May
24
Global warming, climate change - however your political gurus “frame” it - is a global issue. Yes, it’s a moral issue. Yes, it’s a political issue. It’s also a survival issue.
Wake up.
I applaud Al Gore. Thank you for not giving up.
Go see An Inconvenient Truth.
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the [...]
May
19
Hayden’s involvement in the NSA domestic spying program does not recommend him. I find Hayden very personable, and he seems also to be a very capable man, but there are gaps in his statements - especially about the timeline of the spying program - that bother me.
I am even more troubled by what he [...]
May
18
People For the American Way believes that “a healthy democracy is an informed democracy,” so they have created WikiThePresidency.org to establish a single place for the public to both acquire and share information about Executive Branch wrongdoings.
It’s a Wiki, so anyone can edit the site, but there are rules. You must post factual claims (no [...]
May
18
A question to the so-called “religious right” who want to abolish separation of church and state altogether:
How would you feel if the religion expressed on the national stage were some equally skewed version of Islam, or Wicca, or … ( - insert your personal choice for “least appealing religious path” here - for me it’s [...]
May
16
KBR, the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton Co. was awarded a $385 million 1-year contract (with 4 1-year options) from the Department of Homeland Security to establish “temporary detention and processing capabilities to expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., [...]
May
16
Applause to West Point Graduates Against the War for honor and courage. Their stated purpose is “to help reclaim the honor of the United States Of America.”
Instilled by the Cadet Honor System with a fundamental, longstanding respect for truth, we graduates of the United States Military Academy believe that honor [...]
May
11
George Bush has overturned the United States Signals Intelligence Directive 18, which prohibits domestic spying by NSA. He has violated the federal act which created the FISA court to oversee covert domestic investigations. He has disregarded the Fourth Amendment guarantee against warrantless searches.
Now, the story continues… Just yesterday, in a galaxy right here, it [...]
