From The Daily Kos on Alabama’s House campaigns.
3 of 5 GOP incumbent congressman are running unopposed as of right now, and the filing deadline is at 5:00 central time. We need candidates to run against these thugs.
Doesn’t sound to me like the well-oiled machine that is going to take back control of the House…
Here’s a video I found of Governor Arnold smoking a fat joint and, my favorite, wearing a shirt that says “Arnold is Numero Uno.”
My friend was a flight attendant for Universal Studios and said whenever she had to fly […]
The idea with publicly funded “Clean Elections” is that politicians should spend their time listening to their constituents instead of selling tickets to $200/plate dinners to pay for their campaigns. The current system seems so obviously flawed that it’s a wonder that we have it at all.
Supporting democracy is our goverment’s main function. So […]
I first heard about Alexi Giannoulias about a year ago. His father started a bank near my neighborhood in Chicago in the late 70s. Alexi has been the bank’s VP and Senior Loan Officer for the past four years, and his name sometimes comes up in conversations about local businesses.
I heard about him […]
I was reading this article in the Guardian and it prompted me to write the following letter to my congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, House Minoritly “Leader.”
Impeachment is more important than the fall election. Justice must be served if our laws are to have any meaning. Our President thumbs his nose repeatedly at the enacted laws of […]
It seems the Bush administration and US interests are helping to prop up another ruthless dictator and creating of another terrorist hotbed over in Uzbekistan. I was just reading through telegrams written by former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray. “The Register“:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/30/murray_lets_slip_blogs/ has the story on the documents. Below are some excerpts from Murray’s telegrams. […]
Yesterday on Democracy Now, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh played down the story of secret CIA prisons and torture as “not where the real game is.”
AMY GOODMAN: By the way, do you believe that the secret prisons are in Romania and Poland, as Human Rights Watch believes, that the Washington Post won’t name, but exposed?
SEYMOUR […]
Check out Congressman Conyers’ response to Frist’s tizzy over the Democrats closing the Senate doors.
“Never have I been slapped in the face with such an affront to the leadership of this grand institution.” - Senate Majority Leader Bill FristSorry Senator Frist, but having to face questions about why we are fighting a war based on […]
So, the founding fathers are quite dead now. Why do they still get a voice?
If Scooter Libby winds up in some cushy white-collar detention facility, he’ll have more time to do what he’s really passionate about: writing bad erotic fiction. And he’s got some company in the Family Values crowd. Lauren Collins writes in The New Yorker’s Talk of the Town,
Libby has a lot to live up […]