“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official.” — President Theodore Roosevelt In the one case the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism; in the other, neither the government nor the entire nation is privileged to dictate to any individual what the form of his patriotism shall be. The gospel of the monarchical patriotism is: “The King can do no wrong.”…
Winner of the MoveOn.org “Stand Up and Fight” Award Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) found a clever way to highlight problems in the Republicans’ budget: he filed an amendment to change the official name of the bill to the “Moral Disaster of Monumental Proportion Reconciliation Act.” Tell him thanks. I did. Thank you for your brilliant response to the Reverse Robin Hood Republican Budget Bill! Your filing of an amendment to change the official name of the bill to the “Moral…
How do you Disappear a Middle Class? By disappearing their homes. A Special Guest Post from Laura Ellis Report from Dekalb County, Georgia If you have motored around Dekalb County (Atlanta, Georgia) lately, you’ll notice something different. That something is the towering “McMansion” that threatens to replace all the existing homes in ITP (Inside the Perimeter) Atlanta, as well as those in suburbs nationwide (as reported on repeated Primetime, 20/20 like magazine news shows in recent months). This massive-scale development…
Public comments are now being accepted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on its newly proposed federal regulation regarding the testing of chemicals and pesticides on human subjects. Earlier this year, Congress had mandated the EPA create a rule that permanently bans chemical testing on pregnant women and children, but the EPA’s newly proposed rule puts industry profits ahead of children’s welfare. The rule allows for government and industry scientists to treat children as human guinea pigs in chemical experiments…
Take Action President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court has compiled an extensive, right-wing judicial record on numerous matters of importance to the protection of the rights and interests of ordinary Americans. Alito’s judicial opinions demonstrate that he is an out of the mainstream opponent of fundamental legal rights and protections for all Americans and must not be confirmed to the Supreme Court. President Bush wasn’t willing to stand up to the far right — now it is up to…
Standard reversal: Who’s Rewriting History Here? True Majority has put together a little film that shows who’s “rewriting the history†of the Iraq War. It’s the same speech, but now with a running bar of corrections across the bottom.. http://www.truemajority.org/bushspeech.asx The latest Progress Report (get on their update list) addresses the three basic … um, historical revisions: 1) Claim: Congress had access to the same intelligence as the White House prior to the war. Congress did not have access to…