https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 Opednews.com Progressive, Liberal United States and International News, Opinion, Op-Eds and Politics en-us Copyright 2026 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:21:35 -0400 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:21:35 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://www.opednews.com/populum/pthemes/opednews/images/rssbanner.png https://www.opednews.com/populum/rss.php?c=a&t=&p=&tid=0 152 149 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070918_video_of_tasered_col.htm Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:58:08 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070918_video_of_tasered_col.htm Michael Leon Watch this video. I would like to know how we can support Andrew Meyers. Can someone find out if this man has a defense fund and how we can contribute? https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070914_religious_right_figu.htm Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:55:15 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070914_religious_right_figu.htm Michael Leon Several major American religious right figures signing an anti-Iraqi withdrawal statement were previously identified by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as extremists assaulting tolerance and pluralism in America. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070914_the_next_attorney_ge.htm Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:47:24 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070914_the_next_attorney_ge.htm Michael Leon The one person Bush will not nominate is an intellectually honest, rule-of-law individual who would actually investigate the administration's many misdeeds, and that is precisely who the country needs. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070913_biskupic_says_he_ll_.htm Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:16:06 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070913_biskupic_says_he_ll_.htm Michael Leon Biskupic' readiness to testify on the Thompson prosecution, though of no assistance to the innocent Georgia Thompson now, is commendable, especially when considered against the attitude of the corrupt DoJ that may be the lowest disgrace yet of the Bush administration. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070911_salon_flops_in_inter.htm Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:19:05 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070911_salon_flops_in_inter.htm Michael Leon Salon's interview with Draper by Rob Patterson is disappointing for employing the same lack of skepticism towards Draper that the establishment writer Draper employs towards the president. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070910_petraeus_says__no_de.htm Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:17:38 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070910_petraeus_says__no_de.htm Michael Leon The PR managers just want to be able to say next year during the campaign some version that that it (Iraq) wasn't their fault, they are bringing the (some) troops home, the politicians blew it and Bush just listened to the Generals in the field. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070909_top_admiral_who_said.htm Sun, 09 Sep 2007 11:08:37 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070909_top_admiral_who_said.htm Michael Leon As the administration attempts another bald-faced, lying PR campaign to continue the Iraq occupation and apparently plans for a military engagement with Iran, it's worth noting Adm. Fallon's reported words this February on striking the politically and militarily powerful Iran: An attack on Iran "will not happen on my watch". https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070907_oral_arguments_sched.htm Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:26:15 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070907_oral_arguments_sched.htm Michael Leon But here's a first step: Biskupic, Canary and Martin, among the group of U.S. Attorneys who have sold their professional souls, need to be put in a jail cell for thirty days to read Robert H. Jackson's "The Federal Prosecutor." https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070906_doj_on_biskupic_pros.htm Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:08:35 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070906_doj_on_biskupic_pros.htm Michael Leon The examination of US Atty Biskupic is part of the House Committee's efforts scrutinizing prosecutions by several US Attys that directly targeted Democrats as part of a pattern of Republican political corruption of the DoJ. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070905_walmartopia_worth_se.htm Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:21:17 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070905_walmartopia_worth_se.htm Michael Leon Taking aim at America's largest employer, Wal-Mart, among America's worst places to work, Walmartopia is the perfect entertainment anecdote to living during Bush's tenure. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070905_va_counsel_unilatera.htm Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:29:42 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070905_va_counsel_unilatera.htm Michael Leon Echoing Alberto Gonzales who decided that the Geneva Convention (which like federal regulations have the force of U.S. law on the land) is "obsolete" and "quaint," the VA's attorney (a political hack from a bottom-tier law school) argues that a VA regulation protecting vets is "obsolete." https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070903_national_va_director.htm Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:06:26 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070903_national_va_director.htm Michael Leon U.S. Navy Airman Keith Roberts (1969-71) became the central figure in what is a cautionary, Alice-in-Wonderland tale, after U.S. Atty. Biskupic's and the VA's plotting resulted in Roberts being tried and convicted of receiving disability benefits from the VA (by wire transfer as the VA requires for all payments). https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070902_hypocrite_bathroom_s.htm Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:33:11 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070902_hypocrite_bathroom_s.htm Michael Leon Larry Craig's real sin about which he should have been driven from office is screwing over our veterans who serve our country. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070901_iran_s_coming_disast.htm Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:07:45 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070901_iran_s_coming_disast.htm Michael Leon Creating the conditions of unpredictability and disorder are precisely the aims of this desperate administration. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070825_ray_nietske_and_bush.htm Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:04:58 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070825_ray_nietske_and_bush.htm Michael Leon Even as the specter of another grand, foolish military venture dances around Washington scaring many of the testicularally-challenged democrats who appeased Bush on Iraq, Bush knows in his heart most Americans believe him to be wrong. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070821_a_call_for_the_progr.htm Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:58:14 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070821_a_call_for_the_progr.htm Michael Leon I WANT TO BE FREE.--I WANT TO LEAVE THIS COUNTRY; 21 YEARS IN ISRAEL PRISON IS ENOUGH. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070818_jose_padilla_s_ideol.htm Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:55:45 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070818_jose_padilla_s_ideol.htm Michael Leon The distinction between endorsing another's rights and another's views is obvious outside of authoritarian ideologies that view liberty with suspicion. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070816_jose_padilla_and_ame.htm Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:51:12 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070816_jose_padilla_and_ame.htm Michael Leon "At many of the points at which the government said 'dirty bomb,' there was no opportunity to respond for the reason that Mr. Padilla was in solitary confinement and no lawyer had been able to talk to him about the charges," says Diane Amann, visiting law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. --Although they seek a life sentence, prosecutors introduced no evidence of personal involvement by Padilla in planning https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070808_supreme_court_of_197.htm Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:16:57 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070808_supreme_court_of_197.htm Michael Leon In 1972, a unanimous Supreme Court shot down Nixon's similar attempt to legalize his monarchical claims of his presidency through warrantless wiretapping. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070730_brookings__o_hanlon_.htm Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:44:41 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070730_brookings__o_hanlon_.htm Michael Leon Michael E. O'Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack of the Brookings Institution have the most inane piece in today's New York Times. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070729_decider_decides_not_.htm Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:57:44 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070729_decider_decides_not_.htm Michael Leon The too-often-played song from the Bush administration's endless stream is that some other force is responsible for how to decide the dirty problems, even as Bush occasionally squawks that he is the decider. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070727_nam_vets_fight_for_a.htm Fri, 27 Jul 2007 08:12:05 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070727_nam_vets_fight_for_a.htm Michael Leon In April 2000, the U.S. Congress authorized the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorative Plaque, also known as the In Memory Plaque, to be added to the three-acre Memorial site on the National Mall. The plaque is intended to honor those Vietnam veterans who died after service in Vietnam https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070726_the_american_civil_r.htm Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:11:41 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070726_the_american_civil_r.htm Michael Leon "There is no way to peace. Peace is the way." --- Abraham Johannes Muste (1885-1967) https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070722_bush_s_new_exec_orde.htm Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:14:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070722_bush_s_new_exec_orde.htm Michael Leon Steve Hanson at Uppity Wisconsin writes that "President Bush has signed yet another executive order allowing the blocking of property of - um - well - it sounds like damn near anybody that does anything that blocks our mission in Iraq." https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070719_aggression_not_stand.htm Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:44:46 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070719_aggression_not_stand.htm Michael Leon Peter Galbraith's piece also reveals the extent to which American imperial assumptions underlie liberal criticism (to say nothing of neocon praise) of the Iraq invasion and occupation. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070717_the_one_true_church.htm Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:17:17 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070717_the_one_true_church.htm Michael Leon Less than one week after the Roman Catholic Church issued its degree that the Catholic Church is the "one true Church of Christ", the one, true Church agreed to a $660 million settlement in the clergy molestation/rape case in Los Angeles. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070716_why_so_many_american.htm Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:06:31 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070716_why_so_many_american.htm Michael Leon Loury does make mention of a population "(s)toked by fear and political opportunism ... ," but in a depoliticized society like the United States where fear and lavish attention to the trivial and meaningless (celebrity, reality shows, sports and so on) continue, I think Loury needs to link the violent prison-industrial complex as a logical outgrowth of our depoliticized culture maintained by the corporate-media. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070710_nuclear_whistleblowe.htm Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:47:43 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070710_nuclear_whistleblowe.htm Michael Leon Vanunu is working for a non-nuclear world, non-violence, democracy and civil liberties, as Israel remains adamant in its position that Vanunu not be allowed to leave the country for his crime of alerting the world of Israel's development of nuclear weapons. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070702_outrage_3a_bush_commut.htm Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:59:25 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070702_outrage_3a_bush_commut.htm Michael Leon The reaction of the American people to this outrage will be revealing of the extent to which America remains a democratic republic as we head into Independence Day. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070628_fighting_the_us_doj_.htm Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:06:51 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070628_fighting_the_us_doj_.htm Michael Leon Veteran Keith Roberts (1968-71) is fighting his legal battle not just against the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), but also the U.S. Department of Justice in two different courts and two different cases simultaneously on the same factual and legal dispute in a bizarre case. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070625_us_atty_biskupic_and.htm Mon, 25 Jun 2007 06:34:10 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070625_us_atty_biskupic_and.htm Michael Leon In this Karl Rove/Dick Cheney age of politics when the governmental machinery is so politicized that Richard Nixon seems a progressive reformist by comparison, it's not surprising to find the United States Department of Justice ravaging a Vietnam-era veteran diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070623_jerusalem_post_3a_isra.htm Sat, 23 Jun 2007 16:39:01 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070623_jerusalem_post_3a_isra.htm Michael Leon The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has been training on long-range flights, including refueling in mid-flight, in preparation for potential strikes against Iranian nuclear targets. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070615_innocent_woman_jaile.htm Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:30:16 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070615_innocent_woman_jaile.htm Michael Leon The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturned the innocent woman's conviction in April, with one judge deriding the US Atty's evidence as "beyond thin," and ordered her freed in an extraordinary decision after oral arguments. Now the innocent is seeking money from the state for her ordeal https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070614_tnr_embarrasses_itse.htm Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:11:11 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070614_tnr_embarrasses_itse.htm Michael Leon Mike Gravel, of-course, is the former Senator from Alaska who famously read into the congressional record the Pentagon Papers, that laid out the lies before and during the Vietnam War that ultimately cost some three million lives, and wreaks havoc even today on untold millions more, including 100,000s of Vietnam-era veterans whom the Veterans Administration is trying to shaft on VA beneits. That's a bad thing, TNR. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070614_finkelstein_draws_fl.htm Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:09:07 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070614_finkelstein_draws_fl.htm Michael Leon Finkelstein has drawn praise from Raul Hilberg, considered the dean of Holocaust studies, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman and Sara Roy, but has drawn criticism from those committed to militarism and misuses of the Holocaust that almost killed Finkelstein's parents. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070610_ann_coulter_compares.htm Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:43:27 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070610_ann_coulter_compares.htm Michael Leon Ann Coulter in Human Events compares the immigrating Hispanics to roaches and America to a "roach motel". https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070609_free_paris_hilton.htm Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:39:51 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070609_free_paris_hilton.htm Michael Leon The media and indeed much of America got quite a laugh out of reports that Paris Hilton was sent back to jail in tears and emotional distress. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070608_va_source_blasts_jai.htm Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:04:55 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070608_va_source_blasts_jai.htm Michael Leon A source at the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center in Milwaukee contacted the Madison-based Lee Rayburn radio show after a June 6 broadcast on jailed Vietnam-era veteran, Keith Roberts, and blasted the US Atty Stephen Biskupic's prosecution of the Wisconsin veteran. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070607_more_dismantlement_o.htm Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:41:47 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070607_more_dismantlement_o.htm Michael Leon An analysis reveals more corroboration of the account of a Vietnam-era airman who witnessed a colleague's death in a gruesome C-54 aircraft accident in 1969 at a Naval Air Facility in Naples, Italy and is now imprisoned for wire fraud, for falsifying the account. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070604_new_evidence_in_jail.htm Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:20:58 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070604_new_evidence_in_jail.htm Michael Leon Critics and veteran groups accuse the Bush administration of the unprecedented politicalization of the Department of Justice and the VA, and see the indictment and conviction of Keith Roberts on charges of wire fraud (and other veterans) as a consequence of this politicalization that discourages Vietnam-era veterans from seeking PTSD benefits, per the views of the American Enterprise Institute. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070530_military_document_co.htm Wed, 30 May 2007 07:54:12 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070530_military_document_co.htm Michael Leon Every veteran who files for PTSD (especially Vietnam-era vets) is now at criminal risk if they cannot prove that their "stressors" exist to the evolving and high standard of the VA in these matters. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070529_us_on_pace_for_most_.htm Tue, 29 May 2007 08:04:22 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070529_us_on_pace_for_most_.htm Michael Leon May 2007 will likely be the most deadly month for the US since November 2004. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070528_memorial_day_2c_herb_k.htm Mon, 28 May 2007 09:29:17 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070528_memorial_day_2c_herb_k.htm Michael Leon "The drug coverage that seniors in Wisconsin have come to know and depend on is going to stay in place," Senator Herb Kohl said in a statement. "The delegation stuck with it, and we got the job done." https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070519_marine_betrayed_by_t.htm Sat, 19 May 2007 08:07:48 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070519_marine_betrayed_by_t.htm Michael Leon "I would have rather been shot on the battlefield than to have ended up with health problems from a shot that my own government made me take." https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070518_us_atty__biskupic_pr.htm Fri, 18 May 2007 22:22:36 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070518_us_atty__biskupic_pr.htm Michael Leon The praise of US Atty. Biskupic in late 2004 deepened questions about why senior Justice Department leaders months later added his name to a list of U.S. attorneys who should be replaced for not putting enough emphasis on the priorities set by President Bush. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070515_americans_believe_mo.htm Tue, 15 May 2007 15:27:29 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070515_americans_believe_mo.htm Michael Leon Three times as many Americans believe that attacks on civilians are sometimes justified (24 percent), as Pakistanis and Indonesians who believe that attacks on civilians are sometimes justified to defend Islam (eight percent). https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070515_va_document_contradi.htm Tue, 15 May 2007 08:02:13 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070515_va_document_contradi.htm Michael Leon Key document contradicts prosecuting attorney, Timothy Funnell of the US Eastern District of Wisconsin, who repeatedly portrayed Vietnam-era vet as engaging in a "scheme" to "fraudulently" obtain VA benefits motivated by greed. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070513_gonzales_defends_us_.htm Sun, 13 May 2007 23:43:36 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070513_gonzales_defends_us_.htm Michael Leon Tammy Baldwin was aggressive in her questioning of Gonzales, while Gonzales was typically evasive, inane and insincere. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070510_vets_go_to_mattresse.htm Thu, 10 May 2007 17:45:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070510_vets_go_to_mattresse.htm Michael Leon Critics accuse the Bush administration of the unprecedented politicalization of government, including the Department of Justice and the Veterans Administration (VA), and see the indictment and conviction of Vietnam-era vet Keith Roberts of wire fraud as a consequence of this politicalization. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070509_urge_tammy_baldwin_t.htm Wed, 09 May 2007 08:02:50 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070509_urge_tammy_baldwin_t.htm Michael Leon Many Opednews.com readers know that Airman Keith Roberts (1968-74) is battling political forces allied with VA Sec. Jim Nicholson whose department worked with US Atty Stephen Biskupic to imprison this Vietnam-ear vet for 48 months on a ludicrous charge of wire fraud for filin for VA benefits, now under appeal. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070508_report_issued_on_pts.htm Tue, 08 May 2007 23:08:00 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070508_report_issued_on_pts.htm Michael Leon The VA report came as criticism has mounted over VA Sec. Jim Nicholson's tenure that saw budget shortfalls, a backlog of 600,000 disability cases, staffing shortages at Vet Centers, security breaches, alleged neglect of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) cases, and even the criminalization of the VA benefit process. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070507_fight_is_on_to_free_.htm Mon, 07 May 2007 06:57:27 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070507_fight_is_on_to_free_.htm Michael Leon An informal group of veterans are offering advice and support to the jailed vet's family and their attorney. Most of the vets' descriptions of the VA under Secretary Jim Nicholson's tenure and US Atty Biskupic are profane, and on background. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070503_vet_imprisoned_for_s.htm Thu, 03 May 2007 04:15:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070503_vet_imprisoned_for_s.htm Michael Leon In the administration where rightwing think tanks supply the intellectual essence for such government policy as health care and the Iraq war, the veterans' benefits bureaucracy also apparently takes its cue from the right. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070426_milwaukee_journal_se.htm Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:33:39 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070426_milwaukee_journal_se.htm Michael Leon The judicial opinion freeing the innocent Wisconsin state worker is being used by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel to provide political cover for US Atty Biskupic. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070424_robert_jackson_and_p.htm Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:58:36 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070424_robert_jackson_and_p.htm Michael Leon As the Bush administration has turned the DoJ into a political operation of the White House, and liberal district attorneys around the country (including Madison, Wisconsin, see Brian Blanchard, for example) engage in quests to prove their tough-on-crime bone fides, Robert Jackson speaks to us today with urgency. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070422_us_atty_biskupic_sho.htm Sun, 22 Apr 2007 09:16:37 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070422_us_atty_biskupic_sho.htm Michael Leon Stephen Biskupic, US Atty for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, should never again be allowed to serve in public office, and should resign effective immediately. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070419_gonzales_faces_inqui.htm Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:30:22 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070419_gonzales_faces_inqui.htm Michael Leon Gonzales is expected to face questions about several scandals. You can link to MAL Contends for continuous updates on the hearing. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070418_waco_2c_virginia_tech_.htm Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:43:41 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070418_waco_2c_virginia_tech_.htm Michael Leon Perhaps we could put in a little extra effort to stop the US occupation of Iraq where the Iraqis experience several Virginia Tech-like massacres a day. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070417_ecological_activism_.htm Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:25:08 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070417_ecological_activism_.htm Michael Leon Ecological Internet specializes in using the net to attain environmental victories. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070416_nyt_editorial_on_us_.htm Mon, 16 Apr 2007 09:58:54 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070416_nyt_editorial_on_us_.htm Michael Leon Today's editorial in the New York Times by Adam Cohen, "A Woman Wrongly Convicted and a U.S. Attorney Who Kept His Job," blasts US Atty Steven Biskupic (Wis), advancing the story of an ever-increasing US Atty scandal. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070414_biskupic_the_politic.htm Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:24:54 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070414_biskupic_the_politic.htm Michael Leon US Atty Biskupic's statement does nothing to quell the controversy, and raises more questions about the nature of Biskupic's office that resembles more and more that of a desperate politician's out to save his hide. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070414_biskupic_targeted_by.htm Sat, 14 Apr 2007 06:25:31 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070414_biskupic_targeted_by.htm Michael Leon Now we know. McClatchy Newspapers reports that Wisconsin US Atty Biskupic "who prosecuted a state Democratic official on corruption charges during last year's heated governor's race was once targeted for firing by the Department of Justice, but given a reprieve for reasons that remain unclear. ..." https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070412_nation_s_eyes_on_bis.htm Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:29:13 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070412_nation_s_eyes_on_bis.htm Michael Leon For more information contact Asst US Atty, Richard G. Frohling and--Criminal Chief Paul L. Kanter at (414) 297-1700. I encourage that we contact these agents of corruption, and let them know how we feel about the conduct of their office. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070411_rutgers_basketball_p.htm Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:26:13 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070411_rutgers_basketball_p.htm Michael Leon In the annals of American athletes' contribution to social justice, Ali, Russell, Brown, B.J. King and Smith and Carlos at the '68 Olympics are in no danger of being upstaged. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070410_why_only_democrats_o.htm Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:19:46 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070410_why_only_democrats_o.htm Michael Leon The lack of Republican cooperation from Committee members makes their party look more interested in a cover-up than a rendering of facts. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070410_dem__senators_write_.htm Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:44:02 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070410_dem__senators_write_.htm Michael Leon Via RobertInWisconsin at Daily Kos: Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have written Attorney General Gonzales demanding all documents related to the Georgia Thompson case. This one smells bad! https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070410_more_calls_for_inqui.htm Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:00:47 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070410_more_calls_for_inqui.htm Michael Leon Monday's call in the lead New York Times editorial for investigation into the U.S. Atty for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Steven Biskupic's dubious prosecution of a Wisconsin civil servant was joined by Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-Madison). https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070409_times_calls_for_inqu.htm Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:11:59 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070409_times_calls_for_inqu.htm Michael Leon "The Chicago-based United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit seemed shocked by the injustice of her conviction. It took the extraordinary step of releasing Ms. Thompson from prison immediately after hearing arguments, without waiting to issue a ruling." NYT https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070407_the_reluctantly_corr.htm Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:44:53 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070407_the_reluctantly_corr.htm Michael Leon "The great irony of the case is that having been wrongfully prosecuted for doing her job for allegedly political reasons, now the question is being asked whether the government engaged in this same behavior," - Attorney Stephen Hurley https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070406_innocent_state_worke.htm Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:07:40 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070406_innocent_state_worke.htm Michael Leon This high-profile, politically charged case should never have come to court, and a cloud now hangs over the U.S. Atty for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Steven Biskupic, as a hard-working, innocent woman fights to get her life back together. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070405_bush_machinery_suppr.htm Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:42:04 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070405_bush_machinery_suppr.htm Michael Leon Why is the White House interested in a voting rights document authored by the NAACP, the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the People for the American Way? https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070404_rovian_beats_dem_in_.htm Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:12:39 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070404_rovian_beats_dem_in_.htm Michael Leon The Ziegler victory continues a virtual tie on the seven-member Wisconsin high court dedicated to the rule-of-law versus a faction doing the bidding of corporate interests and social right-wingers. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070403_us_s_plan_to_kidnap_.htm Tue, 03 Apr 2007 17:55:08 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070403_us_s_plan_to_kidnap_.htm Michael Leon The attempt by the US to seize two senior Iranian security officers openly meeting with Iraqi leaders is somewhat as if Iran had tried to kidnap the heads of the CIA and MI6 while they were on an official visit to a country neighbouring Iran such as Pakistan or Afghanistan. - Reports CounterPunch https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070330_anti_gay_hotel___aff.htm Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:01:34 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070330_anti_gay_hotel___aff.htm Michael Leon Affordable Suites hotel says it has a policy of not renting rooms to gay couples, reports AMERACAblog.com. Readers objecting can contact Affordable Suites at: (843) 235-8899. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070328_wisconsin_supreme_co.htm Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:59:22 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070328_wisconsin_supreme_co.htm Michael Leon Wisconsin's Supreme Court race on April 3 will be decisive as to whether the seven-member Supreme Court will be composed of a majority of justices committed to the rule of law versus a Rovian, ideological agenda. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070325_an_honorable_republi.htm Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:00:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070325_an_honorable_republi.htm Michael Leon Republican U.S atty., Steven Biskupic, has demonstrated that independent service to the cause of justice and the American people is alive and well in the U.S. Atty's office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070323_bush_is_a_howling_ja.htm Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:35:20 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070323_bush_is_a_howling_ja.htm Michael Leon Affirming his commitment to kill, maim and destroy more Iraqi and American lives, Bush made no new allies and played the only the card (the "war president") that he has left. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070319_clinton_u_s__atty_3a_n.htm Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:58:30 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070319_clinton_u_s__atty_3a_n.htm Michael Leon "During my tenure of as an U.S. atty., I never personally nor did I know of any U.S. atty. who had those sorts of alleged (political) demands placed on him or her."-----Peg Lautenschlager, U.S. Atty. (1993-2001) https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070315_broder_the_banal.htm Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:33:22 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070315_broder_the_banal.htm Michael Leon David Broder continues his exhibited loyalty (to borrow a term from the Bush regime) to the GOP in a pair of columns in the Post this week, having long ago jettisoned honest journalism. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070313_the_american_conserv.htm Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:14:34 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070313_the_american_conserv.htm Michael Leon Just maybe, as Scott McConnell writes, the truism that not everyone objecting to U.S./Israeli militarism is an anti-Semite is becoming a more tenable political position, partly because of the blogosphere. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070308_salon_and_the_nation.htm Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:51:43 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070308_salon_and_the_nation.htm Michael Leon Salon and the Nation killed Christopher Ketcham's incendiary What Did Israel Know in Advance of the 9/11 Attacks expose. Too hot to handle? Significantly advancing this story could ignite a political tinderbox. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070307_did_israel_and_other.htm Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:59:38 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070307_did_israel_and_other.htm Michael Leon A CounterPunch special investigation lays out questions and evidence for the existence of a Mossad team trailing the 9/11 terrorists before the attacks occurred. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070306_fitz_delivers_blow_t.htm Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:16:35 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070306_fitz_delivers_blow_t.htm Michael Leon Patrick J. Fitzgerald won his case that burning an undercover CIA agent in a false and ad hominem attempt to discredit a feared critic's arguments against the war and repeatedly lying about it are precisely what did occur. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070223_ghosts_of_abu_ghraib.htm Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:38:44 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070223_ghosts_of_abu_ghraib.htm Michael Leon Americans should see it, record it, and contact two fundamentalist churches in their area and offer a free viewing. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070217_vietnam_vet_sees_cau.htm Sat, 17 Feb 2007 09:06:16 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070217_vietnam_vet_sees_cau.htm Michael Leon "And yes, even broken (military)recruiters who sealed Faustian pacts deserve our respect. There is much hidden power in the voice of the people and the people are speaking out." https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070214_gov__tommy_thompson_.htm Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:11:23 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070214_gov__tommy_thompson_.htm Michael Leon Wisconsin Governor and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson deserves no praise for political independence. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070204_rita_wlodarczyk___an.htm Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:50:16 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__070204_rita_wlodarczyk___an.htm Michael Leon Rita Wlodarczyk, an American hero passed away yesterday. Rita Wlodarczyk will live along with Jefferson, King, Knoll, Muste, and all those thirsting for life, liberty and simple human kindness. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070111_america_to_bush_3a_no_.htm Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:02:49 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__070111_america_to_bush_3a_no_.htm Michael Leon The premises of the Iraq war were always a series of lies, spin, and a cynical P.R. campaign, not the stuff of honor and nobility. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__061217_the_progressive_maga.htm Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:37:11 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__061217_the_progressive_maga.htm Michael Leon This last July The Progressive Magazine disgraced itself, betraying the memory of LaFollette, Sam Day and the great pacifist journalist, Erwin Knoll (editor 1973-1994). https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__061213_writer_vindicates_ra.htm Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:37:26 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__061213_writer_vindicates_ra.htm Michael Leon Read "Cry Rape, The True Story of One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice," an account of one woman's victory for human rights against judicial arrogance and sexism in one of the most progressive cities in America. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__061108_gay_marriage_2c_justic.htm Wed, 08 Nov 2006 19:13:31 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__061108_gay_marriage_2c_justic.htm Michael Leon Senator Herb Kohl did nothing to stop the enshrining of bigotry into the Wisconsin constitution, though he was perfectly positioned to act, at no cost to himself. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__061107_wisconsin_gets_huge_.htm Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:18:24 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__061107_wisconsin_gets_huge_.htm Michael Leon Gay Marriage/Civil Union Ban Opponents' Mobilization Huge--Madison democractic headquarters and the pro-equal rights office were ablaze with volunteers and the energy level was euphoric early this morning. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__061030_democratic_gov__doyl.htm Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:10:46 -0500 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__061030_democratic_gov__doyl.htm Michael Leon Republican politicians who build barriers against hope for medical treatments achieved through public funding are finding their private ideology a tough sell in this campaign season. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__061021_republican_state_sen.htm Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:24:30 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__061021_republican_state_sen.htm Michael Leon Right wing Wisconsin State Senator Tom Reynolds' (R-West Allis, WI) legal threats against a critical blogger is a clumsy, bone-headed effort to shut down valid criticism. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__060917_the__22real_22_george_al.htm Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:22:56 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__060917_the__22real_22_george_al.htm Michael Leon In the Meet The Press debate, George Allen demonstrated his lying, equivocating character to a national TV audience. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__060809_oliver_stone_s_vital.htm Wed, 09 Aug 2006 17:15:47 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__060809_oliver_stone_s_vital.htm Michael Leon As a depiction of the commitment that we have to each other creating a human "goodness," World Trade Center is a subversive, political action against the make-believe world of Karl Rove. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__060730_american_supported_i.htm Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:34:31 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__060730_american_supported_i.htm Michael Leon World condemnation reaches fever pitch rendering Israel and the U.S. to near-pariah status. https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__060719_u_s__silent_to_israe.htm Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:41:25 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_michael__060719_u_s__silent_to_israe.htm Michael Leon U.S. Response: Deadly Status Quo https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__060629_stem_cells_winning_i.htm Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:03:21 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__060629_stem_cells_winning_i.htm Michael Leon Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Doyle is championing stem cells, and firing salvos driving this perfect wedge issue that divides Republicans. https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__060519_hector_jordan___trai.htm Fri, 19 May 2006 18:09:11 -0400 https://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_michael__060519_hector_jordan___trai.htm Michael Leon Amid the national mobilization of Mexican-Americans asserting their humanity, a Mexican-American hero was recognized today: Hector Jordan.