This is Constitution Day.  The National Archives is holding a celebration in which children can stop by and sign a “faux Constitution.”  George Bush issuing a statement earlier this week proclaiming: America is grateful to those who have worked to defend the...

The chief judge in the trial of Saddam Hussein says that Saddam was “no dictator.” This is hilarious. The Bush administration helps arrange a show trial. And they can’t even get the story line straight in a kangaroo court. The chief prosecutor complained that...

The Globalist website posted an article of mine on how the media and intellectuals subvert American democracy.  Here's the lead of the piece - Why is it that in the United States, the vast majority of government abuses and failures either never show up on...

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online the full text of my Freedom Daily article on "Killing in the Name of Democracy." The parallels between the rhetoric of Presidents McKinley, Wilson, and others  and Bush's recent doggerel is stunning.  America...

The Los Angeles Times ran a piece of mine today that advocates using the same coercive interrogation methods on congressmen that Congress approve for Bush's military tribunals. Full text of the piece is at the LATimes here (registration required?) and at my website...

Federal judge Anna Diggs Taylor declared in a ruling today: "We must first note that the Office of the Chief Executive has itself been created, with its powers, by the Constitution. There are no hereditary Kings in America and no power not created by the...

Today’s New York Times reveals that George W. Bush is deeply disappointed that the Iraqi people have “not shown greater support for the American mission.” One person who attended a meeting of Bush’s “war cabinet” on Monday commented on Bush’s reaction:...

So Bush made the supreme sacrifice, returning from his vacation in Texas to Washington to inform Americans of his latest victories in the Middle East. His comments at the State Department yesterday came close to breaking his previous personal best in both the...

Israel’s war on Lebanon is a warm-up for the U.S. war on Iran. That is the message of Seymour Hersh’s latest superb article in the New Yorker. Hersh reveals that the Bush administration was “closely involved” in planning Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.  A...

George W. Bush has apparently given up any aspiration of receiving an honorary award from the American Civil Liberties Union. His administration is responding to the Supreme Court ruling striking down his military tribunals with a legislative proposal that would place...