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Obama Disappoints Again

May 10, 2010

Barack Obama's campaign theme as he ran for president was "change we can believe in." He delivered that message in a compelling fashion and tens of millions of Americans responded. After Obama was elected by a clear mandate from the American people, an incoherent, angry astroturf far right movement developed. The Tea Party was born. [...]

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Does McCain Believe In America?

May 5, 2010

U.S. citizens, when arrested or detained, have the right to remain silent. They have the right to an attorney. Law enforcement cannot, legally, force an American citizen to tell them anything. That's the law…..has been for quite awhile. Why, then, do Great Warriors, like Senator John McCain…..call that American right, that American law…"a serious mistake?" [...]

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Must See Teevee

April 6, 2010

I caught a piece of the Dylan Ratigan show yesterday afternoon on MSNBC. He played a classified-but-leaked video from Iraq taken in 2007. Kudos to Ratigan for having the testicular fortitude to air such a controversial video. The video was originally leaked to the website, Wikileaks.org. The video is disturbing. Fair warning and all that. [...]

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Tasering Pregnant Women

March 27, 2010

Do you want to read a news story that is guaranteed to frost your cookies? You know you do…. From Seattle…. Malaika Brooks was driving her son to Seattle's African American Academy in 2004 when she was stopped for doing 32 mph in a school zone. She insisted it was the car in front of [...]

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Different President, Same Lawlessness

March 12, 2010

President Obama, despite his many campaign attacks on the "lawless" Bush-Cheney regime, has continued those same Bush policies…. From a Washington Post piece, March 5, 2010…. An interagency review of all cases at Guantanamo Bay concluded that about 50 prisoners will have to be held in some form of prolonged detention without trial, because the [...]

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Cover-Up Completed

February 20, 2010

Torture on dudes. The Justice Department has released the long-awaited report on the torture memos and the conduct of Bush Administration lawyers including John Yoo. While the final report by the department's internal watchdog, the Office of Professional Responsibility, found that attorneys John Yoo and Jay Bybee engaged in professional misconduct, top DOJ official David [...]

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Desperately Seeking Attention

February 4, 2010

It started during the 2008 presidential campaign. Republicans exclusively appealing to the radical-right base. Sarah Palin was front and center leading the effort, spewing nonsensical contradictions, ignorant and mistaken sound bites, and wild-eyed wingnut-pleasing mockery of Democrats, specifically Obama. After the GOP's crushing defeat in that election cycle, I appealed to Republicans to quit talking, [...]

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Neo-Con Words Matter

January 8, 2010

Almost cartoonishly…..check that…..cartoonishly, Republican political opportunists, like Peter King (R-NY), have been chastising President Obama for not using the words "terror" and "terrorist" enough when communicating to the American people. "I think one main thing would be to — just himself, to use the word terrorism more often." The as yet undicted war criminal, Richard [...]

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Won't This Endanger The Troops?

January 3, 2010

Good 2007 Fox article about the U.S. State Dept. granting immunity to Blackwater killers. State Department officials have reportedly granted several Blackwater employees immunity from prosecution in its case of last month's deadly shootings of 17 Iraqi civilians, …one source indicated the Department of Justice and the FBI feel hamstrung by the immunity grant, which [...]

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Very Disappointing

December 11, 2009

What if The Reverend, at the end of 2009, were to start defending the George W. Bush presidency? That would be quite a turnabout, wouldn't it? Pigs will fly, of course, before I would even consider doing anything so irresponsible. However, for President Barack Obama….defending the George W. Bush presidency is becoming a full time [...]

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