Rep. Alan Grayson introducing his War Is Making You Poor Act on the House floor As we look back to honor the fallen on Memorial Day, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on. Afghanistan, in its ninth year, is already the longest war in US History and Iraq, at seven years, is not far behind. On May 21, …
A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …
Early on in the American occupation of Iraq, gruesome video of Americans being beheaded by their captors surfaced, fueling worldwide outrage against the perpetrators. A thousand years earlier, Christian crusaders, laying siege to fortified Muslim cities, used as missiles for their catapults the severed heads of Muslims.
Demonstrating an “enhanced interrogation technique” In 1999, Bush‘s family biographer, Mickey Herskowitz, reports that W. told him he was intent on invading Iraq, saying that his status as a war time president would give him enough political capital to push through his conservative domestic agenda. (That would include the privatization of social security whose blood rich corpse would be served …
You can live with each other, you just can’t be married. “And who knows which is which, and who is who” —Pink Floyd The long evolutionary heritage of religion has always been inextricably linked with the forms and functions of the evolution of government. Long ago, the early tribal shamans were the go-to guys for all the practices …
Tuesday, George W. Bush held his final cabinet meeting where he said: I tell people I leave town with a great sense of accomplishment and my head held high. The problem with that is, well, obvious. George W. Bush in a rare moment of introspection As the worst president in US history winds down his delusional legacy protection tour, he …
Bush bids farewell White House Employee Trampled To Death As Bush Aides Flee Jan. 19, 2009 WASHINGTON D.C. [C.U.News] — Long time White House doorman, Oscar Willit, who served four different presidents, died in a stampede today as aides to President Bush and Vice President Cheney fled the building in advance of the incoming Obama Administration. “It was surreal”, said …
