The Texas Polygamist raid is a PR disaster for the Mormon church.
Last night, Larry King did his best impression of a journalist and interviewed people who have left polygamy - all with the LDS Salt Lake temple in the background. The repetition of LDS/Mormon and polygamist/polygamy is undoing decades of work by mainstream Mormons to present […]
Via Talking Points Memo and other sources, today we got to read the infamous torture memo that sought to justify the horrifying abuses of detainees at the hands of the U.S. government at Guanatanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib and CIA secret “black site” prisons. It was written on March 14, 2003 by John Yoo, then […]
The corporate media circus exposed via BradBlog in all it’s commercialized glory. Don’t miss “Lapdogs Of The Corporate Press!“
The Stanford Prison Experiment strongly suggests that moral and immoral behavior are hugley influenced by environment. It’s not so much that we change our morals from setting to setting but that the setting in which we function has the power to put our morality into neutral.
The Stanford Prison Experiment, conducted by Philip Zimbardo, suggested that in […]
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the more famous pscyhology experiments (another is the Milgram experiment) - it revealed an alarming ability of people previously deemed “normal” to engage in shocking, abusive, cruel behavior but also that similar persons would submit to that abusive behavior.
The SPE was planned and conducted at Standford University in […]
The hardest thing about being a Democrat these days is that people are always saying there’s no difference between the two major parties in this country of ours. If you say you’re mad at the Republicans for making a mockery of the constitution and giving their illegitimate and foolish “president” the authority to lie us […]
Ka—BoooooooooM
Update: YouTube video of former governor Don Siegelman telling his story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymqcU5zOPSg
h/t ThinkProgress
Last night, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired its long-awaited report on Alabama’s incarcerated former governor Don Siegelman, featuring allegations that Karl Rove personally told a Republican operative in the state to find evidence that Siegelman was cheating on his wife.
Siegelman, a Democrat, was convicted in […]
Download Countdown Special Comment on FISA: President Bush Is A Liar And A Fascist
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Thanks as always to Norm at OneGoodMove for providing this video.
Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on today’s Countdown was a scathing rebuke of President Bush for continuing to play the fear card, trying to scare the hell out of […]
Alright, I wasn’t prepared for this. President Bush pumped up the fear all week, he cried wolf again and again. He repeatedly made the claim that “the lives of countless Americans depend” on whether Congress gives him and his partners in crime an immediate get-out-of-jail-free card for breaking the FISA law to do […]
Today Paul Kiel presents Talking Points Memo’s updated list of corrupt Bush administration officials. TPM’s standard of proof is fairly high, considering that Karl Rove didn’t make the list (if only we knew what was in those deleted e-mails!)
Since a complete catalog of administration officials who’ve been accused of some form of corruption or […]
Brilliant editorial in today’s NY Times:
The C.I.A. contracted out its inhumanity to nations with no respect for life or law, sending prisoners — some of them innocents kidnapped on street corners and in airports — to be tortured into making false confessions, or until it was clear they had nothing to say and so were […]
I have little editorial comment on this new development other than to say, fuck you Bush! And a holiday prayer that The Real America vis-a-vis our principles come crashing down on his coke head.
Happy Holidays!
From The Nation Lawyers Stepping Up
Katrina vanden Heuvel
We are lawyers in the United States of America. As such, we have […]
h/t Crooks and Liars A Crippling Legacy
By: Nicole Belle
Vanity Fair offers a sobering look at the costs that we — and our children and their children — will pay for the last eight years of Bush/Cheney economics.
The damage done to the American economy does not make front-page headlines every day, but the repercussions will be […]
Over the weekend while I was at the gym, there was a show on TV about hazing. It was so absorbing I did over an hour of cardio so I could see the whole thing.
As part of the show, they discussed recent incidents of hazing in American high schools and colleges. In one incident, a […]
Seven years later, at least the cable media is beginning to pull their noses out of Bush’s ass and do their job.
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Many scandals ago, with each new one, I would think it couldn’t get any worse. Today I believe we will continue to uncover […]
Randi Rhodes of Air America, speech to the 50th Anniversary party of “PEACE ACTION of Michigan” on November 11, 2007.
DO not miss this. It is the most honest REAL discussion of what is really happened over the past seven long years.
I’ve written on the law of presidential impeachment for appoximately thirty-five years. Some of these writings are available on OneUtah.org I’m so dreadfully tired of preaching to the choir. And such a choir. We seem, dear friends, to be a quartet. I’m even more sure you’re tired of my rant. […]
Our government is broken. Not, perhaps, beyond repair. That remains to be seen. Casey Stengel warned us not to prophecy, particularly about the future. But with absolutely no doubt, we are suffering through perhaps our most dangerous time in world history with by far the worst president in the history of the United States of […]
By Troy Williams
listen to entire interview
In his first book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, John Perkins described how he helped the United States swindle poor countries out of trillions of dollars by offering them huge loans that they couldn’t possibly repay. We then used that debt to manipulate their economies and exploit their resources. […]
Can we impeach the fucker now?
h/t Think Progress “
Washington Post publishes additional details about the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping, noting that the National Security Agency approached Qwest “more than six months before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.” But the Body Politik’s Igor Volsky points out that President Bush has claimed that the program was […]
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