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Court smacks down EPA-sanctioned pollution

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:43 PM
In 1990, Congress passed an amendment to the Clean Air Act which ordered a state to set more stringent limits on air pollution if that state determined that the Clean Air Act was insufficient inside its borders. The monitoring requirements and sufficiency
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Backdoor repeal of the Endangered Species Act

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 1:28 PM
We're now witnessing a back-door repeal of the Endangered Species Act: The Bush administration yesterday proposed a regulatory overhaul of the Endangered Species Act to allow federal agencies to decide whether protected species would be imperiled by agency
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Richard Holbrooke on Russia and Georgia

Monday, August 11, 2008 10:23 PM
In today's Washington Post, Richard Holbrooke had this to say about Russia's invasion of Georgia: Russia's goal is not simply, as it claims, restoring the status quo in South Ossetia. It wants regime change in Georgia. [...] But its greatest goal is to
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EPA turns a blind eye to Gulf of Mexico dead zone

Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:15 PM
Every year, agricultural runoff from Midwestern states pumps extraordinary amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Mississippi River. These chemicals collect at the mouth of the river, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. This causes
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A new Church Committee?

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 10:29 PM
Salon has obtained a confidential memo written for certain members of Congress that outlines a proposal for an inquiry modeled on the Church Committee ; this modern version of Church would focus on the malfeasance of the Bush administration, and it hints
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Two quotes of the day, both by Angela Davis

Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:49 PM
I ran across these two quotes from Angela Davis , both of which bear remembering: First, on President Bush : When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to. Then, dear Angela pretty much sums up our shallow culture's obsession with style
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EPA admits the problem, refuses to act

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:03 PM
A Supreme Court decision from 2007 ( PDF here ) mandated that the Environmental Protection Agency was required under the Clean Air Act to determine if anthropogenic carbon dioxide represents a threat to human health. In December, the EPA sent an email
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The phantom promise of offshore drilling

Monday, July 14, 2008 10:17 PM
Today, President Bush rescinded an executive order signed by his father which affirmed the ban on offshore oil drilling (with the exception of a small area off Southern California and a specific region of the Gulf of Mexico). The move was almost entirely
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Taking the FISA fight to the next level

Thursday, July 10, 2008 9:50 PM
I've often thought that President Bush probably read " The Trial " and " 1984 " at some point and mistook them for how-to manuals. Today's signing of the FISA bill tends to support that theory. On the heels of yesterday's capitulation by the Senate on
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A silver lining?

Wednesday, July 09, 2008 8:15 PM
The Senate predictably caved today and passed the FISA reform bill, which included immunity for the telecommunications companies that had conspired with intelligence agencies to spy on Americans without warrant. Bruce Afran, an attorney representing plaintiffs
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Feingold speaks on the FISA travesty

Tuesday, June 24, 2008 8:50 PM
In this interview with Amy Goodman , Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) promises to filibuster the horrid FISA amnesty bill when it reaches the Senate. First, he outlines the most potent objections to the bill: Sen. Russ Feingold : Well, this is a great blow
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Playing political games with the US census

Monday, June 23, 2008 6:25 PM
The Bush administration's mismanagement of the Census Bureau is posing a threat to the integrity of the 2010 census. Among other problems, there's this : Lawmakers must also ensure that the final census funding bill includes a provision from the House
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If a general calls them war crimes ...

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:38 PM
Major General Antonio Taguba, who conducted an extensive inquiry into the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, has spoken out again on the Bush regime's lawlessness. In his preface to a new report from Physicians for Human Rights, he says this: In order for [detainees]
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Chalk one up for the Constitution

Thursday, June 12, 2008 1:10 PM
This morning, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Boumediene v. Bush , holding that Guantanamo detainees have the right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts. As SCOTUSblog said: The Court, dividing 5-4, ruled that Congress had
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Bush negotiating in secret for permanent bases in Iraq

Thursday, June 05, 2008 7:40 PM
Contrary to the will of the American people, the US Congress, the Iraqi parliament , the Iraqi president, and the Iraqi people, George Bush is engaged in secret negotiations with Iraqi president Nouri al-Maliki to establish fifty permanent US military
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Greenwald on the "liberal media" myth

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:25 PM
Glenn Greenwald has two pieces in Salon on the persistent myth of the "liberal" media. In the first , he notes some comments from Scott McClellan's explosive new book that portray the media as willing lapdogs of the Bush administration in its run-up to
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McCain fundraiser tanks

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 10:36 PM
This is hilarious : A Tuesday fundraiser headlined by President Bush for U.S. Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign is being moved out of the Phoenix Convention Center. Sources familiar with the situation said the Bush-McCain event was not selling
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Does Bush think the Secretary of Defense is an appeaser?

Thursday, May 15, 2008 12:57 PM
Yesterday, President Bush delivered a speech in Israel in which he called "appeasers" anyone who advocates talks with Iran. He even drew an explicit parallel to 1930's-era Nazi appeasers : "Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists
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The slow implosion of the GOP

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:34 PM
The Republican Party seems to be ensnared in a slow-motion downward spiral of late. Party unity on Capitol Hill has all but evaporated, the rank and file are disassociating themselves from the White House like rats from a sinking ship, and the prospects
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The kangaroo courts begin to collapse

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:30 PM
The sham "trials" of detainees at Guantanamo have always been legally and Constitutionally invalid, but they were continuing anyway. Now, the process of these show trials has met some blowback from within the Pentagon (in contrast to civilian trials,
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