Samuel Alito is a big booster of presidential power. Other “constitutional scholars” have been less sanguine. On April 20, 1795, James Madison, who had just helped shepherd through the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and would become President of the United States in the following decade, wrote:
Congressman John Conyers was on the show to talk about his hearings into activities that could rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, including the Downing Street memos and warrantless wiretaps. He recently issued a report called "The Constitution in Crisis".
Dr. Pieter Tans of the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA told Thom about the spiking of carbon dioxide and methane levels in the atmosphere, global warming, and the possible consequences.
Thom and Governor Howard Dean talked about corruption in Washington D.C., campaign money, public financing of elections, the Abramoff case, warrantless wiretaps, pharmaceuticals, investigations, impeachment, privatization of the vote, and why you should vote for a Democrat.
That Jack Abramoff exclusively gave his money to conservative Republicans shouldn’t surprise us. While the RNC will try to spin this as “politics” and not as a Republican scandal, much as Bush called his old friend and business associate Ken Lay an “equal opportunity corruptor,” the reality is that it’s not a corruption that has [...]
Book by Rex Stout
Review by Thom Hartmann, originally published at buzzflash.com on January 5, 2006.
From Chapter One of "Ultimate Sacrifice"
Introduction to "Ultimate Sacrifice"
Excerpt from Chapter 23 of "Ultimate Sacrifice".