Last night was the annual meeting of the Coalition of Religious Communities (CORC). The Coalition represents 20+ denominations thoughout Utah. Members of CORC work on a broad array of social justice issues, primarily issues of economic justice - although we were also one of the leading groups supporting effective hate crimes legislation. CORC’s leadership is drawn […]
A thrilling aspect of this election cycle is that practically every day I get email from either Bill or Hillary Clinton.
Never before have I had this sort of intimacy with an American President and an international celebrity.
Just this afternoon Bill took time out from the campaign to send me the following note:
I thought it was odd that Ken B posted a comment about global warming in response to my post about the systemic dishonesty of creationists. I wonder if maybe there are connections between the dishonest means and methods of creationists and those who deny global warming. I haven’t really looked much at the methods used […]
The New York Times reports on March 19 that whereas the Bush administration sold the Iraq war to the congress as a $50 billion investment, the actual costs are more like–
1.) ultra-conservative Pentagon estimate: $600 billion and counting
(note: this Honest Abe estimate categorically excludes “extras” such as operations in the war zone, […]
Come one, come all pundits on this blog, to a penetrating quantitative analysis of Presidential greatness versus experience at–
http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2008/Pres/Maps/Mar10.html
(scroll down to “Is an Experienced President a Good President?”)
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Conclusion: no correlation whatsoever!
My meditation:
According to this data, LBJ, with 27 years in the Congress, is the number two most experienced president and for my […]
One of the favorite tactics of Republicans, especially in the era of Karl Rove, is voter suppression. This is the grab bag of legal requirements and sometimes dirty tricks aimed at discouraging poor people and minorities from voting.
When you hear claims of “voter fraud” coming from the GOP, watch out. They are pushing […]
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 […]
This very clever and enjoyable video has over 1.3m views SO FAR!
Last night, I watched The Long Walk: Tears of the Navajo on KUED - a history of the forced relocation of thousands of Navajo from their homeland to Bosque Redondo. If I’m reading correctly, the show is a production of KUED which is great - it’s time we uncover these parts of our history, that we refuse […]
Read the whole thing but here are my favorite passages:
The staggering losses we’ve sustained from three decades of increasingly authoritarian, non-reality-based, Daddy-knows-best deciding are mounting up. On 9/11, in New Orleans, in Minneapolis, in Iraq, in a planet-sweeping range of diplomatic failures, in the debacles around a Homeland Security department that was apparently designed for […]
Does anyone remember the heady days of Paul Bremer’s Coalition Provisional Authority? The conquerors of Baghdad and the exiled politicians they brought with them were full of enthusiasm to remake the New Iraq, whether anyone else liked it or not. One of their genius ideas, unveiled in April 2004, was a new flag […]
John Edwards appears three days before the caucus, like a Magician in a Casino showroom. I’ve been talking to everyone I see about getting past the media blockade down here and giving credit were it’s due to the real leader of the Democratic Presidential Nominees. Edward’s campaign has been the driving force […]
The Secretary of State of New Hampshire has scheduled (PDF) a statewide recount of the paper ballots beginning on Wednesday, January 16, because presidential candidates Democrat Dennis Kucinich and Republican Albert Howard requested it.
Let’s review the problem of the New Hampshire Primary vote-counting discrepancy.
About 80% of New Hampshire ballots were counted by Diebold/Premier […]
During his current tour of the Middle East, President Bush contradicted his own policies so many times I began to wonder if the speech writers were out to get him. His cognitive dissonance confounded everybody back home in the USA and in the host countries (Israel, Palestine, Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi […]
Nothing can be proven, and if past elections are any indication, nothing will ever be proven. It seems that 81 percent of the votes in the New Hampshire primary were counted electronically. The counts were done on Diebold (now known as Premier Election Solutions) op-scan machines– the exact same ones that were hacked […]
Over a Orcinus, Sara has a great series on leadership that has gotten me thinking about America’s history of leadership. Read it here, here, here and here.
Sara makes an important point. Political systems have a life cycle - they begin as a solution to a set of problems. They function well for […]
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 […]
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.
Here’s a salute to the Democrats who are already planning to give up on Iraq withdrawal, according to the Washington Post.
From The Ballad of Brave Sir Robin (“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”)
Brave Sir Robin ran away.
Bravely ran away, away!
When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.
Yes, brave Sir […]
The Bush administration is ranked by historians as the worst ever in U.S. history, and they still have 423 days left in office. What to do? Try to rewrite history, of course.
In a cozy Air Force One interview with sycophant/columnist Kathleen Parker, President Bush made some interesting counter-factual claims:
“[W]e’ve got to support these […]
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