As Not Seen On TV

 
I read the instantly infamous Bush Executive Order that supposedly "outlaws protest", and I can see no change from public policy established under Clinton. Amazing how fast this empty propaganda got broadcast through the blogsphere as a "be afraid, very afraid to march on Washington" story. Score one for the Bushites.

This, on the other hand, is a Scary Story:

A Congressman with full clearance and need-to-know, was just denied access to White House "post terrorist attack" contingency planning documents. Evidently something in these plans is criminal enough, or bizarre enough, that Congress can not be allowed to see it.

U.S. Immigrant Visas have been requested, for all Iraqi collaborators working for the occupying armed forces. I take this as a sign that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is getting ready for a fast U.S. withdrawal on short notice, only as a contingency plan of course...

The Axis of Malpractice responds to SICKO by spraying toxins into the Internet. A fine example of information warfare at work in the world of U.S. domestic policy, under the noble Hippocratic banner of "First, post higher earnings this quarter".

Harper's Magazine on criminal abuse of so-called Executive Privelige: There is no such thing as Executive Privelige. Or more to the point, executive privelige is the power of a President to break the law with impunity until or unless impeached.