Bush Era

Are Americans Unready to Boil?

by Joel S. Hirschhorn, opednews. The frog-in-boiling water model helps us understand political upheavals: how citizens wake up early enough (or too late) to respond to social and economic oppression. Sometimes the greed and arrogance […]

Bush Era

Well, We Found 140,000

New York Times Editorial The post-Watergate law requiring the preservation of presidential records has proved to be no match for the Bush White House’s stealthy use of back-channel e-mails via the Republican National Committee’s computer […]

Bush Era

The Bushites Have Outsourced Our Government to Their Pals

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 […]

Bush Era

The Impeachment of George W. Bush

Elizabeth Holtzman, The Nation Finally, it has started. People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush–not in hushed whispers but openly, in newspapers, on the Internet, in ordinary conversations and even in […]