Earlier today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Bush's proposed military trials for Gitmo detainees was illegal under both U.S. law and international Geneva conventions. I don't think this comes as a surprise to many observers, given Bush's flagrant and repeated disregard for both U.S. and international law. What is…
Remember Tom DeLay -- former Texas Republican (and self-proclaimed born-again Christian) who was the Majority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives until a corruption scandal forced him to resign from office? Well, he now says he is a resident of Virginia, not Texas. Why? Because he won the Republican primary…
Earlier today, President Bush said it was "disgraceful" that the news media (i.e., the New York Times, LA Times & Wall Street Journal) disclosed his secret CIA program to illegally wiretap millions of financial records at the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ("SWIFT") to search for terrorist suspects. Likewise,…
I've been watching to see what the Bush Administration will do for its "October surprise" to give Republicans a boost in the polls just before the November mid-term elections. According to this article (http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/iraq), the Whitehouse appears to be planning sharp troop withdrawals starting in September. After more than two…
Over the course of my life, I've met many heterosexuals. To my knowledge, not one of them has ever spontaneously become homosexual. Likewise, I've met many homosexuals and, to my knowledge, not one of them as ever spontaneously become heterosexual. Likewise, I've never (to my knowledge) met a pedophile, but…