Archive for the 'Bill of Rights' Category

When it comes to erosion of freedom, repetition of warnings is a good thing.

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Just because the Bush administration employs the theories and practices of the Simpson’s Itchy ‘n Scratchy does not mean it is not dangerous.
These are mere excerpts from a column worth your time.
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The Gonzalez-Card caper: Why the Bush administration can not oversee itself
By Eric Mink
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Wednesday, May. 23 2007
It was crude and almost ludicrous: […]

Welcome to Frederick Forsyth’s Zangaro and Secretary of Defense Kimba.

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

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McClatchy’s D.C. Bureau Claims It’s Barred From Defense Secretary Plane
By Joe Strupp–Editor & Publisher
Published: May 23, 2007 12:40 PM ET
NEW YORK Staffers at McClatchy’s Washington, D.C., Bureau — one of the few major news outlets skeptical of intelligence reports during the run-up to the war in Iraq — claims it is now being punished for […]

Someone complained? Someone always complains!

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

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The South Dakota Dept. of Motor Vehicles have decided to rescind Heather Morijah’s personalized license plates “MPEACHW” because of one reported complaint. The Rapid City resident is the conservation organizer for the West River Office of the Sierra Club. (Photo by Steve McEnroe, Journal photographer)
State looks to pull anti-Bush license plate
By Kevin Woster, Journal staff
RAPID […]

Nick Equifax–Counter-Intelligence

Thursday, March 29th, 2007

Ordinary Customers Flagged as Terrorists
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 27, 2007; D01
Private businesses such as rental and mortgage companies and car dealers are checking the names of customers against a list of suspected terrorists and drug traffickers made publicly available by the Treasury Department, sometimes denying services to ordinary people whose names are […]

Maybe we cannot handle the truth…

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Time Joins Newsweek In Thinking That Americans Really, Really Don’t Care About Afghanistan

U.S. edition
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European edition
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Rachel Sklar | Posted Sunday March 25, 2007 at 05:34 PM
“…Time’s cover story is an essay arguing in favor of teaching the Bible in schools…On the cover of its international edition is a story that is less easily boiled down: […]

It can’t happen here. It can’t happen here. It can’t happen here.

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

March 25, 2007
N.Y. Police Spied Broadly Before G.O.P. Convention
By JIM DWYER
For at least a year before the 2004 Republican National Convention, teams of undercover New York City police officers traveled to cities across the country, Canada and Europe to conduct covert observations of people who planned to protest at the convention, according to police records […]

Steady as she goes…

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III has taken responsibility for problems with the collection of records. He said that agents made mistakes in their use of “exigent circumstance letters” and that he has banned the use of such letters. Nevertheless, Bob refuses to allow his agents to wreck his Fizz.
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Try the low maintenance burgundy cape.

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

Tin Horn Torquemada wore the brown suit because the dry cleaner was attempting to rid his hooded black robes of caked blood.
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Looney Tunes had an answer for everything!
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“Bush: No Retreat on Spying
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, January 19, 2007; 1:08 PM
On Wednesday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales wrote a letter to senators announcing that […]

In case you believed that Bill O’Reilly had reached his plateau of smarmy behavior, get a load of this!

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

“O’Reilly Abortion Report Riles Kansas MD
By JOHN HANNA
Associated Press Writer
November 04. 2006 11:27PM
An abortion doctor plans to ask for an investigation of the state attorney general and Bill O’Reilly over comments by the Fox television host that he got information from Kansas abortion records, the doctor’s attorneys said Saturday.
Dr. George Tiller said he will ask […]

“It wasn’t the break-in, it was the cover-up” summed up the two years of the Watergate mess. We can use the same construction about Pastor Haggard. “It’s not the sex and drugs, it’s the hypocricy.”

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

I will not judge Haggard for adult consensual sex or a taste for meth. Who amI? But, the constant, high-C, evangelical chorus intent on shattering the Constitution and our historical rights is our business! They certainly have every right to practice their religion–just don’t do it in our faces.

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If a degree of rudeness […]