Fraud On The American Public – Spreading Freedom and Democracy

According to two former Air Force prosecutors, Maj. John Carr and Maj. Robert Preston those tribunals are rigged both resigned rather than take part. As Maj. Preston wrote in an e-mail to his superiors, “I consider the insistence on pressing ahead with cases that would be marginal even if properly prepared to be a severe threat to the reputation of the military justice system and even a fraud on the American people.”

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Santorum and His – It Takes A Family

This morning I listened, as I always do, to NPR’s Morning Edition. They interviewed Sen Rick Santorum about his book, It Takes a Family. Clearly, the book’s title is a slam against Hillary Clinton’s book, It Takes a Village. I haven’t read his book, but according to what he said this morning, instead of slamming Hillary, it sounds as if he actually agrees.

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When That Pesky Democracy Thing Gets In The Way

Majority Leader Tom DeLay may have faded from the front pages, but he’s still up to his dirty tricks. Yesterday, Rep. Henry Waxman revealed that DeLay slipped ?a $1.5 billion giveaway to the oil industry, Halliburton, and Sugar Land, Texas? into the energy bill. But it gets worse. The provision was “mysteriously inserted” into the text of the energy bill “after the conference was closed, so members of the conference committee had no opportunity to consider or reject this measure.”

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