Tag: Cheney

THIS is what we have become as a Nation

Filed in Uncategorized by on August 7, 2007 0 Comments

prepare to be sick the agency hired a group of outside contractors, who implemented a regime of techniques that one well-informed former adviser to the American intelligence community described as “a ‘Clockwork Orange’ kind of approach.” The experts were retired military psychologists, and their backgrounds were in training Special Forces soldiers how to survive torture, […]

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Like this guy knows anything!

Filed in Uncategorized by on July 30, 2007 4 Comments

The Post’s recent series on Dick Cheney’s vice presidency certainly got my attention. Having held that office myself over a quarter-century ago, I have more than a passing interest in its evolution from the backwater of American politics to the second most powerful position in our government. Almost all of that evolution, under presidents and […]

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It’s funny you know

Filed in Uncategorized by on June 27, 2007 0 Comments

How the People are that run this country After you read this article ask yourself how funny it is that the VP goes to such lengths to save a few farmers “livelihoods”, but does nothing about all the people that get laid off by Bank of America, Astra Zeneca, Chrysler or GM. Let alone cares […]

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Above the law

Filed in Uncategorized by on June 21, 2007 0 Comments

The House Oversight Committee is demanding that Vice President Cheney explain himself. Is his office part of the executive branch? Part of the legislative branch? Or is Cheney suggesting that as far as federal rules are concerned, his office essentially doesn’t exist? The issue at hand is Cheney’s insistence that his office is exempt from […]

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