TO OUR READERS:
To the many who wrote inquiring where we have been these past few days, please know that Henry and I are well and merely enjoying some time off from the keys this holiday week.
As most of official Washington has fled the beltway for warmer and friendlier environs, it is a slow news […]

I went to the movies the other night and saw THE FAMILY STONE. The reason my family and I chose this particular film was that it had been advertised as a comedy, and we all needed and a good laugh. As 2005 drew to a close, we had become somewhat sad over what […]

Hank and myself would like to wish all of our readers, fans and detractors, a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah and our best wishes for a fantastic, safe, NeoCon- free New Year.
The editorial department of the LIB will be off for the next few days to celebrate our versions of the holidays.
Catch you next week.
- Denis […]

FORMER DOVER SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS ALAN BONSELL AND WILLIAM BUCKINGHAM, ALLEGEDLY LIED ABOUT SOURCE OF FINANCING FOR CREATIONIST TEXT
Don’t you love the irony of the Evangelical Christian school board members lying to legitimatize their latest wave of Religious propaganda?
Which is precisely what happened in Dover Pennsylvania this time last year when the largely evangelical […]

“Today I am introducing a Resolution of Inquiry requesting the Attorney General to transmit to Congress documents reflecting the legal justification for spying on American soil without judicial approval. I introduce this Resolution on behalf of myself and Mr. Berman, Mr. Boucher, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Scott of Virginia, Ms. Lofgren, Ms. Jackson Lee, Ms. Waters, […]

D.C. REPUBLICANS IN A PANIC
Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist under indictment for fraud in South Florida, is expected to complete a plea agreement in the Miami criminal case, setting the stage for him to become a crucial witness in a broad federal corruption investigation, people with direct knowledge of the case said.
One participant in […]

“I am not a crook!” With those famous words came the beginning of the end of the administration of Richard Milhous Nixon, the 37th President of the United States. Watergate had been the jumping off point for this most paranoid of presidents, but as the abuses of power associated with The […]

Recklessly and audaciously, George W. Bush is driving the nation whose laws he swore to uphold into a constitutional crisis. He has claimed the powers of a medieval monarch and defied the other two branches of government to deny him. Eventually, despite his party’s monopoly of power, he may force the nation to choose between […]

There have been some presidents in the long history of our country that might have been considered great. There are others who were considered to be mediocre. Some, on the other hand, have been considered to be awful.
Our constitution makes provisions for removing truly bad presidents from office. The process […]

CONYERS INTRODUCES MOTION TO EXAMINE WHETHER BUSH HAS COMMITTED IMPEACHABLE OFFENSES
Ranking House Judiciary Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a motion to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for providing misleading information to Congress in advance of the Iraq war, failing to respond to written questions and potential violations of international law.
The resolutions […]