EcuProphets

Tired of the erupting scandals, double talk, equivocating, and all the other things that make this two year presidential cycle unbearable?

Well, Mike Gravel is back, with a psycho-delic message for y’all.

 As they say in Minnesota, “well, that’s different.”

Who knew? William Schweiker develops the background of waterboarding in Sightings:  (more…)

This clip from Karl Rove’s interview with Charlie Rose should go down into history as the definitive footnote to the maladministration of George W. Bush:

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Peace at hand in Iraq? Bush and al-Maliki shaking hands on an enduring relationship of a stable government and its big bro from out West? Swelling sounds of Ren and Stimpy jumping up and down while singing “Happy happy joy joy?” (more…)

EcuProphets highlighted the moving story by the New York Times on November 24th concerning Jeffrey Deskovic’s coping with life after exoneration. New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty forwarded a letter from Jeffrey and encouraged its distribution. So here it is.  (more…)

Robert Novak does a hit piece on Mike Huckabee today, excoriating him for apparently being a faux conservative.  (more…)

My paternal grandfather worked on a German merchant ship as a very young man. Disdainful of the Kaiser’s growing militarism, he went on shore leave in New York City and never looked back. He supported himself as he attended Cooper Union, eventually earning a Master’s Degree in mechanical engineering. He opened a machine shop in Ridgewood, Queens, married, settled in Elmhurst, and raised my dad and his brothers. (more…)

Don’t miss Scott Horton’s Resurrecting the Star Chamber in Harper’s.  (more…)

In today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine, James Traub raises what will likely be the most important foreign policy adjustment for the next presidential administration.

The announcement this month that Karen Hughes would be stepping down as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy was greeted with a combination of relief and derision. In her first appearance in the Middle East, in 2005, this Bush confidante and fellow Texan avoided substantive issues while reassuring audiences that “my most important title is Mom” and that Americans “greatly value many religious faiths.” The trip was a very public fiasco for the White House; thereafter, Hughes appears to have been largely withdrawn from circulation.  (more…)

No less than 206 people (205 men and one woman) nationwide have been exonerated through DNA evidence since 1989. The New York Times spent four months gathering information on 137 of them,and features the story of New Yorker Jeffrey Mark Deskovic, exonerated and freed in 2006 after spending 16 years in prison for a rape and murder he did not commit.  (more…)