Van Taylor, War Candidate
In many campaigns across this country this year, you hear of candidates running as fast as they can from the disaster in Iraq and the president who got us into …
Texans need for speed
Texas is raising the speed limit to 80 mph on some roads because that’s what 85% of drivers are going anyway. Many Texans are all over this immigration debate, outraged …
Our Intelligence Community: massive data, mass confusion
TomDispatch presents a fascinating, troubling and infuriating overview of the Intelligence Community (IC) in the US. [… T]he real story of American intelligence is simply growth and bureaucratic infighting. The …
More on the “War on Terror” lie
An update from Firedoglake, fast becoming my favorite blog. Ever since Pach launched his broadside against the War on Terror and the cover it has provided for a whole host …
Media bias against progressives
Not a new premise, but Jamison Foser calls bullshit on the media, in the wake of the tabloid-style expose this week in the NYT (which led me to unsubscribe to …
Clerk for judge
The Senate is, as I write this, voting, and likely will confirm, the appointment of a law clerk to the second highest court in the land. Brent Kavanaugh is a …
Bushco’s Pravda press
Glenn Greenwald on the latest effort to dismantle our democracy, the threat — stated by AG Gonzalex this weekend — of Imprisoning journalists for doing their job. Things just got …
The Blog | Jean Rohe: Why I Spoke Up | The Huffington Post
Jean Rohe, the student who took down McCain at the New School graduation, tells why she did it. … Senator Mc Cain will tell us that we, those of us …
Off the rack
The unveiling of President Clinton’s official portrait provoked a real intellectual discussion on Scarborough Country the other night, between Joe, so-called Mr. Average, and Anna Marie Cox, who will forever …