Editor’s Note

All of you John “Mad Dog” Ashcroft fans will be glad to hear that he’s back in government! Well, not in government, exactly. President George W. Bush’s former attorney general is actually working the smarmy edges of government, having become a Washington lobbyist. He’s put his reputation, expertise, and — most important — his connections […]

In his State of the Union peroration, President George W. Bush instructed members of Congress “to be good stewards of tax dollars.” So I’m sure you’ll be glad to hear about the financial stewardship being practiced over at Bush’s own Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. ATF agents are involved in policing violent crimes here […]

Instead of recognizing the obvious — that global warming is fast reaching the tipping point where it becomes irreversible (and disastrous) — the Bushites continue to keep their heads up the tailpipes and smokestacks of the industries pumping out the greenhouse gases that cause the unnatural warming. So we’re doomed, right? Not necessarily. While Washington […]

George W’s mind seems to operate in a bass-ackward fashion. When there is zero evidence to warrant a presidential rush to action, he plunges dead ahead, facts be damned. Yet when there is an abundance of evidence on an issue crying out for presidential action, he does nothing. As we now know, Iraq had no […]

Let’s measure how far we’ve gone down the road to imperial government under the reign of King George the W: Start with 9/11, when al-Qaeda operatives crash-bombed America. In response, George W. misused and fabricated foreign intelligence in order to mislead the nation in order to attack Iraq — a country that had nothing to […]

Poor ol’ Porter Goss. He’s our nation’s chief spook, but he’s got no sense of timing. Goss, head of the CIA, published a piece on Feb. 10 expressing outrage that Bush-administration secrets were being leaked to the media by anonymous sources. In particular, he was tapping the fact that Bush’s secret and illegal program of […]

I hope you haven’t just eaten, because we need to talk about horsemeat. It’s not widely known, but there are three horse-slaughter factories in the United States — two in Texas, one in Illinois. Each year, some 90,000 horses are trucked to these facilities, where they are killed (some die an agonizing death), chopped and […]

As we’ve seen in his botched handling of everything from the Iraqi occupation to the Katrina disaster, George W. Bush is not much of a president. But let’s give credit where it’s due — Bush has been a heck of a performer in two areas: spying and lying.      Both have come to the […]