Bang the Drum

rants and ramblings of a political junkie

Entries Tagged ‘Commentary’

Impeach Gonzales

A new video from ImpeachGonzales.org, summarizing the lies and bull that comprised Gonzales’ testimony before the House and Senate subcommittees:

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Gonzales: One Redeeming Moment?

Via Mojo Blog:

Today, I found this entertaining tidbit from Comey’s testimony. Comey is speaking with Arlen Specter, senator from Pennsylvania.
SPECTER: Can you give us an example of an exercise of good judgment by Alberto Gonzales?
[Gap in testimony.]
SPECTER: Let the record show a very long pause.
COMEY: It’s hard — I mean, I’m sure there are examples. [...]

Musings on Music, Religion and Politics

“…Lord, there’s danger in this land
You get witch-hunts and wars
When church and state hold hands”*

Music is the place I go when I feel profound sadness, joy, confusion or anger. Someone once told me that people are either drawn to music for the lyrics or the melody, but rarely both. Not so for me [...]

Josh Wolf Freed

I’ve written about Josh Wolf a couple of times on my personal blog in an effort to bring attention to the absurdity of his situation.  Wolf has the unique distinction of being jailed for eight months for refusing to turn over his videotapes of a San Francisco street protest.  In his own words:
When I was [...]

Robert J. Elisberg on “The Party of Law and Order”

The attorney scandal is growing by leaps and bounds. As I suspected, the idea germinated somewhere on or around Karl Rove, who of course denies it all. Alberto Gonzales will go, but the buck shouldn’t stop there.
They continue to insist that the idea was first put forth to Gonzales by Harriet Miers. [...]

Careful — Big Brother IS Watching You

Via CNet News, confirmation that those of us who share photos and videos online may be the next target of government scrutiny:

The Bush administration has accelerated its Internet surveillance push by proposing that Web sites must keep records of who uploads photographs or videos in case police determine the content is illegal and choose [...]

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