Nevada Blogs

about goddam time..."Asserting that President Bush’s frequent use of “signing statements” to interpret federal laws have allowed the executive branch to effectively thwart Congressional intent, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) said Wednesday that his panel will launch a formal investigation into the practice," the paid-restricted Roll Call reports Wednesday. Excerpt:The

one of the country's premier investigative journalists, for whom i have a great deal of respect, tells us what we should already know, but is nonetheless horrifying for that..."The fact of the matter is we have a government that will do what it wants to do for the next two years," he said. "The worst ...

this could be the start of something good... REAL bipartisanship, not the faux bushco variety, means deciding as a congress and as a country to get rid of these bastards... hopefully, this is a first step in that much-needed direction...Democratic and Republican opponents of President Bush's troop-buildup plan joined forces last night behind the nonbinding ...

a tremendous loss for the country, texas, me, and the human race... may her unrivaled sense of humor, her indefatigable spirit, her razor-sharp insight, and her fond memory be with us always...

Tomorrow, February 1st—just days before the Senate votes on the escalation—we're letting senators know where their constituents stand by flooding their offices with 1 million messages.Passing a bipartisan resolution opposing escalation will be the strongest stand Congress has taken on the war since it began—and it will give our leaders in Washington the support they ...

hmmm... interesting-er and interesting-er, eh...?Iraq's prime minister said Wednesday he's sure Iran is behind some attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and he won't allow his country to be a battleground for the two nations."We have told the Iranians and the Americans, 'We know that you have a problem with each other, but we are ...

if an attack on iran is a-building as many seem to think, how, pray tell, can we stop it...?Military and intelligence sources continue to tell me that preparations are advancing for a war with Iran starting possibly as early as mid-to-late February. The sources offer some differences of opinion over whether Bush might cite a ...

george bush breaking the law is such old news...Last Aug. 17, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the United States District Court in Detroit issued her ruling in the A.C.L.U. case. The president, she wrote, had “undisputedly violated” not only the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution, but also statutory law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance ...

it's another over-the-top gorgeous morning here in my little barrio of buenos aires, and i'd like to share something with you that i am passing along from the unknown candidate... i found it uplifting, the perfect complement to the sparkling green trees and the intensely blue sky that serves as their backdrop, that i am ...

i never HAD any expectations for an illegal war, initiated on the basis of lies, other than that it would be a disaster... well, ok... i guess THAT expectation has already been met...[T]he man tapped to take over command of U.S. forces in the Middle East said Americans may have to lower their expectations for ...

no surprise here... i've figured for a number of years now that every single electronic transaction of whatever form was being clandestinely "vacuumed up" by various spy agencies in the u.s. government and probably by most of our big power allies as well, the most likely additional suspect being the uk...Agents engaging in investigations appear ...

how long before each town has one...? how long before each business has one...? each neighborhood...?The President "signed a directive that gives the White House much greater control over the rules that the federal government develops to regulate public health, safety," privacy and other issues, writes Robert Pear for the Times.Pear reports that "in an ...

imho, i don't see that it's going to be possible to set "limits..." i think that there is only one way to stop the damage and that's to get rid of them as quickly as possible...[F]or the United States as a country, right now, that means doing everything constitutionally, legally and politically possible to limit ...

why don't they just turn the entire internet over to fox news...?[I]nformation put out as part of the military's psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans."Information intended for foreign audiences, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience," it* reads."Psyops messages ...

yay, norah... you go, girl...[O]n her foreboding and magnificently moody new album, "Not Too Late," Jones tackles not just matters of the heart, but matters of state as well. And nowhere does she do that as forcefully or succinctly as on "My Dear Country," a plaintive, understated work that arrives just past the midpoint of ...

of course... it is part and parcel of the bushco strategy for making endless war a reality, perpetuating the presidential commander in chief role, and insuring that the u.s. is always on a wartime footing, thus "necessitating" the draconian measures curtailing fundamental constitutional freedoms so prized by bushco..."The United States is the first to be ...

yes, in blogosphere time, it's old news...President Bush's approval rating stands at 30 percent in the latest Newsweek poll, the lowest approval rating recorded for the president in that poll's history.by anyone's standards, it's an incredibly dismal number for an incredibly malign president...

anybody who was paying the slightest bit of attention could have seen this one coming at least a mile away... Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday an effort in Congress to pass a resolution opposing President Bush's troop buildup undercuts U.S. commanders in Iraq and "emboldens the enemy."but did our dear senators, especially our dear ...

ya just gotta love darth... the round face, the twinkling eyes, the grandfatherly look, the hannibal lecter attitude... but, omg, then he goes and exposes a chink in his armor...“Obviously, there was flawed intelligence prior to the war … but we should not let the fact of past problems in that area lead us to ...

well, wouldn't you...?Iraq in Talks With Chevron, ExxonLONDON — Iraq is in negotiations with Chevron Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. to build a new $3 billion petrochemical facility, and is in talks with several other Western companies over industrial projects.ah, but no... what the article is REALLY about is making iraq a wholly-owned subsidiary of ...