tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-99037792009-02-21T10:53:57.302-05:00A blast at recent news and political events from a progressive and distinctly leftist point of view.Mike Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299330220187344627noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9903779.post-1147979570448137852006-05-18T15:11:00.000-04:002006-05-18T15:14:26.076-04:00

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From Howard Fineman at Newsweek...Rove's RevampWith ratings down and the midterms coming up, the GOP adopts a new tack: Call it the 'apocalypse strategy.' By Howard FinemanNewsweekUpdated: 4:03 p.m. ET May 10, 2006May 10, 2006 - This fall’s election season is going to make the past three look like episodes of “Barney.”The conventional notion here is that Democrats want to “nationalize” the

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SCOT LEHIGHOur monarch, above the lawBy Scot Lehigh, Globe Columnist | May 2, 2006HAS GEORGE W. Bush come to believe he's king?That's the question that springs to mind upon reading Charlie Savage's front-page report in Sunday's Globe detailing the president's sotto voce assertion that he can disregard laws if he thinks they impinge on his constitutional powers.That novel claim resides in the ''

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The attached article from the ACLU outlines the new domestic Spying capabilities the NSA has under the Patriot Act...Eavesdropping 101: What Can The NSA Do? (1/31/2006) Eavesdropping 101: What Can The NSA Do? The recent revelations about illegal eavesdropping on American citizens by the U.S. National Security Agency have raised many questions about just what the agency is doing. Although the

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Go to "About.com" to find link and comment...http://usliberals.about.com/b/a/2006_01_24.htm

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For reasons spelled out below, the poet Sharon Olds has declined to attend the National Book Festival in Washington, which, coincidentally or not, takesplace September 24, the day of an antiwar mobilization in the capital. Olds, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and professor of creative writing at New York University, was invited along with a number of other writers by First Lady

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Some wisdom from Louie....Do you know what it means to miss New OrleansAnd miss it each night and dayI know I'm not wrong... this feeling's gettin' strongerThe longer, I stay awayMiss them moss covered vines...the tall sugar pinesWhere mockin' birds used to singAnd I'd like to see that lazy Mississippi...hurryin' into springThe moonlight on the bayou.......a Creole tune.... that fills the airI

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Dyer is Canada's most respected analyst of military matters...29 May 2005Iraq: The Long WarBy Gwynne Dyer "One thing we know about insurgencies is that they last from, youknow, three, four years to nine years," said General Richard Myers,chairman of the US Joint Chefs of Staff, in mid-May. "These are toughfights, and in the end it's going to have to be the Iraqis that win this." All quite

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July 15th, 2005 1:04 pmRove Reportedly Held Phone Talk on C.I.A. OfficerBy David Johnston and Richard W. Stevenson / New York TimesWASHINGTON, July 14 - Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article in July 2003 that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover, someone who has been officially briefed on the matter said.Mr.

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And He shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. Isaiah 2:4Keep hope alive, my friends.Mike

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This from former Reagan Asistant Treasury Secretary, Paul Craig Roberts...George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America's reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America's reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of

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"Senator, in everything I said about Iraq, I turned out to be right and you turned out to be wrong. And 100,000 people have paid with their lives -- 1,600 of them American soldiers sent to their deaths on a pack of lies, 15,000 of them wounded, many of them disabled forever, on a pack of lies."British MP George Galloway before the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Homeland

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James Dobson's "Supernanny" Ad, a history in LettersTo: Deanna Banas Kluk, Director of Programming, WTNH-TV New Haven, CTDeanna:The following letter has been forwarded to the FederalCommunications Commission...Commissioner:Last night, WTNH-TV Channel 8 in New Haven, CT broadcast the ABC Show,"Supernanny", a broadcast which contained a paid advertisement from thegroup "Focus on the Family",

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Kim received this reply from Sen. Frist's office recently...Thank you for contacting me regarding the judicial nomination process. It is an honor to serve in the United States Senate.As Majority Leader, ensuring that President Bush’s judicial nominees receive fair treatment is one of my top priorities. Each of the President’s nominees that has been brought before the full Senate has been

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If you’re like me, any letter, report, or article about something as arcane, complicated, and detached from everyday life as the federal budget should be enough to make your eyes glaze over well before finishing the first paragraph. At least that’s what I thought before I read the thing. (Having no life, I download these things from CSPAN.) A budget is a blueprint for the way our government

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This morning, the ACLU filed a federal lawsuit charging that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. military custody. The lawsuit seeks a court declaration that Secretary Rumsfeld violated the U.S. Constitution and international laws.This landmark lawsuit was filed by a coalition of human rights advocates on behalf of eight

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Oh, Buster! What a bad, BAD little bunny you have been, hanging around with lesbian maple farmers and all the rest. My my my! It's enough to make PBS executives withdraw your episode from broadcast, or as Center For American Progress put it... Education Secretary Margaret Spellings condemned the once-celebrated PBS show, "Postcards with Buster," because a not-yet-aired episode involved an

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George W. Bush released a budget today that he claims is responsible, honest, and designed to cut the $400 billion-plus deficit in half by 2009. Not so. By now, you probably have heard the obvious criticisms. The budget does not include the $80 billion Bush is asking for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (And that probably won't cover the full tab.) It doesn't account for the $1 trillion to $2

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At last - the whole scoop from the Century Foundation... http://www.tcf.org/4L/4LMain.asp?SubjectID=1&ArticleID=507

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A look at today's innaugural festivities by the numbers: $40 million: Cost of Bush inaugural ball festivities, not counting security costs. $2,000: Amount FDR spent on the inaugural in 1945…about $20,000 in today's dollars. $20,000: Cost of yellow roses purchased for inaugural festivities by D.C.'s Ritz Carlton. 200: Number of Humvees outfitted with top-of-the-line armor for troops in Iraq

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Call it “Malpractice Assurance”, call it “Redress Restriction”, call it “Greed Protection”, call it a “Corporate Handout”, or just call it what it is, “Justice Denial”, the new Republican proposal to deny abused patients a just court reward for their suffering is everything but “reform”. “Tort reform”, a term slammed together in 1992 by GOP spin guru, Frank Luntz, is propagated by

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Click here to see the truth about the new Bush budget...

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I've gotten a few questions about how we can use our hard-earned cash to support progressive-friendly companies. Buyblue.org and choosetheblue.com are organizations that rank companies according to their fair business practices and commitment to progressive causes, or in their words... You may have voted blue, but every day you unknowingly help dump millions of dollars into the conservative

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Democracy for Connecticut has a whole menu of places you can go to lobby legislators, start petitions, connect with fellow-thinkers, or just make noise. They've put a lot of work into it too. http://www.democracyforct.com/links_activisim.htm

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Stand Up Democrats is a group of progressive working to reform the message of the Democratic party. They are collecting ideas to reform the party at their site... http://standupdemocrats.org/

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