December 10, 2007 – 5:49 pm
Bumper stickers as the modern version of political activism… Photo by cesar bojorquez. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Recently, there has been an increasing amount of talk centering on the possibility (or even probability) that President Bush and his administration are going to declare martial law and bring around a new fascist state. There has been a [...]
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Posted in News Opinion
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Also tagged congress, constitution, democrats, fear, fisa, guantanamo, illegal-wiretapping, patriot act, politics, president, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists, united-states, war-on-terror
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October 18, 2006 – 9:19 pm
A head’s up for all you folks who have been looking for something to celebrate. Something that will bring us all together, and give us a warm tickly feeling in our hearts that can only be associated with…irony. The President of the United States of America has proclaimed the week of October 21-27 to be [...]
October 10, 2006 – 9:15 pm
How much of what we see is really black or white? Original photo by Bruce Skinner “You’re either with us or against us.” –George W. Bush, November 2001 Funny how such a childish sentiment can become the foundation of national policy over a few short years. At the time, it seemed kind of silly, but [...]
My fellow Americans– and those of you who follow American politics with a knot of tension in your stomachs and a Starbucks coffee in your fist– today we find ourselves in one hell of a pickle. Reading the morning news, I find that we have not won the War on Terror. I place the blame [...]
Evil is everywhere… Conspiracy theories seem to be a pet pastime of many here on Newsvine. Either you love them, or you love bashing them. Maybe it’s the great, sinking flaw of the well-read that we can’t seem to get away from them. At any rate, I thought I would go ahead and step out [...]
As a result of the comment thread on another article, I started thinking about Constitutional Amendments. As some of you who have read my other articles may know, I am a big proponent of adhering to the precepts set out in the Constitution. That most important document lays out a pretty good system of governance, [...]
April 12, 2006 – 10:32 am
In the midst of the furor over how bad is Bush, how good was Clinton and so on, I thought it might be interesting to have a discussion about what Presidents of the past we admire and why. I see a lot about how history will judge the current administration, about how things that seem [...]
March 15, 2006 – 10:21 am
In my original posting on this topic, I listed the following three points: 1. Illegally authorized and supported a warrantless wiretap program, and when caught had the audacity to claim he had been given the authority by Congress, and then claimed the Constitution gave him the right, anyway. Anytime you use the Constitution to justify [...]
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