“No person is entitled to a seat on the Supreme Court,” said Damien Goodmon, a spokesman for StopJohnRoberts.com. “Its John Roberts’ burden to convince the Senate and the American people that his long tenure on the bench would be used to continue protecting the hard earned rights guaranteed in the constitution, not turning back the clock to a dark time without personal liberties and workplace protections. The country deserves no less.”

Faced with a question about whether or not he will keep his promise to fire those involved in leaking the identity of an undercover CIA agent while we are at war, President Bush backed away from his initial pledge and lowered the ethics bar.

Just one day after the President’s announcement of his nomination of Judge John Roberts to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the Supreme Court, grassroots activists opposed to Roberts’ confirmation launched the Stop John Roberts campaign.

In a disgusting display of what the Republican Party is really all about, two GOP Senators introduced a bill that would force undocumented immigrants to leave the country in five years, create a massive new bureaucracy at the Social Security Administration, and would increase militarization of the border by adding 11,000 agents to the Department of Homeland Security’s massive border police force.

Certainly, it wasn’t what I expected to hear from a CNN news anchor. But there it was – striking honesty about the news. Arms waving for emphasis, the host of the CNN morning show passionately complains about the Bush administration’s unwillingness to accept the science of global warming.

From "troubling" and "concern" to outright opposition, civil rights and liberties organizations expressed immediate disapproval of President Bush’s nomination of ideologically conservative John G. Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Connor on the high court.

Most Comcast internet customers seem to have horror stories, but in my humble opinion this one is a doozie and may even suggest threats to freedom of speech more significant than the jailing of a court stenographer.

Looks like Karl Rove did break the law, the same federal law that got Martha Stewart sentenced to six months in prison. It now appears that Rove, President Bush’s chief of staff, may have lied to the FBI in October 2003—a federal crime—when he was questioned by federal agents investigating who was responsible for leaking information about a covert CIA operative to the media.

"Turd blossom," President Bush’s pet name for his pudgy friend and the brains of the Bush operation, Karl Rove, should resign and go to jail.

But the Summer of Love this ain’t. In 2005, America’s drug of choice isn’t acid – it’s fear. But what a trip fear it is. Dig the psychedelic colours of our fear: Code Orange, Yellow, and Red – and even alerts in Amber... Of course, this is still the season of amnesia. Already this year, in 2005, 405 American soldiers have been killed on the sands of Iraq, and another 54 Americans have been killed in the mountains and plains of Afghanistan.

Since the resignation announcement of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, various reporters and pundits have concluded that whomever President Bush nominates will win confirmation. Last week, a reporter for The Washington Post told listeners of National Public Radio that since Republicans control the Senate, Mr. Bush’s nomination would be essentially guaranteed. However, if history is any indication, this is far from certain.

I didn't think too much of George Lakoff until I'd read enough of him myself.  I was scared off by his praise for Clinton's stealing right-wing language on welfare, and by his asking Howard Dean to write a forward to one of his books.

An intelligence unit of the California National Guard monitored anti-war protesters who gathered at the state Capitol on Mother’s Day, the June 26 San Jose Mercury News reported. The article noted that press staff of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had given the Guard unit advance notice of
this demonstration.

The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that controls the country's natural gas industry, hydroelectric projects, electric utilities, and oil pipelines and has played a critical role in the deregulation of those industries, will be named by the White House Thursday to chair FERC.

The pilgrims were tenacious and industrious. Their work ethic remains one of the enduring values of America. But their escape for freedom was not for liberty. It was for purity. Ironically, out of this dark, intolerant society came America’s purest value – idealism.

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...

While Bolton is a poster boy for everything wrong with Bush’s foreign policy, rewarding him with such a sensitive post would indicate approval for the Bush administration’s continuing challenge of the UN’s role as arbiter of international disputes. It mocks the concept of international law and peaceful resolution of conflict.