Egypt papers stop the press in protest

Egypt's independent and opposition newspapers refrained from publishing on Sunday in protest at a draft law that journalists say will restrict press freedom.....more

David Brooks--Just Another Joe Lieberman Fan

David Brooks had a laughable column in Sunday's New York Times.
"What's happening to Lieberman can only be described as a liberal inquisition," Brooks proclaims. What Brooks characterizes as an "inquisition" -- an effort, as he puts it, "to expel Joe Lieberman from modern liberalism".....more

Filling the Air With Outright Lies

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction......Blaise Pascal

Joe Redner begins campaign for Hillsborough Commissioner with a bang
Mitch E. Perry
One might consider liberal leaning residents of Hillsborough County to be excited about this fall's election, with a chance to alter the heavily Republican leaning slant of the current board.

"The Most Progressive Candidate This Fall On The Ballot is Joe Redner!"......WMNF EVENING NEWS

Samm Simpson
Democrat
U.S. Congressional District 10

The bleeding has to stop. Let’s set new priorities. Let’s transform our energy policy from fossil fuels to renewable sources, promote Pinellas County as the solar capital of the U.S.A., provide health insurance for all Americans, rebuild public education, retool our manufacturing, create living wage jobs and provide affordable housing and security to our seniors and the most vulnerable.

Samm Simpson, Democrat, For U.S. Congressional District 10

Dixie Chicks Stick To Their Guns

In the great galaxy of insults directed at George W Bush, joking that you are ashamed to come from the same state as him seems almost polite.
Yet when Natalie Maines from country rock trio the Dixie Chicks said just that before the invasion of Iraq, all manner of redneck hell broke loose around her and the band.....more

After 7 Week's On Billboard's Country Charts And Still #1, Imagine That?

Dixie Chicks : The Accidents & Accusations Tour

St Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FL Thu, Oct 5, 2006 07:30 PM

More Immigrant Bashing on the Way
Molly Ivins
There’s a bunch of people named Gomez and Ramirez

House Republicans, who know a good socially divisive issue when they see one, are perfectly happy to blame illegal workers for everything. Trade policy, repealing taxes for the rich, corruption in Congress—it’s all done by illegal workers....more

Veronica Mars, Class Warrior

With an artfulness and pathos that no other show has quite pulled off, “Veronica Mars” expresses the deep ambivalence that the working and middle classes feel about the rise of a monstrously flush ruling class in our midst....more

UPN.com: Veronica Mars

Fox News hosts go off-message in hyping N. Korea missile tests

Attempts to try to describe" North Korea's recent missile tests "in breathless World War III terms....more

This Kind Of Talk Scares The Hell Out Of Me. What Is Wrong With That Little Man? Does He Have Short Man Disease? Your People Are Starving, Dude

50,000 Dead, But Who's Counting?
Juliana Lara Resende

After famously telling reporters that they "don't do body counts", Pentagon officials now say that they have in fact been keeping a record of civilian casualties in Iraq for one year. And while that number remains classified, independent estimates suggest that at least 50,000 people have died in the country since the 2003 invasion.....more

Guatemala comes to terms with its past

Guatemala, which suffered from a long civil war in which 200,000 people were killed, appears to be finally coming to terms with its turbulent past.....more

It's OK

How any chance of an oil deal died
With no unified counterproposal to offer, the Florida delegation ended up able to do little to stand in the way of gulf drilling....more

Watada, the War and the Law

The Administration's invasion and occupation of Iraq was "manifestly illegal" because it "violates our democratic system of checks and balances. It usurps international treaties and conventions that by virtue of the Constitution become American law.....more

Downtowns on the Verge Podcast
The condo boom is in full effect in downtown Tampa and St. Petersburg, sparking different fears in each setting.....more

Poll: Do you think the Democrats will win back control of Congress this fall?...click here

Japan troops begin Iraq pullout
Japan's troop dispatch, a symbol of Tokyo's willingness to put "boots on the ground" for its close ally, the United States, has won praise from Washington.....more

Kuwait’s shifting tides
Raymond Barrett

The arrival of women on Kuwait’s political stage is matched in significance by the quiet rise of Islamists, says Raymond Barrett.....more

This isn’t Fox News sir.

About The Debate
Spazeboy
My Left Nutmeg
In A MSNBC Poll As Of July 7, 6pm
Who won the Connecticut Senate debate?
* 24529 responses
Joe Lieberman 24%
Ned Lamont 68%
It was a draw 7.8%

You Da Man, Ned

"Woman With Adam’s Apple Denounces Anal Sex And Fisting."

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Has This Country Gone Completely Insane?

This afternoon, drinking a cup of coffee while sitting in the Jesse Brown V.A. Medical Center on Chicago’s south side, a Veterans Administration cop walked up to me and said, "OK, you’ve had your 15 minutes, it’s time to go.".....more

Go to Venezuela, You Idiot
I don't usually take the advice of rightwingers. But I did this time. After receiving inflamed email messages from dozens of angry rightists that I should get the hell out of the USA and go to Venezuela, I accepted their challenge and flew to Caracas.....more

Why Conservatives Can't Govern
Alan Wolfe
Bush's presidency and Congress are imploding, not despite their conservatism, but because of it....more

Kinky Friedman
For Texas
In the latest Rasmussen poll, independent gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman jumped five percentage points, surpassing independent candidate Carole Strayhorn and Democrat Chris Bell. Visit Kinky...........Here

Willie Nelson Approved

The Kinky Friedman Talking Action Figure Now Available

The Norah O'Reilly Factor

This "objective" "journalist", and I use both terms with trepidation, is often anything but, her appearances as "Hardball" guest host representing a shameful romp though Republican America armed only with right-wing talking points. Somehow able to simultaneously be manifestly full of shit and an empty vessel....more
Her interview with Cindy Sheehan yesterday

White Supremacist Tactics Adopted by "Mainstream" Right

One of the favorite tactics used by [white supremacist] groups is to find the home address and telephone number of the latest enemy and then publish it on the Internet, accompanied by impassioned condemnations of that person as a Grave Enemy, a race traitor, someone who threatens all that is good in the world. A handful of the most extremist pro-life groups have used the same tactic.....more

Dear Mr President - Bush Iraq War Rap - Unreleased !

Why dreams must die if peace is to come

When it comes to the Palestinians and the Israelis, it is usually a tale of two stories. Forget whether one version is true and the other false. The important thing is that the people who hold these views believe that they are true, and their leaders make decisions based on them.....more

LIBERTARIAN PARTY: MODERATES SEIZE CONTROL, HARDCORES BOLT

The Libertarian Reform Caucus (LRC) -- an "outsider" group of pragmatic moderates within one of America's two largest third parties -- won a dramatic upset victory at this weekend's Libertarian National Convention. "Fringe politics does not work in the United States. A political party must appeal to a plurality of voters (effectively, at least 40%) in some districts in order to win elections....more

Ask a Republican
Richard Martin (R-Ohio)
I often get asked questions about Republican policy by greasy-haired liberal hippies. Watch video of me interacting with them in Los Angeles and Seattle. May God bless you and America....click here

Stop The ACLU pogrom is a resounding success
The good god-fearing Christians of the Indian River School District deserve most of the credit. They took to the task of ethnic cleansing with a vengeance , not sparing anyone discomfort.....more

Israel's Gaza Problem
Marjorie Cohn
Israel's devastating invasion of Gaza threatens to cripple the densely populated area, and may drive legions of Palestians to jihad.....more

Wanna bet that a hurricane will hit US?
Hurricane gamblers have several options for placing bets. One is how many hurricanes will hit the United States. Another is how many will hit Florida and what category they will be.....more

Sir, your urine is a fraud!
Ahmed R. Hicks of Zephyrhills is charged with fraudulent urine testing.
He ran into trouble when an observer of the test noticed the penis did not match Hicks' dark complexion.....more

Democrats fear rifts risk midterm victory

"In Washington, the fingers of blame are wagging largely at Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee.......But outside of the capital, party officials praise Dean for taking a longer view and devoting attention to Democrats everywhere, from Alaska to the Virgin Islands.....more

The United States of Total Paranoia
Jeremy Clarkson

You do not need a permit if you want — as I did — to transport a dead cow on the roof of your car through the Florida panhandle. That’s because this is banned by a state law.
Think about that. Someone has gone to all the bother and expense of drawing up a law that means that at some point lots of people were moving dead cows about on their cars. It must have been popular. Fashionable even.....more

Patriotism & The Fourth of July
Howard Zinn

Today, U.S. soldiers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan are not dying for their country, they are dying for their government. They are dying for Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld. And yes, they are dying for the greed of the oil cartels, for the expansion of the American empire, for the political ambitions of the President. They are dying to cover up the theft of the nation’s wealth to pay for the machines of death. As of July 4, 2006, more than 2,500 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq, more than 8,500 maimed or injured.....more

The State of Sunshine:
"We must hang together, for we will surely hang seperately"........B. Franklin

Jefferson's Wall of Separation Letter
I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state.....more

"It could well take decades to repair the damage this President and his cohort of right-wing ideological advisors have done to our standing in the international community"........Howard Dean, April 2003

"We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons"........Michael Moore, March 2003

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances....... Thomas Jefferson

The Jefferson Bible
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth Extracted Textually from the Gospels by Thomas Jefferson

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Bush's Assaults on Freedom

Bush assumed the war criminal's mantle when he illegally invaded Iraq under false pretenses. The US itself established the Nuremberg standard that it is a war crime to launch a war of aggression. This was the charge that the chief US prosecutor brought against German leaders at the Nuremberg trials.....more

Jefferson’s 4th of July
On this Fourth of July, we Americans would do well to embrace Jefferson's last words and the American ideals that, though battered by the current tyranny, will outlast the King George of the moment....more

New York Times Wingnut Treason Protest...pics

Looks Like More Media Guys Then Protesters

Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic

Bush told the special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that he directed Vice President Dick Cheney to personally lead an effort to counter allegations made by former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV that his administration had misrepresented intelligence information to make the case to go to war with Iraq.....more

Right-Wing Blog Asks Readers to "Hunt Down" Info About NYT Editors' Children
Note to Malkin. Note to Powerline. Note to RedState.

You're all worms. You're sick; you're disgusting; you are an affront to everything America stands for. Your stupidity makes angels cry, and your constant insistence on pushing blatantly false premises and stories taints this nation and taints the very premise of "journalism". You are shameless, cowardly, petty thugs, and you are apparently pathological liars....more

Poll: Britons tire of cruel, vulgar US

People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq' policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll.....more

GOP Faithful

"Binladenism"
Al-Qaeda, Still in Business

Almost five years after the attacks on Washington and New York, al-Qaeda not only remains in business in its traditional stronghold on the Afghan-Pakistan border, but continues to project its ideology and terrorism abroad.....more

The L Word In Connecticut

Want to see a Democratic senator squirm? Don't ask about Iraq or gasoline prices. Ask about Joe Lieberman....more

Gaza's Slide To War
Jane Kinninmont

Israel's land invasion of Gaza is a gift to hawks on both sides of the conflict, who see strategic gains to be made. Amid fears of all-out war, Jane Kinninmont traces the straining political fault-lines.....more

A Great Piece On Both Sides Of This Nonsense

Eight die in fresh Iraq bombings

Bombings in two crowded Iraqi markets have killed at least eight people and wounded dozens of others.....more

In pictures.....click here

Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say

The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court....more

Two Faces of GOP Hate
Hans Johnson

On the surface, Shawn Stuart and Ralph Reed have little in common, other than their quest for public office this year as Republicans. But, Stuart, a bona fide Nazi running for state representative in Montana, and Reed, who has repeatedly appealed to antigay and racist bias as Georgia GOP chair and hopes to become lieutenant governor, share an intimate bond. They both have bigotry at the core of their campaigns.....more

''Checks & balances' won't stop this regime — they must be driven out'

Since 9/11, the Bush regime has been shredding the rule of law that has been the governing norm in the US for the last 200 years, arrogating increasing unchecked power to the executive branch, and cementing new police state measures and the architecture of fascism into place while at the same time violating international law in its pursuit for empire around the world....more

AU Darfur mission 'to end soon
'The 7,000-strong AU force is hampered by lack of funds The African Union has insisted its peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region will end in three months' time.....more

First Annual Sudan Relief Jam
Skipper's Smokehouse
July 9th from 2:00pm - 10:00pm
$15.00 in advance/$20.00 at the door
Sudan Relief Committee

Meet: Jerry McNerney for Congress
This Guy Is Running Against "Pombo"

I may be leading Richard Pombo in the polls (46 to 42 percent, according to Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research) but I’ll need money – and lots of it – to send Pombo and his Big Oil buddies packing.

You can help me right now by contributing to my campaign to take down Pombo and take back Congress.

The US Supreme Court: law against power

On 29 June 2006, the United States Supreme Court struck a blow for the rule of law, deciding in every respect against the Bush administration.
The American judges' ruling against Bush's military-tribunal plan for Guantánamo detainees is a historic moment.....more

Supreme Court Ruling May Ripple Through Other Bush Policies

How any chance of an oil deal died
With no unified counterproposal to offer, the Florida delegation ended up able to do little to stand in the way of gulf drilling.....more

STOGIE BANISHED TO THE SIXTH LEVEL OF HELL AS A HERETIC...more

Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over?
Could it be that Internet users are getting tired of political sites in general? Maybe so. But http://moveon.org is up 13 percent in the same period....more

State Tracked Protesters in the Name of Security
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office in charge of protecting California against terrorism has tracked demonstrations staged by political and antiwar groups, a practice that senior law enforcement officials say is an abuse of civil liberties....more

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.....Mark Twain

Nixon Would Be Proud

"In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times . . . and other newspapers should be commended for serving the purpose that the Founding Fathers saw so clearly."
-- Justice Hugo Black, New York Times v United States

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Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves...Carl Sagen

"United State's Office of Censorship"
Several Fox News media figures suggested that the U.S. government should "put up the Office of Censorship" to screen news reports to determine whether they "hurt the country" or are of "news value.....more

China completes railway to Tibet

The pan-Himalayan line climbs 5,072m (16,640ft) above sea level and runs across Tibet's snow-covered plateau - dubbed the roof of the world....more