Then-Vice President Dick Cheney personally oversaw deathsquads. Can anyone claim to be surprised? emptywheel has more. ....

When I'm wrong, I admit it. When I wrote about the Pleasant Grove v Summun case last week, I was incensed as well as flabbergasted that the vote was unanimous and that not a single Justice seemed to question the deeper issues. I was wrong. Frederick Clarkson at Talk to Action went more deeply in...

. "REPUBLICAN" IS A BAD WORD, THEY FINALLY REALIZED THE PARTY OF LINCOLN??? NOT SO MUCH... So, What Should We Call A Disoriented Group Of So-Called Conservatives? Pick your favorites. Here's my list. I'd love to see yours. Post or email one, please! Comments are now open to all. We'll see how that g...

This is what you'd hear in your average courtroom if justice for the Bushies was justice for all : Prosecutor: And so Mr Rummysfelt has admitted that he knocked an elderly woman on the head with a tire iron in order to steal her purse after she cashed her Social Security check. Judge:(to Defense...

Non Sequitor by Wiley...

No more pardons: In a move that has keenly disappointed some of his strongest conservative allies, President Bush has decided not to pardon Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for his 2007 conviction in the CIA leak case, two White House officials said Monda...

Loyal Bushie, scourge of Tommy Chong, and all-around unpleasant person Mary Beth Buchanan is refusing to leave her position as US Attorney in Pittsburgh. Scott Horton: The political appointees present Obama and his new attorney general, Eric Holder, with a different headache. By tradition, political...

Not that we haven't known this before but a new internal DOJ investigation confirms it: Monica Goodling was acting on orders from above. A former senior official at the Justice Department routinely hired Republicans, Federalist Society members and “R.T.A.’s� — “Right-Thinking Americans...

George W Bush, as I have argued many times, has been a spectacularly successful president - if your definition of "successful" includes turning the govt into a sort of combination National Chamber of Commerce and corporate wish-list enforcer. He has virtually gotten everything he'...

Does anybody know if Bush was scheduled to visit Miami on Friday?...