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Stories tagged with: democracy
The Somalia Strike
23 / 4
 
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=201802
Bush is expanding his Big War to Somalia, with the third military strike this year (that we know of). Where is Congressional oversight?
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Submitted by schlach
15 months, 6 days, 22 hours agoTags: BUSH, politics, democracy, terrorism, militarism
Another Layer of Scandal - New York Times
21 / 4
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/opinion/09mon1.html?ex=133...
The spurious prosecution and conviction - and its recent overturning on appeal - of an aide to a Democratic governor seems to suggest that those US attorneys that weren't fired learned to politicize their investigations to help Republicans in election years.
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Submitted by schlach
17 months, 4 days, 15 hours agoTags: politics, BUSH, law, corruption, doj, democracy, attorneys
Dan Froomkin - A Poke in the Eye at Recess - washingtonpost.com
22 / 2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/04/05...
Froomkin blogs about Bush's partisan and corrupt recess appointments, and the Democratic response.
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Submitted by schlach
17 months, 1 week, 1 day, 19 hours agoTags: politics, BUSH, democracy, law, congress, corruption
Matthew Dowd's not-so-miraculous conversion | Salon.com
22 / 2
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/04/05/matthew_d...
Sydney Blumenthal writes that Dowd's recent "defection" is hardly that, without also an admission of his own culpability in leading Bush and the country astray.
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It Didn’t End Well Last Time - New York Times
32 / 2
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/04/opinion/04weds2.html?ex=13...
The NYTimes points out that the last time that income was so unequal in the US was the 1920s, and it didn't work out so well for us.
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Ruth Marcus - Fox-in-the-Henhouse Government
26 / 4
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...
There are so many big political scandals in the Bush administration, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Here's a few appointees that demonstrate the complete disdain that Bush and Co. have for American government.
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Submitted by schlach
17 months, 1 week, 2 days, 18 hours agoTags: politics, BUSH, corruption, democracy
Supreme Court Denies Guantánamo Appeal - New York Times
29 / 1
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/washington/03gitmo.html?ex...
Justice Stevens joins the fascist members in denying to hear the appeal to avoid risking hearing it, losing the vote, and setting a Supreme Court precedent that prisoners can be denied habeus corpus.
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Submitted by schlach
17 months, 1 week, 4 days, 13 hours agoTags: politics, BUSH, democracy, law, supremecourt, usa, terrorism
Jon Carroll on pliable US attorneys and loyal Bushies
25 / 3
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/29/...
"If those eight U.S. attorneys were fired at the behest of Karl Rove for real or imagined disloyalty to the president (and that does seem to be the case), then what were the 85 other prosecutors doing right?"
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Submitted by schlach
17 months, 2 weeks, 1 day, 19 hours agoTags: politics, BUSH, law, democracy, doj, election
The Erosion of Rights | Report by the Center for American Progress
28 / 3
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2007/03/erosion_of_ri...
"The Bush administration continues to use the courts and the judicial appointment process to narrow civil rights protections and repeal remedies for legal redress while allowing the traditional tools of the executive branch for civil rights enforcement to wither and die."
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Submitted by schlach
17 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 15 hours agoTags: politics, law, usa, BUSH, democracy, civilrights
GSA Chief Is Accused of Playing Politics - washingtonpost.com
25 / 4
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03...
More Bush Administration corruption, conflicts-of-interest, abuse of office to further Republican candidates' political campaigns, and no-bid contracts to friends.
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Submitted by schlach
17 months, 2 weeks, 4 days, 23 hours agoTags: politics, BUSH, law, democracy, corruption
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