Archive for June, 2009
Brass Balls
Nebraska physician vows to keep Tiller’s abortion clinic open McClatchy (6/1/09): Women’s Health Care Services, the clinic that has been bombed, blockaded and vandalized for more than 20 years because late-term abortions are performed there, will be closed this week to mourn the slaying Sunday of founder George Tiller. But the clinic will resume normal [...]
Unexpected Truthtelling By Cheney
(1) Do you remember the relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein? Dick Cheney does too, just not the same way as you or I: “There was a relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq that stretched back 10 years. That’s not something I made up… That’s something the director of the CIA was telling us. [...]
Compulsive Delusional Revisionism
For almost eight years, Cheney took the high road and maintained an honorable silence on the subject. This man couldn’t maintain a dignified, honorable silence for even six months on the policies of the Obama administration. Imagine what it must have taken for him to sustain a dignified, honorable silence for almost eight long years. [...]
The Other Obama Shows Himself Again
The garbage we’ve seen from the Obama administration and his vaunted Justice Department team in recent weeks and months with respect to the state secrets privilege or warrantless wiretapping lawsuits has been bad enough. Not only has Obama supported every single assertion of the state secrets privilege by the Bush administration (here’s a partial recitation), [...]