In today's New York Times, Bob Herbert surveys the state of democracy and the quality of elections in the US, and concludes,
These are not scenes from a flourishing democracy. If you're looking to put a positive spin on the current state of politics and government in the U.S., you've got your work cut out for you.
True, but a story in Sunday's New York Times Magazine can help. It's a long feature story on Ahmad Chalabi, the man the Bush administration once promoted as the George Washington of
John Gilhooley / OC Weekly​We reported last Tuesday from Dr. Orly Taitz's hearing in Santa Ana. You remember Taitz, the Laguna Niguel "birther"/dentist/mother/lawyer/Weekly cover girl that's trying to sue Barack Obama out of office, right? Taitz's lawsuit with more than a hundred of plaintiffs before federal judge David Carter in Santa Ana... it's not the only pot she's got cooking. The good doctor took a red-eye flight to Georgia this week to represent another plaintiff in court: Capt. Connie
