My Meeting With Henry Waxman On Climate Legislation
The EPA today took a major step in declaring greenhouse gas pollution a danger to the public, increasing the urgency to regulate CO2. Now Congress has an imperative to act.
View ArticleYes We Can Impeach Jay Bybee
[Promoted by Meteor Blades]As we read with growing horror the most recent torture memos, knowing that there are more revelations to come, I think a lot of us are asking the question that mcjoan asked...
View ArticleUpdate On The Campaign To Impeach Jay Bybee
Since my action on Saturday to spark a grassroots movement to impeach Bush Torture Judge Jay Bybee, there have been multiple developments. With respect to the resolution at the California Democratic...
View ArticleVICTORY: CA Dem Party Will Pass Resolution of Impeachment Inquiry Into Bybee...
Several weeks of hard work have paid off, and the California Democratic Party, the largest Democratic Party in the country, is poised to provide a major tool in the fight for justice and accountability...
View ArticleNEXT STEP: Tell Congress To Open Impeachment Inquiry Into Bybee
Thanks again to all of you who signed petitions and made phone calls and helped push the resolution to open a Congressional inquiry into Torture Judge Jay Bybee, which the California Democratic Party...
View ArticleDurbin's Searing Indictment Of The Banksters On The Senate Floor
Dick Durbin is speaking about the destructive greed of the banksters right now, the ones who torpedoed his amendment to allow bankruptcy judges to modify loan terms on primary residences the way they...
View ArticleBush's Torture Lobbyists Succeed In Stopping Prosecutions?
Here's a little nugget buried in an article about developments in the torture investigations:Sources told The Washington Post earlier this year that an earlier draft of the investigators' (Justice...
View ArticleThe Village Character Assassination of Sonia Sotomayor
The Swift-Boating of Sonia Sotomayor has really been an object lesson for how the Village treats people it decides not to like for whatever reason. Jeffrey Rosen at The New Republic decided to write a...
View ArticlePro-Torture Harold Ford Hardball transcript
Adding to liberal intellectual's diary, here's the full transcript of Harold Ford, the keynote speaker at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, saying that if terrorists scare us enough, we can...
View ArticleTorture Lawyers Failing Upwards
I just have to add to attytood's news that torture lawyer John Yoo has been given a monthly column at the Philadelphia Inquirer.I almost have to get out of my seat and clap at the absurdity of...
View ArticleWe Tortured To Justify The War In Iraq - Let That Settle In
Joe Conason has strung together the mounting evidence that the Bush Administration employed torture techniques to help justify their invasion and occupation of Iraq better than anyone else I've seen....
View ArticleMedia Finally Recognizes GOP Full Of Crap On Pelosi/CIA - Just In Time To...
I don't know who fed the media this point, or maybe they just couldn't ignore the wealth of hypocrisy surrounding the right-wing hissy fit over Nancy Pelosi, but they have started to inexplicably push...
View ArticleCalifornia's Crisis and Howard Jarvis-ism: A Tale Told By An Idiot
(This is the first in a series of diaries about the California budget crisis, its origins, and how to fix it. This is cross-posted at Calitics, where we continue to cover the ongoing twists and turns...
View ArticleBrooksley Born And The Financial-Political Complex
I almost missed this one yesterday, but the WaPo had a profile of Brooksley Born, the lawyer who, while the Clinton Administration's Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, foresaw the...
View ArticlePA-Sen: Rendell Basically Warns Sestak To Stay Out Of The Primary
I just came across an astonishing interview on The Ed Show with Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell about the potential Specter-Sestak primary. It's a combination of a threat, Newspeak, muddled and often...
View ArticleDrawing Lines In The Sand On The California Budget Crisis
(cross-posted at Calitics. Second in an occasional series on the California crisis.)Arnold Schwarzenegger's address to the legislature was notable only for its fatuousness. He demands the destruction...
View ArticleShould We Waterboard Scott Roeder?
(To remove confusion, I don't believe Roeder or anyone should be waterboarded. But the logical extreme of those who support torture would give you the answer "yes.")I'm getting to this late, but Jack...
View ArticleThe Latvia Option: Plan To Create a Flat Tax, Eliminate Corporate Taxes In...
(Latest in a series on the California budget crisis, cross-posted at Calitics)I've been hearing the California crisis, and the Governor's response, referred to as a kind of shock doctrine, used to...
View ArticleWe need 10 million views of this YouTube by next week
Health care reform is certainly in a fair bit of trouble. But the three committees working on this in the House have really stepped up. They released a discussion draft based on the work of all of...
View ArticlePaul Begala calls out the media: expose the insurance industry!
Yesterday I wrote about the shocking video of a Congressional hearing where health insurance CEOs, having admitted to canceling customers after they turn in claims for treatment, refuse to stop doing...
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