Flag desecration foes at it again
The Washington Post reports that GOP leaders plan to force Daschle, Kerry and Edwards to vote on flag desecration legislation. Just in time for the election, of course.Some Republicans believe the...
View ArticleContribute to the GOP or else!
Republicans try the shakedown in PA:Employees of the Republican-controlled Philadelphia Parking Authority said they were told by their superiors to contribute to the GOP, or risk losing their jobs, a...
View ArticleJudge orders release of Iraqi prisoner records
The judge hearing the FOIA suit brought by, among others, the ACLU, isn't too happy about the government's lack of responsiveness:"If the documents are more of an embarrassment than a secret, the...
View ArticleKerry must find his voice
Philip James, writing for the UK Guardian, makes some interesting points regarding Kerry's speaking style and why he feels it's hurting him:Of all the horrors that George Bush has committed over the...
View ArticleBush agrees to "town hall" stlye debate
Bush and Kerry have agreed on a series of debates, and one of them will be in a "town hall" format. The exact details are to be determined. I thought Bush would do everything he could to stay away...
View ArticleZogby : electoral tie possible.
Interesting results over on Zogby:Using the current Zogby Interactive poll data, it is now easy to construct a plausible scenario in which this very thing could happen. In this newest series of polls,...
View ArticleFelon disenfranchisement laws hurt blacks
Today's online NYT reports on a couple of studies indicating that disenfranchisement of felons is supressing African-American voter registration:The studies, the first to look at felon...
View ArticleBush dredges up some Democrats
The Bush campaign website is touting one Brian Golden, a Massachusetts State Representative, who has come out as a Bush supporter:"America needs a president who cares more about doing what is right...
View ArticleRumsefeld's contempt for democracy
A glimpse into the true feelings of the Bush cabal. Rummy doesn't mind if some Iraqis don't get to vote in the upcoming election. I found this quote particularly interesting:"Well, so be it. Nothing's...
View ArticleMedia bias reflects the bias of its bosses
Sumner Redstone, CEO of Viacom (the parent company of CBS just came out for Bush. Of course, it's no big shock that a big time CEO is voting Republican (in fact I'd be a quite surprised to hear that he...
View ArticleBush ain't no cowboy, pardner.
The Village Voice tells us something we already know: Bush is no cowboy. In fact, he's the antithesis of the cowboy ethic:George W. Bush is a fake cowboy. From media accounts, you'd reckon that the...
View ArticleVery sad story
One of many, I'm afraid. With more to come. A young man, who had already served one tour in Iraq took his own life, rather than go back. Meanwhile, Bush insists that we "stay the course." It's...
View ArticleHow can this be? Troops 4-1 for Bush
Yahoo news reports that according to a (non-scientific) survey conducted by The Army Times, troops prefer Bush over Kerry by about 4-1.73% said they would vote for Bush if the election were held today;...
View ArticleLA gay marriage amendment struck down
Looks like the theocrats lose this skirmish. They don't intend to lose the war, though. And not every judge sees things the way this one did. Some of them would be only too happy to oblige the...
View ArticleWhy people insist on supporting Bush
It's no secret that people in other countries can't understand why anyone in the U.S. would support as blatant a failure as George W. Bush. In today's Guardian, Jonathan Rabin observes that we...
View ArticleKerry leads in newspaper endorsments
Looks like Kerry is taking the lead in more ways than one. I don't know how much this means anymore, since most people get their news from television, and I've never met anyone who waited to fine out...
View ArticleWhat's wrong with Bush?
Let me preface this by saying that I'm no physician, but Istrongly suspect that there is something seriously wrong with Bush. First, that bulge beneath his suit is a back brace. Salon posted a photo...
View ArticleWhat happens if Bush refuses to go?
One of this administration's fellow travelers, Antonin Scalia, has written that democracy is occasionally less than desirable because it has a tendency to obscure the will of God. He's certainly not...
View ArticleNeed more canon-fodder? Let women fight!
Everyone here knows that the Army is stretched past its breaking point thanks the W's Grand Adventure. It's a very serious problem, and if he somehow gets (I hesitate to say "wins") a second term, he...
View ArticleWho Will the Republicans Demonize Next?
We all know that cultural issues are the main vote getter for the Right. Large numbers of people whose lives have been disrupted by Republican policies nevertheless vote for Republicans because they...
View ArticleSurpise, surpise. Falluja invasion is a bust.
By golly, looks like the Falluja invasion is a bust. It's already been called a disaster. No surprise there. Samuel Morse couldn't have telegraphed our intentions in Falluja better than Rummy and his...
View ArticleWe hate election fraud...in other countries
Only we (and a select few allies) are responsible enough to maintain stockpiles of weapons of mass destuction. Apparently, only we are allowed to have fraudulent elections. You gotta love the way we...
View ArticleThinking the unthinkable
Talk of yet another threatening terrorist tape has got me to thinking. What really would happen if the worst case scenario came to pass? What if a terrorist actually nuked a major American city?
View ArticleDown in Dixie - A proposal to ban books with gay characters.
IT's bad enough that they want to tell gays who they can marry. Now they want gays banned from literature.
View ArticleNE: Osborne won't seek Senate
What is it with well-known Republicans these days? First, the (not unexpected) news that Colin Powell won't run for Hilary Clinton's Senate seat. Now comes word that universally popular former...
View ArticleArnold wants the GOP to lean left
Arnold Schwartzenneger thinks the GOP leans too far to the right and that it might not be such a bad idea for the party to tilt a little (just a little) to the left, thereby picking up "5% more votes...
View ArticleUSA Today founder: I'd avoid serving in Iraq
Al Neuarth, the founder of everyone's favorite McPaper, USA Today says in an editorial today that not only is the war in Iraq immoral, but that he would do everything he could to avoid serving in Iraq...
View ArticleHoly #%#$% - Bush to renominate judges
Big news here folks. Bush wants to renominate all the federal judges that couldn't get past the Senate. Given the Administration's very public desire to roll over Senate Democrats by doing away with...
View ArticleBob Herbert: Bush "perversely out of touch"
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert sums things up quite nicely:The president seems almost perversely out of touch. "The idea of democracy taking hold in what was a place of tyranny and hatred and...
View ArticlePangloss Brooks
As we all know, things have pretty much gone straight to hell in Iraq. The country's in total chaos. Elections may be held in a couple of weeks, but it's not going to be pretty. For the true...
View ArticleIraq elections don't matter after all
Continuing their trend of backtracking and covering their asses, the administration is now saying that the upcoming Iraqi elections aren't really that big of a deal, anyway.
View ArticleWe Can't Let Them Get Away With It
Over and over again, the Bush administration lies through its teeth, on tax cuts (are they meant to cool the economy down, or perk it up?), jobs (remember 300,000 new jobs a month?), on the...
View ArticleOrange Alert, Schmorange Alert
Remember all those terror alerts that had Americans rushing to Home Depot to buy enought duct tape to seal their houses? Remember how Tom Ridge would get on tv and solemnly inform a nervous public...
View ArticleProgressives and public education
This may seem a bit parochial, but I do have a broader point. I was browsing through the online edition of my local paper and came across an astonishing fact: the majority of public school students are...
View ArticleWither the Enlightenment?
There was a time when scientific progress was taken for granted in this country. Indeed, we prided ourselves on being at the forefront of scientific knowledge and achievement. No longer, though. I...
View ArticleYet more proof that Bush is full of it.
In today's Newspaper of Record (online edition):President Bush's budget for 2006 cuts spending for a wide range of public health programs, including several to protect the nation against bioterrorist...
View Article"Deep Throat" - we may know soon
Over the years, we've heard a lot of theories as to who Watergate's famed snitch "Deep Throat" really was. Along comes this little gem in John Dean's column in today's Los Angeles Times:I have little...
View ArticleFreepers go after Hannity
Looks like our friends over at Free Republic no longer feel the love for Sean Hannity. Apparently, Hannity said something on his radio show to the effect that the Freepers have been taken over by a...
View ArticleGet paid to help Bush destroy Social Security
Saw this on Josh Marshall:The Social Security Administration Communications Division is organizing a series of focus groups to solicit feedback from the public on preliminary marketing/communications...
View ArticleWhy doesn't the president address this?
A researcher at the University of Illionis- Chicago thinks that American life expectency will shrink over the next few years due to increasing rates of obesity. In his last State of the Union Address,...
View ArticleDown the Slippery Slope?
Saw this on John Conyers' website this evening, and on first blush, a lot of folks would think that requiring ID from voters would be perfectly understandable practice. But if you think having voters...
View ArticleWhat if Bush grew a pair?
In the movie "Heaven Can Wait" Warren Beatty plays a dead football quarterback who, thanks to a Heavenly mixup,ends up inhabiting the body of wealthy industrialist Leo Farnsworth. Beatty's character...
View ArticleNebraska Gay Marriage Ban: Unconstitutional
Nebraska passed one of those loopy "Defense of Marriage" acts a few years ago. As you know, defenders of "traditional marriage" felt that gay marriage somehow threatened to destroy one of the pillars...
View ArticleJane Fonda impressed by Bush
What's going on with the Artist Formerly Known as Hanoi Jane? It's no secret that the wingnuts just plain hate Jane Fonda. It wasn't that long ago that the Freepers were ready to canonize the guy who...
View ArticleCheney in 2008?
Bob Woodward raised the disturbing possibility of Dick Cheney running for president in 2008:Appearing on Chris Matthews' NBC talk show on Sunday, Woodward labeled Vice President Cheney "a serious dark...
View ArticleKeep winning those hearts and minds
Remember Fallujah? We pretty much destroyed that city. And now, the residents of said city are mighty pissed that no one is doing a damn thing to rebuild it:Promises made prior to the siege by the...
View ArticleTurning the corner
Five Marines killed by roadside bomb. News like this, coupled with the recent recruiting shortfalls and rising casualty rate in Iraq seems to be curbing the enthusiasm of the formerly gung-ho...
View ArticleGuess what? They lied.
Congress told them not to do it. They said they wouldn't. Guess what? They did it anyway.
View ArticleA Freeper Feels the Urge
There's been a lot of talk around here about rightwing war supporters and their unwillingness to put their asses on the line to back up their tough talk. Now, while looking through Free Republic this...
View ArticleUnder Bush, The Number of Rich People Who Pay No Taxes is Growing
I know that Republicans think that the rich should pay less taxes than the rest of us (ostensibly because they incur so much risk starting the businesses that create jobs), but a story in todays New...
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