Florida Hwy Patrol Helping Bush

Yesterday, Bob Herbert reported on another highly suspicious Florida initiative: state police officers have gone into the homes of elderly African-American voters – including participants in get-out-the-vote operations – and interrogated them as part of what the state says is a fraud investigation.

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Waste to Fill

The Post says that the “mountaintop removal” business is “booming” again, and the practice of dumping mining debris into streambeds is “explicitly protected” by the federal government. The trick: Bush administration officials “reclassified the debris from objectionable ‘waste’ to legally acceptable ‘fill.'”

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