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The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker

Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching-that's the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a Presidency has-at the levels of competence, vision, and integrity-undermined the country and its ideals?

Unintelligence in Federal Intelligence Agencies - Indies

Incredible waste federal spending: $3 billion of taxpayer money annually because of privatization.

Former President George W. Bush: What will he do next?

At noon on January 20, 2009, George W. Bush will become a former president of the United States. Assuming they live, he will join former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and his father in a unique fraternity. He will be 62. He is a relatively young man in good physical health. He will be capable of a vigorous life as a former president. He is not considered an intellectual. What will he do for the next three decades?

Senator Specter Fights for Constitution

Republican Senator Arlen Specter showed his respect for the U.S. Constitution and his anger about President Bush s repeated pissing on it by introducing the Presidential Signing Statements Act of 2007. What happens to this crucial bill will test both congressional integrity and courage.

Thanks for Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney is the leading practitioner of the ends-justify-the-means mentality, where only his vision of the desired ends counts. Serving corporate interests rather than serving the people is Cheney s brand of patriotism. Our Constitution should not allow the government to make us victims and our nation hated by so much of the world. That s what Cheney should teach us. Now, it s up to us.

Political Attention Deficit Disorder ? New Psychiatric Condition

Maybe George W. Bush is afflicted by a newly identified psychiatric condition running rampant in America.

Are Americans Unready to Boil?

If you have concerns and fears about the nation's first Article V convention to propose constitutional amendments, this article will remove them!

Third Party & Independents:: The Evils of Lesser Evil Voting

A major reason why the U.S. keeps getting rotten people elected to high offices is that so many voters keep choosing lesser evil candidates.

Democracy Dreaming - The Smirking Chimp

America was given a representative democracy within a constitutional republic where laws that protect all people trump majority rule. Standing between majority-won elections and government power are elected representatives: writing, overseeing and implementing laws. But when you can no longer trust the elected representatives what happens to American democracy? It becomes an oxymoron.

Delusion Destroys Democracy

Talk about a national calamity: we have a delusional president and a largely delusional public!

Americans vote NO on Bush and take Impeachment off the table

On December 10th Americans will meet across the country to study the issue of Impeachment, not whether or not it should happen but what to do if Congress fails to do its job. America's balance of powers makes policing the presidency the obligation, on the option, of those sent to Washington this last November 7th.

Howie Rich and Ed Crane: Their antics in South Carolina

While Tim Moultrie, teacher and proponent for making quality education a reality for the children in South Carolina, worked to obtain that goal Howie Rich and Ed Crane and their friends funded the same old establishment that had made it impossible. Tim Moultrie, a real reformer, also filed a law suit to force the Republicans and Democrats in his state to follow the law they made for others. Moultrie is working for all of us.

The Military Commissions Act: Mary Stromberg asks a question of educators in Alabama

Mary Stromberg is a grandmother who is concerned about what her grandchildren will be learning about the Constitution in light of the Act signed by Bush on October 17th. Mary is worried about the rights and freedoms of Americans and she is taking action.