By Jim Hightower, Hightower Lowdown The sprawling $43 billion homeland security department (HSD) is known chiefly for being the agency in charge of America’s color-coded terrorist-threat alarm system (“Good morning, Americans. Today is Yellow. Be vigilant. Report all suspicious people.”) It’s boogeyman nonsense, of course, doing absolutely nothing to make our country safe. But such…
opednews by Carol Wolman Christians have a duty to denounce Bush for his crimes, and see that he and Cheney are impeached. A recent news story says “Southern Baptists split over politics”. They are arguing about whether or not to be involved in the political process. How hypocritical! Christians, especially evangelicals, helped put Bush into…
One Thing We Can All Agree On By Rosa Brooks , Special to the Los Angeles Times You know you’ve got a problem when only the Albanians welcome you with open arms — and even then you need to take your watch off to keep them from stealing it. This is what it’s come down…
The American Conservative (blog) […] Then take a look at National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51, also called Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20. Under this directive, President Bush entrusts himself with leading the entire government – not just the Executive Branch – during a “catastrophic emergency.” He makes himself the American czar, in keeping with the war…
