One group has come out against it, and I’m hoping there will be more to come. From Raw Story: The National Association of Evangelicals, representing roughly 45,000 churches across the U.S. endorsed on Tuesday a declaration against torture put together by Evangelicals for Human Rights – an organization of 17 evangelical scholars – in a [...]

I’ve got a general roundup on Gonzales over at Midtopia. But the thing I want to highlight here is the big item of the day: a third possible Gonzales scandal. The National Journal, citing government records and anonymous officials, says Gonzales advised Bush to shut down a Justice Department probe into the NSA eavesdropping program [...]

Wow. The administration could very well squander what remaining credibility it has left with most of the nation. See, Rove at least promoted the idea of firing the attorneys, and apparently Gonzales knew about the idea before he became AG. From ABC: March 15, 2007 � New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show that [...]

. . . are too rich for some people, especially the one that might have involved praying in a mosque in Indonesia.  (It seems to have been a kind of everyday neighborhood thing at that time and place.  Obama did not attend a radical madrassa, as was rumored in an early attempt of unknown provenance [...]

Religious-politico ideology hurting our war against religious-politico ideology. Hmm…how ironic. My friends, the following is absolutely appalling… As a lifelong Republican who served in the Army in Germany, I believe it is critical that we review — and overturn — the ban on gay service in the military. I voted for “don’t ask, don’t tell.” [...]

From Captain Ed: Yes, Clinton fired all 93 federal prosecutors at the start of his term. Yes, it interfered with investigations in process. Most of them, if not all of them, were approaching the expirations of their terms of office, however, and Clinton’s unprecedented act was mainly that he “fired” them without having nominated most [...]

Want another reason to give up meat or at least go with local farmers who treat their animals humanely? The stress, crowding and contamination inside confinement buildings foster disease, especially respiratory illnesses. In addition to toxic fumes, bacteria, yeast and molds have been recorded in swine buildings at a level more than 1,000 times higher [...]

That’s the meme being offered around the right-wing noise machine. McClatchy Newspapers has more: WASHINGTON – The Bush administration and its defenders like to point out that President Bush isn’t the first president to fire U.S. attorneys and replace them with loyalists. While that’s true, the current case is different. Mass firings of U.S. attorneys [...]

No wonder Hillary Clinton is calling for Alberto Gonzales’ ouster. Because when you read the following, you’ve gotta think that Alberto saw this “plan” too. Here it is, step-by-step… WASHINGTON (AP) – The Justice Department laid out an elaborate, five-step plan for firing seven U.S. attorneys on Dec. 7. Entitled, “Plan for Replacing Certain United [...]

Three stories that explore the boundary between what’s reasonable and what’s not, what’s criminal and what’s not, and what’s ethical and what’s not. What’s reasonable? A California school district has taken to billing parents who take their kids out of school for nonmedical reasons — like a family ski trip. The price? $36.13 for each [...]

The Democratic netroots are really irritating. First they started a war with the Nevada Democratic Party because the Nevada Dems had the temerity to let Fox News Channel broadcast one of their primary debates. They’re gripe? It would “legitimize” FNC. Never mind that it would send a couple hours of Democratic politics out over Fox’s [...]

It’s always the small things that bring people down. Back when Alberto Gonzales was nominated for attorney general, he was under fire for being one of President Bush’s worst enablers — finding dubious legal justification for ignoring warrants, gutting FISA, torture, almost unlimited executive power and the odious “enemy combatant” designation, under which a U.S. [...]

It’s become fashionable to put down Barack Obama, just to compensate for the embarrassing fervor of his fans. But that too can go too far, and today I read something that reminded me what it is about him that genuinely appealed to me before he was a superstar. From an excellent Seattle Times column by [...]

Oh boy… From Chicago Tribune: “I believe homosexual acts between two individuals are immoral and that we should not condone immoral acts,” Pace said in a wide-ranging discussion with Tribune editors and reporters in Chicago. “I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is OK to be [...]

But correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that about the same number who wants us to pull out of Iraq? From CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) — Nearly 70 percent of Americans oppose a presidential pardon for former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby after his conviction on perjury and other charges related to a CIA [...]

I posted about Giuliani’s liberal judge problem here on March 1st, and now the LA Times picks up the meme. From the west comes this about the easterner… One judge approved by Giuliani, Rosalyn Richter, had been executive director of a gay rights organization, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, before being named to the [...]

Catching Bin Laden is serious stuff, but honestly, the only reason I’m posting the following story is because it sounded cool. From The Australian: WASHINGTON: An elite group of Native American trackers is joining the hunt for terrorists crossing Afghanistan’s borders. The unit, the Shadow Wolves, was recruited from several tribes, including the Navajo, Sioux, [...]

From some newspaper in New York City: The Justice Department’s inspector general has prepared a scathing report criticizing how the F.B.I. uses a form of administrative subpoena to obtain thousands of telephone, business and financial records without prior judicial approval. The report, expected to be issued on Friday, says that the bureau lacks sufficient controls [...]

(h/t: TMV)

Thanks for clearing that up CNN.