Positive Universe Abstracts

by Don Nash

What if G. Bush had graduated from college? I mean a real “accredited� college and not one of those diploma mills that cranked out Monica Goodling. No, Yale doesn’t count as an “accredited� college or university. Yale gave America John Kerry AND G. Bush and that has ‘discredited’ written all over it. University [...]

From: connie nash

Time for an Independent Counsel By Marjorie Cohn marjoriecohn.com/2007/07/time-for-independent-counsel.html

Here are only a few of the reasons why:

Gonzales Honesty Long-Disputed July 30 07 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/29/AR2007072901327.html

Cheney Answering to No One Walter Mondale www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/27/AR2007072702126.html

It’s Time to Check the Balance of Power SF Chronicle www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/07/29/ING0UR6C1D1.DTL

Humanity Vs. Hazleton NYTimes/Positiveuniverse.com blogs.positiveuniverse.com/archives/1414

See many more reasons here in the weblogs at [...]

From: connie www.thirteen.org/reelny

All this week, leading up to the Death of Two Sons broadcast television premiere, WNET-Channel 13 will have special features on the Reel New York website, including:

Preview of the film Rebecca Carroll interview with director Micah Schaffer Comments section Chance to vote on the film

In the New York area, tune in this Thursday night:

August [...]

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p>San Francisco Chronicle, USA

Congress must rein in Bush’s abusive actions

Bruce Fein

Since 9/11, President Bush’s repeated assaults on the Constitution and celebration of international lawlessness in confronting al Qaeda have needlessly made Americans less safe. The president, for example, has flouted the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in intercepting the conversations and e-mails of American citizens on [...]

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p>Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT

Gonzales has used office for political purposes

By Sen. PATRICK LEAHY

Three months ago, when Attorney General Roberto Gonzales last appeared before this committee, I said that the Department of Justice was experiencing a crisis of leadership perhaps unrivaled during its history. Unfortunately, that crisis has not abated.

Until there is independence, transparency and [...]

by Don Nash

Human flesh disconnects so easily. Those biophysical ties that bind are after all, not so resistant to the forces of physical violence. You know like bullets and bombs and land mines and all the little bits and pieces of military armament. Those kinds of “forces.� Human flesh shatters. Human flesh shreds. Human flesh [...]

NY Times Published: July 28, 2007

A federal judge has dealt what we can only hope is a decisive blow against a dangerous trend of freelance immigration policies by local governments. Judge James M. Munley of the central Pennsylvania district, struck down ordinances in the town of Hazleton that sought to harshly punish undocumented immigrants for trying [...]