Kansas: 8, Darwin: 9 -- Echoes of Dover
The never ending seesaw battle taking place in Kansas between religious fundamentalists, and people supporting the teaching of the theory on the evolution of species, has once again tilted in favor of...
View ArticleHouse Officially Rebukes Bush on Troop Surge
The United States House of Representatives has voted 246-182 to pass the Iraq War Resolution that condemns President Bush's plan to temporarily increase troop levels in Iraq by as many as 21,000 active...
View ArticleManufactured Scandal Machine Pumps Out Another One
Presidential campaigns seemingly exist for a single purpose: so talking heads can talk. If there isn't a big scandal going on for them to pontificate about, then they'll take anything you say and...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney Scandal Reveals Deeply Rooted Integrity Problems
While Democrats and Republicans spar over the meaning and consequences of the U.S. Attorney purge at the Justice Department, I find myself wondering not about either of these things, but has gone so...
View ArticleCongress Blind to Attorney Scandal Opportunities
As I watched Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez' former chief of staff testify before the Senate Judiciary committee this morning and afternoon on C-SPAN, it occurred to me that both the Senate and the...
View ArticleLibby Saved, But Who Will Pardon Bush?
President Bush dodged the Libby question for weeks, repeating his intent to allow the case to have its run through the appellate process before making a decision as to whether or not he would pardon...
View ArticleMedia Obsession With John Edwards' Hair Continues
I received a note from Justin Cole at Media Matters about 20 minutes ago, letting people know about two new articles they published relating to the mainstream medias unending obsession with John...
View ArticleSenate GOP Leadership: Every Iraq Amendment Will Be Filibustered
This is a follow-up to Tables Turn on Obstructionism in which I wrote of how the newly minted Republican minority in the Senate has become that which they berated for most of this decade - the party of...
View ArticleStark Contrast Between Political Views on Iraq and Reality
In the past twenty-four hours, a series of events has taken place that underscores how important it is to separate the administrations political agenda - one they are entitled to have - and the reality...
View ArticleOn The Thomas Diaries: In Politics As In War, The Truth Is The First Casualty
If it's anything, the Drudge Report is a good place to find developing stories around the Internet that otherwise wouldn't have made it buried beneath the classifieds in the traditional print media. If...
View ArticleDeconstructing The Right-Wing Echo Chamber
It had been suggested that I transform some comments I left on Newsvine.com into a full fledged post, so here it is. The original story on which I left comments (and the comments themselves) can be...
View ArticleAIG Bonuses May Trigger Anti-Trust Investigation
As furor over a report that AIG intends to pay out as much as $450 million in bonuses over the next two years to its financial services division that was largely responsible for its collapse, and up to...
View ArticleFive Words That Reveal The Racist Right
"who hasn’t lived that life" seems pretty innocuous and certainly doesn't sound like game changing language, but as they say, context is everything.It started a little over three weeks ago when Jeffery...
View ArticleFirst Dr. Tiller, Now a D.C. Museum Shooting -- DHS Was Right, Right-Wing...
The incident at the D.C. Holocaust Museum just happened a little over an hour ago and it will undoubtedly dominate the news for at least the next couple of days, but it's really not that hard or...
View ArticleGOP Senator Graham wants 'to stop reading [Americans] their Miranda rights';...
This is a follow-up to the story I wrote yesterday, adding more statements by the Republican party in their war on the Constitution and their eagerness to destroy our democracy and replace it with a...
View ArticleThe wretched state of the decaying American media
I received an email from the Associated Press at 2:42pm, EST, saying that Representative Gabrielle Giffords was dead. Killed by an unnamed gunman "at a public event" in Arizona earlier today, according...
View ArticleMichele Bachmann's Shadow Presidency
Matt Taibbi's profile of Michele Bachmann in Rolling Stone should be required reading for anyone who intends to vote in the 2012 GOP primary and then general election, if she wins the Republican...
View ArticleThe Michele Bachmann's of the world are created and enabled by the right's...
The Michele Bachmann's of the world are created and enabled by the right's Middle Eastern'esque radicalization of politicsAfter finally getting around to reading more of Matt Taibbi's fantastic profile...
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Nobody loves the nanny state quite as much as the Republican Party
Hypocrisy isn't a unique trait to conservatives/Republicans, but exists in especially high quantities in conservative politicians and the Republican Party generally. You can count on them aggressively...
View ArticleMSNBC re-establishes its credentials as an upstanding member of the rotten...
MSNBC re-establishes its credentials as an upstanding member of the sycophantic, rotten and corrupt mediaMSNBC's de facto firing of Cenk Uygur yesterday should serve as a reminder that the most...
View ArticleScott Brown introduces bill that could allow Fox News to be banned, Rush...
That's not the point of the legislation, but that'd be the legal precedent set if it were passed and then upheld by the courts.The Stolen Valor Act of 2005 was a truly heinous piece of legislation that...
View ArticleNEW DETAILS: NSA can record and store up to one billion cell phone calls per day
If you didn't watch the live stream of the 2013 Socialism Conference in Chicago tonight, you missed out on something very special.Greenwald spoke at the conference tonight via Skype, and he gave a...
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NSA's storage capabilities for voice data could be of unprecedented scale
The National Security Agency's new data center in Bluffdale, Utah. Is it possible for the National Security Agency to store the content of one billion phone calls per day? Are some of the world's...
View ArticleLiving in a democracy means not always getting what you want
I oppose the military coup in Egypt, and here's why: It doesn't matter if Mohamed Morsi lied, it doesn't matter if he did the opposite of what he promised to do, it doesn't matter if he committed...
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