36 Articles

Thursday, September 4, 2008
Sarah Barracuda: A Northern Gal With a Southern Heart
Sarah Palin might be a newcomer on the national stage. But she reminds at least one Alabamian of a character from Karl Rove's Deep South

Friday, August 29, 2008
Republican Governor is a Hypocrite on Gambling
Alabama Governor Bob Riley says he is opposed to gambling. This is the same guy who had no problem with $13 million in Mississippi Choctaw gambling money coming into his campaign.

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Gruesome Murders Help Unmask GOP Corruption
(1 comments) A gruesome murder in suburban Birmingham causes the Alabama press to take a critical glance at local Republican leaders.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Do Liberals Control Higher Education? Not Hardly
(1 comments) A progressive getting fired from a university for blogging on his own time? And he's not even the first progressive in his office to get in trouble for blogging? Who says liberals control higher education?

Monday, August 18, 2008
Case of the Fired Blogger: Why Did University Resort to Thievery?
(2 comments) Why would a university resort to thievery in the case of an employee it fired for writing a blog--on his own time? Does this indicate that someone external to the university--federal law enforcement officials perhaps--are behind the firing?

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Have Americans Forgotten the Importance of Unions?
(7 comments) A worker who recently was wrongfully fired reflects on the importance of unions and the protections they provide.

Thursday, July 31, 2008
Has Rove Targeted Alabama State Employees?
Sources are telling an Alabama blogger that Karl Rove and his intelligence network have targeted a number of state employees who did not toe the Bush party line.

Monday, July 28, 2008
Fired Alabama Blogger Poses Questions for University President
(1 comments) A university president faces tough questions from an Alabama blogger who apparently was fired for writing critically about the Bush Justice Department.

Monday, July 21, 2008
University Acting in Bad Faith in Blogger's Firing
(2 comments) Is an Alabama university trying to pull a fast one with an employee it fired because his personal blog is critical of the Bush Justice Department? Sure looks like it.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Power of a Raw Story
Since Raw Story on Friday afternoon broke the story about my termination from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), traffic on Legal Schnauzer has more than tripled from what I would normally see on a Friday and Saturday. And that's on a weekend in the middle of summer vacation season.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Alabama Blogger is Fired Over Siegelman Coverage
(11 comments) An Alabama blogger is fired from his job as an editor at a public university for writing critically about the Bush Justice Department, particularly its handling of the Don Siegelman case.

Monday, July 7, 2008
Minor Appeal Shines Spotlight on GOP Corruption
The Paul Minor case in Mississippi exposes the corruption of a federal judge (a Reagan appointee) in the Deep South.

Thursday, July 3, 2008
Rove, Alabama, and Machiavelli's Shadow
How extensive is the damage that Karl Rove has wrought upon the United States? A new interview with author Paul Alexander provides important clues.

Monday, June 30, 2008
Could Roller-Coaster Tragedy Be Used Against Democrats?
(2 comments) Could a fatal roller-coaster accident in Georgia be used by Republicans as a wedge issue against Democrats?

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Alabama's Right-Wing Press Can't Grasp the Siegelman Case
Alabama's right-wing press shows an inability to grasp key concepts in the Don Siegelman prosecution and the evolving Bush Justice Department scandal.

Friday, June 20, 2008
Progress for Political Prisoners in Paul Minor Case?
(1 comments) The Paul Minor case in Mississippi ranks right up there with the Don Siegelman case in Alabama as an example of political prosecution by the Bush Justice Department. Encouraging news comes today for the Minor defendants.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Bushies Protect Alabama Attorney With Unsavory Past
An Alabama attorney has a long history of unethical behavior in the legal profession. But his family ties to Karl Rove and the Bush administration help provide him with an "umbrella of protection."

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
A Portrait of Alabama Sleaze in the Age of Rove
(1 comments) A corrupt attorney with family ties to Karl Rove and the Bush White House shows that you can actually steal a citizen's rights to his own property--and get away with it!

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Caught Red-Handed in Alabama
A corrupt Bush Justice Department official is caught red-handed in Alabama.

Monday, June 16, 2008
How a Corrupt Bushie Operates in Alabama
(2 comments) An Alabama blogger shows exactly how a U.S. attorney in the Bush Justice Department corruptly protects wrongdoers with strong conservative loyalties.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
ExxonMobil Prospers, Alabama Flounders
Alabama's Republican-controlled Supreme Court overturned a $3.6 billion judgment for the state and against oil giant ExxonMobil. With the Bush economy going in the tank, Alabama sure could use that money now.

Sunday, June 8, 2008
Don Siegelman and the Bush Double Standard
(3 comments) A former Democratic governor in Alabama is prosecuted on "corruption" charges for allegedly receiving a campaign contribution and then taking action that benefited his supporter. Alabama's current Republican governor has done pretty much the same thing. Does the Bush Justice Department show any signs of prosecuting that deal? Does the Alabama press show any signs of raising questions about the deal?

Friday, June 6, 2008
A Nutjob Judge Gets Canned in Alabama
(2 comments) How far does a corrupt judge have to go in order to get removed from office in Alabama?

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Doing Battle With a Corrupt Bushie
An Alabama blogger shows you exactly how a corrupt U.S. attorney in the Bush Justice Department practices the ugly art of political prosecution, protecting her Republican allies who have committed clear federal crimes.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Will This Corrupt U.S. Attorney Eat Her Words?
(1 comments) Alabama U.S. Attorney Alice Martin has been called one of the primary practitioners of political prosecution in the corrupt Bush Justice Department. An Alabama blogger has had a personal experience that proves Alice Martin truly is a Bush political hack.

Sunday, June 1, 2008
Will a Corrupt U.S. Attorney Eat Her Own Words?
Alice Martin, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, was the first prosecutor to go after former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman. Martin claims that she is a high-minded, impartial public servant. But do her actions live up to her rhetoric?

Friday, May 30, 2008
Meet a "Loyal Bushie" and a Corrupt U.S. Attorney
The Alabama blog Legal Schnauzer starts a series of posts that will spotlight the slippery ways of a corrupt U.S. attorney in the Bush Justice Department.

Thursday, May 29, 2008
A Curious Case of Christian "Values"
(1 comments) An Alabama blogger encounters a large, conservative Alabama church that seems more than willing to take advantage of judges who are willing to cheat on the church's behalf. What kind of values are right-wing churches teaching?

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Big Siegelman Story is Brewing at Vanity Fair
Investigative journalist Craig Unger is working on a major piece about the Don Siegelman prosecution for a fall issue of Vanity Fair.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Jill Simpson is Still Standing Strong
(1 comments) Jill Simpson, an Alabama attorney and Republican whistleblower, has played a vital role in uncovering sleaze at the Bush Justice Department. It's been almost a year since Simpson stepped forward, and in spite of outrageous GOP attacks, she is standing strong.

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Don Siegelman Comes Out Swinging
(2 comments) An inside look at the appeal being filed by former Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman, who has been the best known political prisoner to suffer under the Bush Justice Department

Friday, May 23, 2008
Caught on Tape! Corrupt Republicans in Alabama
(5 comments) An Alabama blogger shows you what it looks like when corrupt Republicans are caught in the act. And these are just any corrupt Republicans. They have direct ties to the Bush White House.

Monday, May 5, 2008
Love Connection? Abramoff and the D.C. Madam
(2 comments) Are there connections between the Jack Abramoff case and the death of the D.C. Madam?

Saturday, May 3, 2008
Good Day for Siegelman, Good Day for Justice
(4 comments) The former governor got more good news,in the form of an excellent column titled "What Karl Rove Fears Most"(love that headline!)by Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post.There is so much good stuff in Froomkin's column, it's hard to know where to begin.Basically,it's a splendid overview of recent events regarding Rove and his slithering efforts to avoid testifying about his role in the Siegelman case and other DOJ shenanigans.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Siegelman and the Alabama Press
I've taken a journalism class or two in my time,and this one is hard to figure.The state's former gov gives his first major in-state interview since his release from prison and the AP's Montgomery bureau doesn't pick it up?This is curious: both stories are sympathetic to Siegelman,yet they don't run the first one and then don't mention the second because, well,I guess as they say on South Park,"Nothing to see here,move along."

Monday, March 24, 2008
Paying the Price For Looking Too Closely at the Siegelman Case
(1 comments) Republican authorities are threatening to seize my house, in a thinly veiled attempt to shut down my blog. I think this has a lot to do with U.S. Attorney Alice Martin, who led the first effort to go after Don Siegelman.Here is my most recent post about what amounts to state-sponsored terrorism by the Alabama GOP.