn Johnsen « The Washington Independent
washingtonindependent.com — Earlier this year when Arlen Specter was still a Republican, the Pennsylvania senator was among the harshest critics of Dawn Johnsen, the Indiana University law professor who is President Obama’s pick to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal ... (more) Specter Reconsidering His Position on OLC Nominee Dawn ...
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