What must Bush be thinking now?

25 Jul

Even the Republican controlled Senate seems to be turning against him.

Sen. Specter Readies Bill to Sue Bush
By LAURIE KELLMAN
Associated Press Writer

A powerful Republican committee chairman who has led the fight against President Bush’s signing statements said Monday he would have a bill ready by the end of the week allowing Congress to sue him in federal court.

“We will submit legislation to the United States Senate which will…authorize the Congress to undertake judicial review of those signing statements with the view to having the president’s acts declared unconstitutional,” Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., said on the Senate floor.

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Protected: But Global Warming is unproven

25 Jul

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Protected: Meme: Should you be MALE or FEMALE?

21 Jul

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I Need to Wake Up – Melissa Etheridge

17 Jul

I Need to Wake Up
Melissa Etheridge

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The GOP and San Franciscophobia

17 Jul

With Ineptitude on Full Display, the Party’s Over for Republicans
by Garrison Keillor

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Leonard Pitts latest – King George?

15 Jul

Court ruling a blow to pride of King George

With apologies to the makers of the 1994 film, it’s never been ”the madness of King George” that troubled me.

No, it was the arrogance, a hubris so awesome and awful you tended to forget George is not, in fact, a king but a president. One might have been forgiven for forgetting, since President George W. Bush has governed pretty much as a King George would have: by fiat and decree.
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When Iraqis are texting from Baghdad to see if you’re OK, you know it’s not good.

15 Jul

Fear and Shopping in Beirut
Annia Ciezadlo in The Nation

The first warplanes sheared through the sky at about 3:30 am Friday, just as the call to prayer wavered out from the mosque, the faint, pre-recorded voice of the muezzin drowned in the rising growl of their engines. The bombings began soon after, and the anti-aircraft guns kicked in at about 4 am; we didn’t get to sleep until dawn. I woke up at 9, when a text message bleeped into my cell phone. It was from a friend in Baghdad, who wrote “I hope U R OK and fine. We all here in Iraq feel worried about U.” I was glad to hear from him, but it his message didn’t make me feel any better: When Iraqis are texting from Baghdad to see if you’re OK, you know it’s not good.
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Tom Delay forced to remain on TX-22 ballot

15 Jul

Chained to the Ballot
NY Times Editorial

The former House majority leader Tom DeLay, master practitioner of tooth-and-claw politics, finds himself in a predicament. He’s been cast adrift somewhere between Texas and Virginia after a court struck down his parting Congressional gambit.

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The Prince of Peace – The God of War

13 Jul

The subject refers to a forthcoming documentary analyzing the apparent contradictions in the Christian belief in the concept of “Just War”. It echoes a concept I myself have struggled with since I was old enough to understand the teachings of Christ.
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Immigration – why are Hispanic immigrants so demonized?

11 Jul

Immigration and the Curse of the Black Legend
by Tony Horwitz
(NY Times Op-Ed piece, registration required, bugmenot)

Very interesting piece examining the current “immigration problem” in light of the history of Anglos in North America. Anyone remember which Europeans actually settled first in North America? Click for the answer.

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