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 [...]

Reprinted from TomPaine.com-It’s worth your time….this is why the Dem’s are fast becoming my former party.
Al Meyerhoff
November 15, 2007
An attorney in Los Angeles, Al Meyerhoff is co-counsel for the class in the Enron shareholder litigation.
Perhaps Ralph Nader was right.
The leadership of the Democratic party recently had the rare opportunity to significantly recast the Securities and [...]

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 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 [...]

A big hat tip to FireDogLake for the 411 on this story. It’s not all over the MSM, which frankly doesn’t surprise me one iota. As FDL notes, this bankrupts the homophobic bastard known as Fred Phelps and his church of homophobic freaks at Westboro Baptist. Its judgment day for Freddy and his clan. U.S. [...]

After watching the confirmation hearing for Michael Mukasey the last couple of days, I have come to the conclusion that he is a Bushie of the highest order…just more intelligent than the others in that select group. Watch the exchange between Mukasey and Russ Feingold below regarding Bush and his ability to disobey laws he [...]

The NYT has a good Editorial read up this morning. It addresses the Bush administration’s propensity to find something, anything…to drum up their fear factoring in order to gain more power to spy on Americans. The title is: Spies,Lies and FISA. From the second paragraph of the editorial:
There is no truth to any of those [...]

Part two in our series of Conversations with Uncle Abe, comparing the fear campaign of McCarthy to Bush’s fearmongering.
PART II
The Only Thing They Have to Spread is Fear Itself:
Repressive Legislation and Court Decisions
I specifically asked Uncle Abe if he saw any similarities between the Red Scare of the 1950s and what’s happening [...]

From the NYT:
The Iraqi government said Saturday that it expects to refer criminal charges to its courts within days in connection with a shooting here by a private American security company, and the Interior Ministry gave new details of six other episodes it is investigating involving the company.
The state minister for national security affairs, [...]

Jena, population roughly 3000, isn’t a new phenomenon. It’s historically accurate for the Deep South to exhibit this type of racism; after all, they have been doing it for over 200 years. 12% of the population, or 310 individuals are African American in Jena. Jena is also the site of the infamous Juvenile Correctional Center [...]

All over the internet i hear the same refrain- dennis kucinich or chris dodd would make a great president- but he doesn’t have a chance. Why? Aren’t you going to vote for him? If all of us who aren’t voting for clinton or obama or edwards- voted for kucinich or dodd- [...]

Joe Bonamassa’s newest above..and below..the news for your Sunday afternoon, pre-football edition..
Bush has picked his next AG..Per Politico The Asshat-in-Chief has selected: It’s nearly official: President Bush is preparing to name Michael B. Mukasey, a former judge who was nominated to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Republicans close [...]

“The Department of Justice’s Voting Section is pressuring 10 states to purge voter rolls before the 2008 election based on statistics that former Voting Section attorneys and other experts say are flawed and do not confirm that those states have more voter registrations than eligible voters, as the department alleges.
Voting Section Chief John Tanner called [...]

Thanks to GonzoGate, and the fact that many talented US Attorney’s are leaving the DoJ, some very important investigations are on hold. Budget shortages are also being blamed according to this WSJ article :
The number of lawyers working in U.S. attorneys’ offices fell 2.4% to 5,316 between Sept. 30, 2004, and Sept. 30, 2006, after [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa — A county judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban as unconstitutional Thursday and ordered local officials to process marriage licenses for six gay couples. Gay couples from anywhere in Iowa could apply for a marriage license from Polk County under Judge Robert Hanson’s ruling.
Less than two hours after word [...]