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"You can't expect to weild supreme Executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
- Monty Python's Flying Circus in the movie "The Holy Grail"
(ix-nay on ucrade-say, Mr Bush...)
"You can't expect to weild supreme Executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!"
- Monty Python's Flying Circus in the movie "The Holy Grail"
(ix-nay on ucrade-say, Mr Bush...)
A Tattoo for
Every Politician's Forehead - Charley Reese on "America First."
The Crisis Is Upon
Us - Ron Paul on the depression
'You've
Got a Gun on Your T-Shirt' - And other crimes in neo-America
Enabling
Tyranny - Paul Craig Roberts on ex-America
FISA
Bill's Real Target: What Remains of Our Open Society - The new FISA
law uses terrorism as a pretext to permit wholesale spying and would
seriously cripple our free press.
Homogeneity
Threatens Democracy - Across America, local culture has been
supplanted by fast food and sub-par Will Smith movies. No wonder people
don't care about hometown issues.
Banditti
In Blue - the drug war is used to militarize local law enforcement
Bush's
Secret Army of Snoops and Snitches - A new class of everyday spies,
from paramedics to utility workers, are being recruited to be
"terrorism liason officers."
Want
some torture with your peanuts? - Just when you thought you’ve
heard it all...
Who Killed the
Constitution? - The Fate of American Liberty from World War I
to George W. Bush
The
'Higher Powers': Martial Law vs. Christian Responsibility -
can Christianity be used to bring about a state of martial law?July 4th In Bizarro World - Butler Shaffer on the evil of state holidays
Change vs.
Victory - Tom Chartier on the race to be dictator
The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency - A shorter version of our long national nightmare
The 10 Most Awesomely Bad Moments of the Bush Presidency - A shorter version of our long national nightmare
'The
US is not a republic anymore' - An interview with Gore Vidal
How
Long Does Drug Prohibition Need to Continue Before It's Declared a
Failure? - The day we legalize drugs is the day we can begin to
clean up the mess that the drug prohibition experiment has created.
America's
Child Prisoners - In a year, ten thousand children caught crossing
the border unaccompanied are not immediately deported, but rather
detained in the US.George, We Have a Job For You in January - With the Army in Afghanistan, says Don Bacon
Counter-Culture Slide Show - The pop culture in 1968.
The Pornography of Power: How Defense Hawks Hijacked 9/11 and Weakened America - The huge "defense" spending going on in our name is irrational and costly, but there are powerful vested interests that want to keep it that way.
Thousands of Californians Sign Petition to Rename Sewage Plant After George W. Bush
Ron Paul's Statement on FISA - Statement on HR 6304, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments before the US House of Representatives, June 20, 2008
Senate Housing Bill Requires eBay, Amazon, Google, and All Credit Card Companies to Report Transactions to the Government - Broad, invasive provision touches nearly every aspect of American commerce Body Fat Holds The Key to Energy Independence - a 'modest proposal' from Barbara Ehrenreich
A Transportation Crisis, Not An Oil Crisis - We need better transportation technology, not more oil.
Ron Paul and Dwight D. Eisenhower – True Patriots
Squeezing the American Dream: Workers Face Diminishing Returns - A new book on plight of white-collar and blue-collar workers lays bare how the American dream is now out of the reach of tens of millions.
And in the spirit of the piece, a little music from Hank Williams, Jr. called "The American Dream"
America's Democratic Collapse
Bush's Bizarro World
Wall Street's Racket Has Gone Too Far, and We're Going to Pay the Heavy Price - There's a great wish for American finance to return to business-as-usual happy days of high profits, but there's just too much debt to swallow.
How the Government Is Passing Secret Laws - The government is undermining our rights by making laws in secret. Surprise, surprise.
Moyers: 'Democracy in America Is a Series of Narrow Escapes, and We May Be Running Out of Luck'
The Myths and Harsh Effects of Bush's Economic Class War - The recession of 2001 never ended -- at least not for ordinary Americans.
Thefts There Are – Safety Nets There Are Not
Life Expectancies Dropping, Wages Falling, Food Rationing Reported -- What the Hell is Going on?
Is Your Daily Life Enslaved by the Electronic World?
Memo Shows Bush Administration Says to Hell With Fourth Amendment Rights
Telecom Whistleblower Discovers Circuit that Allows Access to All Systems on Wireless Carrier—Phone Calls, Text Messages, Emails and More
If We Want to Survive the Climate Crisis We Must Change
Bush Cancels Presidential Election [VIDEO] - At the advice of President Musharraf, Bush declares state of emergency and postpones the upcoming election.
Candidates, Remember the Constitution?
The Onion: New Poll Shows Bullsh*t Is the Most Important Issue for US Voters [VIDEO]
George Bush Is Engaged in an Epic Battle to Cover His Ass
Every Year Brings Us Closer To 1984
The Surveillance Scam
FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including 'Shoot to Kill'
Immigrants Come Here Because Globalization Took Their Jobs Back There
A Polite Message from the Surveillance State
The Fraud of Bushenomics: They’re Looting the Country
Punishing Thought Crime: Would New Bill Make YOU a Terrorist?
Now the Theocrats Want 'American Religious History Week'
20 Annoying Things About 2007
Why The Counterculture Should Support Ron Paul
'Thought Crimes,' HR 1955 Passed With 404 Votes -Submit, Ye Citizens, Silently to State Murder
The American Dream is Alive and Well ... in Finland!
How to Really Love Your Country: Five Objectives for True Patriots
Pay It off Later: Debt Is the New American Dream
Dennis Kucinich Offers Cheney Impeachment Resolution
If Stephen Colbert Can't Get On A Presidential Ballot, Who Can?
Bill Maher - Stop Saying Iraq Is Another Vietnam; It's Another Enron
Jim Hightower - Is A Presidential Coup Under Way?
Favorite News Sites
Alternet
-
Progressive news and opinionLew Rockwell - I hardly agree with everything the Libertarians say they stand for, but these guys are _really_ good...
Hail Freedonia!
Democracy Now - A daily video news program featuring Progressive points of view
Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
TomPaine.commonsense - Progressive news and opinion
InfoWars - Alex Jones' alternative news site - you won't see these stories on Fox News ;-)
CNI Radio - The best in Computer News and Information
Favorite Blogs
and
Op-Ed
Keith Olbermann - One of CNBC's finest. Be sure to watch his very informative (and entertaining) show Countdown at 8pm EST
Bush, Waterboarding and Torture
- His commentary of the controversy surrounding our use of torture on prisoners [VIDEO]
Olbermann's Special Comment on FISA: President Bush Is a Liar and a Fascist [VIDEO]
Bambi's Musings - Musings from a Little Deer? Lots of good notes on technology and intellectual property issues
Paul Krassner- Perspective on current events from a 'raving, unconfined nut' and co-founder of the Yippies
And for a good laugh and some mind-altering articles, visit THE REALIST ARCHIVE PROJECT
His commentaries for the Huffington Post can be found HERE
Naomi Wolf - Author of "The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot"
Barbara Ehrenreich - The blog of the author of "Nickle and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America"
Jim Hightower- The quintessential Texas Progressive
Stand Up, Congress
Molly Ivins Archive- Op-Ed articles from the First Lady of Texas Journalism
(RIP? I doubt it... she just has a better Editor ;-)
Molly Ivins June 10th, 2004 -The Day The Constitution Died - That's the day the attorney general of the United States - a.k.a. 'the nation's top law enforcement officer' -- refused to provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with his department's memos concerning torture.
Listen to her commentary on George Bush's command of (or lack thereof) of the English language entitled:
Alex Jones - The Jones Report
Timeline To Tyranny - Ten advances towards the end of freedom and privacy in the United States
Uncle Ernie's Issues and Alibis - Liberal Thought & Humor
The Day
The Constitution Died- In My (not so) Humble Opinion :-)
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