The general in the War on Christmas has admitted defeat according to Media Matters: On the December 19 edition of Fox News Channel’s The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly apparently reversed his previous position that the phrase “Happy Holidays” is offensive, stating, ” ‘Happy Holidays’ is fine, just don’t ban ‘Merry Christmas.’” O’Reilly has previously […]
I been wondering that since Bush feels he has the power to break the law and since his current Supreme Court nominee, Sam Alito, shares the same “constitutional” values as Bush will that make him even more of a threat to the high court. Well it turns out Alito will get to answer on that: […]
To give my readers a better example of how the Republicans feel about your civil liberties, you just need to look at what was said in Senate today: “None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,†said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former judge and close ally of the president who sits on […]
Kerry has broken his silence on the wiretapping issue: BOSTON –Sen. John Kerry said Tuesday that the domestic spying authorized by the White House “doesn’t uphold our Constitution,” and that President Bush offered a “lame” defense in recent public appearances. The Massachusetts Democrat, who lost to Bush in the 2004 presidential election, also said the […]
The PDA (Progressive Democrats of America) have an action going on to support Rep. Conyers motions. The link is on the left under “Get Active” it is not fully up yet but should be very soon. The action will ask you for your address then find your Representative and give you a form letter that […]
CensureBush.org has been launched in conjunction with afterdowningstreet.org to support new legislation introduced to the House today to censure President Bush and Vice-President Cheney when it comes to the pre-war intelligence on Iraq. It also supports legislation which was also introduced to set up a committee to investigate rather or not impeachable offenses were committed […]
A judge has ruled that intelligent design can not be taught in Pennsylvania classrooms: HARRISBURG, Pa. – “Intelligent design” cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial. Dover Area School Board […]
I added a Trackback option today. Considering the growth of my blog, I figured it would be nice to know what other blogs out there are linking to me. The Trackbacks are done through Haloscan so many bloggers should be familiar with it. The trackback link appears in the bottom footer bar of every post.
How much more will the people of this nation tolerate? How many more rights will be allow to be squashed by the government in the name of “security”. Bush defends his wiretapping as being a tool to keep American’s safe. The strongest argument, out of many, is the fact that we have no oversight to […]
Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter has a great article this week about “Snoopgate” and how Bush called the editor of the New York Times to the Oval Office last year to try and kill the story. He ended up with only a 1 year delay. Dec. 19, 2005 – Finally we have a Washington scandal that […]