Top 10 Signs of the Impending U.S. Police State
By Allan Uthman May 29, 2006
Is the U.S. becoming a police state? Here are the top 10 signs that it may well be the case.

1. The Internet Clampdown

One saving grace of alternative media in this age of unfettered corporate conglomeration has been the internet. While the masses are spoon-fed predigested news on TV and in mainstream print publications, the truth-seeking individual still has access to a broad array of investigative reporting and political opinion via the world-wide web. Of course, it was only a matter of time before the government moved to patch up this crack in the sky.....more

Neocons, Democratic Party?
Democratic neocons want to beef up the military and won't run from a fight.

These Democrats want to be seen as anything but the squishes who have led the party to defeat in the past. Interestingly, that's how the early neocons saw themselves too: as liberals fighting to reclaim their party's true heritage — before they decamped to the GOP in the 1980s. Their political champions include Connecticut Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman and such likely presidential candidates as former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner and Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who is chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. ....more

A New Open-Source Politics

Will 2008 bring the first Internet president? The Internet lets candidates who catch fire raise millions in small donations practically overnight. That's why all the talk of Hillary Clinton's "war chest" making her the front runner for 2008 is the most hackneyed punditry around.....more

Hayden Hijinks

Unfortunately, there is no opposition party in Washington.
There is, instead, a Democratic Party that, when push comes to shove regularly allows itself to be shoved.
So it come as little surprise that Hayden's nomination has sailed through the Senate, winning approval Friday by a 78-15 vote. Most Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, joined the vast majority of Republicans in rubberstamping George W. Bush's poke-in-the-eye pick to head the CIA......more

Meteorologist Compares Al Gore to Adolf Hitler

In this weekend’s Washington Post magazine, meteorologist Bill Gray – one of the most prominent climate skeptics – directly compared Al Gore to Adolf Hitler:Gore believed in global warming almost as much as Hitler believed there was something wrong with the Jews.It’s telling that so many of the attacks on Al Gore and his movie are ad hominem, not substantive. There really is no credible scientific rebuttal to An Inconvenient Truth, so people are forced to attack the messenger.....more

About the Republican Accusation that Liberals Hate America

"Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy”. – Ann Coulter

It infuriates me to hear hypocritical Republicans spout off about how “liberals hate America”. In the first place, it’s a meaningless and stupid thing to say, because the phrase “hate America” (or “love America”) can mean so many different things. But saying that “liberals hate America” makes a damn good sound bite, and there are many voters who are swayed by that phrase, under the principle that if you hear something said enough times it must be true. And anyhow, what else do Republicans have to talk about?.....more

Strong Signs of Rift Among Democrats

"This is a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party," said Marshall Wittmann, a senior fellow at the centrist Democratic Leadership Council. "It will have repercussions for the 2008 presidential campaign and whether centrists will feel comfortable within the Democratic Party." ......more

The Law of Competitive Balance, Howard Dean, and the Democratic Party's Washington Establishment

Dean is the first Democrat to think "globally" by acting "locally." The key to power and a better nation is by strengthening state parties and taking the country back one precinct at a time. It's basic blocking and tackling in the ground game that has eluded the Democrats for a generation, as the establishment prefers to mobilize the same special interests coalition and rally behind the politics of expediency......more

Bush Can't Satisfy Howard Dean on Immigration Reform

The president "has stood on the sidelines while allowing extremists in his party to hijack the debate" over immigration reform, according to Dean......more

The Jimmy Carter attacks continue

I highlighted MAF's idiotic ad campaign to censure Jimmy Carter the other day. We have big problems in this country and Melanie Morgan handles it by going after Carter. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., who is the founder of American Spectator magazine, just wrote a piece called Jimmy Carter pens the worst book of 2005. It seems that there is a concerted effort to attack him. I guess we can call them the "Blame Carter Coalition."......http://www.crooksandliars.com/

Kenny Boy

From comfy corner offices, they engaged in chicanery that fleeced shareholders and pensioners....more

The Revolution Will Be Blogged

It’s one big progressive soapbox out there on the Internet.
This story, for example, is about how the progressive cause is advancing thanks to BLOGS....more

WMNF Heatwave Pics.....here

E-Mail From One Of Stogie's Conservative Friend's

Hey Stogie,

Thanks for the great picture of our fearless, gun-toten number 2 guy. I
need
you to step away from the mushroom tea and get real!!!!

I had a good laugh, but I'd like to see you socialists/communists help
the
nation get a fair tax installed so we rich, money making Republicans
can pay
the same tax as you rich, money making (ie Howard Dean) leftist do and
then
neither side can complain about "tax breaks". Check it out, dude....

Is it Football season yet?

KT sr

First: The Stogie is getting old. the only tea Stogie drink's now is Green Tea.

Second: What would give KT the idea The Stogie is a socialist or a communist? I think The Stogie makes it very clear where he is coming from.....is this just a typical right wing response?....The GOP, and everyone else is a communist?......In case KT forgot, there use to be a strong second party in this country. and by the looks of things they might be on their way back.

Third: Tax Cuts? Who are you fooling? You guys have been putting it to the rest of us since 2000. The latest here ......The last 6 years here. Thanks for looting the treasury and putting our children's future in debt.

Fourth: The Stogie has been to many DFA meeting's, and he doesn't remember many rich folk's there.

As for http://www.fairtax.org/

Stogie is still researching

luv ya, The Stogie

Dean on the Senate's Immigration Legislation

"We congratulate Senate Democrats for their continued leadership, led by Leader Harry Reid, on the important issue of comprehensive immigration reform. Democrats have consistently fought for immigration reform that strengthens our borders, protects U.S. workers and their wages, reunites families and allows hard-working immigrants who pay taxes and obey the law the opportunity to earn the right to apply for the responsibilities of citizenship......more

MARY CHENEY: BLISSFULLY WELL-ADJUSTED SECOND DAUGHTER

Mary Cheney:What the fuck are you talking about? In "Now I'm Turned On", I say how–
Mary Matalin:"Now It's My Turn."
Mary Cheney:No, it's my turn to talk, bitch!
Mary Matalin:No, that's the title of the book I, ur, you wrote. "Now It's My Turn." ....more

UK Police Target Anti-War Protester

"It was shocking. I would not have believed they could stoop so low. I thought they going to do it decently, to do it through the courts, when they came like thugs in the night. They have completely destroyed all the expressions of people who opposed the war in Iraq," he said."It seems I am going to die in this place now because I'm going to be fasting and praying. What else can I do as a Christian?......more

Journalist on Trial for Calling Putin “Russia’s Phallic Symbol”

The Prosecutor’s Office has launched criminal proceedings against the editor-in-chief of a Russian Internet newapaper for calling President Putin “Russia’s phallic symbol”.....more

Dean: Dem's Legal Woes Don't Compare to GOP Corruption
Randy HallStaff Writer/Editor(CNSNews.com) -

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Wednesday that there is no comparison between the ethical problems faced by U.S. Rep. William Jefferson (D- La.) and what he termed the Republican "culture of corruption" in the nation's capital. A GOP spokesman dismissed Dean's criticism as "trying to sell a fundamentally flawed campaign slogan.""There's a difference between the involvement of Congressman Jefferson in activities for which there's been no indictment and the culture of corruption that extends throughout the White House, the vice president's office and both houses of Congress," Dean said during a press conference at the DNC headquarters in Washington, D.C......more