“Operation Iraqi Freedom, it turns out, was never a war against Saddam ­Hussein’s Iraq. It was an invasion of the federal budget.”

Non equus circum.

Chris Dashiell:

The Bush administration is a danger to the security of the United States. Nothing could be clearer. Every day this regime stays in power constitutes a threat to our safety—yours, mine, our families, our communities, our country. Even if you discount the subversion of our Constitution and our tradition of liberty, even if you ignore the shameful policies of secret prisons, torture, and lawless detention—just on the basis of national security alone, the impeachment of George Bush and Richard Cheney must be initiated, if only to slow down the destructive machine that threatens our very lives.

Who will defend Alberto Gonzales?

Hat-tip Thehim @ Blog Reload.

Two sets of law, one for the president and his friends, and the other for us

Hat-tip Alan Breslauer @ BradBlog.

Recommended viewing:

• Well as long as he doesn’t admit to it, never mind the judge and jury
• Resign or be impeached, there is no other choice.
• You’re either with George Bush or you’re with the American people.

Well as long as he doesn’t admit to it, never mind the judge and jury

Hat-tip thehim.

Resign or be impeached, there is no other choice.

“There’s a bomb in the building start clearing out”

Who killed Mychal Judge?

Anal rape as an instrument of US interrogation

Glenn Greenwald quoting from The Age (Australia):

David Hicks told his family when they visited him at Guantanamo Bay in 2004 that he had been anally assaulted during interrogation by the US in Afghanistan while he was hooded and restrained.

Anyone okay with this? Anyone? Bueller?

Category entry: Stupid (noun)

Nicely inconspicuous, this one is.

Hat-tip Bradley @ Incertus, who has this update:

Curtis Allgier, a convicted burglar and white supremacist, briefly escaped from custody today by stealing a corrections officer’s gun and murdering him. This is not the first time Allgier has been a fugitive– he keeps running from authorities and trying to blend in with the general population.

“I am Paris Hilton,”

says Jon Swift.

Poor thing, she’s had a tough life.

Seriously.

Whose mission?

Hat-tip Ellroon.

Aspartame: Brought to you by Donald Rumsfeld

Stay away from artificial sweeteners.

An addictive synthetic neurotoxic stimulant ought to be regulated as a drug, not a food additive.

Sweet Misery: A Poisoned World.

Shanda

Lindsay Beyerstein:

Disgraced World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz will still collect his $400,000 performance bonus on June 1st, even though he is resigning over corruption charges.