I don't have the words to express my disgust with this attack on Department of Justice lawyers from the Liz Cheney-led group that goes by the name of Keep America Safe, more aptly named Keep America Scared. Shameful, despicable, and contemptible aren't strong enough. Adam Serwer at The American Prospect appropriately called it "The New McCarthyism." For those who may not have seen it, here's the video:So now lawyers who defend people accused of being...
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Funny or Die came out with a new video this week for Main Street Brigade supporting the proposed Consumer Finance Protection Agency that old Washington pillars on both sides of the aisle don't want. The CFPA would regulate credit card and mortgage companies in an effort to curb abuses by big banks and finance companies. All of the crew from Saturday Night Live volunteered to help get the word out. Have a look (it's the...
This appeared on CNN's Crossfire in 2004. Not much seems to have changed. We're still grossly partisan as a nation (or at least the politicians are), and the media are still hacks."I'm not your monkey" ... Jon Stewart, I love you.As you know, CNN cancelled Crossfire in January of 2005 -- more info in an interesting follow-up piece here: http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/01/4509.ars" ... most major media outlets, have a long way to go before the thinking public truly respects...
President Obama, in essentially a solo performance, took on the entire Republican leadership yesterday for almost 7 hours. I was able to watch much of it, and coverage of the times that I missed. What struck me was his depth of knowledge, not only of the pending health care reform bills, but also the insurance and health care delivery industries. After over a year of posturing, obfuscation, distortion, and obstruction by the Republicans, it was...
A couple of items of interest from Afghanistan. 1) President Karzai's latest power grab: "...a presidential decree to take total control of the country's electoral watchdog commission. Yes, that is the same commission that exposed widespread fraud in the 2009 vote...The Electoral Complaints Commission adjudicates violations and will play an important role in the September vote for a new Parliament. By law, it has five members: three non-Afghans appointed by the United Nations and two...
Anyone who is paying the slightest bit of attention is acutely aware that the wheels of government have ground to a halt. The Republicans, who have gone all-in against every American in an attempt to cause President Obama to fail, have targeted the November elections for the near-term win. There number one goal, of course, is to make Obama a one-term president, and this is the first step. As a tactic in this strategy, they...
In the latest news from the war in Vietnam Afghanistan, General Westmoreland's McChrystal's strategy of "winning the hearts and minds" of the Vietnamese Afghani people took a hit over the weekend as another 33 civilians, including women and children, were blown away by an "errant airstrike". General Westmoreland McChrystal immediately issued an apology to President Nguyen Van Thieu Hamid Karzai."One day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an impassioned plea for American-led forces to do...
In an entertaining exchange this weekend, Lee Fang of Think Progress ambushed ambush reporter Griff Jenkins at CPAC in Washington. You'll recall that Griff has made quite a name for himself ambushing O'Reilly and Fox Noise enemies in their front yards and parking lots peppering them with questions and then selectively editing the result to fit their narrative. Here's the exchange:Griff certainly doesn't like having done to him exactly what he does to others on...
Sen, Jim DeMint, this past Thursday at CPAC (which he read from a teleprompter):"Now let's talk a minute about the Presidential race in 2012. I hope Americans will expect more from their next president than a great speech. You can't govern from a teleprompter." Apparently Mitt Romney didn't get that memo:Neither did Dick Armey: Or Liz Cheney:Or Papa Cheney the war criminal:Really, Dick. How difficult is it to remember, "I love me some waterboarding."...
Title 18, U.S. Code 2340 defines torture as "an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering...upon another person within his custody or physical control;"USC 2340A defines the penalties:"Whoever outside the United States commits or attempts to commit torture shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both, and if death results to any person...
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