November 2008

Salon.com quote from a July, 2008 article
"If we know this much about torture, rendition, secret prisons and warrantless wiretapping despite the administration's attempts to stonewall, then imagine what we don't know," …..
"You have to go back to the McCarthy era to find this level of abuse," says Barry Steinhardt, the director of the Program on [...]

I see five Algerians were released from the American gulag…..
For the first time, a federal judge today ordered the release of alleged enemy combatants from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ruling that the government had provided insufficient evidence to continue their detentions.
Glennzilla takes it from there….
The five men ordered released [...]

The Akron Beacon Journal's favorite conservative writer, Charles Krauthammer, rubbed me the wrong way when he bloviated up this horsepucky in my Sunday edition….
The Bush administration sees the $700 billion rescue as an emergency measure to save the financial sector on the grounds that finance is a utility. No government would let the electric companies [...]

I've been thinking about this $750 billion dollar holdup of the Treasury. I have come to some tentative conclusions.
I know from 8 years of Bush-Rove-Cheney that this administration does nothing without having two goals in mind. The primary goal, as was confirmed by Scott McClellan, is always political. Once a cockamamie plan was settled [...]