Progressives have complained loud and long about John Ashcroft and his attacks on Constitutional liberties. Now, the Right is starting to speak out more strongly. [ed. note: story originally linked to washingtonpost.com]…
Category: Reality Check
Posts that were originally on Morgan’s Reality Check blog
More Wishful Thinking
From the NY Times:
Bush Declares Violence in Iraq Tests U.S. Will, Aug. 26
He [Bush] made the case that failing to take the fight to terrorists wherever they are would expose the United States to attacks at home. “Our military is confronting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan and in other places so our people will not have to confront terrorist violence in New York or St. Louis or Los Angeles,” he said.
Yet another example of Foreign Policy Made E-Z
Particularly the second-to-last panel. Do these mushheads actually believe that someone who wants to lay some 9/11 style hurt on the US is going to go to Baghdad instead?…
Miscellania
I finally have our Cafe Press story ready, with “Anyone But Bush Again ’04” merchandise (ed. note: cafepress.com/abba04 since closed). Half the proceeds will go towards booting the squatter out of the Oval Office, the other half to helping one family (us) survive the Bush economic policies. More details on the site.…
Piping Up
Something from over the weekend that I wasn’t able to get to. I increasingly wonder how these people keep their heads from imploding. [ed.note: original news link gone, but it’s on that page further down the column from “”High court to revisit online porn law.”]
…Bush Bypasses Senate to Appoint Scholar
Aug 23, 9:29 AM (ET)WASHINGTON (AP) – President Bush bypassed the Senate and appointed an outspoken Middle East scholar to a federal think tank over the objections of Democrats and others who say he is anti-Muslim.
Fiction Writers, Beware
Yet another story of life in the New American Century. Watch out, Steven King and Tom Clancy!
Write a Story, Go to Jail, by Kim Zetter (on Wired.com)
02:00 AM Aug. 22, 2003 PT…
A Bit of an Oldie
Here’s one I posted to several email lists about at the time, but didn’t put here because I was in a blogging lull :-). From the Washington Post, 27 July 2003 U.S. Adopts Aggressive Tactics on Iraqi Fighters:
…Col. David Hogg, commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division, said tougher methods are being used to gather the intelligence. On Wednesday night, he said, his troops picked up the wife and daughter of an Iraqi lieutenant general. They left a note: “If you want your family released, turn yourself in.” Such tactics are justified, he said, because, “It’s an intelligence operation with detainees, and these people have info.”
“Nothing to Fear,” or “Crying Wolfowitz’
(Read that like the announcer from the old “Rocky & Bullwinkle” show, it sounds better that way :-).)
These say it better than I could. Go. Read.
Then Register and Vote.…
Say it with me: Sep-a-ra-tion of Church and State
The latest from the Alabama judge who is refusing a federal order to remove the stone monument to the Ten Commandments that he personally installed in the rotunda of the judicial building two years ago.…
I found a note I made on this a while back.
Press Briefing by Ari Fleischer, January 9, 2003
…Q: But it wouldn’t be disappointing, would it, if there were no weapons there?
MR. FLEISCHER: We know for a fact that there are weapons there.
Water, Water… Where?
Since my last post on the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, three more lives have been lost. One a Dane killed by “friendly fire,” one of ours to hostile fire, and yet another American soldier to heat stroke.…