Author: Limelite

Jose Padilla apparently had to apply in writing to become a terrorist.  Who knew?  In fact, “authorities” found a whole locker full of written applications in Afghanistan following the invasion in late...

Tom DeLay and three other Texas GOP congressmen sent a letter to the Justice Department dated December 11, 2001 urging it to close the Alabama-Coushatta Tribe’s Livingston casino eight days after Jack Abramoff e-mailed a...

Imagine the possibility that within the next 90 days or less, several Republican power brokers will be former same. Newt Gingrich thinks they should be formers.  Today’s Washington Post quotes the himself former House...

[Essentially same diary can be found at DailyKos.] There are ways and then there are WAYS to ring in the New Year.  Why not have some fun and at the same time help Chef/Partner Morou  (Don’t you just love...

“A novel form of government” is the phrase Hannah Arendt uses to describe totaltitarianism epitomized in the Soviet Union beginning with Lenin and reaching its apogee under Stalin.  Totalitarianism is a new...