Author: briggs
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Shooting Indians in a Barrel: The Trust Scandal
It’s nearly as easy as shooting fish in a barrel. Gale Norton’s Department of the Interior is so far winning the Bush Administration’s fight against the Indians. A ten-year-old struggle to right 118 years of wrongs against American Indians is at an impasse with the Bush government holding most of the trump cards. The fight,…
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Killing Me Softly
“…based on authority given to me by the Constitution and by statute– I have authorized a terrorist surveillance program…” –G.W.B. 2006
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Abramoff vs The Tribes
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Debra J. Saunders sounded like Rep. Richard Pombo’s big sister taking on the corner bullies in her Sunday rant, “Lay off Pombo” in which she lit into “the left”, Nancy Pelosi, and Democratic party leaders for picking on Pombo for getting money from the tainted former lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, and his…
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Reconstruction: Iraq vs Louisiana
The Bush administration has doled out a lot of cash for the “reconstruction” of Iraq and we now have a report from the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction. The long story short is that $25 billion was appropriated by Congress to rebuild Iraq, including for 136 projects to improve water and sanitation and 425…
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Bush & Johnson: In the Mirror of War
Many have made comparisons between the Iraq war and the Vietnam war but I have been thinking lately about the characters and careers of the two men who waged those American–made wars: GWB and LBJ. Both were Texans, one a senator, the other governor, before entering the White House. They came from opposite sides of…
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Karl Rove to Mitt Romney: “Al Qaeda calling. Just kidding!”
Mitt Romney is running for president but he doesn’t want my vote. Here’s what he said to New York Times reporter Adam Nagourney recently from Iowa where he is campaignin…er visiting. “The eavesdropping is a big matter on the coasts for people who are inclined to dislike the president,” Mr. Romney said.” The Coasts, people.…