Hopefully this will send a message to the Christian right that their support for the gay marriage ban is less than expected: The Senate on Wednesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, dealing an embarrassing defeat to President Bush and Republicans who hoped to use the measure to energize conservative voters on Election […]
About time someone did this: The father of a Marine whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from a fundamentalist Kansas church filed an invasion-of-privacy suit against the demonstrators Monday. It is believed to be the first lawsuit brought by a serviceman’s family against Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., whose members routinely demonstrate at […]
ABC News has published this disturbing report: New evidence may suggest cover-ups in two separate incidents at the center of a simmering scandal over Iraqi civilian deaths at the hands of American forces. Iraqi anger is percolating over the incidents, and over an investigation that cleared U.S. forces in a third case. A brother of […]
Today I am adding Josh Ritter’s new album “The Animal Years” to the growing list of music that supports the anti-war movement. I need to give a big hat tip to Matt from the comments on this one as it is a great find: On a lighter note, thought I would just recommend some music […]
How many more of these are we going to hear about? The BBC has uncovered new video evidence that US forces may have been responsible for the deliberate killing of 11 innocent Iraqi civilians. The video appears to challenge the US military’s account of events that took place in the town of Ishaqi in March. […]
It looks like Murtha is wanting the shooting of Iraqis dealt with right: “Who covered it up, why did they cover it up, why did they wait so long?” Murtha said on “This Week” on ABC. “We don’t know how far it goes. It goes right up the chain of command.” This echoes of Abu […]
OK Kids – we have a problem here. We are stuck in the middle of Iraq, over 2400 of our soldiers have died and we see no exit in the near future. With all this, while the Commander in Chief discusses the war, the second in command of our country decides to sleep. I could […]
Oh yeah – the days of wishing for the 30’s are now here: President Bush’s job-approval rating has fallen to its lowest mark of his presidency, according to a new Harris Interactive poll. Of 1,003 U.S. adults surveyed in a telephone poll, 29% think Mr. Bush is doing an “excellent or pretty good” job as […]
This past Friday, General Wesley Clarke had a discussion about the current climate in D.C. and what we need to do to change it this November. He highlighted some very good points including the Democrats National Security plan, which was muted by the President changing a press conference time to coincide with the Democrats press […]
Three years after Bush declared “Mission Accomplished” in Iraq, the American people have a different perception: Three years after President Bush declared major combat over in Iraq, Americans have strong doubts that the United States will fulfill the promise of his “Mission Accomplished” backdrop, a poll released Monday found. The CNN poll, conducted April 21-23 […]