Taking a HARD look at the Business of Politics

According to the Times writeup of this disgusting turn of events, Bush decided that the sentence was too harsh. The Times quoted him as saying, “I respect the jury’s verdict, But I have concluded that the prison sentence given to Mr. Libby is excessive.” Respect? Dubya hasn’t shown respect for the law since he was […]

There’s a post over at the Washington Post blog that begins an analysis of the Cheney Vice Presidency and how it has impacted the Reign of Terror(ists) called The Bush Presidency. Personally I can’t wait for the rest of the series, and the way it analyses the trashing of our Constitution and chronicles the abuse […]

The NY Times ran an article today about the role an FBI Informer played in the capture of the Fort Dix Terrorist Suspects. It points out that in many instances the informer may have been the instigator rather than simply a conduit of information. This is entrapment, pure and simple.
The article also points out that […]

Over the last couple days, after attending the Step It Up Rally for Climate Change in Bethlehem PA on Saturday, I’ve really been doing a lot of thinking about the damage that’s been done by the Bush Administration. I started thinking about how he’s gutted the Environmental Protection Agency and its regulations, and how the […]

I’m not sure I understand completely the implications of this one, but it feels REALLY ugly and smells like Bush. According to an article in Heise.de, the US Department of Homeland Security has requested a copy of the master key for the DNS Root Zone. Because the US still oversees ICANN, it’s possible that ICANN […]

The NY Times just reported that a Federal Judge has struck down the Bush Admin’s changes to the Forest Management Rules, the ones that strip away pretty much all environmental protections and allow rampant deforestation on Federal land and the replacement of trees with cellphone towers (probably with fake branches to make them look like […]

There’s an absolutely horrifying in depth NY Times article on The Women’s War, an article every woman should read. It’s about how women soldiers perceive Iraq, their experiences, their tales, and the fact that more of them are coming home with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome than are men. Why? Not only are many of them […]

Scientists travelling abroad who work for the US Fish and Wildlife Service are no longer allowed to speak about Polar Bears. This is the edict that has fallen from on high. Even when the Scientists are at conferences to discuss Global Warming they are not to discuss Polar bears. Scientists have been censored by the […]

As Intrade offers odds on the Presidential Pardon of Scooter Libby, the questions surrounding the firing of DOJ Attorneys who were investigating Government Corruption and the last minute changes to the Patriot Act allowing those firings, are heating up as the investigation by Congress into those firings and the reasons behind them continue.
And whose name […]

Yet another wedge is being driven between US Citizens and their rights. According to a CNet article, “Hundreds of millions of Americans will have until 2013 to be outfitted with new digital ID cards, the Bush administration said on Thursday in a long-awaited announcement that reveals details of how the new identification plan will work.” […]