The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
— Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist

Political terror: Five years ago, in the wake of the 2001 terror attacks, Pres. George W. Bush had considerable success terrifying the public into supporting him. Today, however, the vast majority of Americans have come to regard George Bush as — at best — a serial prevaricator.
With his credibility is in tatters, and his [...]

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.
— Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosopher

Above, Lynne and Dick Cheney hold their sixth grandchild, Samuel David Cheney, the son of Mary Cheney and her wife, Heather Poe.
Bush press release titled, “President Calls for Constitutional Amendment Protecting Marriage,” issued Feb. 24, 2004:
After more than two centuries of American jurisprudence, and millennia of human experience, a few judges and local authorities are [...]

What homeland security: The case of Mark Uhl, the young rightwing insurrectionist caught with a bomb intended for protesters* at the funeral of rightwing political agitator Jerry Falwell, has been transferred from local jurisdictions to the U.S. Attorney’s office for prosecution.
Uhl, 19, a student at Liberty University in Virginia, the college founded by the recently [...]

The first Pres. Bush was once described as “every woman’s first husband.” In a new article at Salon.com, Gary Kamiya argues that the current president’s relationship with the public has become analagous to a failed marriage:
If Congress allows Bush to leave office unimpeached, it risks rendering quaint the system of checks and balances in [...]

NOTE: Due to a server shutdown on May 22, 2007, the original version of this article was permanently deleted from our database. What follows is back up of a draft of the original. All comments posted to this article were lost.
Laura Schlessinger, the rightwing radio hatemonger, is back in the news. Last week, she told [...]

Meltdown: Word on the street has it that Sen. John McCain has a bad temper. He needs to keep it under wraps while he runs for president but that may be too difficult:
“[Expletive] you! I know more about this than anyone else in the room,” shouted McCain at Cornyn.
During a meeting Thursday on immigration legislation, [...]

GOP presidential candidate Rep. Duncan Hunter, the author of last year’s Secure Fence Act, which mandated extending the existing wall at California’s border with Mexico eastward to the borders of Arizona and New Mexico, is upset that the Bush administration and the Congress have cut “his” fence in half:
[CHRIS MATTHEWS, host of MSNBC's Hardball]: Will [...]

Gallup:
Much of the organized opposition to the expansion of the hate crime law has come from conservative religious groups, while the nation’s top Republican leader, President George W. Bush, has suggested he will veto the legislation if it reaches his desk. But there is little evidence from these data to suggest that a majority of [...]