The 5-4 Supreme Court decision Thursday banning race-based school assignments was the correct decision, after the fashion of Brown v Board of Education in 1951. It doesn’t surprise me, though, that Democrat candidates for President of the United States disagreed with the decision, which re-emphasized the ban on racist government control of where children attend […]
This afternoon CNN, MSBC and Faux News Channel endlessly replayed the video of a burning Jeep Cherokee at the Glasgow airport. Seldom did they note that nobody was seriously hurt except for the one of the unsuccessful terrorists. On CNN they cut away to a live camera panning randomly around the Los Angeles […]
From Juan Cole:
Bush Turns Iraq into Israel/Palestine;
Gaffe endangers US Troops
Bush said in a speech on Thursday that he hopes Iraq will be like Israel, a democracy that faces terrorist violence but manages to retain its democratic character:
‘ In Israel, Bush said, “terrorists have taken innocent human life for years in suicide attacks. The difference is […]
A while back, I saw this post at Feministe about children - the author started by pointing out how frequently one hears the phrase “I hate children” and went on to point out that children are the most radically disempowered group in our society:
Calling children “radically disempowered” is almost an understatement. Pretty much from the […]
Without explanation, US military spokesmen in Iraq have taken to referring to all anti-occupation forces in Iraq as “Al Qaeda.” Most reporters have not asked whether this is propaganda coming from the Bush administration for reasons of domestic politics.
Blogger Jane Stillwater, embedded in the Green Zone last April, may have been the […]
Last night, I was walking a precinct for the Becker campaign. The basic schtick was easy - knock on the door, ask “Are you voting in the Mayoral primary on September 11? Have you decided who you’re voting for? What is the primary issue for you in the mayor’s race? Here is some information about […]
NBC and MSNBC are flogging the Ann Coulter thing to the max, and it’s getting more absurd. Why do these networks keep providing a platform for hate speech? This morning on Joe Scarborough’s show Coulter proclaimed that she’s getting tired of being called a Nazi every time she comes out with a new […]
Here’s is a great video of Steven Jones on the Tucker Carlson show as cool as a cucumber while Tucker, (as usual), is talking as fast as a car salesman, (no offense to car salesmen.)
A new CNN poll (via IraqSlogger) shows support for the US occupation of Iraq at a low point. A majority of Americans say the occupation is immoral, and favor at least a partial troop withdrawal as soon as possible.
View on Iraq War?
Favor 30%
Oppose 67%
How’s it going for US in Iraq?
Very Well 4%
Moderately […]
When Rep. Waxman released his report detailing the shortcomings of abstinence only sex education, conservatives did everything in their power to discredit the report. They failed. So, Sens Santorum and Coburn commissioned their own report attacking comprehensive sexuality education. To help, they even hired two groups that promote abstinence only to prepare the report.
Predictably, the report […]
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Just a reminder, the official 9/11 report does not mention WTC7 anywhere, and it was not hit by a plane. And according to NYC fire fighters radio transmissions, the minor fire was isolated and well under control when the order to evacuate was given.
I raise this only because I happen to notice that yesterday, DailyKos […]
With all the stock phrases generated by politicians trying to sound like they understand what’s happening halfway around the world in Iraq, do we need another one? Yes, if it describes a viable strategy. Today the Center for American Progress released a well-thought-out report: Strategic Reset: Reclaiming Control of U.S. Security in the […]
Biological Weapons Research and Development Pose Risks Worldwide
Article by Steve Erickson
At a remote, secretive desert base 75 miles west of Salt Lake City, the Army plans to renovate an historic cold war laboratory to expand dramatically its biological warfare testing.
The US Army proposes to completely rehab the drab Baker Laboratory, a centerpiece of the Dugway […]
Okay, that’s headline is so tacky I couldn’t resist.
On friday night, a friend and I donned our Ralph Becker For Mayor t-shirts, grabbed our free tickets and headed for the arts festival. We arrived about 6:30 and were then until almost 11. In that time, we ran into other folks in their bright yellow Becker […]
According to an article in the Boston Globe, presidential candidate Willard (Mitt) Romney enjoyed five years of draft deferments as a student and while serving a church mission in France. But he “longed…to actually be in Vietnam.” When his deferments were up, he drew a high draft lottery number and escaped being drafted. […]
As of this writing, 4560 comments adorn the ThinkProgress’ release of a “first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk radio in the United States. It confirms that talk radio, one of the most widely used media formats in America, is dominated almost exclusively by conservatives.”
From HuffPost:
found that 91 percent of weekday talk formats […]
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Last night I attended the Utah Arts Festival with a friend as two of Becker’s Bumblebees (more on this later!).
When we first arrived at about 6:15 or so the crowd was a bit thin but lively and fun. As the sun sank lower in the sky, the crowd grew amazingly. By […]
Just a few years ago, America was revered for it’s constitution. The Republicans and weak Democrats have served to prove that we were overly prideful of our heritage. If the checks and balances we have been bragging about for hundreds of years could be weakened by the greedy in just a couple of decades and […]
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