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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 [...]

With opposition to the Iraq occupation at an all-time high, today Washington politicians offered us more kabuki theater.
A $50 billion Iraq funding bill received a 53-45 vote in the Senate today. Normally that would mean it passed, like Judge Mukasey’s confirmation last week that passed 53-40. But no, it didn’t pass because the [...]

The current issue of The Nation is worth picking up, unless you’re a subscriber and you already know about it. They have excellent profiles of each of the Democratic presidential candidates. Now is the time to reflect on who we really want, because soon we’ll be left with just the front-runners, the “electable” [...]

I am pro-Union.  As a professional with a master’s degree, chances are good I am unlikely to work in a unionized job, but that does not change my basic support for Unions.
Unions serve all workers, not just their members.  Corporations hold an unfair advantage over individual workers for a simple reason - there are more [...]