( By myself in a four-corner room watchin' 'Hard Boiled' )

Scooter Libby was just found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury regarding the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to the news media. Basically, this happened as a political retaliation against her husband calling Bush out on the false claim that Saddam Hussein had purchased uranium to build nuclear weapons with--a key tenet in his ( Read more... )

I have to give credit to Patrick Fitzgerald and the ladies at Firedoglake for sticking with this, and I offer a mea culpa for thinking the Libby Trial would turn out to be more of a dud. It's actually looking verrrrrrrrrry interesting ( Read more... )

Do I even need to tell you how important this is? Democracy is at stake, in every real sense of the word. It's time for apathy to be set aside, and to remind those in power that being a public servant means that you serve the public, and that the will of the American people must always take precedence for the future of the country. Here're some ( Read more... )

Apparently, the White House was notified in early February of the charges, but as Allen had passed a White House background check, he was given the benefit of the doubt. But really, between the Vice President accidentally shooting a septuagenarian recently and now a top adviser caught indulging in a sort of trailer-trash kleptomania at a department ( Read more... )

Here's the letter I sent as an e-mail-via-fax to all the Senators on the fence about the Alito filibuster.:

( Make History )