During the Bush years any dissent we showed on the left from the Bush policies was met with a fear of retribution from our government. The Pentagon even spent resources spying on protestors during the Bush years. This at a time when our nation was in two very deadly wars. Well here we are with […]
Alex Knapp over at Outside the Beltway: Let’s call the “tea party” and “going Galt” nonsense what it is: unprincipled partisan hackery. If these were truly principled protests, they’d have been around all through the Bush and Republican-controlled Congress years, too. Alex has put together an interesting set of observations about the whole “tea party” […]
The NYPost issued an “apology” for their cartoon that sparked off the protests and debate this week. I put apology in quotes, because it really isn’t that much of an apology, but rather an issue of “if you don’t like it and you didn’t really complain then we are sorry”. {[}]lt;p>I wonder how the NYPost […]
I’ve been looking at images on Flickr of protests today against Proposition 8. Wow what a movement! The one in Cincinnati is really amazing. It has been in the 30’s here all day and raining, trying to switch over to snow. They estimate about 500 people showed up at city hall to protest.
This is a new, and very sick trend in American politics: LOS ANGELES – Letters containing a suspicious white powder were sent Thursday to Mormon temples in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City that were the sites of protests against the church’s support of California’s gay marriage ban. The temple in the Westwood area of […]
This is a perfect example of how you create more terrorists: A U.S.-led raid Sunday on a suspected insurgent cell in the eastern province of Nangahar left as many as six Afghans dead, including a woman and a teenage girl, and sparked protests by hundreds of angry Afghans chanting, “Death to Bush!” U.S. officials said […]
That is what this is all about: China faced a barrage of international condemnation from London to Canberra yesterday after it was revealed that it had launched a missile attack on an ageing weather satellite, a test that threatened to open a “Star Wars” space race. Formal protests were lodged with the Beijing government, accompanied […]
Remember the protests that broke out in Afghanistan after it was revealed that an interrogator at Gitmo allegedly desecrated the Koran? The right and the administration quickly blamed the media for the protests and violence that followed the story and said it was false. Well now the FBI is citing similar cases: FBI agents at […]
You have to watch this: http://www.channel4.com/guantanamo I’ve been sitting here for the past two hours watching a documentry/film about the 3 british Guys who were detained at Guantanamo for months. It tells the story of their capture, why they were there, how they were captured and above all the relentless abuse and torture they suffered […]
Remember last year when protests broke out across the Middle East because of a report in Newsweek that our military was flushing the Quran? It created a big back lash that ended up with Newsweek publishing a retraction and the right escalating their attack against opponents of the war. Here we are 7 months later […]