Or one big disfunctional family, more like. That's what we have in the upper house of the US congress, as all but one senator (Kerry) refused to join Russ Feingold in a public condemnation of the President for, well, repeatedly and deliberately and needlessly disregarding the Constitution and breaking the current laws regarding spying on citizens ( Read more... )

So there was an incomplete semi-defeat compromise for Lindsay Graham's bill regarding habeas corpus for detainees. But as I have mentioned before, and others have had this occur to them to, this is not the end of it, nor is anyone who is not "a terrorist" or "a foreign fighter" [sic] safe for it ( Read more... )

Defend Our Freedoms - is there any of the rationalizations for US entry into WWI that has held up, except for the one Gen. Butler gave, to make United States Steel and their cohorts richer? Suppression of civil liberties in this country is an old policy, but it has gotten better and worse at times, and bouts of worse followed WWI just as the ( Read more... )

Habeas Corpus: "An act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the seas."

(via TalkLeft, via Body & Soul)

Sen. Graham Introduces Amendment to End Habeas for DetaineesBreaking: Senator Lindsay Graham is introducing an Amendment to the defense appropriations bill pending in the Senate (S. 1042 ( Read more... )

Blair facing crunch terror vote

Mr Blair has refused to back down on the 90-day detention plans ( Read more... )