[Boston.com]
Bush claims the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.

[The Huffington Post]
House Democrats to file suit against Bush for signing into law a bill that had not passed both the House and the Senate, violating both the Constitution and any notion of checks and balances between the legislative and executive branches of government.

[johnkerry.com]
The best way to support the troops is to oppose a course that squanders their lives, dishonors their sacrifice, and disserves our people and our principles. When brave patriots suffer and die on the altar of stubborn pride, because of the incompetence and self-deception of mere politicians, then the only patriotic choice is to reclaim the moral authority misused by those entrusted with high office.

It is profoundly wrong to think that fighting for your country overseas and fighting for your country's ideals at home are contradictory or even separate duties. They are, in fact, two sides of the very same patriotic coin.

[Rolling Stone]
Bush's presidency appears headed for colossal historical disgrace. Barring a cataclysmic event on the order of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, after which the public might rally around the White House once again, there seems to be little the administration can do to avoid being ranked on the lowest tier of U.S. presidents. And that may be the best-case scenario. Many historians are now wondering whether Bush, in fact, will be remembered as the very worst president in all of American history.

[Physorg.com]
Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists (including five Nobel laureates, a recipient of the National Medal of Science and three past presidents of the American Physical Society, the nation’s preeminent professional society for physicists) have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”

[Vanity Fair]
Carl Bernstein: The system has thus far failed during the presidency of George W. Bush—at incalculable cost in human lives, to the American political system, to undertaking an intelligent and effective war against terror, and to the standing of the United States in parts of the world where it previously had been held in the highest regard. There was understandable reluctance in the Congress to begin a serious investigation of the Nixon presidency. Then there came a time when it was unavoidable. That time in the Bush presidency has arrived.

[ArgusLeader.com]
Retired commander of key forces in Iraq, Army Major General John Batiste, called yesterday for Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down. Batiste said he believes that the administration's handling of the Iraq war has violated fundamental military principles, such as unity of command and unity of effort.

[Washington Post]
On May 29, 2003, 50 days after the fall of Baghdad, Bush proclaimed a fresh victory for his administration in Iraq: Two small trailers captured by U.S. and Kurdish troops had turned out to be long-sought mobile "biological laboratories." He declared, We have found the weapons of mass destruction. The claim, repeated by top administration officials for months afterward, was hailed at the time as a vindication of the decision to go to war. But even as Bush spoke, U.S. intelligence officials possessed powerful evidence that it was not true. A secret fact-finding mission to Iraq had already concluded that the trailers had nothing to do with biological weapons. Leaders of the Pentagon-sponsored mission transmitted their unanimous findings to Washington in a field report on May 27, 2003, two days before the president's statement.

[ArgusLeader.com]
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, told students and faculty at the University of South Dakota that the United States should pull out of Iraq: It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy that country after June of 2003 Gingrich said during a question-and-answer session at the school. We have to pull back, and we have to recognize it.

[Yahoo! News]
Key figures in a phone-jamming scheme designed to keep New Hampshire Democrats from voting in 2002 had regular contact with the White House and Republican Party as the plan was unfolding, phone records introduced in criminal court show.

[The New Yorker]
The Bush administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. The attention given to the nuclear option has created serious misgivings inside the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and some officers have talked about resigning.

[Spam Daily News]
EFF files preliminary injunction against AT&T for diverting Internet traffic into the hands of the NSA wholesale, in violation of federal wiretapping laws and the Fourth Amendment. More than just threatening individuals' privacy, AT&T's apparent choice to give the government secret, direct access to millions of ordinary Americans' Internet communications is a threat to the Constitution itself. We are asking the Court to put a stop to it now.

[My Way]
Bush and Cheney authorized Cheney's top aide to launch a counterattack of leaks against administration critics on Iraq by feeding intelligence information to reporters, according to court papers citing the aide's testimony in the CIA leak case.

[Los Angeles Times]
Bush administration plans to start building first new nuclear bombs since 1989.

[The Huffington Post]
John Kerry (remember him?) has a plan to extricate the U.S. from Iraq.

[CNN]
Rep. Tom DeLay (R) was forced to step down as House majority leader last year after being indicted in his home state of Texas on charges that he improperly steered corporate donations to state legislative candidates. Now he has decided not to seek re-election. Wonder which lobbyist job he's decided to take?