Please remember George Wallace was a Democrat ...

Not that anyone notices but I haven't "ranted" since the elections in Nov. I have been sitting back and just watching. As evidencenced by the cowardly inaction of this new congress, nothing new under the sun. It was refreshing to see Nancy Pelosi behind the commander and thief at the non-descript state of the union. I had a conversation with the great progressive theorist Michael Parenti on the winter solstice. He pointed out that this "surge" is win win for these criminals. No support equals anti-patriotic, support and Haliburton, Exxon, BlackWater, and the rest continue to rain death on the Iraqi people.

I have taken to listening to right wing radio, just to try and understand their thinking. I am so glad I took logic in class in college. Listening to the Mike Savage, Mark Levy, and Bill O'Reilly's of this world it is a great exercise in recognizing the various fallicies. Top of the list, ad hommo nim attacks, and attacking the man (or woman lately) and not the idea that is being expressed. "The Washington Compost, the New York Slime, etc.

Next is ignoratio ellenchi, the logical fallacy of presenting an argument that may in itself be valid, but which proves or supports a different proposition than the one it is purporting to prove or support. "I support our troops, therefore everything I say is true and right" ....

Have you noticed this ...

Gonzales: ‘There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution’

Yesterday, during Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales claimed there is no express right to habeus corpus in the U.S. Constitution. Wow .. and yet it is only a blip on the media radar. To me this is monumental, not since the throws of the civil war when in 1861 Abraham Lincoln acknowledged habeus corpus as the law of the land by suspending it. Lincoln was mostly motivated by requests by generals to set up military courts to rein in "Copperheads" or Peace Democrats. hmm ... Does anyone else find this ironic?


How can this stand? Why isn't the Attorney General up on charges of high treason, like the rest of these criminals ... but again where is the outrage over this clearly illegal stance by the head of the justice department.

The Constitution of the United States provides that “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it" Is that clear enough Alberto ...