Daily Constitutional: Spring Divertissements, Torture and Illegal Propaganda

[UPDATE] The links list about the illegal Iraq War propaganda campaign will be updated as I discover new stories and evidence. Please add your own gems in the comments, and I’ll get them inserted into the post pronto. Thanks.
I’ve neglected the Constitution, instead lured by the scents, sounds and sights of Spring [...]

Daily Constitutional: Torture and Torturous

Military.com reports about the Pentagon’s detailed evidence of abuse of Afghan prisoners.
The LA Times addresses the horrendous state of prison health care.  And yet, no mention is made of the widespread criminalization of people with mental illness.  over 50% of all inpatient psychiatric care is delivered in prisons.  The answer isn’t in adding to the prison [...]

Daily Constitutional: Torture, Spying on Americans and the FAA, But I Repeat Myself

From around the toobz, the curriculum pedagogy and design of torture and the aviation blogosphere on the criminality and immorality of the FAA.

Daily Constitutional: Dumpster Diving For Your Privacy

Lots of health-related links to share today.  Fourth Amendment - remember that?  The electronic medical records development is derailing medical records privacy, and the Personal Health Privacy Information net  will keep you updated on the latest breaches, concerns and solutions. The Mike the Mad Biologist explains that the NIH discusses allocation of funds for research [...]

Daily Constitutional: The Torture, The Monarchy, and The Republic, For Which It Stands

I can’t bring myself to blog in depth about the Yoo torture memos yet, so instead, I’ll bring you some essential links from people whose work I respect, and who bring thoughtful, logical and critical thinking to the table:

Daily Constitutional: US Political Prisoner Freed, Press Intimidation, While Iraq Implodes, US Wars With Iran Via Bankers

Congress remains stubbornly resistant to impeaching Bush and Cheney. Meanwhile, the accounts of their evil-doing go on unabated.  Here is just some of the latest:
In Slate, Eric Lichtblau lifts the edge of a veil on how Bush and Cheney intimidated the NYTimes and threatened the press to keep its unlawful warrantless domestic spying under wraps.

Daily Constitutional: Out of Touch Edition

I lost ‘net access again, am still dealing with no resources -  even the dumpsters are empty -  and frankly, I can’t commit to being here regularly, if at all.  The blog’s available for author input, if there’s any interest. Unsurprisingly, there hasn’t been much interest expressed by anyone else, “so”? to quote Cheney - [...]

Daily Constitutional: The Other “N” Word

Today’s offering is an eclectic salad of topics that are catching my eye.  Please add your own eye-catchers.

Daily Constitutional: Five Years In Iraq

March 19 - I’ve had it marked on my calendar for months. 
Reminders all over the place to blog about Iraq for the organized blogswarm.  I am at a loss for words to add which will shed new light, which will persuade the likes of Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic party leadership and influential Republicans to bring [...]

Daily Constitutional: Legislative Branch Killing the Fourth Amendment

The Washington Post reports about the legislative branch failure to apply the necessary checks and balances to save the remaining Fourth Amendment rights.
House and Senate Democratic leaders are headed into talks today that they say could lead to a breakthrough on legislation to revamp domestic surveillance powers and grant phone companies some form of immunity [...]

Daily Constitutional: Incapacitated President?

I believe from Bush’s consistency of statements and actions that he exhibits signs of acute and severe mental illness.  Because he has access to resources to harm self and others on a grand scale, I also believe that he is able to mask the severity of his illness by having proxies carry out the harm [...]

Daily Constitutional

The LA Times reports on the efforts to have a judge rescind the decision to shut down a whistle-blower website.
Judge is asked to rescind shutdown of website
Media and public interest organizations tell the jurist that his order violates constitutional provisions against prior restraint of free speech.
By Henry Weinstein, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer  February 27, [...]

Daily Constitutional: Political Prisoners, FISA, High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Jen Clark writes an elegant and straightforward post about how to understand the FISA and retroactive immunity issues.  She also gives critical advice for understanding who’s on the team of the rule of law, and who’s on the criminal team.  Choose your team wisely.

So the next time you see some Congressman (or President) stand up [...]

Daily Constitutional: First and Fourth Amendments, Sky Wars

Many items of interest about the assaults on our beloved (at least by some) Constitution:

Daily Constitutional: Fruit of the Poisonous Tree?

Today’s brain fodder:  Some bloggers have speculated that all Supreme Court decisions after the 2000 decision installing George W. Bush as President may be moot if they result as “fruit of the poisonous tree“. Iraq is disappeared by the Bush loyalist media, and the news about Iraq is now squarely housed on the web and [...]