Miers has never been a judge. The LA Times describes her as “the President’s ‘pit bull.’”  In a rational world where Democrats had actual vertebrae, Senate Dems would be screaming loudly they will oppose such an unqualified partisan hack. But…

Sue’s comment about Bennett to our Sept. 30 post made the same point this WaPo Op-Ed does, that William Bennett’s noxious comment singled out Blacks when the book he was referring to did not. There’s no need to pillory William…

From their press release New Orleans – Citing eyewitness reports of locked prisoners being abandoned to drown in their cells in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the American Civil Liberties Union today demanded access to the relocated prisoners it represents…

DeLay indicted on money laundering charge That makes two indictments (so far)

CounterPunch gets it right. Torture If there was a real party of opposition, maybe those who mandated the new torture system would face some sanction. If Democratic Party leaders had made an issue of it, some fiber would have been…

I have numerous email accounts, generally from the various websites I host. Reading them using a mail reader that lives on just one PC was getting problematic. What if I want to access that email from a different PC in…

“It will be good for the city’s psyche,” [said Ed Muniz, captain of the Endymion krewe]. “The original concept for Mardi Gras was a celebration that New Orleanians threw for themselves. … If it went back this year, where it’s…