Weekly Round Up – Week Ending August 26, 2007
This is a news round up of brief news items from the week ending on August 26, 2007.
Read morePolitics
This category is a main category for post dealing with political issues and politicians at any level of government.
The Threat of Marshall Law is Real
In cruising around on-line, I came across an interesting article by Dave Lindorff at Information Clearing House. Dave’s take a very factual and intellectual look at the steps that have been taken over the past four years to strengthen the Executive Branch whilst weakening the other branches of government (and often simply outright disregarding them).
Read moreBill Nelson Continues His Assault on The Constitution
Well, S.1927, An Act To Amend The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 passed the Senate and House, with a bunch of weak kneed Democrats rushing to its support. Unfortunately I’m not surprised to find that Florida Senator Bill Nelson has voted in favor of the amendment. The Senator has consistently cast votes hostile to the Constitution and with the Bush Administration. I can only guess he’s been promised a bed in the bunker during the coming coup.
Read moreMore Constitutional Erosion
In his weekly radio address Bu$h demanded that Congress update the laws governing electronic surveillance. Now why would George give a damn about whether the law is up-to-date or not. It’s not like the Cheney/Bush Administration is following any of the laws anyway.
Read moreEdwards Proposes Tax Changes
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards on Thursday unveiled a plan that would increase taxes for the wealthy and create tax breaks for the middle class.
Read moreNews for the Week Ending July 22, 2007
This post summarizes various smaller news items of interest that I found during the week of July 23, 2007.
Read moreSo Long to JetBlue-Caves to O'Reilly
JetBlue sponsored, among many other things, YearlyKos. This is a grass roots convention of progressive bloggers and activists. JetBlue shows Fox News in flight, Their new CEO contributed $2,100 to Mitt Romney’s campaign, and they advertise on Fox. Yet when Bill O’Reilly finds they sponsored a progressive convention, he attacks…so JetBlue. And instead of standing up for their sponsorship, and pointing out how much they support Fox, they cave in and have their logo removed from the YearKos website.
Read moreAnd Away Goes the Fifth Amendment
President Bush unveiled an executive order that allows the administration to block bank accounts and any other financial assets that might be found in this country belonging to people, companies or groups that the United States deems are working to threaten stability in Iraq.
Read moreRestoration of Constitutional Rights
Dear Senators Mel Martinez and Bill Nelson:
The history of the present King … [George] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
Read moreVitter Has Double Standard-Big Suprise There, He's a Senator
Senator David Vitter is the United States Senator who was on the phone records for the D.C. Madame. He went into exclusion for a while, then came to give a brief statement, have his wife pimp for him, and then duck out the back door as if nothing had happened. It was a pretty shameful display.
Read moreChertoff's Gastric Distress
We’re pumping billions into the new Homeland Insecurity Department, yet it appears we’re relying on DHS Secretary Micheal Chertoff’s gastric rumblings for our intellingence. Suddenly he’s appearing on the news circuit saying he has a gut feeling, we’re going to be attacked again.
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