ny texan at Bluebloggin has a very detailed post up today, about what many of us want for Xmas. And how we can make it happen. Yes Virginia there is a Santa “clause” The post on BB has the same title as this one. It is a must read. - lots of case details, excepts [...]

Courtesy of CREW, Citizens for Responsibilty and Ethics in Washington has released their year end report. They note at the top of the page that despite the Democrat’s election vow to institute more checks and balances on Congressional ethics, not a damn thing has changed in that regard. No new enforcement regulations were put [...]

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CIA boss Michael Hayden is in a closed door session with the House Intel committee. Since its a private session, I doubt we will get much info out of the participants. He is trying to explain the CIA’s destruction of the ‘torture tapes’ . From The Progress Report:
After testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday, [...]

By ABE and BIBLE BELTED
Does anyone remember a science fiction book titled Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury? We do. When some of us were growing up we read a lot of Bradbury and we feel that this particular book is especially prophetic.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the plot line, [...]

With presidential elections a year away, the tabloids and news outlets are spinning anything and everything they can to get the candidate they back a leg up. More money is being spent than ever before. It always mystifies me, that someone would spend so many millions of dollars to get elected to a thankless job [...]

The Roman Senate
There are certainly enough issues out there right now. Overwhelming, actually, that we’re pulled in so many directions trying to do the right things on every front. Each of us may take up our own favorite cause, and some of us try to respond and put out all the fires at once. On [...]

The European newspaper, the TimesOnline had an interesting article this past Sunday. What bothers me that I can’t find anything similar in the US media. I googled the main phrase ‘flight logs, cia’ and only got the European write-ups, with the exception of a two-year old CommonDreams article reprinted from a French news media outlet. [...]

In a conversation the other day about the Peace Vigil that takes place once per week here in Ashland, we wondered why we didn’t hear much, overall, about protests, either that they are held, or that they had anyone in attendance. Not about the small gathering here in Ashland, but on the National level, in [...]

i have tooled around the internets over the weekend to see what i could see. i have been on a self imposed news blackout for quite some time- which means i scan the headlines only instead of seeking out more. i don’t need to see much more. don’t get me wrong- [...]

The second and last installment of the Valerie Plame convo with Jason Leopold of TruthOut.

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Another fine photoshop and post from Lulu Maude. Check out her blog here.
You have to admire Michael Mukasey’s academic integrity on the question of whether waterboarding can be defined as a form of torture.
Mukasey has dodged the questions of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the practice, saying that he doesn’t have the security clearance for [...]

A Hat-tip to a dear blogger bud, Libhomo. I learned this evening that the anti-torture folks in NYC protested at Chuckie Schumer’s place today in an impromptu coalition of patriotic protesters. From his writeup:
Although I arrived late, I didn’t miss out on the most interesting part of the protest. People who had started across the [...]

we live in a democratic republic- or we did prior to the hundreds of signing statements and craptastically corrupt, fascistic laws passed in the last 7 years. part of being a citizen in a democratic republic is voting. yep- while our beloved and tattered constitution is fairly vague about the ‘right to vote’ (except for [...]

We present another in the series The 14 Characteristics of Fascism and how BushCo uses them.This is updated from the original series that ran on the Coalition for a Republican-Free America -Dusty

PART VII: OBSESSION WITH NATIONAL SECURITY
Essay I: Librarian Takes on Patriot Act: And Wins
By PraetorOne and BibleBelted
Editors’ Notes by Daniel and BibleBelted [...]