3. The Bank Bailout It's not surprising that Wall Street loved the plan revealed today. As I understand it, hedge funds and big brokers (the folks who got us into this bubble by taking absurd bets on an ever-expanding mortgage market) are being "asked" to buy back those "toxic assets"...

*** Cheney apparently is still alive. I saw him yesterday on TV. He was saying that in spite of the fact that there has STILL been no terrorist attack on the U.S since 9-11, that we are just asking for it. Oh Yeah. Big Time. By reclassifying "enemy combatants" as criminals and ceasing to torture...

Yesterday, under a Freedom of Information request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Department of Justice released nine of the 100-some requested documents from the Bush DOJ. According to the quasi-legal ramblings of John Yoo, who worked in the Justice Department's Office of Legal...

With the Justice Department now back in the hands of the law, the evidence of the Bush administration's assault on the Constitution is finding its way into daylight. These documents reveal the administration's utter disregard for the American people. Newly disclosed memos from the Justice Department...

Who knew? Terror comes in all colors. On December 9, 2008 a woman in Belfast, Maine shot her husband in a domestic dispute. When police searched the scene they found the plans and the materials for a "dirty bomb". The woman's husband, James Cummins, had successfully collected and processed...

One reason that I and many others reject the phrase "war on terror" is that it fosters a simplistic definition of terrorism and a misunderstanding of its purpose. The phrase, like terrorism itself, is designed for maximum emotional impact. It is a political slogan that was crafted to create...

Just a few days ago, someone who calls themselves "seektruth" left a comment on my post "Progress in Iraq". "You liberals just can't let the past go…can you?", wrote "seektruth". Those of you who are believers in any of the justifications for invading Iraq...

I didn't expect I would be the one to call for celebration of the peaceful elections in Iraq yesterday. Prison-camp style security - but not direct involvement by U.S. troops - brought provincial elections that were, by all accounts that I have read, free of violence. The fact that the Iraq government...

In a ceremony that was remarkably low-key for it's historical significance, President Barack Obama signed several orders yesterday that gutted George W. Bush's so-called "war on terror". There never was a "war on terror", of course, any more than there can be a war on any...

The adoption of torture as American policy, and the abandonment of the laws against it, is certainly one of the most disgraceful aspects of President George W. Bush's legacy. This surrender of American moral leadership is historical, and tragic, as it will certainly lead to the acceptance and spread...