Author: danps

The most pressing issues of our day are ultimately our responsibility no matter how much we want it to be otherwise[W]hen we’re not affirmatively endorsing and providing protection for [Bush’s extremism and...

This week produced a number of small but potentially significant challenges to the President.  It’s possible we’ll look back on it as the beginning of effective resistance to George Bush’s imperial theory...

Michael B. Mukasey’s nomination for Attorney General has been met with nearly universal acclaim.  And I really mean universal – the standard bearers of conventional wisdom made approving noises, there were...

George Bush has successfully intimidated most everyone he’s had to work with.  It’s time for someone to stand up to him. For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears.This week Alan Greenspan...

We are stuck in Iraq with no good options because Congress has lightly ceded its war-making powers to the executive For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears. The Constitution of the United States, Article...