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So I read this morning’s paper and saw that Carl Wimmer has decided to be point man for an attack on labor in the 2009 legislative session.
The target of Wimmer’s ire is the Employee Free Choice Act:

The Employee Free Choice Act (H.R. 800, S. 1041), supported by a bipartisan coalition in Congress, would [...]

Repost from here in full.
Drink up, imbeciles.
We’d like to propose a toast.
Here’s to the Republican Party for a year no one will soon forget. When 2008 began, you were still hopeful. A long trend of Republican gay sex scandals had finally come to an end and you were thinking that maybe you could sneak out [...]

Via Glenn Greenwald:

[T]he Bush administration has righteously decided that torture is such a grotesque and intolerable crime that political leaders who order it simply must be punished in American courts to the fullest extent of the law . . . . if they’re from Liberia.

MIAMI (AP) — U.S. prosecutors want [...]

If you haven’t seen the documentary Jesus Camp, it’s well worth the time.
The people the film interviews have a strange self-consciousness about being “Christian” and in opposition to the world, their every word infused with their own sense of their “Christian” uniqueness and sense of call (though I would not necessarily say their self-awareness matches [...]

Jason Chaffetz, proving that he is well suited to replace Chris Cannon, has decided he won’t vote for the economic stimulus package and that he’s willing to co-sponsor a balanced budget amendment. Chaffetz has demonstrated two things:
One, he knows nothing about the history of the Great Depression.
Two, he knows diddly squat about [...]

CNN reports that “Republican Party reaction is divided over the decision of a candidate for party chairman to distribute a CD that features the parody tune “Barack the Magic Negro,” with the majority of Chip Saltsman’s political rivals criticizing the move.”

Divided? I can understand that idiot Rush Limbaugh thinking this was a good idea. [...]

A recent study has found that Virginity Pledges are ineffective.
“Taking a pledge doesn’t seem to make any difference at all in any sexual behavior,” said Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, whose report appears in the January issue of the journal Pediatrics. “But it does seem to make a [...]

The U.S. and NATO are losing control of Afghanistan. Assuming for the sake of argument that Viagra won’t be enough to turn the tide, what else have we got?

In The Nation a couple of weeks ago, Robert Dreyfuss talked to the experts and made a clear-eyed assessment of our strategy in Afghanistan so far: [...]

A lot of news on this site in the last little bit has been about an act of civil disobedience, and rightly so.  It is something to be proud of.  But that news, combined with the news of the 25th and 26th out of Iraq, make me wonder.

I thought I was acting alone. I thought what I did last Friday at the BLM oil and gas auction was just an individual act of civil disobedience against a fraudulent auction and against a cruel leadership indifferent to the future of my generation.
I was wrong. What I have learned since then is that [...]

Many of us may have listened to “Santa Baby” this season.  It is always on my playlist for the holidays.  But the truth is that for me Eartha  will always be “Yzma” from Disney’s Emperors New Groove.
 
Yzma: All right, I’ve had enough of this. Tell us where the talking llama is and we’ll burn your house to [...]

Thank you all so much for your support. It gives me real hope for my future to see so many others who are willing to stand up and take action. While my act may end up protecting some land and keeping some oil in the ground, the real significance will be seen when all [...]