The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is sponsoring this petition calling on George Bush “to engage in real, meaningful consultation with the Senate and the American people and to give us a nominee committed to protecting the rights and freedoms of every American.” http://action.dscc.org/campaign/20050705_supreme_court/
Explaining the problem to old King George: To be read aloud (emphasis added) IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent…
Not hearing “Independence Day” much this year, so let me say it loud: HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!! It’s about a revolution against the tyrannies of old King George. How could so much of our hard-won independence for our freedom and democracy been so senselessly squandered? How could Independence Day be represented the way I’m seeing it this year? I want to see more patriots and less nationalists! Give me liberty or give me death – it’s on the license plates still…
One of my relatives sent me one of those email thingies intended to sway you into some sort of feeling or other. It was about the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and what happened to them. “Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.” (See the Snopes breakdown on the facts) It ends with the idea that we shouldn’t take our liberties for granted. I certainly…
Time to put the pressure on! Now that we’ve lost an important moderate swing vote in Sandra Day O’Connor, we have to make sure that a right-wing ideologue doesn’t take her place. A meaningful candidate, qualified for the job and acceptable to both sides of the aisle would go a long way toward protecting our liberty, rights, environment, choices, and all the rest while protecting us against the ongoing dismantlement of our representative democracy. Surely we deserve someone who will…
Dennis Rahkonen (‘The Republican Wile E. Coyote‘, 6-27-05) thinks that Durbin’s apology was unwise. In his view, we should perhaps be making more actual historical comparisions between this administration and that of Hitler’s Germany. Here are some starter questions for eager researchers… Did German motorists have “Support Our Troops” ribbons on their Volkswagens in 1943? Did conservatives loyal to Hitler pooh-pooh reports of Jews being abused in concentration camps in the same way neocon Bush backers blithely dismiss documentation by…