December 2005
Daily Kos: Welcome To ScAlito World: Abortion
For those who are ambivalent about a woman's right to choose, those who support the right only in cases of rape or incest, imagine being raped in South Dakota.
Mr. Cheney's Imperial Presidency - New York Times
George W. Bush has quipped several times during his political career that it would be so much easier to govern in a dictatorship. Apparently he never told his vice president that this was a joke.
Fun Bits About American Torture / In many ways, the U.S. is now just as inhumane and brutal as any Third World regime. Oh well?
Oh my God, yes, yes we do torture, America that is, and we do it a lot, and we do it in ways that would make you sick to hear about, and we're doing it right now, all over the world
Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - By Robert Scheer
Call it Tonto’s revenge: The outrageous rip-off of Native American tribes by a top Republican lobbyist is leading inexorably to a reckoning for the allegedly morally superior religious and political right.
Iraq's Death Squads
OF ALL THE bloodshed in Iraq, none may be more disturbing than the campaign of torture and murder being conducted by U.S.-trained government police forces.
The Seattle Times: Opinion: Legalize drugs — all of them
I was a cop for 34 years, the last six of which I spent as chief of Seattle's police department. But no, I don't favor decriminalization. I favor legalization, and not just of pot but of all drugs, including heroin, cocaine, meth, psychotropics, mushro
Rev. William E. Alberts: the Forgotten Christmas Story
Saying "No" to King Herod
Mr. Bush, have I got an exit strategy for you
In view of his miserable record, his arrogant lack of good judgment and his failure to understand the gravity of his record, President Bush (and Vice President Dick Cheney) should be shown the exit door with a proviso to never darken the Oval Office again
November 2005
Majority Believe White House Misleads Public, Poll Shows
A majority of U.S. adults believe the Bush administration generally misleads the public on current issues
October 2005
Is This the Death of America? America's sense of itself - its pride in its power - has been profoundly damaged
At the end of a cruel and turbulent summer, nobody is more dismayed and demoralized about America than Americans.
God calling George, come in George...
What a Stroke of LuckThat God's Advice to George Bush Fits So Neatly Alongside US National Interests
Jeffrey St. Clair: the Great Green Scare
With nothing much better to do and an unlimited budget to burn, the FBI is turning its mighty inquisitorial arsenal on environmental groups across the country.
White House Press Briefing: McClellan Defends New Claims of Terrorist Takeovers
After President Bush's major speech today, raising the threat of terrorism and the possible takeover of many countries, Press Secretary Scott McClellan faced skeptical questions from reporters.
Retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, a Vietnam veteran, on Iraq:
“The invasion of Iraq I believe will turn out to be the greatest strategic disaster in U.S. history,” said Odom, now a scholar with the Hudson Institute.
U.S. Generals Now See Virtues of a Smaller Troop Presence in Iraq - Los Angeles Times
During a trip to Washington, the generals said the presence of U.S. forces was fueling the insurgency, fostering an undesirable dependency on American troops among the nascent Iraqi armed forces and energizing terrorists across the Middle East.
September 2005
US wealthiest 'worth $1 trillion'
The US's richest tycoons increased their personal wealth in the past year, with the top 400 worth $1.13 trillion (£640bn), says Forbes magazine.
No Exit; Descending into hell with George Bush By Mike Whitney
Failure is an indelible blotch, like the mark of Cain, forever embossed on the soul of its victim. Its part of Bush's genetic-code, as integral to the whole mechanism as the cocky-drawl or the lumbering gait.
American Prospect: The Eye Of The Relief Effort
Do we really think the Great Depression was mainly a problem of defective character, and that people with grave personal inadequacies in 1935 somehow turned into worthy souls by 1955? Hardly.
Bad Daddy
All we have is a national political theater in which Bush stars. It is a play completely divorced from reality, accountability, and real deeds. It's a dream world created by generators, lighting, scriptwriting, patriotic buzzwords, lies, and imagery.
Georgie, You’re Doing a Heck of a Job
The last few weeks have been irrefutable proof that America is being wrecked and mismanaged by the most incompetent, dangerous and out of touch boobs ever to obtain power.
Not the New Deal - New York Times
It's a given that the Bush administration, which tried to turn Iraq into a laboratory for conservative economic policies, will try the same thing on the Gulf Coast.
Cenk Uygur: Did We Let Osama Get Away on Purpose? The Huffington Post
If people inside the administration actually held back from capturing Osama bin Laden when we had him cornered, it borders on treason. This leads to the next set of questions. Who ordered Brigadier General Mattis to stand down and not send his 4,000 troop
News for New Orleans, Louisiana
Hurricane Katrina is rapidly becoming the worst environmental calamity in U.S. history, with oil spills rivaling the Exxon Valdez, hundreds of toxic sites still uncontrolled, and waterborne poisons soaking 160,000 homes.
9/11 -- and Counting by Michael Hirsh
Four Years In, No Clear Plan
Disaster's disquieting reality - The Boston Globe
THIS IS THE phrase repeated again and again when Katrina broke through the levees of denial: ''I can't believe this is America."
