The Executive Branch executes, the Legislative Branch legislates, and the Judicial Branch judges, right? Sounds like a lot of trouble. Wouldn’t it be easier if just one branch could do all the work? The Bush Administration seems to think so. There have been over 130 signing statements under the Bush Administration [...]
Via Yahoo News
“In the months before the 2004 election, dozens of people across the nation were banished from or arrested at Bush political rallies, some for heckling the president, others simply for holding signs or wearing clothing that expressed opposition to the war and administration policies.
Similar things have happened at official, taxpayer-funded, presidential visits, before [...]
Jonathan Schnell is writing a new series of essays for The Nation that go along with his new book, The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. His point seems to me to be that the very power that makes America strong, paralizes it, or causes us to be omnipotently impotent, [...]
Quick thoughts are a bad idea sometimes. Business and government could never be separated like church and state for two very good reasons: taxes and regulations. That is unless the government went completely laissez faire. Time has shown that businesses must be regulated, and to be forced to do so [...]
We have a separation between church and state guaranteed by the Constitution (or Thomas Jefferson - however you want to describe it). Why don’t we have a separation between corporations and state? They are as big of a threat today to our government as the church would have been in the 18th century.
Of [...]
Mutant Frog has an article up showcasing a WWII comic called “How to Spot a Jap.” And the English department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign hosts a guide from a 1941 issue of Time magazine. From the opening paragraph:
“In the first discharge of emotions touched off by the Japanese assaults on [...]
