Month August 2006

Republicans and military oppose Bush tribunals

The Bush plan to allow them to jail anyone, including citizens, indefinitely without recourse to civilian courts and with greatly reduced rights is running into serious opposition from Republicans and the military. I’d hoped this would happen and am glad…

GOP donors funded entire PA Green Party drive

From TPMmuckraker OK, we’ve done it. We’ve nailed it down: Every single contributor to the Pennsylvania Green Party Senate candidate is actually a conservative — except for the candidate himself. That leaves only one contribution, for $30, as a legitimate…

A truly noxious bill

This is really ugly stuff. The Bushies want the ability to imprison anyone, including citizens, indefinitely. Such prisoners would have no access to civilian courts and their rights would be hugely restricted. The government does not need to produce actual…

Democrats choose Anti-War Lite

The Democrats have issued a unity statement that pretends to oppose the Iraq War. While I’m cheered they’ve finally managed agreed on something, their statement, even if implemented, would do little if anything to actually end the war. In their…

Israel is losing this war

From those crazed left wing radicals at the Wall Street Journal This is not to say that it will lose the war, or that the war was unwinnable to start with. But if it keeps going as it is, Israel…