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BUSH SLIPS FROM DENIAL TO DELUSION

Friday, 31 December 2004 2:34 P GMT-07
Here is the second article dealing with Bush's awarding of the Presidential Medals of Failure a couple of weeks ago. This piece is by Bob Herbert, who is on the verge of joining my personal pantheon of best newspaper columnists which includes Robert

PRESIDENTIAL MEDALS OF FAILURE

Friday, 31 December 2004 2:31 P GMT-07
I've noticed that at various times the sources I depend on for posts on this blog site seem to have both "hot" and "cold" periods.  For a week or two one source  --  perhaps Common Dreams, or TruthOut or Tom Paine or BuzzFlash

MILITARY MORALE DETERIORATING

Thursday, 30 December 2004 6:50 P GMT-07
William Pfaff, writing for yesterday's International Herald Tribune, looks at the relations between the U.S. military and the civilian political leadership and notes that it is continuing a dangerous pattern of deterioration that started with Vie

JUST DON'T DO IT JUST WON'T CUT IT

Wednesday, 29 December 2004 5:36 P GMT-07
Since we're on the topic, here's another good piece about the "abstinence-only" anti-sex mis-education policy that the Bushies are so fond of.  Three articles in one day on this topic is probably a case of over-kill, but what the heck!  T
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KNOWLEDGE IS POWER

Wednesday, 29 December 2004 10:28 A GMT-07
Here is another commentary on the Bush administration's badly flawed, but lavishly funded "abstinence only" sex education program.  Not only is it failing to accomplish what its proponents hope for, but it is full of "errors, misrepre

"ABSTINENCE-ONLY" BREEDS IGNORANCE

Wednesday, 29 December 2004 10:26 A GMT-07
The Bush administration is increasing funding for its "abstinence-only" program of sex mis-education in our public schools, even though this type of program is based on the proposition that knowledge is dangerous.  Instead of presenting a

"NOT ONE DAMN DIME DAY"

Tuesday, 28 December 2004 5:33 P GMT-07
A friend forwarded this email to me.  Don't know where it originated, but it sounds like a great idea to me.  I ask all readers -- at least those in the U.S. -- to read it and pass it along.  --  Bryce."Not One Damn Dime Day"Subject: K

EMPEROR BUSH'S NEW CLOTHES

Monday, 27 December 2004 7:58 P GMT-07
G. W. Bush increasingly assumes the role -- at least in his own eyes -- of Emperor of the World.  Even though his actions reveal him to be as naked as the Emperor in the Hans Christian Anderson story, he still persists in playing the role and attem

CHRISTMAS SPIRIT NOT DEAD YET

Friday, 24 December 2004 8:50 P GMT-07
O.K.  Now I can really say, "Merry Christmas!"  The mealy-mouthed bigots and hypocrites of the religious right are not the only people in the world.  Here are some people who really understand the meaning of Christmas.  They give me hop

ADDING INSULT TO INJURY

Friday, 24 December 2004 6:21 P GMT-07
It's difficult to wish anyone a Merry Christmas this year with any sincerity.  Too much has gone wrong and is still going wrong for us to find much joy in the world, and there is certainly no peace on earth.  It is difficult even to hope for impro

HOLIER THAN THOU CROWD GAINING ASCENDANCY

Thursday, 23 December 2004 4:49 P GMT-07
Another article from the Dec. 20, Liberal Opinion Week, http://www.liberalopinion.com , on the ascendency in this country of the evangelical fundamentalist brand of Christianity.  Call them the "holier than thou" crowd, or the "Christ

PREACHING BIGOTRY & INTOLERANCE

Thursday, 23 December 2004 3:58 P GMT-07
Having ventured into the realm of economics in yesterday's blogs, it may not be a total surprise if I turn today to religion.  As most readers will be aware, we have a President who believes that he takes orders directly from God which guarantees th
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WORRIED MEN SING WORRIED SONGS

Wednesday, 22 December 2004 3:09 P GMT-07
O.K.  Enough for awhile on economics and fiscal policies.  Back to the sad reality of the present where people are killing and dying.  One wonders how much longer Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their crowd can keep telling us, with straight faces, how

BORROWING CHRISTMAS

Wednesday, 22 December 2004 1:43 P GMT-07
This is the second of the articles by Cox Newspaper columnists that were published in the Dec. 13, 2004, issue of Liberal Opinion Week , http://www.liberalopinion.com .  Tom Blackburn, columnist for the Palm Beach Post analyzes how the massive and u

BUSH PLAN: SOCIAL INSECURITY

Wednesday, 22 December 2004 1:42 P GMT-07
I've never had a particularly strong interest in economic issues or policy so I've, perhaps, neglected that general topic here on this blog site.  Well, today I've decided to deal with that, to me, often prosaic subject.  Our president and his pol
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TORTURE EPIDEMIC TRACED TO RUMSFELD

Monday, 20 December 2004 4:32 P GMT-07
The torture of Iraqi prisoners, or "detainees," by the U.S. military is approaching epidemic status.  The trail of responsibility appears more and more to be directly traceable to the top civilian in the Department of Defence, Donald Rums

THE MEDIA'S WINTER OF 'DISREMORSE'

Sunday, 19 December 2004 5:41 P GMT-07
I was thinking of entitling this post "The Lyin' in Winter" which would have been quite appropriate, but I liked the writer's term "disremorse" too well to pass it by. Anyway, the commentary has more to do with the failure of the

NEO-FASCISTS AT WORK UNDER BUSH

Sunday, 19 December 2004 1:34 P GMT-07
I always like to post comments by Molly Ivins who is living proof that not all Texans are being fooled by the Bush cabal.  This column was writtten just before Thanksgiving and parts of it are a little out of date.  I apologize for the delay in pos

BUSH TAX 'REFORMS' FAVOR WEALTH OVER WORK

Saturday, 18 December 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
Still trying to catch up while coping with the holidays.  It's time to take a look at what Bush and company are thinking in term of tax policies for his second term.  Nobody better to do this than Gene Lyons who likens the Bush "reform" a
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ROUGH TIMES FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM

Thursday, 16 December 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
Ex-senator Phil Gramm (R-Tex) once remarked that the U.S. was the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat. He was trying to make the point that there are no poor people in the U.S., that everyone is well-fed.  The statement, of

OUR BOORISH 'BRING 'EM ON' SOCIETY

Thursday, 16 December 2004 5:06 P GMT-07
I'm still trying to get caught up here.  Well maybe I can blame it on the holiday season where lots of additional activities intrude on the usual day-to-day patterns.  Another of those "immoral values" that seem to dominate so much of our

HYPING PHONY TERROR THREATS -- THEN & NOW

Monday, 13 December 2004 10:43 A GMT-07
The Bush administration has been cynically and successfully hyping terror threats ever since the 9/11 attacks in order to hoodwink the public into support for their policies.  And they've been doing it very successfully, taking advantage of a frigh

FULL GALLOP DOWN THE ROAD TO FASCISM

Sunday, 12 December 2004 11:59 P GMT-07
A friend emailed me this after she received it from a friend.  So it's slowly being circulated around. It's actually a sermon by a Unitarian minister delivered on Nov. 7, 2004.  (Wow. first sermon I've ever posted here!)  It's kind of long (par fo

NEOCON COUP NEARLY COMPLETE

Friday, 10 December 2004 11:31 A GMT-07
Over a year and a half or so of posting to this site, Robert Scheer has emerged as the columnist that has gained my highest level of respect. I've found that his comments and insights are invariably right on target. Here is a column written about 3 w

NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION THREAT NEEDS ATTENTION

Thursday, 9 December 2004 11:04 A GMT-07
I'm getting behind again so will try to do some catching up.  Robert Scheer always has something to say that's worth our attention.  In this commentary he notes that Pakistan has a key role to play in regards to preventing nuclear proliferation. 

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