It’s official. We have just entered into a new Cold War. On Sunday, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev defined bold and assertive guidelines that would define its new approach to international relations. This new policy most notably contains what is effectively the Russian version of the Roosevelt corollary of the United State’s well-known Monroe Doctrine. Re-asserting [...]

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The political euphemism glossary, which is non-partisan and being built gradually, is a catalog of the tools, words, and phrases used by political minds to shape how we think or worse, lull us into such a complacency we fail to critically think at all. The next euphemism to enter the complete glossary is below. Click [...]

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Author’s Note: Now that President Bush is no longer in office, I have compiled an updated and complete list of what grew to be 42 Bush administration appointees who resigned in disgrace which also includes and supersedes the original list of 21 resignations contained in the post below. Click on the link above for the [...]

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I visited The Moving Wall this weekend. The Moving Wall is a half-size replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial that travels around the country so those who can not make it to Washington D.C. can experience the power, and hopefully the healing, of the memorial. As I was reflecting upon the wall, contemplating all the [...]

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President Bush has again displayed the nuance and diplomatic skills of a chainsaw. His flippant approach to Russian concerns about the deployment of an American anti-ballistic missile system in former East Bloc countries only serves to make it even more difficult to work with the Russians in the future. To underscore that, Russia has just [...]

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Think American confidence in the presidency is low? The public is even less confident in Congress. And that is also a result of the President Bush’s leadership. Gallup conducts an annual poll of American confidence in 16 different societal institutions ranging from the military to religion, business to labor, the medical system to HMOs, news [...]

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Crooks and Liars has posted an excerpt from a PBS broadcast of Bill Moyers’ roundtable discussion of impeachment with a conservative guest and a liberal guest. While they may not agree on a lot of issues, they do agree on one thing. I strongly recommend taking six minutes to view the video. Sphere: Related Content

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“Politics is the art of the possible” -Otto Von Bismark There are growing number of folks with a full head of steam about impeachment. There’s impeachcheney.org. There’s impeachbush.org. The blogosphere is abuzz with the idea. The mainstream media is starting to discuss it. There’s actual articles of impeachment against Vice-President Cheney in the House, submitted [...]

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Our political leadership, congressional and presidential, has turned the most urgent and critical issue facing our nation into a an exercise in sound bite governance and diplomacy. “Cut and run” and “stay the course” compete with “bring the troops home” and “support our troops” as empty slogans masquerading as policy. The nation deserves a well [...]

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Tony Snow bent over backwards during his July 3rd briefing to avoid saying that the President respects the justice system by proclaiming his faith in the “jury system” But the President also believes, for those who were arguing on behalf of a pardon, that you need to respect the jury system. Scooter Libby was tried [...]

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