By Glenn Greenwald | Salon Magazine
The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer, one of the country’s handful of truly excellent investigative journalists over the last seven years, has written a new book — “The Dark Side: The …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
In a move today bound to make anyone think Congress has a touch of positional vertigo, the Senate voted, by a 3 to 1 margin, to give the president a belated birthday …

By Brad Parker
A malevolent cloud is sweeping across America. It has permeated the air with betrayal and cowardice. Around the District of Columbia, our putative leaders are breathing in the foul stench of capitulation and …

By Velvet Revolution
Watch Don Siegelman speak out Click here to watch the video
VR spent several hours with Ex Alabama Governor Don Siegelman recently discussing his political persecution at the direction of Karl Rove and his …

By Ben Pershing | Washington Post blog
Keeping true to his word, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) informed his colleagues today that he would bring one article of impeachment against President Bush “for taking our nation and …

posted by John Nichols
After the Patriot Act became law, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee (BORDC) began a national campaign to get cities, counties and states to stand up for the Constitution.
Thanks to the determined …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Today’s Supreme Court decision striking down the Washington, D.C. handgun ban, in a 5-4 ruling, and affirming so-called Second Amendment rights was predictable, and comes as no surprise. While the dissent and …

By Jayne Lyn Stahl
Can’t wait for the canary to sing, on the morning of June 20th, when Scott McClellan testifies before the House Judiciary Committee under oath, about what are “standard operating procedures’ by …