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  • Bush & Cheney-Poster boys for corruption

    I have been writing my senators and representatives repeatedly asking for an investigation of the corruption of the last administration. Their abuses of power, lying and corruption are unrivalled in modern politics. Now they are both sitting in Texas collecting their ''ProQuo'' for the billions they sent to Halliburton and other large Oil ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by drvndervish on July 26, 2009

  • tough argument to make

    One that can only be made in the negative as in not sorry instead of glad George W. Bush served two terms. Further, it seems to me the notion that the other guys might have made things worse in reaction to the events of 9/11 as supportive of the reactions of the Bush administration assumes the events would have unfolded in the same way. I ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by hayate on May 16, 2009

  • Amazing that Americans Have This Discussion

    Having studied American civics in grade school and high school, and having my doubts that Bush Cheney or anyone else in our current White House similarly learned about American history, traditions, institutions and law, it continually amazes me that this Bush Cheney Presidency has run riot so egregiously. Congress? Lay down. The Courts? Lay ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Great Review of Some Important Books . . .

    . . . BOOKS which I think all Americans need to read and consider: Making Government Work, by Fritz Hollings Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values, by Phillipe Sands The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover), by Jane Mayer. Terrorism and Democracy ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by MichaelBernard1 on July 28, 2008

  • Finally someone makes the crucial point

    When supporters of torture try to justify their position, it's always about the ticking time bomb scenario. That's because it's always easy to construct hypotheticals in which some heinous act appears to be less evil than some even more heinous alternative. But the whole point here is that this debate is about government policy and the law. ...
    Posted to Jurisprudence by marginnote on July 27, 2008