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Bolton & Yoo, comedians

Monday, January 05, 2009 8:55 PM
A while ago , a conversation arose on Twitter about this op-ed in today's New York Times by John Bolton and John Yoo (yes, that Bolton and that Yoo), in which two of the biggest perpetrators of the " unitary executive " mythology now advocate that the
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Bush's war on women's bodies

Thursday, December 18, 2008 10:26 PM
As the sun finally begins to rise and banish the darkness of the Bush years, we continue to witness an alarming chain of eleventh-hour regulations emanating from the White House. The latest of those offenses against decency was published today : The Bush
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Bush's fire sale continues

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 11:10 PM
Adding to the alarming number of last-minute regulatory changes, the Bush administration is now shafting farm workers by weakening the agricultural guest worker program: The new H-2A visa rules, which take effect in January, revise the way wages are calculated
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Little hope of justice on torture

Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:07 PM
Today, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a bipartisan report that explicitly names Donald Rumsfeld, his minions, George W. Bush, and others in his administration as the parties responsible for the use of torture as official tools of the US
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Watergate felon gets Presidential medal

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:14 PM
Today, President Bush awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal (the second-highest honor a civilian can receive) to a slate of 24 recipients. One of those recipients was convicted Watergate felon Chuck Colson . Good grief. Colson played a central role
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Bush's newest attack on air quality and national parks

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:20 PM
In one stroke, the Bush administration has launched fresh attacks on two of its favorite targets -- air quality and the national parks : The Environmental Protection Agency is finalizing new air-quality rules that would make it easier to build coal-fired
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The situational ethics of Sen. Jon Kyl

Saturday, November 08, 2008 7:41 PM
Think back to the spring of 2005, just three and a half years ago, before this presidential campaign started. The Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. The Democrats in the Senate were more or less powerless to stop the GOP
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Undoing the damage, one step at a time

Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:44 PM
No small part of Obama's mandate is driven by a desire to see the most damaging turns of the last eight years reversed, so that this country can begin restoring itself to its fundamental principles. If the Obama administration takes that mandate seriously,
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The closing argument for Obama and against Bush III

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:37 PM
Obama gave his " closing argument " speech yesterday, and it's powerful stuff: Meanwhile, the Bush White House (which McCain has supported over 90 percent of the time) is hard at work, frantically trying to destroy the environment as quickly as possible.
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Palin's abuse of power

Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:39 PM
To no one's surprise, Sarah Palin abused her power as governor of Alaska : An Alaska ethics inquiry found on Friday that Gov. Sarah Palin, the U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate, abused her authority by pressuring subordinates to fire a state
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