Karl Rove, who serves as Bush’s key political strategist and unofficial minister of propaganda, hit a particularly low note, even by his standards, last week. At Conservative party meeting in New York, Rove said "conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."

The Bush administration has rejected bipartisan calls for an independent Guantanamo Bay prison commission. The White House insists that the military, the very organization suspected of systematically violating human rights, is perfectly capable of investigating the situation and punishing any offending parties.

When dealing with the historical background to the Jewish Holocaust, it is important to remember that anti-Semitism in Europe,particularly,was deeply intertwined with class struggle and political development...Thanks most of all to the victory over fascism in World War II, anti-Semitism and racism are no longer “normal,” in the Euro-American world...

Human rights organization, Amnesty International, last week described the Bush administration’s decision to expand the prisons at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a "wrong decision." Amnesty International calls for closing the Guantanamo prisons and for charging the prisoners held there under US laws in US courts or release them.

Advancing to the floor of the Senate, Terrence Boyle’s Appeals Court nomination passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote. Initially the committee postponed consideration of Boyle, signaling strong opposition to Boyle’s nomination.

Despite reports that President Bush has misled the public about the need for and the effectiveness of the USA PATRIOT Act, the Republican-controlled US Senate is considering renewal and expansion of powers authorized by this law.

"...given the track record of Priscilla Owens, Janice Rogers Brown, and William Pryor, I wonder how extreme a candidate has to be before these Democrats and their seven Republican colleagues would reject them... Their acceptance invites the Republican right to push the envelope still further."

In a mostly party line vote last night, William Pryor became the third Bush judicial appointee to be confirmed by the Senate in the last week. Pryor’s confirmation was met by sharp criticism...In his activist and ideologically motivated quest to advance a far-right agenda, Pryor has used his various positions to attempt to strip and chip away at a whole range of civil rights protections.

A recent study of almost 2,000 death penalty cases in Ohio between 1981 and 2002 shows that race and geography played strong roles in determining the imposition of capital punishment.

Cross-burnings, threats of violence against gay people, anti-immigrant vigilantism, numerous incidents of anti-Semitic graffiti, influx of whites-only groups and racial separatists in some areas, have combined with growing anti-Muslim actions in all regions of the country... Several civil rights organizations have strongly urged passage of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005.

If confirmed, Brown will hear and decide cases involving working families’ fundamental rights and protections, such as the freedom to form unions and the right to safe workplaces.

"...rally participants wore masks of CEO Charles Schwab and held signs saying “Double Talk Chuck,” mocking the company’s current ad campaign to “Talk to Chuck.” Clients and investors called on the company to withdraw from corporate coalitions and groups that are actively promoting plans by President Bush and California Governor Schwarzenegger to slash guaranteed retirement benefits for millions of workers.

Right-wing religious groups that helped mobilize voters to continue the Republican Party’s ruling status in the last election are outraged over the Senate filibuster compromise related to Bush’s judicial nominations late last night.

Last year we learned the Bush Administration erased fact sheets about equal pay for women workers from federal government web sites. But George W. Bush can't erase his record.

Nationally and locally, right-wing Republicans are out to destroy Medicaid. They believe that the public health and medical service program is inefficient and unprofitable.

The movement of African Americans for full social, economic and political equality has always been decisive to the struggle for democracy and the advance towards socialism.

Religion’s role in the political arena has sharpened because the ruling class has harnessed a sector of the Christian religious community to serve its interests.

In 2003, President Bush nominated California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

Five distinguished members of the US Congress have added their support to the "Love Mom, not Wal-Mart" campaign, which is linked to American Mother's Day and is the latest initiative by WakeUpWalmart.com.

Do Bush's handlers believe that DeLay's slumping 38 percent approval rating combined with Bush's 43 percent approval adds up to 81?