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Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, Harriet Miers nominated for Supreme Court By President Bush
Miers Led Law Firm Repeatedly Forced to Pay Damages For Defrauding Investors
In case anyone thought Harriet Miers wasn’t a corporate-shill-in-White-House-clothing, take a gander at how Miers did her best Ken Lay impression while heading a major Texas corporate law firm. That’s right, according to the 5/1/00 newsletter Class Action Reporter, Miers headed Locke, Liddell & Sapp at the time the (…)

The usual suspects
October 3, 2005
The Bush administration hesitantly walked another step closer to collapse last week with the admission that Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff Scooter Libby was the second senior administration official to have disclosed the identity of Valerie Plame, former CIA officer involved in a covert operation to provide intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, to the press, in this case Judith Miller of the New York Times. Libby now joins White House (…)

"The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State." — Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany.
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By Ed Siegel
August Wilson, the country’s preeminent African-American playwright, died yesterday at the age of 60 from liver cancer.
Mr. Wilson’s main body of work was a cycle of 10 plays, each set in a different decade in the 20th century, thus covering 100 years of African-American history and attitudes. They featured large ensembles of black actors playing characters debating how to carry themselves in the face of limited opportunities and resources. Although white racism was rarely (…)

I’m not saying Harriet Miers has taken a penny from GTECH, Guy Snowden or anybody else. Let me make that clear. But she, and the whole cabal from Texas, absolutely reek of
Ms. Miers’ time on the Texas Lottery Commission has been well reported, usually with Ms. Miers as the driving force who rooted out corruption and helped the Texas Lottery turn over a new leaf. “In other circles, the Texas Lottery Commission is known as the incident that permanently sealed Bush’s Texas Air National (…)

by Jane Stillwater While commuting to my law office temp job in San Francisco the other day, I met a gang member on the BART train. I could tell he was a gang member. He had gang tattoos and gang insignia and a gang Survivor buff. So I started asking him about gangs and turfs and stuff.
"In Oakland," he told me, "in the Twenties" — that’s Twentieth Avenue through Twenty-Ninth Avenue — "you got the Murder Dubs. In West Berkeley, you got the Nortes and the H2o. Then in North Oakland (…)

By Bill Gallagher DETROIT — Deception, arrogance, greed, hubris, corruption, incompetence and isolation — the seven deadly sins of political life — snared President George W. Bush and his cronies long ago. That’s how they gained and maintain power.
While praying and thumbing their Bibles, loudly proclaiming their virtue and righteousness, the faith-based Busheviks claim to be the chosen and anointed, carrying out God’s work on earth. In fact and in deed, they behave like the devil’s (…)

Posted on Sun, Oct. 02, 2005
MICHAEL BROWN
Fiasco uncovers Bush administration as fool’s paradise
It is said that if someone thinks you’re a fool, better to keep your mouth shut than open it and remove all doubt. Speaking of Michael Brown...
The ex-FEMA chief testified on Capitol Hill last week about what went wrong with the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Even House Republicans shook their heads in disbelief.
GOP Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut was beside himself (…)

Video: The debacle of the federal governemts response to the Katrina hurricane
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By David Bacon
On April 9, 2003, U.S. tanks pulled up to Basra’s huge, dilapidated oil refinery. “We were coming out early, at the end of our shift, and there was the American army,” recalls Faraj Arbat, one of the plant’s firemen. The soldiers trained their guns on the oil workers. The head of the fire department made the mistake of questioning the troops, and he was ordered to lie facedown on the ground.
“He did as he was ordered,” Arbat recalls. “But then an American put his foot on (…)