The American people, as well as World leaders and the citizens of the Planet, do not trust you. We cannot trust you. None of us can afford to trust you. We all value life too much. You went AWOL when Kristina hit New Orleans; you have yet to satisfactorily deal with its aftermath. It caught you off guard when the story surfaced that you had ordered secret intrusions upon Americans’ telephone and Internet communications. Your response was a tap dance…
What shall we choose: democracy or theocracy? The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party – a public information project from TheocracyWatch.org.
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 vast majority of the world’s scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our…
The House will vote once again this week to hand the Arctic Refuge over to Big Oil. Tell your Representative to vote NO! (League of Conservation Voters) Say NO to Drilling in the Arctic Refuge Before It’s Too Late – The House Votes Tomorrow (Save Our Environment.org) Block Bush’s Radical-Right Judges (Act for Change) Act now to stop phone companies from abusing your privacy. Join in the nationwide demand that the FCC and state utility commissions investigate reports of unlawful…
I’ve been waiting a bit to comment on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. There are a lot of opinions out there, and I’m happy most of all that people are talking and writing and thinking about issues, humor and satire vs. criticism and insult, comedy as news, the role of a court jester, and so on. Steve Bridges did a great imitation of Bush, and was obviously Bush’s own choice (for his own roast, he gets to choose?). I’ve heard…
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 represents in the context of the continuing militarization of our government and the erosion of our system of checks and balances. It’s odd, but I…