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It’s about damn time!
Finally!! All U.S. troops remaining in Iraq, some 39,000, are heading home and will be out of Iraq by December 31. What took so long? Pres. George W. Bush took his eye off the ball in Afghanistan and our search for Osama bin Laden and sent troops into Iraq in 2003, supposedly because Saddam Hussein … Continue reading
Michael Steele: So wrong and yet so right
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele put his foot in his mouth last week at a fundraiser in Connecticut. He was caught on video making some oddly contradictory comments: “Keep in mind again, for our federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted … Continue reading
Obama sells out to Big Pharma
I’d heard about it somewhere a while back. Now Robert Reich has confirmed it wasn’t my imagination. In an article today on Salon.com, Reich talks about Big Pharma’s secret deal with the White House: In exchange for the industry’s support of his health care plan, Obama has promised not to use the government’s purchasing power … Continue reading
Blood on Bush’s Bible
A few years ago, I wrote a post and was taken to task for saying that George Bush had led us into his version of a holy war. He himself used the word “crusade.” Now comes a GQ story, complete with photos, showing that Donald Rumsfeld’s intelligence briefings to the president were covered with select … Continue reading
Let the chips fall
November 14, 2005. That’s the date of my first post addressing the use of torture by the Bush administration. (Run a Pied Type search on “torture” to see the rest.) My mind was made up long before the current, increasingly heated discussion began. Suffice it to say that while the media, the pundits, and the … Continue reading
Stem cell research gets green light again
Science is back. As promised, President Obama today signed a bill lifting George Bush’s religion-based restrictions on stem cell research. The move heralds a return to free, open, unfettered scientific inquiry. In a very heated and ongoing debate, religious ideologues argue that it is immoral to use/destroy embryonic stem cells — “human life” — for … Continue reading
Political snapshots
• Former President George W. Bush starts a 2009 speaking tour next month that will take him to several foreign nations. He’s now listed with the Washington Speakers Bureau and, to date, has ten speeches scheduled. I can’t help wondering who would actually pay good money to hear him speak. Public speaker he is not. … Continue reading
Gates reviewing Bush’s photo ban
Because our government tried so hard to keep pictures like this out of the press, I thought I’d hang on to this one. This is what we are accomplishing in Iraq. This is why we should get out, now. Photos like this first became public in 2004 because a brave young photographer, Tami Silicio, and … Continue reading
Determined Obama hits the ground running
The UK’s Guardian today published an interesting, detailed list of Barack Obama’s activities during his first 100 hours in office. It’s a good read; I have to admire the man who actually lived through it, doing everything on the list. Among the items I most enjoyed: 4 Then the words: “We reject as false the … Continue reading
Wolves still howling out west
I’ve written before about the status of gray wolves in the U.S. Those are the ones the Bush administration kept trying to get removed from the endangered species list so they could be hunted. Last summer the wolves were delisted and big public hunts had already been planned when a courageous judge in Montana stepped … Continue reading
Torture: Will no one be held accountable?
On the off chance that you missed it, I want to repeat yesterday’s news from the Washington Post. A Bush administration official finally has said yes, terror suspects were tortured: ‘We tortured [Mohammed al-]Qahtani,’ said Susan J. Crawford, in her first interview since being named convening authority of military commissions by Defense Secretary Robert M. … Continue reading
Presidential transition is dangerously long
The Taliban is on the move in Pakistan, beheading people. Hamas has risen again in Gaza and is raining rockets into Israel. Joe Biden predicted the world would test a new President Obama, and anyone who checks the news occasionally knew it was true, whether Biden meant a literal test or just difficult times. What … Continue reading
The devil made me post this
Feeling the need to throw a few shoes of your own at George Bush? A friend sent me the link to this online game: Sock and Awe Enjoy! (My highest score so far: 5)
Bush dodges shoes thrown in Baghdad
George Bush appeared at a surprise press conference in Baghdad earlier today, after a highly secret overnight flight. Yet despite what the New York Times at one point called “extraordinary security,” a man within 12 feet of the lectern was able to throw first one of his shoes and then the other at the president. … Continue reading
Retrieving our Constitution
The following appeared in a Christian Science Monitor story about two hours ago: The Fourth Circuit’s decision has profound repercussions. … It grants the executive discretion to displace the constitutional protections of the criminal justice system, including the right to speedy presentment, confrontation, and trial by jury, merely by alleging a connection to possible terrorist … Continue reading
Obama, Hillary, Palin, and that lame duck dude
Clearly I have exhausted my interest in politics and political news, for a while at least. I know Obama is busy choosing his cabinet and making lots of appointments, but I’ve paid more attention to the economy, the situation in Mumbai, the holidays, Christmas shopping, and the Black Friday trampling death at Wal-Mart and shooting … Continue reading
Time for another Constitutional amendment
Amendment XX to the U.S. Constitution changed the end of the President’s term of office from March 4 to January 20. Ratified in 1933, it recognized that times had changed, that a four-month presidential transition was no longer necessary, and that it exposed the U.S. to a dangerously long period of lame-duck governance. One has … Continue reading
Bush going after wolves … again
The Bush administration is determined to go after the gray wolves in our Northern Rockies. Yet another plan is in the works to allow mass hunts of a species still struggling to regain a viable population in the Lower 48. You’d think in the last days of his presidency, George Bush could find a more … Continue reading
We are not yet one nation
I fell asleep last night thinking about some of the blogs I had read yesterday. Of course I didn’t expect them all to be ecstatic about Obama’s election; after all, almost half the country voted for John McCain. No, what stuck in my mind was how many of those McCain supporters were expressing fear (their … Continue reading
Bailout: American taxpayers on the hook … again
It will come as no surprise to anyone that George Bush’s speech last night angered me. How dare he step in at the eleventh hour in this financial crisis and pull scare tactics on the American public! We didn’t create this problem. We have no vote on the bailout plan. We’ve been scared for months, … Continue reading
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