Unbothered by his own glaring conflict of interest, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster says Gov. Mark Sanford is clear of criminal charges for Sanford’s use of state aircraft for family trips, pricier business-class commercial flights, questionable use of campaign money and two trips to Argentina to see his lover. What a small, cozy world [...]
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Bush & Co. knew of detainees’ innocence
We might be inclined to give Bush and his crackpot crusaders the benefit of the doubt if they hadn’t spent eight years lying to the American people and the world. If they hadn’t lied us into a deadly, costly, unnecessary war. . .
At the RNC, family value adds up to $13,000
Add a dab of nepotism to what ails the Republican National Committee these days, with an outfit run by the daughter of Jan Larimer, RNC co-chairperson, being paid $13,000 for speechwriting.
Twenty-two million uh-oh’s for Bush & Co.
Ex-President George W. Bush, his vice president, Dick Cheney, attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, and top political hack, Karl Rove, have 22 million reasons to be nervous, thanks to the tenacity of two watchdog groups that went to court seeking “lost” e-mails. The two private groups — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the [...]
Lawmakers opt to censure adulterous governor
Gov. Mark Sanford is in no danger of joining the ranks of the unemployed, thanks to a legislative subcommittee’s vote to censure rather than impeach him. Seems the wages of sin and misuse of state travel funds are getting off light in the God-fearing, Republican stronghold of South Carolina. The House judiciary subcommittee’s 6 to [...]
Texas plans to politicize textbooks
the conservative Republican way
You’ve got your five-star hotels, four-star generals and three-star restaurants. Then there’s Texas, your Lone Star state — and it’s no wonder. Here, from the Houston Chronicle by way of Think Progress, is the latest evidence Texas doesn’t deserve the one star it’s got. The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies [...]
More Republicans starring
in one life to live — badly
As if to provide comic relief from Sanford’s self-inflicted travails, Bachman held forth in a TV appearance, ragging on the object of her latest paranoid conspiracy fantasy: the U.S. Census Bureau. Yes, really.
Torture issue shamefully Broderized
Be advised, when an advocate applies sanitizing euphemisms to practices as brutal as suspending naked people from the ceiling and banging them into walls, for waterboarding and for forced enemas, that person’s case is fatally flawed — and on some level they know it.
Whitewash-for-brains senators
advocate no torture prosecutions
Never mind about those silly old Geneva Conventions. The rule of law? Oh, hey, that’s subordinate to a power-abusing president’s freedom to cherry-pick for shysters who will give him legal opinions made to order.
Torture memos make case
for having truth commission
The president is no doubt reluctant to trigger a distracting, divisive, years long sideshow when he’s seeking some semblance of bipartisan cooperation in dealing with myriad, extremely difficult problems. . . . But considering the future of this nation, his reluctance is shortsighted and not good enough.
