Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Hart Williams
These are actually (if unpopularly in some circles) truths:
That Valerie Plame was an undercover CIA operative.
That someone above Scooter Libby committed a felony in ‘outing’ her and that we all pretty much know who.
That it is illegal wiretap without going through the FISA court. Each instance is a separate felony.
That George W. Bush knowingly went [...]
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Filed under: CIA, Iraq, Politics, Republicans
Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
Senator Sam Brownback, who raised his hand in the Republican debate last month when asked “who doesn’t believe in evolution?” has his “defense” up in the NYT today. His so-called “belief in evolution” can be summarized thusly from his piece What I Think About Evolution:
“The unique and special place of each and every person in [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Politics, Republicans, Science
Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
Just last week the Department of Defense again affirmed their choice of body armor manufacturers. They rejected Dragon Skin in favor of the current use of Cerdyne Corporation ceramic plate body armor. It was their contention that Dragon Skin, which is the body armor of choice for all private military contractors, Special Forces worldwide who [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Foreign Policy, International, Military, National Security
Posted on May 31st, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
While this is a real change here at DemDaily, let’s listen to a song from another time of tumoil and war
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Filed under: Congress, Election '08, Environment, Foreign Policy, Homeland Security, Human Rights
Posted on May 30th, 2007 by Todd Mitchell
Leave it to the new justice on the block, Alito, to deliver the opinion of the “gang of five” in this pay discrimination suit, Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire (2007). Essentially, the court yesterday trivialized the spirit of Title VII, and the Bush administration got to abandon its own EEOC’s findings and come down in favor [...]
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Filed under: Supreme Court
Posted on May 30th, 2007 by Stuart O'Neill
Last nights appearance on Keith Olbermann should, in my old-school ‘Practical Politics’ reality-world, slam the door on the efforts to get him into the race. (Al Gore)
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Filed under: Breaking News, Election '08, Political News Shows, Wes Clark
Posted on May 30th, 2007 by BobHiggins
Illustrating The Joys Of Theocracy
All of the talk lately about the religious preferences of the presidential candidates or their lack of them has me concerned for the direction of the current campaign and the fact that religion has any place in this discussion at all.
Yesterday, while drinking my second cup of coffee and mentally [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Politics, Religion, Spirituality, Republicans
Posted on May 29th, 2007 by Hart Williams
For those who read blogs, the screaming red flag has been raised by the casual dismissal by Monica Goodling of the term “caging list” as just “a direct mail term,” last week during her congressional testimony.
Caging is a felony, and Goodling essentially admitted that said felony was engaged in by officials of the Justice Department.
(Perhaps [...]
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Filed under: Karl Rove, Republicans
Posted on May 29th, 2007 by Robert Stein
After a humiliating retreat on Iraq funding and with abysmal approval ratings, Congressional Democrats go back to work for a war of attrition with the White House this summer.
Whatever else they do, Democrats should press Sen. Byrd’s effort to overturn the 2002 resolution that sanctioned the invasion of Iraq–for more reasons than one.
Strategically, if they [...]
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Filed under: Congress, Election '08, Iraq, Republicans
Posted on May 28th, 2007 by Hart Williams
In 1868, on May 5, General John Logan (from any number of origins, including having been inspired or jealous of the community attention being paid to Confederate graves, the original impetus having remained an historical mystery), proclaimed, as “commander-in-chief” of the Grand Army of the Republic (a fraternal organization of former Union soldiers, sailors, et [...]
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Filed under: Military, Veterans Issues
