Watch The Back Door: Tribunals Could Be Coming For You
R. Jeffery Smith had an article in the Washington Post on August 3 about Senate hearings on legislation to make the Administration's illegal military tribunals (now called "commissions") legal with...
View ArticleKatrina Lingers - We Must Abide
Spike Lee's documentary is on HBO for the second time. When I first watched it, there was too much to absorb. Even now, it is overwhelming -- but the truth of the subject itself strikes chords which...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence
In other democratic systems, elections are called when the ruling coalition has lost enough support that a vote of no confidence can be sustained. Our republic is organized differently, but the...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T-80 days
Inflection Points And CatastrophiesIn the mathematical field called differential equations, we can calculate the points when a system changes its behavior. In the field of catastrophe theory, we look...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T-70 Days
False Doctrines9-11 was an opportunity for doctrines false to the Constitution and the nature of our country to be codified as law and enacted in practice. The nation stood upon a turning point and...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T-60 Days
The Powell Doctrines (Lewis & Colin)Two different people have had "doctrines" named after them: two people with the same last name. These doctrines share the fact they have been embraced by the...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T-50 Days
Clean Out The BarnIn the 1992 election, a third-party candidate named Ross Perot became the spoiler in yet another two-party election. He was famous for saying, "It's time to clean out the barn" in...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T - 40 Days
Knowing The Right PathSince Nixon's Administration a dedicated cabal of powerful interests have deliberately polarized the nation. The single-minded pursuit of power has driven these interests to...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T - 30 Days
Standing UpWe now know no confidence in this Government is growing in the breast of citizens of all political affliations. As that disaffection ripples through the layers of six degrees of separation,...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T - 20 Days
High Noon In AmericaReagan used the theme "Morning In America" in his Presidential campaign. This false promise of a new beginning has now run full cycle, and the remnants of his failure is a curse...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T - 10 Days
Ending The Gestapo LawsEnforcement of the law in a nation under the rule of law is an arduous task. It requires public servants who exercise judgement, seek justice and always consider the context in...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: T - 5 Days
Liberty Without BordersIn the early days of the Internet, there was a dream. Shared by geeks, hippies and other true patriots, the dream was that information would be shared without having censorship...
View ArticleCountdown To No Confidence: Zero Hour
Karmageddon(Thanks to Tulip for the title!)As John Dean points out in his excellent book Conservatives Without Conscience, the United States of America began as a liberal nation. The conservative...
View ArticleKucinich Sets Issues Agenda For Debate
Today Dennis Kucinich started his campaign. Those who followed his campaign in 2004 know he believes his role is put issues in the public arena and that he should be able to be elected or rejected on...
View ArticleNo Confidence Unleashed: Breaking Broder's Bubble
Those of us expecting Bush to set a historic low in approval ratings by this fall have been watching the composite poll results from pollster.com and reported and enhanced by the political arithmetik...
View ArticleCountdown To Impeachable: The Next Stage
Earlier this year, we marked the time between when the Bush Administration seemed to be able to withstand any challenge to their right to govern and when the public clearly had lost confidence in the...
View ArticleAlternative Energy: 46/1 Biofuel Closed-Loop Plant
Iowa Public Television's Market To Market program just did a story on a biofuels plant in Nebraska which, according to plant owners, will achieve up to 46 units of energy output for every unit of...
View ArticleCountdown To Impeachable: Babylon
We have been exiled from our homeland. We have labored in captivity, but still we remember Zion -- the place where we were free; where we were united; where we were truly home. By the rivers of...
View ArticleDan Abrams Gets Religion?
I normally turn the channel after Countdown when Dan Abram's show is aired, but left it on doing something else tonight. Lo and behold he is doing a series this week called Bush League Justice and it...
View ArticleDan Abrams Continues Torturing Bush Leaguers
Last week, Monday through Thursday, Live With Dan Abrams ran a series called Bush League Justice, apparently an experiment to see if he can hold onto Countdown viewers, but possibly -- just possibly --...
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