White House spokesman Trent Duffy (12/27/2005):
“As we’ve said all along, a country’s decision on whether, or what level to support the mission in Iraq, either with troops or with money, or with other resources, is the country’s decision to make on its own, and we respect those decisions.”
Somehow I totally missed it the first time […]
someone on Fox News is spinning it as a good thing, so I say good luck with that:
Stocks tumbled Tuesday as the bond market gave signals that in the past have preceded economic slowdowns. The Dow Jones industrial average lost more than 100 points.
The yield curve, the spread between the yields of short-term and […]
the [Reichstag] fire, Hitler persuaded President Hindenburg to issue a decree entitled, “For the Protection of the People and the State.” Justified as a “defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state,” the decree suspended the constitutional guarantees pertaining to civil liberties :
Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression […]
One sad thing about the Bush administration’s defense of the NSA domestic spying operation is what it reveals about their attitude to the law: the law is there to be manipulated and to be skirted, to be bent to your will.
They have as much as said in so many words that they feel […]
It’s a privilege and an honor to nominate Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, Key Bedfellow of the Bush administration, Defender of the Faith, Most Valued Ally in the Global War on Terror, and Asshole Incarnate.
He has to have made the single most offensive public statement by a public figure in 2005 when he said:
“You must […]
The truth-in-politics concept can usefully be extended to what we might call political law.
All legal opinions cited by the Bush Administration in support of policy positions should come labeled, as per the following scheme:
Established in law and upheld by the Supreme Court*
Established in law, not tested in court
Unanimous legal opinion
Consensus legal opinion
Custom-made legal opinion
Harriet […]
George Costanza
Though I’m sure nobody missed the Intelligent Design “Special Report” on Hannity & Colmes last night, there was a telling exchange between Alan Colmes and one of the purported founders of ID, Michael Behe. Since the basis of ID involves the concept of certain features of the universe being crafted by a designer, one […]
Damn Hollywood libruls
Remember when Tom DeLay moved for a new judge because he didn’t like the one assigned to his case?
The defense…asked Judge Bob Perkins to step aside and for the trial to be moved out of Travis County. Perkins has donated to causes and people opposed to DeLay, and his impartiality might be questioned, […]
Power We Didn’t Grant:
If the stories in the media over the past week are accurate, the president has exercised authority that I do not believe is granted to him in the Constitution, and that I know is not granted to him in the law that I helped negotiate with his counsel and that Congress […]
