If that includes impeaching bush and cheney I not only think she should do it, I think she is going to lose credibility steadily unless she does do it.

Top Marine: No Plan For Post-Saddam Iraq, Nov. 13/06

There is no one on the Joint Chiefs of Staff who has visited Iraq more often than Gen. Mike Hagee, whose term as Commandant of the United States Marine Corps ends Monday.
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As Commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force during the lead-up to the war, Hagee was in charge of planning for the Marines' original push to Baghdad. So I asked him about one of the enduring mysteries of the invasion -- why there was no real plan for running the country once Saddam Hussein fell from power.

Unfortunately, Hagee's comments only deepen the mystery. He says he was deeply concerned about who would take charge of major Iraqi cities, like Najaf, as the Marines pushed through them on their way to Baghdad.

Hagee says he asked his boss again and again who would take charge of those cities. He wanted to know what the plan was for Phase IV -- military terminology for the phase that follows the end of major combat operations. Phase IV is, in other words, what comes after "mission accomplished." Hagee says that he sent his questions up the chain of command, as they say in the military -- and never heard back.

From mediamatters.org

US: Immigrants May Be Held Indefinitely

the bush administration asserts, to the 4th circuit court of appeals, that immigrants have no constitutional rights, pretty much period. that foreigners taken prisoner on u.s. soil have no rights, period.

It will be if they pass massive omnibus bills that bush will be able to nitpick and justify a veto.

Also, by sticking to simple single issue bills it will be easier to get moderate republicans behind the bill as well, and perhaps, obtain veto proof majorities for our best ideas.

I also agree with cpinva. The MCA should be brought up for the immediate restoration of the constitutional imperative of habeas corpus. NO ONE is safe as long as bush retains this power, not even American citizens, and, given their rather crushing defeat it may not be that hard to get some moderate republicans to join in making that modification.

After all, they wouldn't WANT a Democratic president to have that authority, eh?

And last on my wish list: Pass a law stating that "signing statements" are OF NO LEGAL CONSEQUENCE WHATEVER and CANNOT be considered or cited by ANY COURT.

You know the case.  Google fought it, MSN and Yahoo caved...  Google and the feds settled on a random sample of a small percentage of sites, etc.

Well, it turns out that there just isn't that much sex on the web.  The government's own expert concludes that maybe 1 percent of the web pages out there have something which might be considered explicit content.  

``One of the things we think came out of the government's study is that the chance of running into graphic content on the Web when filters are on is extremely low,'' said Catherine Crump, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.

Stark's study found that only 6 percent of all queries returned a sexually explicit Web site, despite the consistant popularity of queries related to sex. It also found that the filters which did the best job blocking sexually explicit content also inadvertently blocked lots of content that was not explicit.

It seems the web imitiates life:

Finkelstein said Stark's findings about the prevalence of pornography on the Internet are similar to other academic studies.

``What we are learning about the Internet is that it reflects life and that the Internet is not -- contrary to what some people might think -- more sexual than people are in general.''

November 14, 2006

BURLINGTON, Vt. --A New Mexico woman has complained that she was kicked off an airplane about to leave Burlington International Airport because she was breast-feeding her baby.

A complaint against two airlines was filed with the Vermont Human Rights, although Executive Director Robert Appel said he was barred by state law from confirming the complaint. He did say state law allows a mother to breast-feed in public.

Elizabeth Boepple, a lawyer hired by 27-year-old mother Emily Gillette, confirmed that Gillette filed the complaint late last week against Delta Air Lines and Freedom Airlines. Freedom was operating the Delta commuter flight between Burlington and New York City.

A Freedom spokesman said Gillette was asked to leave the flight after she declined a flight attendant's offer of a blanket.

"A breast-feeding mother is perfectly acceptable on an aircraft, providing she is feeding the child in a discreet way," that doesn't bother others, said Paul Skellon, spokesman for Phoenix-based Freedom. "She was asked to use a blanket just to provide a little more discretion, she was given a blanket, and she refused to use it, and that's all I know."