Our esteemed Attorney General John Ashcroft has been actively enforcing the death penalty, overruling states (I thought Conservatives were for states’ rights over Federal rights?). When the Federal death penalty was recently declared unconstitutional, Ashcroft insisted that he would continue to call for the death penalty because, in his words, it “saves lives.”
You may also like
News Roundup
Rather than post a half-dozen rants about today’s news, I’m just going to list some stories here that you can read or not, according to your whims. I really should stop reading the Sunday Washington Post in [more...]
May 25, 2003
Not a threat
The Bush administration has ruled through fear, making us believe (well, some of us at least) that there are terrorists around every corner, brandishing Ricin and Anthrax and nukular weapons. We discovered this was not [more...]
October 6, 2004
Romney taking credit for auto industry success
Mitt Romney is saying that he deserves “a lot of credit” for the resurgence of the American auto industry. That claim comes in spite of Romney having argued that Detroit should have been allowed to go [more...]
May 8, 2012
