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Bush kept invoking the Sept. 11 attacks to try to defend his plan to keep U.S. troops in Iraq as long as it takes to ensure peace in the country. However, he says we can’t send more troops because it will undermine his plans to turn the country over to the Iraqi people. (Down is up and Up is down.)
Read moreABC’s Terry Moran just reported that the only time Bush got applause was in the middle of his speech when a White House advance team member started clapping all on their own in order to cajole the soldiers into clapping, which they dutifully did.
Read moreThe UN just celebrated the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
Read moreMonday, the Supremes announced two decisions related to the issue of religion in public. In one, they ruled that the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed in Kentucky courtrooms. In the other, they ruled to allow the display of the Ten Commandments on the Texas State Capitol grounds.
Read moreA divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments may seize people’s homes and businesses against their will for private development in a decision anxiously awaited in communities where economic growth often is at war with individual property rights
Read moreHere’s a boycott the conservatives don’t want you to know about. Apparently, in 1999, a group of conservative organizations called for a boycott of military enlistment. Their excuse, Wicca. So help me God…
Read moreThere’s a lot of people who staked their political capital and professional credibility on the idea that Terri Schiavo was not a vegetable, that she could be healed, that Jesus loved her that much. Well, tough shit. They went all in on that bet, and now it’s time to make these pay. Turns out that science was right, and their kind of sick twisted faith was wrong.
Read moreI haven’t said much about the Downing Street Documents so far. It’s getting plenty of coverage in other blogs (and since its not a postitive for the Chimp ‘n Chief not much coverage in the main stream media). However, I thought it was time to take a crack at the topic. To listen to the blather storm of media and right wing spin about the Downing Street Memos, the uproar is merely the dying “told-you-so” bleatings of crazed antiwar protesters.
Read moreReviving a major plank of his re-election campaign, President Bush called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage Tuesday. It’s like a broken record, ain’t it? You’d think by now that Chimpy’s pious, brain-dead following would wake up and smell the giant pile of cowdung that their Dear Leader is shoveling at them. But alas, no.
Read moreI’ve sent a series of letters to U.S. Methodist Bishops trying to get them to pay attention to U.S. Government sponsored torture. I finally convinced two out of fifty to do something.
Read moreA story in the NY Times reports the Social Security Administration provided the Department of Homeland Security with access to thousands of files. And some of you want the Patriot Act expanded. There goes Government being the “servant” of the people.
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