Blogging for America: reality spin

Saturday, July 08, 2006

reality spin

Perhaps you all missed this since it was in today's (Saturday's NYT): Bush is treating the Supreme Court's ruling to his own reality spin. Stating that the court had tacitly approved his use of the detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Unfortuantely, that was NOT the question before the Supreme Court; the case before the court was (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) that military commissions were unauthorized by statute and violated international law. Housing detainees at Guantánamo Bay was not at issue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/washington/08bush.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

# posted by Dr. JAM : 6:19 PM

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Dr.JAM is a professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY. Her main focus is teaching students to be critical thinkers and active citizens. She worked in both the Koch and Cuomo administrations before returning to academia. She teaches Modern Political Thought, Contemporary Ideologies, Feminist Political Thought, American National Government, Political Ideas and Issues, Political and Social Movements, among other courses. She writes a regular column (Walk the Talk) in InsideOut (tm). She has written many articles and books including The Historical Dictionary of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage (Rowman Littlefield, 2003). An active citizen, she served on the boards of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater (where she once was cook); The Grace Smith House,currently she serves on the (executive) boards of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at ValKill and the Ulster County Democratic Women. $>

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