The big story of the day is about a minister’s wife killing her husband. It’s what was on the television this morning, on the radio during the drive to work, and the featured headline on all the news sites.
Here’s the A.P. story from Yahoo!:
The wife of a minister found dead in the church parsonage [...]
Archive for March, 2006
Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America
Eric Alterman
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The Smoking Gun has found a copy of Dick Cheney’s Vice Presidential Down Time Requirements.
In it you will find some rather modest requests for furnishings and beverages, but you will also find that he wants “All lights turned on.” Funny… My vision of Cheney during his downtime is one of him wrapped in [...]
Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow up to be Whiners…
Published by March 23rd, 2006 in Politics. 0 Comments…because, according to a new study, if your kids grow up whining, they are likely to end up being conservatives.
Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a [...]
While flipping through articles on the web today, I came across this little gem in Ruth Conniff’s latest column:
In Foreign Policy Magazine Phillip Longman, a fellow at the New America Foundation, writes that liberals, secular humanists, and feminists are going extinct. The reason is that people with liberal values are having no children, or [...]
“The members of the Bush team don’t seem bothered by the enormous ill will they have generated in the rest of the world. They seem to believe that other countries will change their minds once they see cheering Iraqis welcome our troops, or that our bombs will shock and awe the whole world (not just [...]
If you missed NPR’s piece “Iraq Three Years Later: The Path to War” by Mike Shuster, find the time to go to their website and listen. The soundbites are priceless. You’ll love hearing again how wrong the Administration was every step of the way leading into the war and every step thereafter following [...]
It’s Time to Set a Deadline - Democrats Are You Listening?
Published by March 19th, 2006 in Iraq and Politics. 0 CommentsA recent headline in the New York Times read: ” For Democrats, Many Verses But No Chorus”. The article goes on to note that whilst Democrats have many issues on which to run against Republicans in the fall election, they cannot yet agree on a single theme. Yet it could also apply to [...]
This is a HUGE victory for Progressives.
A federal appeals court today overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to exempt power plants, refineries and other pollution sources from Clean Air Act rules that require them to install costly new pollution controls whenever they make changes that increase their emissions.
Ruling in favor of a coalition of states [...]
Garrison Keillor wrote a one-page column that summarizes everything I’ve been railing against since “The Current Occupant” took office. Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite:
The Republican Revolution has gone the way of all flesh. It took over Congress and the White House, horns blew, church bells rang, sailors kissed each other, and [...]
Percentage of Americans who said that Bush spying program was wrong: 50%
Percentage of American who said the president had definitely or probably broken the law: 49% Probably or definitely not: 47% (link)
Margin by which total votes for Democrats in the last three Senate elections exceeded those for Republicans: 2,900,000
Number of [...]
