The Democratic ‘08 presidential candidates are lining up against the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey to be the next U.S. Attorney General. Hillary Clinton released the following statement today on her opposition to Mukasey:
We need an Attorney General who has the strength to challenge this Administration when it is wrong, who is committed to reestablishing the [...]
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There are a lot of scary things in the world.
There’s the “fun-scary”—kids who dress up as clowns, monsters, or fairy princesses once a year to get a month’s supply of candy, which they’ll finish off by morning.
There’s scary movies, from “Jaws” to “Friday the 13th“ to—well—“Scary Movie.”
The murder mystery genre—in books, TV, and film—can scare [...]
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On Monday, His Holiness, the Dalai Lama “was formally installed as a professor” at Emory University, as ”Tibetan monks wearing moon-shaped yellow hats chanted and played cymbals, gongs and horns.” The occassion was marked with a gift of a “faculty ID card,” although the Dalai Lama’s face is “recognized around the world.”
“I suspect you will not [...]
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Today, defying protests from the Chinese government, the United States “conferred its highest civilian honor on the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet, and urged China to meet with him in Beijing to resolve their differences over his demands for autonomy for his mountainous homeland.”
In his acceptance speech, the Dalai Lama expressed deep [...]
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Jimmy Carter was making the interview rounds today…
In an interview with Wolf Blitzer today on CNN, Jimmy Carter told Blitzer, that the U.S. “tortures prisoners in violation of international law.”
“I don’t think it. I know it,” Carter told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.
“Our country for the first time in my life time has abandoned the basic [...]
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His High Holiness, the Dalai Lama will be in Washington, D.C. next week to receive the United States’ highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal.
Advocates close to the exiled Tibetan spiritual and political leader say the award, which will be presented next Wednesday in the Capitol Rotunda, is the most significant tribute to the Dalai Lama [...]
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The Supreme Court won’t hear the case of Khaled el-Masri who is another victim of this Administrations “war on terror”. As reported:
“Mr. Masri contended in his suit that he was seized by local law enforcement officials while vacationing in Macedonia on New Year’s Eve 2003. At the time, he was 41 years old and an [...]
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