All that's left are the pardons
[Updates below.] I’m oddly compelled to stare at the countdown clock that currently sits in the left sidebar of this site. In less than 24 hours now, we will be …
Keith Olbermann: Bush's 8 disasterous years in 8 minutes
Finally, it is about over. Just two days, and we can watch watch his chickenhawk ass get out of our White House and our Capital City. Bush and his accomplices …
Shoe chuck at Bush prompts shoe drive for needy
One of the better things I did this year was join the National Lawyers Guild. Here is a good indication of what they are about. Where other groups are organizing …
Progressive, activist voices on Obama victory and going forward in a new America
The consensus bottom line: This is just the beginning. Gloria A. Totten, Progressive Majority The message couldn’t be clearer: voters wanted progressive change. They elected an outstanding progressive as the …
Colin Powell reality check
Colin Powell, former Sec. of State for George W. Bush, is scheduled to be the guest on Meet the Press this Sunday, and buzz is that he will announce his …
Bush Legacy Tour to stop in OKC today noon
Good news — the Bush Legacy Tour is coming to our community! Stop by the bus to see a traveling museum dedicated to President Bush’s failed conservative policies — and …
Disaster apartheid
I’m breaking one of my cardinal rules and pasting in a post from another site in toto. It’s a powerful rant by Greg Palast, provoked by the recent fires in …
War on Terror: misnamed, misguided and mismanaged
There’s nothing like a bad metaphor to really sow misunderstanding and mayhem. When the thing being described is as serious and complicated as the threat from stateless terrorists, the consequences …
On condition of anonymity…
an honest diplomatic response to Bush’s phony “climate summit”: A senior European diplomat attending the conference, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the meeting confirmed European suspicions that it had …