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

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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

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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