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SUBVERSIVES NOT SAINTS - PART II

Tuesday, 31 May 2005 5:26 P GMT-07
Here's the second in the series by Steve Weissman on the attempts by members of the "Christian Right" to break down the barrier between church and state.  This on focuses on Judge Roy Moore and his obsession over the 10 Commandments.  I a

'TRUTH IS THE DAUGHTER OF TIME'

Sunday, 29 May 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
When the president of the United States can lie repeatedly and get away with it, other members of his administration and his party are not slow to take the cue and do likewise.  It's gotten so bad that everyone connected with the Bush administration

WHY WE NEED A RESOLUTION OF INQUIRY

Saturday, 28 May 2005 2:00 P GMT-07
The following report written by Larisa Alexandrovna for The Raw Story, http://www.rawstory.com , fills out the details of the effort of a number of progressive citizen activist groups to urge Congress to file a Resolution of Inquiry into the lies, di
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HONOR VICTIMS OF BUSH'S WAR

Saturday, 28 May 2005 12:47 P GMT-07
OK.  I said yesterday that I'd be posting several more in the series of Steve Weissman articles dealing with the effect that the Religeous Right is having - or attempting to have - on our country.  I still intend to post them, but other events come

SUBVERSIVES NOT SAINTS - Part I

Friday, 27 May 2005 10:13 P GMT-07
This is the first in a series of commentaries by Steve Weissman that I'm going to be posting here.  They deal with what is happening in regards to the fundamentalist demagogues who are collectively known as the "religious right."  For an

BIPARTISAN MOVES ENCOURAGING

Thursday, 26 May 2005 2:40 P GMT-07
For almost the first time since 2000 there have been some significant bipartisan actions in Congress.  That has to be an encouraging sign.  It indicates some stiffening of spines on the part of members of both parties in the intrest of putting loya
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COVER-UP OF A LIFETIME

Monday, 23 May 2005 1:43 P GMT-07
I've posted two previous blogs on the subject of the so-called "smoking gun memo," on May 7 and May 10.  In both, especially the May 10 blog, I've raised the question of why the media has virtually ignored this major news item.  Here we
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SHADOW ECLIPSES SUBSTANCE

Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
In the well publicised CBS goof over Bush's Air National Guard service (or lack of service) during the presidential campaign, a forged letter was a spurious source even though it had the information correct.  Now the same thing has happened with th

U.S. INSULARITY LEADS TO BLUNDERS

Saturday, 21 May 2005 9:04 P GMT-07
I majored in history during my undergraduate years in college and it has always been one of my favorite subjects.  A close second, or maybe even equal, has been an interest in geography.  Having said that you'll understand why I chose to post this

IRAQ WAR 'A PACK OF LIES' - GALLOWAY

Thursday, 19 May 2005 3:02 P GMT-07
Here is the transcript of the testimony by British M.P. George Galloway before the Senate Committee on investigations chaired by Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN).  The committee is supposed to be investigating evidence of corruption in the United Nation's O

BONNIE GALLOWA'

Wednesday, 18 May 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
I don't know how many readers of this blog got to watch the U.S. Senate committee hearing yesterday supposedly to expose fraud in the UN "Oil For Food Program."  If you didn't, you really missed something!  I got to see part of it and am

STOP THE BLEEDING & THE PROPAGANDA

Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:23 A GMT-07
I've posted Jim Hightower's comments here before.  They're always to the point and usually brief.  His excellent monthly newsletter, The Hightower Lowdown is available by subscription, for only $15 per year. It's also available online at http://

TRUTH CATCHING UP TO BUSH

Monday, 16 May 2005 3:04 P GMT-07
There's an old proverb that's always good to keep in mind: "Truth is the daughter of time."  In other words, over time truths that have been covered up, ignored, hidden or forgotton, have a way of manefesting themselves, gaining ascendan
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BUSH PLAN WOULD STIFF MIDDLE CLASS

Saturday, 14 May 2005 4:32 P GMT-07
Economist Paul Krugman takes a look at Bush's plan for "progressive price indexing" of social security and finds -- like everything else that comes out of the White House -- it would not do what the Bushies are telling us it would do.  The

BUSH BUDGET IS IMMORAL

Friday, 13 May 2005 1:35 P GMT-07
The Bush budget, presented last month, is immoral argues Mary Ellen McNish.  Another huge tax cut for the rich -- continuing the "welfare for the wealthy" policy of this administration -- and obscene expenditures devoted to killing people
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CRIMINALS BELONG IN PRISON

Wednesday, 11 May 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
As I promised yesterday, here is another essay regarding the leaked British memo that provides hard evidence that Bush lied to us, to the British, to the Congress and to the world in order to try to justify his illegal war of aggression against Iraq

U.S. MEDIA IGNORES SMOKING-GUN MEMO

Tuesday, 10 May 2005 4:22 P GMT-07
On May 7, I posted a blog "No Hiding Place For Bush Now,"  with Ray McGovern's story about the leaked British memo which proves that Bush and Co. had already decided to attack Iraq before he asked Congress to grant him the authority to do

RELIGIOUS RIGHT OUT OF CONTROL

Monday, 9 May 2005 3:41 P GMT-07
The religious right is rapidly getting out of control and acting more and more like the neo-fascists they really are behind their "Christian" vestments.  I heard this morning for the first time about the Baptist minister in North Carolina

TORTURE DEMANDS ACCOUNTABILITY

Monday, 9 May 2005 12:11 P GMT-07
Columnist Bob Herbert has been referred to as "the conscience of the New York Times," the paper for which he writes a regular column.  I think the description is apt.  (If you want to learn why, take a look at the two blogs I posted on M

NO HIDING PLACE FOR BUSH NOW

Saturday, 7 May 2005 2:58 P GMT-07
Some time ago I posted a blog about the Silberman Commission report on the Iraq invasion which seemed to put all the blame for that mistaken blunder on "poor intelligence."  As a result the media quickly fell into step faulting the CIA i

THE LEFT'S STRATEGIC MISSTEP

Friday, 6 May 2005 11:59 P GMT-07
Yesterday, I slammed the Democrats - especially those representing the party in the Congress - for the many times some of them have caved in and voted for Bush initiatives enabling them to pass.  Today's blog is also critical of Democrats and the L
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DEMS: WE NEED A CHOICE NOT AN ECHO

Thursday, 5 May 2005 1:14 P GMT-07
I rake the Republicans over the coals on a regular basis here.  The Democrats are not as bad, but they're far from perfect, so now it's their turn.  My main criticism of the Democrats has been their often pathetic spinelessness.  It's the main rea

REALITY LOSES TO IDEOLOGY

Wednesday, 4 May 2005 2:31 P GMT-07
This must be Jay Bookman week!  Two of his columns in succession.  He's on a roll, folks!  G.W. Bush and his neocon/neo-fascist cohorts frequently deride any effort to look at the reality of the state of things in our country and our world.  They

'A CULTURE OF ENFORCED CONSENSUS'

Tuesday, 3 May 2005 11:25 A GMT-07
Jay Bookman is deputy editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for which the following commentary was written.  It was reprinted in Liberal Opinion Week and posted online by Common Dreams News Center, http://www.commondreams.org .
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BUSH STRIKES OUT ON CURVEBALL

Tuesday, 3 May 2005 10:32 A GMT-07
I've gotten way behind again in regards to items that I felt were worth posting here.  I'll try to catch up a bit by limiting my own intrductory comments which tend to take up a lot of time.  The reference here is to the Iraqi nutcase with the imag

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