“[E]very morning I pick up a paper and some authoritarian figure, some person somewhere, is using Guantanamo to hide their own misdeeds,” Powell said. “[W]e have shaken the belief that the world had in America’s justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open… We don’t need it, and it’s causing us far more damage than any good we get for it ( Read more... )

"Senators Leahy and Specter have introduced the Habeas Corpus Restoration Act (S. 185). The legislation restores habeas rights to foreign nationals who are detained as enemy combatants or who are awaiting determination of their combatant status. http://www.dailykos.com/ ( Read more... )

"Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any [prisoner] ... I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause... for by such conduct ( Read more... )

I am very, very glad that the Democrats won control of the senate. Without that, Bush's unconstitutional creeping tyranny might have gone unchallenged as his enablers papered things over again and again ( Read more... )

Bush's administration is nasty and corrupt. He has sacrificed the lives of American soldiers to improve Republican election prospects. He has stained the honor of America with secret arrests and torture. He has pandered to fear, prejudice, and willful ignorance, and he and his closest advisors have badly betrayed their constitutional oaths ( Read more... )

A great election parody from Slate

http://www.slate.com/id/2153274

Vote on Election Day, Tuesday, November 7 ( Read more... )

"On every issue, there are big differences but the biggest difference is the disregard for our constitutional democracy, the disdain for checks and balances, the denial of accountability that marks this president and vice president, and that's really our entire system being put at risk. Maybe we can dig ourselves out of the hole on fiscal ( Read more... )

I have been badly disappointed by Colin Powell. His speech to the UN on Iraqi WMD was the deciding factor in convincing me to support the Iraq war ( Read more... )

I read an interesting column by Bill Maher titled "Mocking Bush is my patriotic duty ( Read more... )