Remind Me Again….
The following comment was posted on the DailyKos blog in response to a post about the Terri Schaivo case. I found it to be an excellent summary of circus-like attitude that has developed around this whole situation.
Read moreSociety
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Repubs Lose Moral High Ground
During these past few days I have been following the Terri Schiavo case with interest. I was simply dumbfounded by the President making a big show of rushing back to Washington from his vacation in order to sign Congress? bill to overturn the sanctity of marriage (more on that in a minute).
Read moreRalph Reed And James Dobson Helping Gambling Interests
Without a doubt, Tom Delay is most likely one of the most corrupt politicians to ever walk the halls of the Capital. I?d been wondering why the Republicans had been going out of their way to protect him, but now the light is dawning.
Read moreAP Reports Children Held Abu Ghraib
Children held by the U.S. Army at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison included one boy who appeared to be only about 8 years old, the former commander of the prison told investigators, according to a transcript.
Read moreGhost In The Machine
Senators yesterday expressed dismay and outrage over the fact that no senior Pentagon officials have been held accountable in the rampant cases of abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Read morePentagon Expands Rendition
A Feb. 5 memorandum from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeldcounsels support for a plan to transfer hundreds of suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to prisons in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Read moreA lawyerly defense for outsourcing torture
Speaking to reporters at the Justice Department Monday, Gonzales defended the administration’s use of “extraordinary rendition,” the practice of sending detainees to foreign countries where they may fear — and then face — even harsher interrogation tactics than the United States might use.
Read moreCancer In America
Spreading like wildfire, a cancer is infecting this country, devouring the flesh of our society and threatening to turn what was once the greatest nation on Earth into a rotting corpse of political corruption, greed and abuse of power. That cancer is Bus$hCo.
Read moreNo less than Thomas Jefferson himself writes to Dr. Thomas Cooper in 1814, “Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of common law.”Matthew 25:40
“In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these MY BRETHEREN, ye have done it unto me.”
Read moreWe're protected
Isn?t this just grand, the home of free speech, liberty, tea parties, redressing of grievances, and other inalienable rights (but, as I should point out, no rights for aliens), the greatest generation, Atomic Bombing, B-52?s, and today we?re scared sh*tless of bad words and tits.
Read moreTorture Is Us
The U.S. media is filled with heartwarming stories about the alleged global spread of Western-style democracy, but in much of the rest of the world?including particularly the Arab world?the image of America is that of a torturer.
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