Monday’s Washington Post has a pretty amazing article on the current state of that fellow who’s squatting on valuable government property at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW: The Imperiled Presidency Inside the Bunker A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease Bush, Grasping for Answers and Fixated on Iraq, Remains Resolute By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, July 2, 2007; Page A01 At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers. One at a...
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Good Eagle News and Bad Eagle News
The good news is that the bald eagle is off the endangered species list: Bald eagles no longer endangered SURVIVAL TOUTED AS PROOF THAT 1973 SPECIES ACT NEEDED By H. Josef Hebert Associated Press Article Launched: 06/28/2007 01:30:53 AM PDT WASHINGTON – The American bald eagle, a national symbol once almost wiped out by hunters and DDT poisoning, has not only survived but is thriving. The Interior Department will announce today it is removing the majestic bird from the...
SCOTUS Gitmo!
Whether it’s a bolt from the blue — or, as with many decisions handed down last week, a blot from the blue — the Supreme Court has broken with tradition to reverse itself on whether to reverse a ruling on our weird naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a country it’s allegedly illegal for Michael Moore or most any other American citizen to visit: From the International Herald Tribune (New York Times) Supreme Court to hear habeas corpus claims...
Pissing on Michael Moore
Let me see if I get this straight: EVERYONE* who’s seen it thinks Michael Moore’s new movie is the best thing he’s ever done, and addresses a critical issue in American life that’s being ignored at — literally — the peril of every American. (The Fox News reporter at Cannes was, reportedly, moved to tears by it.) And Michael Moore, being successful and having made a good movie must be...
The Day The Law Died
Well, you knew it was coming. The White House has imperiously thrown out house AND senate congressional subpoenas, and the Roberts Supreme Court decided that 1954′s Brown v. Board of Education, the legal bedrock of the entire Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the case that put Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court, that overturned the horrific Plessy v. Ferguson “separate but equal” rationalization for Jim Crow laws, well, the Roberts Court has declared THAT struggle over:...
Cut and Run … Now!
I left this comment at “The Moderate Voice” on a post about how us awful lefties were SO convinced that this war was awful that we weren’t looking for “victory” anymore. But it stands on its own, and, frankly, I doubt that it will be much read in its context over there. June 26, 2007 at 3:50 am: In Vietnam, we knew that the war was hopeless in 1968. But we hung on for five more years, and two...
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