Why We Have To Keep The Filibuster
This from the LA Times is the prime example for why we must maintain the filibuster for judicial nominees. Here’s the kind of people the Bush Administration is nominating.
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Bring Theocracy To A Vote
As is so often the case, I?m trying to follow the logic in James “Krazy Kristian Kook” Dobson’s speech at the “Justice Sunday” (motto: Gonna Get Legislative On Your Asses) Conference. Ye ?ole bouncing ball of logic was careening around that Louisville church like a rabbit on a meth binge.
Read moreBy The Dawn’s Early Light?
America, with 1,516 U.S. fatalities in Iraq as of March 16, 2005, pays little public attention to its war dead. Indeed, aside from the printed obituaries in metro sections of dailies, there is little acknowledgment by the government or substantial reporting in the media of the soldiers who perish in Iraq and the families they leave behind. We do not see or hear them. They die alone on the hot sands of Iraq and their survivors grieve privately on American soil.
Read moreDown The CRA Rabbit Hole
A key argument espoused by American supporters of our imperialistic policies in the Middle East is that the Islamic theocracies pose a threat to American security because of their radical nature. Yet here at home, we have our own radical religious fundamentalists clamoring to form a theocracy.
Read moreWe Tortured Him, So He Surely Did Something
A British resident has claimed he was tortured by US guards at Guantanamo Bay, suffering violent sexual assaults, near drowning and an attack in which he was blinded.
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