How Democrats Might Blow It

As Democrats go through their biennial rite of premature victory celebrations, they are inviting defeat again by obsessing on polls about how many congressional seats are “in play” rather than on explaining to the American people what a Republican victory on Nov. 7 would mean to the nation......more

Mr. Ann Coulter

Who's airing an enemy propaganda film — CNN or the RNC?
CNN aired a video showing part of a sniper attack, but intentionally didn't show anything graphic or violent. The Republican National Committee, meanwhile, paid considerably to broadcast, on national television, video highlighting terrorists' rhetoric and training footage.......more

Meet: Yamel Christina Arronte
Alternative To Norman And Redner In District #5

* LOCAL LADY FOR LOCAL GOV.
* RAISED IN TAMPA
* WIFE AND MOTHER OF TWO
* VETERAN
* PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATOR WITH MASTER'S DEGREE
* LATIN FIESTA PRINCESS

Check her out.....here

Desperate GOP Stoops to Lowest Fear Politics Imaginable

The Republican National Committee has released a new campaign ad to rally the GOP base and other voters by showing threatening quotes from al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden followed by the pitch: "These are the stakes. Vote Nov. 7." (Watch the ad here).........more from AlterNet.....here

American Democracy Threatened By Electronic Voting Machines

DAYTONA BEACH PAPER ENDORSES VOTE-RIGGING WHISTLEBLOWER CLINT CURTIS OVER CONGRESSMAN TOM FEENEY!

Clint Curtis, a former Republican who switched parties to challenge U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Oviedo, offers voters in the 24th congressional district a real — and better — choice.…Feeney is not really talking issues in this campaign, though, choosing to focus largely on denigrating his opponent. It would appear that Feeney assumes that being Republican is enough.…..more

Stay The Course George

More than half-billion dollars in Iraq aid stolen: report

More than half a billion dollars earmarked to fight the insurgency in Iraq has been stolen by people running the country’s Ministry of Defence before the 2005 elections, CBS News reported. Citing Iraqi investigators, the television network said Sunday the United States and Britain are doing little to help recover the money or catch suspects, most of whom have fled the country......more

Samm Simpson
Speak's Out
Watch Video......Here

Fortress America Arrives in Berlin

One thing was clear at the topping out ceremony for the new United States Embassy in Berlin. The new building is a modern-day fortress........more

The Journalist and the Murderers

Anna Politovskaya was not content to report on her government's abuses -- she tried to stop them, and for that she was killed.In the days following the brutal and senseless assassination of Anna Politkovskaya last Saturday, my phone and email were abuzz with the shock and outrage of my former colleagues in the Moscow foreign press corps. Many of them were already busily typing away, collecting theories and interviewing one another about our recollections of the iron lady of Russian journalism. "It could have been any one of us," we told one another......more

United States numb to Iraq troop deaths

With the U.S. military death toll hitting 2,787 on Friday, and with 73 deaths so far in October, it is shaping up to be the deadliest month for U.S. forces since the Falluja offensive two years ago.
Analysts said even local media coverage struggles to overcome the numbing affect of the steady flow of deaths.........more

Could an 'October surprise' shape U.S. election?

A last-minute "October surprise" -- a dramatic news event that shakes up the U.S. election -- could be a wild card in the final three weeks of the fight for control of Congress. With Democrats threatening to sweep Republicans out of power in Congress in the Nov. 7 elections, a late-breaking foreign crisis, terrorist attack or another Washington scandal could change the debate and shape the ultimate outcome......more

The Top 10 Conservative Idiots, No. 264.....here

Olbermann: The Day Habeas Corpus Died

Today, 135 years to the day after the last American President (Ulysses S. Grant) suspended habeas corpus, President Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. At its worst, the legislation allows President Bush or Donald Rumsfeld to declare anyone — US citizen or not — an enemy combatant, lock them up and throw away the key without a chance to prove their innocence in a court of law. In other words, every thing the Founding Fathers fought the British empire to free themselves of was reversed and nullified with the stroke of a pen, all under the guise of the War on Terror.......more

Unembedded

An unflinching look at the human faces of war-ravaged Iraq......click here

A Little Conserva-tive

This essay first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in October 1936.......click here

Sowing the Seeds of Fascism in America

Author Stan Goff, a retired 26-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces, sounds a warning call that many of the historical precursors of fascism—white supremacy, militarization of culture, vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia and economic destabilization—are ascendant in America today......more

Willie Nelson: Vote the Bastards Out!

When I wrote the song "Whatever Happened to Peace on Earth" (LYRICS) at Christmastime in 2003, a lot of people were for the war, a lot of people didn't know the facts or the truth. But people are waking up now. They're learning that they were lied to about the war......more

Iraq: The Reality

The overthrow of Saddam Hussein was supposed to bring them freedom democracy and peace. But murder, kidnap and lawlessness have become the facts of life for the people of Iraq. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Patrick Cockburn describes the terrifying disintegration of a nation.....more

Open Season on Gays in Washington

The scandal surrounding US Congressman Mark Foley's inappropriate messages to a teenage boy threaten to damage Republican chances in a tight midterm election next month. Faced with a disaster at the polls, the GOP has begun fighting back with mounting ferocity -- including a witch hunt against gays.......more

War Crimes Report Shows US Violations of International Law and Demands Prosecution of US Military and Civilian Leaders

The violence of the Iraq War, the chaos that has come to Iraq, can be traced directly to the illegality of the invasion and occupation of that country and the illegality of the tactics and weapons being used to maintain the occupation. "U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability" documents these violations and calls on us all to demand investigation and prosecution of violations of international law by military and civilian leaders......more

Neocons Call for Action Against N. Korea

Encouraging Japan to build nuclear weapons, shipping food aid via submarines, and running secret sabotage operations inside North Korea's borders are among a raft of policy prescriptions pushed by prominent U.S. neoconservatives in the wake of Pyongyang's nuclear test.......more