Category: Politics
Despite Cheney’s Absence, His Influence Looms Over Complex CIA Leak Trial
by Margie Burns | Feb 15, 2007 | Foreign Policy, National SecurityEditor’s note: Margie Burns is an investigative writer who has reported for us in the past on election fraud, Bush family post-9/11 war profiteering, and the right-wing neocons who promoted the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Burns teaches at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, and she has recently been sitting in at the federal perjury trial of Vice President […]
Remembering Molly Ivins | Strange Bedfellows | Florida Dumps Electronic Voting
by WS Editors | Feb 15, 2007 | Culture, EconomyRemembering Molly—We know that a great many of you first subscribed to the Spectatorbased on the recommendation of Molly Ivins, the iconic liberal columnist and humorist who, as you no doubt know, died on January 31 after a long fight with cancer. Molly got to know our longtime editor Ben A. Franklin back in the days […]
Reviewing the First 100 Hours | Spoiling for a Fight With Iran | Turn Down the Heat!
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsQuick Out of the Blocks—In a mode of efficiency unusual on Capitol Hill, especially among Democrats, the new majority passed their first 100-hour package of legislation in just 42 and a half legislative hours, according to the official clock on the House floor. Although the Associated Press counted 87 hours, it was hard to argue […]
“Pillar of Democracy” May Be Worse Than Useless
by WS Editors | Feb 1, 2007 | PoliticsIn recent elections, reform-minded Americans have had their usual doubts about the manifestly undemocratic and clunky Electoral College, and a completely new set of deep doubts have arisen about how accurately the electronic voting systems have recorded the wishes of voters. There has also been some justifiable concern about how partisan election officials have purged […]
Our Election System Is Broken. Can the New Congress Fix It?
by WS Editors | Jan 15, 2007 | PoliticsIn the past year, concerns about the accuracy and integrity of computerized elections have entered the general consciousness and become accepted as serious. Issues that I addressed in the March 1, 2006, edition of the Spectator have since been written about in the national media, and the momentum has grown for legislative solutions to be found at the […]
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