President grabs power while Congress sleeps - "But the changes that George W. Bush has made to our nation's constitutional firmament may not depart with the first family's bags. His disregard for the separation of powers has so dramatically distorted the office of the president that he may have engineered a turning point in American history. Bush represents the flag-wavers who are long on enthusiasm but don't have any real appreciation for the nobility of America. It isn't our big, expensive military or our big, expensive economy that bestows greatness. It is our modesty. America's magnificence lies in its grounding principle that power must be diffuse. We built a system based on the assessed fallibility of man, where a president is limited by Congress, the courts and the Constitution. ... Bush has taught tomorrow's leaders that, if there are no consequences for ignoring legal constraints on power and if no one stops you from conducting the nation's business in secret, you don't have to be accountable. He is ruling through the tautological doctrine of Richard Nixon, who told interviewer David Frost that as long as the president's doing it "that means it is not illegal.'' ... "Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush" is an unblinking 28-page analysis of our slow devolution into autocracy. Its message can be summed up with this quote: "Under (the president's) sweeping theory of executive power, the liberty of every American rests on nothing more than the grace of the White House.""
Top Ten Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State - "Hey America! Freedom is just around the corner…behind you." -- A good list. If you are unaware of the "Signing Statements" then you should at least read that entry.
Bush governs in dictator style - "President Bush's approval of domestic surveillance is just the tip of the iceberg. The Boston Globe on April 30 (and the New York Times on May 12) reported that President Bush claims authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office." -- Yes, you read that correctly: "more than 750."
Few Americans Expect Bush Impeachment - "Many adults in the United States believe their president should not face legal charges over his decision to launch the coalition effort, according to a poll by Opinion Dynamics released by Fox News. 62 per cent of respondents think it would be wrong for lawmakers to try to impeach George W. Bush over the Iraq war and weapons of mass destruction." -- Who are these people?
What People Believe - "The answer lies in the nature of the human being. We are mind-directed creatures. We act on the basis of our beliefs. Therefore, if you can control what people believe, you can control what they do. That's the whole purpose of advertising, for example – to instill in people's minds the belief that a product or service will be beneficial to them. ... Millions of men have gone to war because, as Americans or British or French or Germans or Russians or Japanese, they believed it was their duty. The danger lies in the fact that unscrupulous men, through misrepresentation and propaganda, can motivate people to go to war even though it is not in their country's interest, much less their own. Unless there is an invader threatening one's home and hearth, it is never in the interest of an individual to go war – unless he decides to be a mercenary. It is an evil paradox that men with the lowest motives can launch wars by appealing to the highest ideals of better men."
North American Union to Replace USA? - "The blueprint President Bush is following was laid out in a 2005 report entitled "Building a North American Community" published by the left-of-center Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The CFR report connects the dots between the Bush administration's actual policy on illegal immigration and the drive to create the North American Union:"
Panic builds up behind America's Great Wall - "And yet there’s something else at work here: an unease, a panic, a sense of helplessness and being beleaguered that has plagued the American psyche since 9/11. On that day, the pristine separation between America and the rest of the world was abolished. The continent was no longer immune to the terror that all other countries had grown used to. ... Then there is genuine cultural discomfort. Census statistics last week showed that, for the first time, almost half of Americans under five years of age are now non-white. The reason? Hispanics accounted for half the population growth in America from 2004-05; and 70% of the growth in the population under the age of five. Project that into the future and America becomes a majority coffee-coloured country in a generation. When the disproportionately white baby-boomer generation dies off, the ethnic demographic shift could be dramatic. There’s a reason that people are not proposing a wall to cordon off Canada."
An illegal alien who can legally sue - "To put it another way: Victor Caballero may not have the legal right to actually live in New Jersey, but New Jersey says he has the legal right to receive generous benefits for being here. Go figure."
Google dumps news sites that criticize radical Islam - "Search giant axes another news page, calls terrorism discussion 'hate content'"
Collapse of the Petrodollar Looming - "The announcement by President Putin of a Russian bourse trading oil and gas in Roubles threatens the stability of the US Dollar far more than Iran's bourse alone would do, and continues the slide in relations between the old Cold War foes."
Country radio nixes Dixie Chicks - "It appears the war U.S. country radio stations mounted against the politically outspoken Dixie Chicks has not abated in the least."
Quote of the Day
"I don't know what's going on in the scenes behind. I worry about it some of the time."
~ Matthew Sweet (Holy War)
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