The Center for Public Intergrity has now added them up. There were 935 lies from high-ranking Bush officials. All of them designed to convince us to invade Iraq for no good reason. Here's a summary: The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews…
There are almost 300 of them in this comprehensive list. Dozens of these scandals would seem to constitute impeachable offenses, in my opinion.
The media can't deal with candidates that buck the system. Glenn Greenwald discusses three dramatic cases, John Edwards, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee. On Edwards, Greenwald writes: It is very striking how little Edwards' substantive critique of our political system has penetrated into the national discourse. That's because the centerpiece…
Marty Kaplan writes about big problems with our political primary system: What I'm trying to get at is the stupendous sense of powerlessness among our citizenry that our current political system has created. It's as though the best democracy can do is to cough up this beast that we're being…
I received the following from a friend of mine, who sent it to his local paper as well. I’ve asked his permission to post it here, in its entirety. It concerns an issue which, while we may hope represents an unfortunate part of our history long outgrown, still rears its…