More on 9/11
I posted this on 5 Oct http://www.dailykos.com/... but I was struck by an Op-Ed in the NY Times a week later. http://www.nytimes.com/... It turns out that Bush received specific warnings all through...
View ArticleMcBitter McCain too busy hammering Susan Rice for the cameras to attend...
Sen. John McCain was so busy Wednesday attacking Susan Rice over statements she made in the aftermath of the murderous attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that he skipped an official...
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In The Good Old Days, When Presidents Were Able To Select Their Cabinet
Republicans got their scalp with Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration for Secretary of State. Not too much gloating here and they blame her 'dismal performance' in talking about Benghazi...
View ArticleHeritage Foundation Immigration Study Is Light on Substance, Heavy on Flaws
“ALERT: NCLR has oceanfront property for sale in Arizona available to the highest bidder.”If you believe that, then you’ll believe the results of a new(ish) Heritage Foundation study which claims that...
View ArticleTwelve Years Ago Today
On this date in 2001, while vacationing (as usual) in Crawford, Texas, George W. Bush received at President's Daily Intelligence Brief (PDB) which contained the following, entitled, "Bin Ladin...
View ArticleIt's not just anti-gay CEOs who are Kryptonite!
For the techies among us, I thought this little announcement might provoke some glee:Dropbox Sees Backlash to Condoleeza Rice AppointmentThe lead paragraph from the story:Dropbox today announced a...
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Protest is speech: Eich, Hirsi Ali, Sterling, Rice and Obama
President Obama at the 2009 Notre Dame commencement ceremony. Recently, there has been a rash of misunderstanding of what "free speech" means and a failure to understand that protest is speech. The two...
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Today's the anniversary of infamous Bush PDB on Bin Laden
George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice and Dick Cheney August 6, 2001. That's when President George W. Bush, on one of his numerous vacations, was given a Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB) entitled "Bin Laden...
View ArticleUpdate on Saleh v. Bush about War on Iraq - (N.D. Cal. 2014) – Now in Ninth...
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is being asked to hear a claim that the US-led Iraq war was illegal under laws formed because of the Nuremberg trials in the wake of World War II....
View ArticleIndictments will be long: State sent unsecured "classified" e-mails during...
A point I have tried to make a number of times on the "Eghazi: It's Classified!""scandal" is that the originators of the "classified" e-mails were career State Department officials. Thus, I noted that...
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States Refusing Refugees also sued Obama Admin. Over Immigration Executive...
A majority of states that have announced their refusal to take Syrian refugees also sued President Obama over executive orders he took to protect undocumented immigrants in the US.21 of the states that...
View ArticleRepublicans' lesson for Democrats: Next president must 'look backwards' at...
If nothing else, Republicans over the past few weeks have delivered an important civics lesson to the American people in general—and Democrats in particular. Facing a growing mountain of irrefutable...
View ArticleNikki Haley Plays the Fear Card, Warns of Chemical Attacks in the US.
Nikki Haley warned Chris Wallace on Fox News that if we aren’t careful, there will be a chemical weapons attack in America.“This very easily could happen in the United States if we're not smart, and if...
View ArticleWelcome to 2018. Bush administration officials get another chance to defend...
This is what happened when the Bush administration was allowed by President Obama to go away quietly and not have to face any kind of retribution for war crimes, for lying the country into an endless...
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In the progressive blogosphere, a Sanders nomination may feel like a very...
NetrootsWhat are the roots of the progressive blogosphere? The medium you’re reading now, in its early years, was of course the place for progressive writers to speak out against George W. Bush’s war...
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