Bom Bom Bom

I’ll be at state today. I wonder what the ol’ Erie Canal will look like with a fine dusting of snow? Did any of you catch the special on NBC about the troops from the 2-108th INF from Glen Falls? I’ll be thinking of them as I make my rounds through the halls of Headquarters [...]

Patriot Act never hurt nobody.

Agents’ visit chills UMass Dartmouth senior
By AARON NICODEMUS, Standard-Times staff writer
NEW BEDFORD — A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung’s tome on Communism called “The Little Red Book.” Two history professors at UMass Dartmouth, Brian Glyn Williams and Robert Pontbriand, said [...]

From the Washington Post

Bush Authorized Domestic Spying
Post-9/11 Order Bypassed Special Court
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 16, 2005; A01
Excerpt:
The law governing clandestine surveillance in the United States, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, prohibits conducting electronic surveillance not authorized by statute. A government agent can try to avoid prosecution if he can show he was “engaged in the [...]

Holy Shit!!! Revised and updated.

Jack Cafferty on the administration: Just Do it!
Jack spelled out all the abuses that have been conducted by this administration since it took over office in about one minute.

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The 2005 Koufax Awards

All right all you Lefties out there, now that we’ve swept the 2005 Weblog Awards, it’s time to do battle amongst ourselves!
The following are the sites I’ve nominated:

Best Blog

Agitprop
Best Blog — Pro Division
Daily Kos
Best Blog Community
Big Brass Blog
Best Writing
The Heretik
The Rude Pundit
Best Single Issue Blog
Wake up from your Slumber
Best Group Blog
The Defeatists
Night Birds Fountain
Most Humorous [...]

Retreat and Defeat, GOP Style.

To:
President George Bush
December 10, 2005
It’s yours. It’s your war. You decided to start it, we didn’t. You decided to lie to congress and the American people to get your war. We are not surrendering Mr. Bush, you are:
You surrendered the claim that there were WMD in Iraq. Perhaps you’d like to resurrect it? After all, [...]

Justice?

A Mom in America, not for nothing:
Bhutan,
Egypt,
Guinea,
Mauritania,
Pakistan,
Qatar,
Russia,
Swaziland,
Togo,
China,
Cuba,
Eritrea,
Saudi Arabia,
Sudan,
Zimbabwe,
Belarus,
Burma (Myanmar),
China,
Cuba,
Equatorial Guinea,
Eritrea,
Haiti,
Laos,
Libya,
[...]

If it aint O’Reilly, it’s the other hypocrite, Hannity

From ThinkProgress:
Hannity’s Hypocrisy: Criticizing Colleges For Taking Money From Saudi Prince Who Funds Fox
Sean Hannity and his guest last night attacked Harvard and Georgetown Universities for accepting money from Saudi Prince [...]

Bush’s unbroadcast 5th speech.

Click on picture to see and hear Bush’s latest!

Unfit; up or down, backwards and forwards.

Senator Bill Frist recently reiterated his oft repeated statement that, “Supreme Court justice nominees deserve an up-or-down vote, and it would be absolutely wrong to deny him that.” In the wake of the Harriet Miers nomination these words ring even hollower than ever. It’s understandable that Mr. Frist is distracted by the current Federal inquiries [...]