Category: Politics
Tom DeLay’s Unsolicited Advice | The Foreclosure Epidemic | An Iraq Fallacy
by WS Editors | Apr 1, 2007 | Economy, Foreign PolicyThe Hammer Strikes Back—NBC’s Today Show isn’t known for putting its guests in the hot seat—unless your name is Tom Cruise. Yet there was host Meredith Vieira on March 20, sinking her teeth into former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. “You say to fight, and the name of your book is No Retreat, No Surrender. But didn’t you […]
The Legal Muscle Leading the Fight to End the Separation of Church and State
by WS Editors | Apr 1, 2007 | Legal AffairsOn a dismal, rainy afternoon, over tea and Pepsi and a plate of fries at the Bob Evans restaurant in Cannonsburg, Kentucky, Bill Scaggs, a retired government and public-relations executive of ARMCO Steel, told me why he thinks that homosexuality is the greatest threat to America. “AIDS kills,” was his circa 1984 answer, “and the […]
The Bush Administration Has Two Full-Fledged Scandals on Its Hands | More on Voting Reform
by WS Editors | Mar 15, 2007 | Politics“Personnel” Problem—In an Op-Ed on March 7, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dismissed the unexpectedand unexplainedfiring of eight U.S. Attorneys as an “overblown personnel matter.” Don’t tell that to members of Congress. “I can’t even tell you how upset I am at the Justice Department,” said Senator John Ensign (R-NV). “One day there will be a […]
The End of Illegal Domestic Spying? Don’t Count on It
by WS Editors | Mar 15, 2007 | National SecurityAmericans of all persuasions were shocked by the revelations, first reported in the New York Times in December of 2005, that President Bush had authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop secretly for years on the calls and e-mails of American citizens, bypassing the warrants required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and the U.S. […]
Congress Just Says No to an Iraq War Escalation
by WS Editors | Mar 1, 2007 | Foreign Policy, PoliticsIf the Congressional elections of the past November 7 were an unofficial vote of no-confidence for President Bush and the Iraq War, an official one was finally delivered on February 15 by the House of Representatives when it passed a resolution disapproving of the Bush plan for a “surge” of more U.S. troops to be […]
Bad Faith Documentary
Bad Faith
“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns
Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones
“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024” – Variety