TT`s Lost in Tokyo : bush

Frank Rich: Blagojevich is small fish to the culture of corruption that Bush represents

TokyoTom — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 04:42:00 GMT

Further to my prior post on the early arrival of Fitzmas for Illinois governor Ron Blagojevich , Frank Rich writes that Blagojevich is small fish to the culture of corruption that Pres. Bush has led . I agree that they are of like kind, but entirely different...(read more)

Greased by Telecom $$$, Obama & spineless Dems act with Republicans to shred the 4th Amendment and to play dumb to and sanction illegal domestic spying by Bush and Telecoms

TokyoTom — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:07:00 GMT

More by Glenn Greenwald . Obama shows his true colors regarding his supposed desire for change, transparency and rule of law. As likely future Spy-in-Chief, why would he be interested in anything that might limit his own power? In the 70s, Nixon was impeached...(read more)

Haters of science? The Bush administration sounds the alarm, "climate change is coming ... and is here!"

TokyoTom — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:12:00 GMT

Climate change, largely due to human activities, is currently underway, with more very serious - and largely unstoppable changes - expected in the next 25 years, and landowners, communities, farmers, businesses, communities and state and local government...(read more)

NBC castigated for kowtowing insufficiently to the Propagandist-in-Chief

TokyoTom — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:38:00 GMT

A rather extraordinary series of public communications directed from the White House towards NBC News by Ed Gillespie - long-time lobbyist, "communications" specialist and former director of the Republican National Committee and now chief replacement...(read more)

Frank Zappa: Slime is the tool of the Government (and of modern politics)

TokyoTom — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:46:00 GMT

[I ran this originally as a "page" rather than as a "post", when I had simply put up Zappa`s lyrics. Since "posts" might be more visible to visitors I`ve decided to post this as well.] I ran across some interesting and topical...(read more)

Bush announces bold inaction on climate change

TokyoTom — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:18:00 GMT

As I noted in my April 15 post, http://mises.org/Community/blogs/tokyotom/archive/2008/04/15/bush-hoist-by-own-petard-prepares-global-warming-initiative.aspx , President Bush has indeed just made a specific policy statement on climate change . There is...(read more)

Bush - hoist by own petard - prepares global warming initiative

TokyoTom — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:47:00 GMT

More at the Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/article/20080414/NATION/676175489/1001 And at the Wall Street Journal's enviro blog: http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2008/04/14/green-bush-white-house-to-push-climate-package/?mod...(read more)

Reducing CO2 vs. expanding energy needs

TokyoTom — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:33:00 GMT

Ron Bailey of Reason , reporting from Bali, has an interesting post up summarizing the discussion by James Connaughton, director of President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, on one small aspect of the climate conundrum, namely, what would...(read more)

Francis Fukuyama hates America,

TokyoTom — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:32:00 GMT

and is now fervently praying that the Lilliputians tie down Gulliver, NOW. His latest post concludes:

"America’s founding fathers were motivated by a similar belief that unchecked power, even when democratically legitimated, could be dangerous, which is why they created a constitutional system of internally separated powers to limit the executive. Such a system does not exist on a global scale today, which may explain how America got into such trouble. A smoother international distribution of power, even in a global system that is less than fully democratic, would pose fewer temptations to abandon the prudent exercise of power.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007%5C10%5C25%5Cstory_25-10-2007_pg3_5