Monthly Archives: June 2007

Key Presidential Aides Were Often Intentionally Kept Out of the Loop by Vice President Cheney on Important Decisions – For example, President Bush’s decision to try detainees in military commissions and strip them of their due process rights was not … Continue reading →

Elsewhere in my rants and writings, I have mentioned the Weekly Standard and Bill Kristol, its neocon founder and editor. According to Right Web, the Weekly Standard is also “a magazine closely linked to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).” To … Continue reading →

Dick Cheney and his staff never cease to appall us. Where is this twisted view of our Constitution coming from? How is it that no one else for over 200 years has ever conceived of such perversions? The following excerpts … Continue reading →

Cheney Makes Mistake: Puts His Funding Request In the Executive Branch Funding Request – Following Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertion that his office is not a part of the executive branch of the US government, Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Rahm … Continue reading →

Month to Month Change In this twentieth survey of the web, The WAWG Index monthly average was up by 16.2 percent from May 2007. Of the fourteen categories tracked, 7 were down, 7 were up, and none was unchanged. The … Continue reading →

More on Cheney’s Latest Violation of the Law Cheney Attempted To Abolish Agency That Tried To Oversee Him – For four years, Vice President Dick Cheney has resisted routine oversight of his office’s handling of classified information, and when the … Continue reading →

Cheney Says He Doesn’t Have to Report on Classified Documents Because the Vice President’s Office is Not Part of the Executive Branch – The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney told an agency within the National Archives that for purposes … Continue reading →

“Conservative Encyclopedia You Can Trust” Says the Ice age is “a Theorized Period of Time” (the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, you know) – Most scientists know the Pleistocene Epoch as the ice age and date it back … Continue reading →

Despite promises, few in House make earmark requests public – Despite the new Democratic congressional leadership’s promise of “openness and transparency” in the budget process, a CNN survey of the House found it nearly impossible to get information on lawmakers’ … Continue reading →

Defense Lawyers In Different Cases are Raising New Questions About Government Prosecutors and Potential Political Biases – For months, the Justice Department and Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales have taken political heat for the purge of eight U.S. attorneys last … Continue reading →