Comics is not the only thing Ted Rall is good at. His columns are great for putting the current state of things into perspective After a few brief decades of social progress the United States has lurched back into the dark ages of torture, concentration camps and police harassment of its scapegoats and undesirables–current members: […]
Yet more of our privacy is under attack and this time it comes from the IRS: The Internal Revenue Service is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns. If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers for the first time would be able to sell information from individual returns — or […]
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The Planet of Unreality Bush Sees Progress in Iraq, Challenge in Iran Bush: US will not abandon Iraq This is not good. The people running this country sound convinced that reality is whatever they say it is. And if they’ve actually strayed into the realm of genuine self-delusion — if they actually believe the fantasies […]
From Digby: When one party is as unpopular as the president the the Republicans are now, the public is open to hearing things they haven’t been willing to hear in a long time. Our polarized electorate suddenly isn’t so polarized anymore, even though the gasbags refuse to admit it. For the first time in a […]
During a suprise morning press conference by Bush, he made the claim once again that Iraq is part of the war on terror: “We are in a global war on terror and Iraq is a central front in that war” Of course we all know that Iraq had nothing to do with this war prior […]
I am glad we are helping people become free in this world. Bush really is doing great: A man could be sentenced to death after being charged with converting from Islam to Christianity, a crime under Afghanistan’s shariah laws, a judge said yesterday. The trial is thought to be the first of its kind in […]
Think Progress has the video up from this compelling interview done on 60 Minutes last night: Yesterday, 60 Minutes aired a powerful segment documenting how the Bush administration has muzzled the government’s top global warming researcher, James Hansen. Watch an excerpt: Go and check it out.
Let’s take a moment to look at the problems facing America today: War on terror War in Iraq Economy ready to burst A devastated region of the country Increasing numbers in people without health care Record deficits Civil liberties under attack Children testing lower than many other countries You get the idea. I could go […]
It looks like the very attack the Repulicans use against the Democrats has come back to bite themselves: Republican efforts to craft a policy and political agenda to carry the party into the midterm elections have stumbled repeatedly as GOP leaders face widespread disaffection and disagreement within the ranks. Anxiety over President Bush’s Iraq policy, […]