The Republican leadership rammed through legislation opening up the Arctic Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling by attaching it to a military spending bill. This came after they failed to convince enough of their own moderates to support drilling as part of the budget bill that was also passed late last night. Drilling for oil in […]

He’s wrong of course, but I doubt that the majority od Americans care. The ‘secret’ wiretaps that the President so vigorously defended today are not essential to the defense of America. Bush always couchs his arguments in absolutes: as in ‘these wiretaps are saving lives and are therefore essential’. He is indulging in his favorite […]

Is this true? President Bush authorized the NSA to spy on domestic communications as part of his anti-terror effort. The New York Times has a report here: Bush Secretly Lifted Some Limits on Spying in U.S. After 9/11, Officials Say. I don’t have too much of an issue with snooping around in the anti-terror effort, […]