Spy Kids

I liked the movie Spy Kids when it first came out, and parts of the second movie were filmed near where I live.  Never saw the third one.   I know some middle school kids that want to be spies when they grow up, and Valerie Plame seems pretty cool.  But ……
Should kids be spies NOW [...]

Gonzo is finally Gone-zo

Wouldn’t it be nice if Bush would nominate some honest lawyers to head up the justice department?  All of the top spots are empty.  But he will want people he can trust to not investigate his administration, someone who agrees to illegal wiretaps and torture and  prisoner rendition around the world, and I really hope [...]

Bush’s legacy

It seems that George W is concerned about his legacy, and he is talking to a biographer named Robert Draper:

In book, Bush peeks ahead to his legacy

from Americas - International Herald Tribune
In an interview with a book author in the Oval Office one day last December, President George W. Bush daydreamed about the next [...]

spying

Why can’t we go back to a time when the government didn’t spy on people? Who are FBI and NSA spying on today? What happened to all the rights that are amended to our constitution?

Paper: FBI spied on MLK widow for years
from RawStory.com Headlines
The Associated Press - HOUSTON
Federal agents spied on the [...]

Karl Rove and the TV Talk Show Hosts

Think Progress has a post up called If It’s Sunday, It’s Karl Rove and in it they have a list of questions that they want the talk show hosts to ask Rove tomorrow morning. Here’s their list:

Promoting the war as a member of the White House Iraq Group
Leaking Valerie Plame’s identity
Compiling the list of [...]

Domestic Spying

  
Am I the only one that is not surprised by this headline? Or the details? People a lot older than I am seem very surprised that the government is behaving like this, but kids are used to having no privacy and no personal freedom. So, if they can take this from Americans now and patriotic [...]