Sweet Victory: True Patriots Sweet Victory: True Patriots
There are those who think of patriotism as synonymous with theunthinking jingoism and the love-it-or leave-it platitudes so oftenheard in right-wing talk radio circles. But of cour...
Jul 3, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Bush: Pardon for Libby Remains on the Table Bush: Pardon for Libby Remains on the Table
Prospective Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson and a few others on the extreme fringe of the lawless right have complained that George Bush was insufficiently generous...
Jul 3, 2007 / John Nichols
MoveOn Puts Impeachment Back on the Table MoveOn Puts Impeachment Back on the Table
In the wake of President Bush's commutation of prison time for convicted felon Lewis Libby and a developing constitutional clash over important subpoenas, influential Democratic ac...
Jul 3, 2007 / Ari Melber
Mercy Me Mercy Me
Clemency has not been a hallmark of George W. Bush's political career, as governor of Texas or President of the War on Terror. But apparently the prospect of Dick Cheney's former C...
Jul 3, 2007 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
Jackson: Impeachment Is the Right Response Jackson: Impeachment Is the Right Response
Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr., a member of the House of Representatives so Constitutionally-minded that he wrote a book on the subject, responded as a founding father wou...
Jul 3, 2007 / John Nichols
Bush Assaults Rule of Law to Save Libby Bush Assaults Rule of Law to Save Libby
It is tempting to view the commutation of prison time for Lewis Libby, the disgraced White House aide convicted of lying and obstructing justice, as another instance of craven hypo...
Jul 3, 2007 / Ari Melber
Bush Commutes Libby’s Jail Sentence Bush Commutes Libby’s Jail Sentence
It's appropriate.
The president who led the nation into a disastrous war in Iraq by peddling false statements and misrepresentations has come to the...
Jul 2, 2007 / David Corn
Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence Bush Commutes Libby’s Sentence
This afternoon, after three appeals court judges turned down Scooter Libby's latest appeal, George W. Bush commuted the convincted felon's sentence, wiping ...
Jul 2, 2007 / David Corn
Party for the Planet Party for the Planet
This Saturday, people around the world will attend more than 5,000 parties in honor of a much idolized, much abused celeb-of-the-moment. No, it's not Princess Di. These parties aim...
Jul 2, 2007 / Liza Featherstone
Libby Turned Down Again, Getting Closer to Jail Libby Turned Down Again, Getting Closer to Jail
Is Scooter Libby really going to jail now? Today a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, turned down Libby's request to r...
Jul 2, 2007 / David Corn