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Some people want to argue with me about the effects of this administration on this country. I say words are cheap, propaganda is more effective than it should be, and I judge by actions and evidence. What we are seeing is not a Republican agenda, but a wholesale reorganization of what America is all about. A must-read is Howard Zinn’s article in the Guardian, “It is not only Iraq that is occupied. America is too.” I wake up thinking: the…
“Not that I have anything against lawyers. Looking around the room, I’d guess that a year ago, about half of you were down in Florida.†Dick Cheney, Nov 2001, to The Federalist Society “You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” George W. Bush, speech at a Washington dinner, 3/2001 “I am the federal government. I am not a federal employee. I am a constitutional officer. My job…
In commemoration of the 400,000 people who have died so far in the genocide in Darfur, Africa Action launched a petition drive to raise 400,000 voices of conscience across the country demanding that the U.S. government do everything necessary through the United Nations (UN) to ensure an urgent multinational intervention to protect civilians in Darfur. Sign petition demanding U.S. action to stop genocide in Darfur. U.S. Government officials who remained silent during the Rwandan genocide in 1994 regularly claim that…
Intolerant? Yup – of intolerance…. I’m with Mark Morford in this refreshing rant: You, hate-mailers from the sanctimonious Right and even some of you morally paralyzed middle-grounders from the Left, are correct. I am, in fact, deeply intolerant. It is true. I can hide my deep biases and predispositions no longer. I cannot, for example, tolerate the dark and violent road down which this nation seems intent on careening like an Escalade on meth. I cannot tolerate brutal never-ending unnecessary…
No matter what is on the agenda, no matter what crisis is imminent, Bush gets his vacation time. That’s why the Democrats in Congress should propose “the George W. Bush Paid Vacation Act”. This piece of legislation will guarantee every American with a full time job to five weeks of paid vacation… no questions asked. In the name of our President, the average American citizen will join the league of other civilized vacationing peoples like the Australians, the Germans and…