Wednesday, October 4, 2006

Criticizing Cheney to His Face Is Assault?

I got about two feet away, and I said in a very calm tone of voice, ‘Your policies in Iraq are reprehensible.’ And then I walked away.” But the Secret Service did not take kindly to his comment.“About ten minutes later, I came back through the mall with my eight-year-old son in tow,” Howards recalls, “and this Secret Service man came out of the shadows, and his exact words were, ‘Did you assault the Vice President?’........more

AWAITING THE NEXT CONGRESS
Big Money vs. Grassroots: The Fight For the Heart of the Democratic Party


"Democrats' Stock Is Rising on K Street" blared a recent Washington Post story detailing moves by former Democratic lawmakers and staff to cash in as corporate lobbyists. "Corporate Contributions Shift to the Left," read an earlier Wall Street Journal story about how "big companies are boosting their share of campaign contributions to Democrats.".......more

Marriage Misery Driving Women to Despair
Often with no one to turn to, battered wives see suicide as the only way to end their agony

Driven to despair by her husband’s constant beatings, Pakhshan Muhamad, 36, decided seven months ago that she could take no more. She tried to commit suicide, pouring kerosene on her body and setting herself alight. Somehow she survived - but the scars are still visible on her face despite several plastic surgery operations......more

Tuesday, October 3, 2006


Woodward's 60 Minutes Bloodbath

This is the real "State of Denial"; the belief that it's okay to slaughter people and destroy their civilization to enhance the wealth and power of a handful of western elites. It's a crime for which Woodward is just as guilty as Bush.....more
OUR RIGGED ELECTIONS

So slight is Bush's popularity that his own party's candidates for Congress are afraid to speak his name or to be seen with him (although their numbers, in the aggregate, are even lower than his). It seems the only citizens who still have any faith in him are those who think God wants us to burn witches and drive SUVs. For all their zeal, such theocratic types are not in the majority, not even close, and thus there's no chance that the GOP can get the necessary votes......more

Monday, October 2, 2006

New Republican Logo
Drudge to Mark Foley's defense

He uses that age old "attack the messenger" conservative technique-only in a creepier way. He says the congressional pages are just as responsible because of Youtube and pop culture and how dare they egg him on like that. They are just 16 and 17 year old beasts after all and not innocent little babies who are engaged in a conspiracy against poor, old Foley. What kind of beast does that make the 52 year old Foley?.......Hear It here


How will the Clintons harness the political force of the blog?

While blogging has caught oneverywhere, presidential front-runner
Hillary Clinton' still does not blog - or at least not much. But her husband's lunch with leftbloggers such as Atrios, MyDD's Matt Stoller, Daily Kos' McJoan and Americablog's John (according to TalkLeft.com) might signal an innovative commitment to blogging for the office of commander in chief.....more.....more




The Rich Get Richer

Growing income disparity doesn’t presage a new labor movement at home — but it may signal more terrorism for us abroad.....more


Venezuela's oil wealth funds gusher of anti-poverty projects

Hugo Chavez's revolution came to the hillside slum of San Juan one recent night in the glare of a solitary lightbulb and with puddles from a recent thunderstorm still underfoot......more

Saturday, September 30, 2006


And The Rocket’s Red Glare

The news that Judge Anna Diggs Taylor (re ACLU v. NSA ) who had recently ruled that the President's warrantless eavesdropping violated both criminal law and the U.S. Constitution, refused the administration's request for a stay and instead gave them only seven days to comply with her Order......more
Bush says Iraq War critics embrace enemy's propaganda

President Bush said Friday critics who claim the Iraq War has made America less safe embrace "the enemy's propaganda.".......more

Friday, September 29, 2006


Brian Moore:

An Alternative to Bill Nelson and Katherine Harris

Severely criticized U.S. Senator Bill Nelson of Florida for his "vote for torture" today, for seriously limiting the rights of war prisoners and for protecting the Bush Administration and CIA operatives "from being held accountable for their abuse and torturing of prisoners" not to speak of the war itself...Read More


Florida's Shame: Bill Nelson
US Senate passes Bush's controversial detainee bill

Twelve Democrats voted in favor:
Carper (Del.), Johnson (S.D.), Landrieu (La.), Lautenberg (N.J.), Lieberman (Conn.), Menendez (N.J), Nelson (Fla.), Nelson (Neb.), Pryor (Ark.), Rockefeller (W. Va.), Salazar (Co.), Stabenow (Mich.).
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Informed Dissent
Pacifica's National Election Special

Pacifica Radio's new program hosted by Mitch Jeserich, that looks at the issues effecting this year's mid-term elections and beyond......here
The Broadways

For James Broadway making antiwar signs is an art. A few pieces of colored poster board, permanent markers, a handful of nails, wooden stakes and some curt phrases are all the Kyle resident needs to fashion his signs. They bear phrases like “Will Work 4 Peace” in chunky lettering......more

Thursday, September 28, 2006

UNH Students Petition to Have 9/11 Conspiracist Removed

A small group of students has started a petition to remove a University of New Hampshire professor who believes that Bush administration officials planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks or knew about them and allowed them to happen.......more
Democrats Backing Bush on Terror Bill

Robert Andrews, John Barrow, Melissa Bean, Sanford Bishop, Dan Boren, Leonard Boswell, Allen Boyd, Sherrod Brown, Ben Chandler, Bud Cramer, Henry Cuellar, Lincoln Davis, Artur Davis, Chet Edwards, Bob Etheridge, Harold Ford, Bart Gordon, Stephanie Herseth, Brian Higgins, Tim Holden, Jim Marshall, Jim Matheson, Mike McIntyre, Charles Melancon, Michael Michaud, Dennis Moore, Collin Peterson, Earl Pomeroy, Mike Ross, John Salazar, David Scott, John Spratt, John Tanner, Gene Taylor.......here