| Jul 23, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyIt’s back. The PATRIOT Act — a grotesque, ever-mutating, hydra-headed monstrosity from the Bush-Cheney Little Shop of Horrors — has risen again. This time, it’s got an added twist of Orwellian intrusiveness from the Obamacans. Since 2006, Team Bush, and...
| Jul 10, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyVirtually every president gets on a roll at some time during his administration, generally early on. And while he’s on that roll, every day is a wedding. He gets bills passed, international relations go his way, and people love him. It seems he can’t make...
| Jul 3, 2013 | Peace / SecurityOn the web, Or on the phone, One thing’s sure: You’re not alone. In my own malcontent civic organization, Veterans For Peace, we’ve always known we were being watched. We are, after all, against war. And we’re impolite enough about it to hold...
| Jun 19, 2013 | Rights / DemocracyIn 1929, Secretary of State Henry Stimson dismantled the department charged with breaking codes and learning other nations’ secrets. Asked why, he said: “Gentlemen don’t read other gentlemen’s mail.” Some sources quote him less elegantly...
| | UncategorizedOnly 23 percent of Americans, a new Reuters poll says, consider former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden a “traitor” for blowing the whistle on the federal government’s massive surveillance habit. Many Americans clearly do find the...
