Archive for the ‘Democracy in Peril’ Category
Tim Russert died today, which is front page news on all the networks and papers. My condolences to his family for the loss of a loved one. For the rest of us, I can only hope that his removal will allow a real journalist to occupy the position that he wasted for so long. Tim [...]
A massive military occupation is serious business. Checkpoints ensure that every pedestrian and motorist has state-issued ID proving he belongs there; free movement is severely restricted. Soldiers line the streets, each outfitted with a variety of guns and non-lethal weapons. Soldiers, clumped in groups of five or six are stationed on every corner and several [...]
On “The Daily Show” a few nights ago, Jon Stewart devoted a long segment to the hearings that were held last week by the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet on the virtual world Second Life. The comedy segment’s first laugh came at the expense of Congresswoman Jane Harman (D-CA) who warned of the [...]
Michael Mukasey, the once-respected conservative legal scholar whose appointment as Attorney General was made possible by Democratic Senators Charles Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, gave a speech in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago about the need to pass new surveillance legislation exactly as the Bush Administration wants it, with full immunity for telecom companies. [...]
The Center for Public Integrity has obtained a draft report of a federal study of the health risks resulting from the contamination of the Great Lakes which was scheduled for release last summer. A division of the Center for Disease Control has spend three years researching and come up with extremely alarming data that show [...]
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