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February 2004



Will The Real Bush Stand Up?

Saturday, 28 February 2004 4:30 P GMT-07
Continuing with the general theme of yeaterday's blog, "The Character Myth", and the questions about the president's National Guard service in blogs earlier in the week, this opinion piece by highly respected economist Paul Krugman examines

The Character Myth

Friday, 27 February 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
Renana Brooks is one of the most perspicacious observers and analysts of the current socio-political scene in the U.S.  She was the first that I encountered who pointed out how president Bush's unprecented popularity (waning recently, but still

Bush Needs To Come Clean, Pt. II

Wednesday, 25 February 2004 12:22 P GMT-07
Here is another report dealing with the president's lack of candor about his service (or lack of same) in the National Guard.  His sudden refusal to open all pertinent records after promising to do so, only raises more s

Bush Needs To Come Clean, Pt. I

Tuesday, 24 February 2004 5:53 P GMT-07
There are two issues that the media has been devoting a lot of time to recently that are probably not worth all their efforts.  One is the "same-sex" marriage issue which I've already addressed in a Jan. 27, 2004, blog.  The other is the qu
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No Scientific Integrity In Bush Policy Making

Sunday, 22 February 2004 1:22 P GMT-07
The prestigious Union of Concerned Scientists, http://www.ucsusa.org , in a wide-ranging and damning report issued on Feb. 18, 2004 and signed by 60 leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, charged the Bush administration with manipulat

Gutter Politics, Anyone?

Saturday, 21 February 2004 5:41 P GMT-07
The 2004 election campaign is off to a fast start, and already we're beginning to see more than we'd like to of low-ball gutter politics.  Molly Ivins takes a look at what's happening as the Republicans waste no time in vitriolic personal a

Liberalism: A Proud Record *

Friday, 20 February 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
I'm going to repost another previous blog, this one from August 30, 2003.  With Sen. John Kerry looking more and more like the Democratic nominee for the November presidential election, we can expect a great deal of noise from the Bush camp 

An American Dynasty, Pt. III

Wednesday, 18 February 2004 3:36 P GMT-07
This is the concluding segment of this article.  It's really all one article and should be read in sequence.  This final section takes a look at G.H.W. Bush's Saudi connections at the time of the 1991 Gulf War and subsequent involvement wit

An American Dynasty, Pt. II

Wednesday, 18 February 2004 11:28 A GMT-07
For background on this post please refer to yesterday's "An American Dynasty, Pt. I."  Part II focuses on the the children of George H.W. Bush and their involvements in Middle East intrigues, the CIA, the"rogue bank" BCCI and in oil specula

An American Dynasty, Pt. I

Tuesday, 17 February 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
Last Friday I happened to catch on C-SPAN a Booknotes interview with Kevin Phillips.  The subject was his just published new book "American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush."  I had never he

Police Chiefs Oppose NRA

Tuesday, 17 February 2004 1:58 P GMT-07
A very bad piece of legislation is due to be voted on by the Senate, probably within the next two weeks.  a similar bill has already passed the

The Lies That Bind

Saturday, 14 February 2004 7:35 A GMT-07
Another essay by Robert Scheer published online by The Nation  http://www.thenation.com .  Here the columnist examines how the Bush administration has used "the ends justify the means" doctrine to justify their mismanagement

The Phony War President

Friday, 13 February 2004 10:15 P GMT-07
Robert Sheer, writing for The Nation  http://www.thenation.com/  takes a look at how Bush's claims that he is a "wartime president" is a phony, political excuse for pursuing his own imperial agenda.  I've discussed in se

O'Reilly: "I Was Wrong" - No Word From Bush

Tuesday, 10 February 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
I've taken some verbal shots on this site in the past at Fox News' talk-show host Bill O'Reilly, who I've maintained is one of the most hopelessly biased voices in the media.  O'Reilly has frequently harangued his viewers with passiona

Award For Most Inept: Bush or Media?

Monday, 9 February 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
Looking back on G. W. Bush's "Meet the Press" interview with Tim Russert yesterday, it's hard to decide which of the two was the most inept.  A Progress Report Special posted here earlier today looked at the difficulty Bush had in resp

Bush Interview: Claims vs Facts

Monday, 9 February 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
In his Meet the Press interview yesterday (Sunday) morning, president G.W. Bush once again badly failed the Credibility Test.  Listening to him, one couldn't help but wonder what the man was thinking as, over and over again, he tried to present

Not All Were Wrong On WMDs

Saturday, 7 February 2004 4:26 P GMT-07
On Feb. 2, I posted a blog I called "David Kay Both Right and Wrong"  in which I maintained that he was correct about Iraq not having WMD at the time of Bush's invasion, but incorrect  in blaming our intelligence community for our errors ab

Bush's Budget of Deceit

Saturday, 7 February 2004 2:50 P GMT-07
Another edited PROGRESS REPORT  http://www.progressreport.org , thanks to the Center For American Progress http://www.americanprogress.org.  These reports are great, but are so long that I cut most of them back to a single topic or t

Poor Memory Or More Lies?

Thursday, 5 February 2004 6:34 P GMT-07
A shockingly poor memory seems to best define the Bush administration.  The January 29 Progress Report , http://www.progressreport.org , details three recent examples.  First, various members of the administration are having a har

The Neocons: Hubris And Hegemony *

Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
* And here's the third (and last for awhile) repost of a blog first posted here last summer.  It also provides necessary background in order to understand what the Bush administration has been trying to do.  How, since they first

Language As A Weapon *

Tuesday, 3 February 2004 5:00 P GMT-07
*Here is the second blog that I posted last summer that I'm reposting.  It's especially important to read in order to understand how G. E. Bush has deliberately fostered in the U.S. a climate of fear, dependency, insecurity and helplessness

Patriotism *

Tuesday, 3 February 2004 4:32 P GMT-07
* A few days ago I mentioned that I would be re-posting a few blogs that I first posted last summer.  This is the first of three blogs that I posted here about 6 months ago.  I believe that these are especially important stat

David Kay Both Right And Wrong

Monday, 2 February 2004 5:29 P GMT-07
David Kay, the U.S. chief weapons inspector who resigned that position just after G.W. Bush's 2004 State of the Union address, has performed both a needed service and an unfortunate disservice to the country.  The service was in admitting what m

Worst Presidential Scandal in History

Monday, 2 February 2004 4:01 P GMT-07
 In this commentary Robert Scheer argues that Bush's Iraq deception is the highest-stakes instance of presidential malfeasance in U.S. history.  How can we let it go unpunished?  I posted a blog a few days ago that urged the impea
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