A Rat’s Ass

Burn the crops and poison the wells too.

This is the face we show to the world. It rather resembles a horses posterior.

This would be fun to watch.
Congress has another weapon in its arsenal for backing up the subpoena power: the long-dormant “inherent contempt” process, described below in the Congressional Research Service’s “Congressional Oversight Manual” (PDF):
Under the inherent contempt power, the individual is brought before the House or Senate by the Sergeant-at-Arms, tried […]

This is a posting by Juan Cole from Sunday, August 06, 2006. I want to preserve it for myself if no one else.

The wholesale destruction of all of Lebanon by Israel and the US Pentagon does not make any sense. Why bomb roads, bridges, ports, fuel depots in Sunni and Christian areas that have nothing […]

America’s biggest cash crop - cannabis - $36 Billion per year
How has this happened in Bush’s America? Think about the children!
Decades of government efforts to crack down on both the cultivation and consumption of pot have had a counter-productive effect, since even the most conservative government estimates suggest […]

Long live Richard M. Nixon

The 2008 elections. From War and Piece:
The pattern to the US attorney firings? McClatchy: “Last April, while the Justice Department and the White House were planning the firings, Rove gave a speech in Washington to the Republican National Lawyers Association. He ticked off 11 states that he said could be pivotal in 2008. Bush […]

That is not per capita either. US 2.2 million on probation or in prision (1 in 32 people), China 1.5 million out of over 1 billion.
See LeftCoaster.

Kos asks the central question:
For many of us the questions not being asked are whether adding to troop strength can be achieved without a draft. And why the U.S. needs a larger military in the first place given that it is spending more for its armed forces than the next 20 countries on the planet […]

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