It’s not like the United States alone in the industrialized world has suffered the tragedy of gun violence such as we experienced recently at Virginia Tech.
On a spring day in 1996 in Dunblane, Scotland, a former shopkeeper and scout leader, Thomas Hamilton, entered the gymnasium of the elementary school and opened fire. He was armed [...]
Archive for April, 2007
It appears Amazon is not responding to my requests, Dave.
How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative
Allen Raymond
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256 pages
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart
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240 pages
Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America
Eric Alterman
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416 pages
They’re only good when they advance your agenda, otherwise they’re downright treasonous.
This Daily Show piece shows how the first-term Bush used timetables to get the war started, and how the second-term Bush sure as hell isn’t about to use timetables to end the war.
Enjoy.
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John McCain was on The Daily Show last Tuesday (Part I and Part II), and he received quite a different reception than he did the previous eight or nine times he’s been on the show.
During his “straight talk” years, he’d been a great guest for Jon Stewart because he was different from the other Republicans, [...]
Rudy Giuliani speaking to supporters in Manchester, New Hampshire on Tuesday:
“If any Republican is elected president — and I think, obviously, I would be the best at this — we will remain on offense and will anticipate what (the terrorists) will do and try to stop them before they do it,” Giuliani said.
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[He] said Tuesday [...]
Dick Cheney Speaks out of his Ass
Published by April 25th, 2007 in Iraq, Politics and al Qaeda. 0 CommentsDick Cheney was on the attack again yesterday when he criticized the Democratic Congress for including timetables for withdrawal in the war funding bill.
As Robert Scheer pointed out in his column today, the timetable:
…is a very limited, nonbinding attempt to hold the president accountable, for it does not ban him from using any portion of [...]
A confluence of technologies, from the Internet to biotechnology, is making it easier and easier for far-flung hatred to assume organized form, intersect with weapons technology and constitute unprecedently potent terrorism. This growing lethality of hatred may be the biggest long-term problem we face.
Here’s a response favored by many left-of-center and right-of-center thinkers. Address the [...]
Every once and a while you need to go visit Patti Smith’s website.
I really like the entry photo that is up now.
Here’s a poem currently up on the coffeebreak page…
April 18, 2007
TARA
She stood by the door
of her Virginia farm
pulling a sweater on
the branches
of the dogwood
she had tended
were bowed
blossoms loosened
tossed in sudden snow
the deer stood
in mute [...]
Ali Allawi Interview on The Daily Show
Published by April 19th, 2007 in Iraq and Politics. 0 CommentsIf you want to learn a little about what’s going on in Iraq and where we might be headed, watch Jon Stewart interview former Iraqi Minister of Defense Ali Allawi on The Daily Show.
Part I
and Part II
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Why is the ongoing discussion and political fight over the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors so important?
Former Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson explained it quite well in a speech he made on April 1, 1940 to the United States Attorneys who were serving in each Federal Judicial District across the country.
The [...]
A recent editorial in The New York Times paid just and overdue tribute to those, in particular the federal courts, who have stymied the efforts of the Bush administration to gut America’s environmental laws and weaken the regulatory authority of federal agencies charged with enforcing them.
States led by California and New York deserve enormous credit [...]
