Wednesday, February 8, 2012 Why Does a Routine FAA Spending Bill Include Harsh Anti-union Language? (2 comments)
Monday, February 6, despite 19 labor organizations writing a letter to Democrats calling on them to oppose the bill Democrats caved in a 75-20 vote to corporate interests.
Thursday, January 26, 2012 #OWS Arrests Cost US Dearly in Press Freedom (1 comments)
It has been a very tumultuous year for the Occupy movement, and even more so for the reporters and journalists who have covered the movement and it's principles. Throughout 2011 - reporters covering the movement were beaten - arrested and ultimately prevented from reporting on police action against Occupy protestors.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 $7.7 trillion to Wall Street - Anything to keep the Banksters Happy! (5 comments)
while Congress was debating back in 2008 whether or not to bailout Banksters with a $700 billion blank check, Elizabeth Duke, Donald Kohn and Kevin Warsh were just doing it. They were funneling $7.7 trillion to Wall Street under the table - without one constituent phone call - without worrying about one election - without having to give one explanation.
Thursday, November 3, 2011 Hartmann: Warning To The Gang Of 12 (6 comments)
We now know what both sides in the Gang of 12 have on the table to begin negotiations to reduce our nation's deficit. And looking at the Republican and Democratic proposals...we're screwed.
Monday, October 24, 2011 Why OWS Is The Next Republican Boogeyman (1 comments)
Barring another attack on America before November 2012, or the OWS movement turning violent, Republicans have lost their boogeyman. And so long as Tea Party control of the House of Representatives remains unbroken, Democrats have lost access to their Santa Claus.
Monday, October 10, 2011 Columbus Day - As Rape Rules Africa and American Churches Embrace Violent 'Christian' Video Games (6 comments)
Slavery, apartheid, and the entire concept of conservative Darwinian Economics, have been used to justify continued suffering by masses of human beings.
the Native American word wÃ-' -tiko (pronounced WET-ee-ko) describes the collection of beliefs that would produce behavior like that of Columbus. WÃ-' -tiko literally means "cannibal,"
Wednesday, September 28, 2011 If Obama Doesn't Want to Lead the Revolution - Young People Will (12 comments)
This is the revolution that Americans hoped for when Barack Obama pledged to "fundamentally change the United States and the world" when he was elected President in 2008. But so far - this pledge has been unfulfilled. Barack Obama was not much of a revolutionary. But ultimately - it was never about him - it was about us - and in particular it was about the young people - because all revolutions originate from the bottom up.
Thursday, September 8, 2011 Hartmann: Privatized Prisons...Criminal in a Democracy (3 comments)
Ohio Governor John Kasich made history yesterday - as Ohio became the first state in the history of this country to sell a state-owned prison to a for-profit private corporation.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 'Sons of Bitches' vs. 'Mother of all Wars' (20 comments)
As Warren Buffett put it way back in 2006, "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." But the Right's feigned outrage is rendered even more ridiculous thanks to a new report by Brad Friedman over at Mother Jones magazine who obtained an audio tape of a secret meeting of billionaires back in June in the mountains of Colorado.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 Hartmann: Destroying the Postal Service - another Manufactured Crisis (2 comments)
Why is the post office - which was created by Ben Franklin more than 200 years ago - on the verge of shuttering it's doors today? While the media story line is that the Post Office is dealing with the problem of trying to remain profitable in a world of decreasing paper mail - the real cause is actually something much, much different.
Saturday, September 3, 2011 Hartmann: Government is good...Rick Perry's Texas miracle? (1 comments)
Dan Gainor, Business and Media Institute joins Thom Hartmann. Rick Perry is a big government "socialist!" While Governor Good Hair is on the campaign trail touting his impressive record of job creation - census data shows most of that Texas job creation was thanks to...the government.
Saturday, September 3, 2011 Hartmann: Raed Jarrar - Wikileaks war crime was reported in Iraq - not the US (3 comments)
Raed Jarrar, Iraqi-American blogger and political analyst joins Thom Hartmann. So much for shock and awe - a new Wikileaks release details shock and horror in Iraq. One of the latest leaked state department cables - alleges that back during Bush's presidency in 2006 - U.S. troops executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians - including 5 children - and 4 women - and then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence.
Saturday, September 3, 2011 Here's what UnAmerican really is! (81 comments)
Apparently I ruffled some feathers over at the right wing website Newsbusters when I suggested that today's Republican Party is infected with a powerful strain of Anti-Americanism. And I'm not really sure if the right-wingers are upset with my argument - or upset with the fact that I took their buzz word.
Saturday, August 20, 2011 Caught? Fake conservative identities re-writing the web? (3 comments)
Earlier this year - ThinkProgress obtained hacked emails from the defense contractor HB Gary Federal - that suggest that - with the help of other security firms - HBGF was working with the Chamber of Commerce to sabotage Progressive organizations like ThinkProgress and the union SEIU.
Friday, August 19, 2011 Geeky Science -The Ultimate Spy tool (1 comments)
The journal Science is reporting this week that a super thin electronic patch that sticks to the skin like a temporary tattoo could transform medical sensing, computer gaming and even spy operations.
Thursday, August 18, 2011 Does big tobacco have the RIGHT to lie?
corporate law has evolved over the years to the point where there's virtually no risk to CEOs or stockholders, even when their company or product kills people - and even when they lie about it.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 How Republicans avoid angry constituents...outsourcing? (3 comments)
Republicans have figured out a way to both make a buck off of doing their public duty of meeting with constituents, and making sure that they never again have to answer an uncomfortable question. Here's how:
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Democracy Died First in Wisconsin -- Long Live the Oligarchs (36 comments)
The Wisconsin recall election was the first major test of the new era in American politics. That new era began in January of 2010 when the US Supreme Court ruled in "Citizens United v. FEC" that the political voice of We The People was no longer as important as the voices of billionaires and transnational corporations.
The Citizens United election experiment is over, and the oligarchs won. Long live the oligarchy.
Sunday, July 31, 2011 The Battle to Save Democracy (4 comments)
Opednews is, with author and publisher permission, reprinting Thom Hartmann's essential to read book, Unequal Protection, which explores the history, development and implications of corporate personhood. Thanks to Thom and publisher, Berrett-Koehler. This is the book's Introduction
Thursday, July 28, 2011 The Fingerprints of US Right-Wing Christian Terrorism on Norway Killings (2 comments)
More details are emerging now about why Anders Behring-Breivik set off a car bomb next to a government building in downtown Oslo last Friday. It turns out Breivik was taking his orders from the very same right-wingers who are spewing hate here in America.
Thursday, July 28, 2011 Thom Hartmann: The Question Republicans Can't Answer (7 comments)
Now is the time that we ask the Republicans a question - a question that I guarantee they can't answer. And that question is" "Can you name one thing - just one thing - that millionaires and billionaires will have to sacrifice in this debt-limit deal as part of a 'shared sacrifice' approach?"
Friday, July 22, 2011 Thom Hartmann: Final Words of Killer Cannot Be Ignored (2 comments)
America still has a hate hangover, even as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, Thom brings us the story of a young American who went on a killing spree after 9/11 looking for random Muslims. His last words offer us a look at our own hate and hypocrisy (VIDEO).
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Thom Hartmann: Important! Newt is right about the Supreme Court (5 comments)
The Founders wanted the greatest power to be closest to the people - and Congress is up for election every two years. It's the body in our representative democratic republic that is closest to the people. It's where they wanted most of the power, which is why it's defined in Article One of the Constitution - the first among equals.
Friday, July 8, 2011 Thom Hartmann: Republicans ran up the debt & now they don't want to pay the bills (2 comments)
What our nation is faced with today is a mountain of debt run up mostly by 3 Republican Presidents - Ronald Reagan - and the two Bushes. And now today - that very same Republican Party is saying "no way" to Democrats who just want to pay off that pile of Republican debt.
Friday, July 8, 2011 Thom Hartmann: Can Murdoch-style infotainment in America be stopped?
Faced with growing public outrage toward his British tabloid newspaper "News of the World" - Rupert Murdoch officially announced today he is shutting the paper down next week.
So what does all this mean for the state of media ownership in America? And now that a tabloid has imploded across the Atlantic - what effect could that have on Murdoch-style infotainment here in America?
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 The USA shouldn't be a death camp for the elderly! (6 comments)
In another sign of just how bad our nation is treating the working class - a new study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that most Americans today will have to work until their late seventies - before they can think about retiring.
Monday, April 4, 2011 Is the Demise of the Tea Party Near? (12 comments)
According to a new CNN poll -- the Tea Party's favorability rating has sunk to an all-time low -- just 32%. Thom talks about the REAL tea party.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 Massachusetts blogger says, "One down - 534 to go" (2 comments)
Thom has pointed out how the de-legitimaztion campaign waged by the far right justifies, for their warriors, the murder of members of government.
Monday, December 6, 2010 Tax Cut Lies: The Day The News Died (6 comments)
EVERYONE would have gotten a tax cut under the Democrats' proposal. Every single taxpayer in America, from the street-sweeper to Bill Gates. Everyone!
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 Michael Chertoff, Bend Over, Please" (33 comments)
If we are serious about stopping Middle Eastern zealots from attacking us, instead of blowing up our own Fourth Amendment right to be secure in our persons, let's stop blowing up Middle Eastern countries. Until then, it's just theatre -- with a few millions in profit for Chertoff and his friends.
Thursday, September 9, 2010 Our Infotainment-Based Media and a Mentally ill Cult Leader (2 comments)
The consequence of our infotainment-based media has been that a mentally ill cult leader with only 50 followers has been turned into an international celebrity.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010 Thom Hartmann Interviews Book burner pastor Terry jones (27 comments)
It is apparent that Terry Jones, pastor of the Dove World Church is doing Osama Bin Laden's work, doing the Devil's work by burning the Quran. It's tragic, and dangerous.
Friday, August 20, 2010 Iceland is Exporting the Truth (7 comments)
After Iceland's near-economic collapse exposed deep-rooted corruption, the country is looking to become a safe haven for journalists and whistleblowers from all around the world.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 The Real Problem is the Professional Right (2 comments)
because of the messaging incompetence of Mr Gibbs in the White House, and the cacophony of voices from the professional right, polls show that fewer than 5% of Americans know the difference between Obama's acutely effective stimulation plan and Bush's insane bank bail out plan.
Friday, August 6, 2010 Learning About Reality From Fiction: "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo"
Who owns the news? Who controls the news? What is the importance of independent media in a world where giant monoliths and monopolies have become the norm? And, most important, what is the relationship between news, in a free and open society and democracy?
Monday, July 26, 2010 The Importance of a Democrat in the White House... (6 comments)
some are wondering when they're going to repeal the minimum wage and child labor laws, as the last uber-conservative court did about 100 years ago.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010 The Racial Theory of "No Soul" is Once Again With Us.... (10 comments)
The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations(CAIR)is asking political candidates not to appear at racist Tea Party rally in Florida.
Saturday, July 10, 2010 Has Faux News Far Right-Wing Fear Mongering Paid Off? (2 comments)
Has over a year of Faux News right-wing fear mongering and calling President Obama a socialist finally paid off?
According to one new poll from the Democracy Corps, a majority at 55 percent of likely voters believe that the word "socialist" describes the president either "well" or "very well."
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Hiding it all from "The Little People" (3 comments)
the amount of oil leaked, the liability of BP are being hidden-- by BP, by Obama... and that sure isn't helping the little people.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010 The Hard Reich in the Republican Party Shows their True Stripes (14 comments)
Racist Republicans can't get over Brown vs Board of Education & Justice Marshall's role in the decision. Elena Kagan was one of his clerks & therefore tainted.
Sunday, June 27, 2010 This So-Called "Banking Reform" Bill (2 comments)
Big banks won big in this... The bottom line seems that, much like the so-called health insurance reform, there are a few really good bones in here thrown to consumers but the power, wealth, and monopoly of the big banks that, as Senator Byron Dorgan said of the US Senate, "They own this place," continue to own the Senate as well as you and me.
Thursday, May 13, 2010 A Toxic Naked Swap (7 comments)
On the Senate floor, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) lashed out at his own party for its financial reform bill, saying that if they don't fix the "too big to fail" provisions and better regulate credit default swaps, "then shame on us. We have a responsibility here. We cannot claim ever that we have done something about this system."
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 Tea Party Protesters Give a Big Wet Kiss to Hedge Fund Managers (2 comments)
Even though there are Tea Party protests about high taxes, a USA Today analysis of federal data shows that Americans paid the lowest level of taxes last year since the Harry Truman's presidency. Federal, state, local, property, sales, and other taxes are 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950.
The wealthy are scared people will remember when millionaires paid 74-90 percent taxes.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 The Real Conflict Behind Refried Beans & Swastikas... (4 comments)
The conflict over the all encompassing crackdown on illegal immigration in Arizona heated up Monday as vandals smeared refried beans in the shape of swastikas on the state Capitol's windows.
People are upset in America because 30 years of Reaganomics has destroyed the American Middle Class, most of the problem being with Romney-style Private Equity firms buying American businesses, saddling them with debt, stripping them
Friday, April 23, 2010 Profiling CEOs and Their Sociopathic Paychecks (10 comments)
what part of being a CEO could be so difficult-so impossible for mere mortals-that it would mean that there are only a few hundred individuals in the United States capable of performing it?
In my humble opinion, it's the sociopath part.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 How much should the CEO of WellPoint get? (13 comments)
Angela Braly, the CEO of health insurance giant WellPoint just received a whopping $13.1 million in pay, a 51 percent increase in compensation in 2009.
This at the same time "WellPoint's California subsidiary, Anthem Blue Cross, is seeking a double-digit rate increases for many of its 800,000 members who buy individual policies."
Monday, March 29, 2010 A Bow to Money; Supreme Court's Citizen's United Ruling's Impact Extended
In a decision that shows the extended impact of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down limits on contributions to political groups that spend money to support or oppose candidates.
Thursday, March 25, 2010 The Right-Wing Crazies Among Us (4 comments)
It's time for us all to call out these Republicans and demand that they repudiate violence and threats, and that they stop encouraging the right-wing crazies in their base, before something really bad happens.
Thursday, March 11, 2010 Thomas Jefferson on Student Lending.... (14 comments)
Six Democrats have sided with banks, against the Landmark Student Lending Reform. Who are they? Bill Nelson (Fl.), Tom Carper (Del.), Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Jim Webb (Va.), Mark Warner (Va.) and Ben Nelson (Neb.).
...how do these people sleep at night or look themselves in the mirror?
Monday, March 8, 2010 Why are we the only stupid industrialized country in the world? (3 comments)
The postal service this week announced it would be cutting as many as 30,000 jobs through attrition - using hiring freezes as workers retire or quit.
According to American Postal Workers Union president William Burrus, cutting the U.S. Postal Service delivery to five days a week would be the beginning of the demise of the Post office. Burrus says it's not true that the postal service has to initiate major changes to survive
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 Green Jobs here?...or China? (3 comments)
A group of Democratic senators is concerned that the Obama administration's efforts to promote economic stimulus, aimed at financing renewable energy, is creating jobs in foreign countries.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010 Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies (2 comments)
Globalization is the villain here, and one that needs to be taken in hand and brought under control quickly if we don't want to see virtually the nations of the world end up subservient to corporate control, a new form of an ancient economic system known as feudalism.
Monday, February 8, 2010 Globalization Is Killing The Globe: Return to Local Economies (13 comments)
Globalization is killing Europe, just as it's already wiped out much of the American middle class.
Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers who are paying for those benefits aren't making anything close to the income (or, therefore, paying the taxes) that their parents did.
Thursday, December 24, 2009 The Holiday Gift This Country Needs... (9 comments)
The gift our country needs this Holiday season is an economy that serves us instead of us just serving those who own or control most of the economy.
We need policies that bring our jobs back home and make it possible for us to return to buying American.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 Healthcare: First They Came for the Banksters (12 comments)
We're awake, we're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it any more. Natalie Portman to Matt Taibbi to Arianna Huffington to Bill Moyers represent the span of our four awakened generations; generations who have figured out how the game is played. And don't like it.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 80 years ago today (3 comments)
80 years ago today, on October 29th, 1929, Wall Street saw the worst day in its history. The shock of "Black Tuesday" came to an end, but the misery of the Republican Great Depression was just beginning.
Friday, October 23, 2009 Corporate Media Collusion Helps Fox (2 comments)
what's this? All the bureau chiefs stonewall the White house in defense of FOx
Saturday, September 5, 2009 Climate Change Crunch Time
The Arctic is hotter than it's been in 2,000 years and what's startling is - it should be cooling because of differences in the Earth's orbit that result in the region getting less direct sun.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009 A Modest Medicare Proposal (10 comments)
We elected you because we expected you to have the courage of your convictions. Here's how. Not the "single payer Medicare for all" that many of us would prefer, but a simple, "Medicare for anybody who wants to buy in."
Monday, August 17, 2009 From Thom Hartmann; Dear President Obama: A Modest Medicare Proposal (12 comments)
I understand you're thinking of dumping your "public option" because of all the demagoguery by Sarah Palin and Dick Armey and Newt Gingrich and their crowd on right-wing radio and Fox. Fine. Good idea, in fact.
Instead, let's make it simple. Please let us buy into Medicare.
Tuesday, July 21, 2009 The Great Tax Con Job (23 comments)
today the uber-rich are spending hundreds of millions to make sure words like "burden" are always associated with the word "tax," and to convince average working people that they should throw out of office any politicians who are willing to raise taxes on the rich.
Saturday, July 18, 2009 The Deciding Moment: The Theft of Human Right (1 comments)
From Chapter Six, "The Deciding Moment" of "Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights".
There is comparatively little difference in the strength of men; a corporation may be one hundred, one thousand, or even one million times stronger than the average man. Man acts under the restraints of conscience, and is influenced also by a belief in a future life. A corporation has no soul and...
Thursday, July 16, 2009 Obama Drinks Friedman's Kool-Aid (8 comments)
Thom Hartmann discusses Obama's interest in "free trade" solutions and why "free trade" is really a "ticket to the poorhouse."
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 Time to Restore Accountability (8 comments)
There are three important stories in the news about the Bush administration.
Mass murders in Afghanistan, assassination squads kept secret, by Cheney, from congress, and harsh interrogation techniques.
Together, these decisions have created an atmosphere of kingly power around the presidency - exactly what the Founders wanted to prevent.
President Obama has an opportunity now to shatter these terrible precedents...
Monday, July 6, 2009 Fascism Coming to a Court Near You; Corporate Personhood and the Roberts' Court (5 comments)
Thanks to the Roberts Supreme court, In just a few months, we may again stand at the same crossroad Roosevelt and Wallace confronted during the Great Depression and World War II. Fascism is rising in America, this time calling itself "compassionate conservatism," and "the free market" in a "flat" world. The point of its spear is "corporate personhood" and "corporate free speech rights."
Monday, March 23, 2009 The Real Criminals Are Neither Lynndie England nor the AIG Traders (9 comments)
...the real criminals of the AIG mess - and the entire financial meltdown that was set up between 1999 and 2006 and crashed starting in 2007 - were Grover Norquist, Phil and Wendy Graham, Tom Delay, and, sadly, Bill Clinton.
Monday, February 16, 2009 The Ghost of Vice President Wallace Warns: "It Can Happen Here" (5 comments)
Written in 2004, and published by CommonDreams.org, Henry Wallace's quoted article comes into focus ever clearer after the "meltdown" toward the end of GW Bush's 2nd term. Progressives can be advised to save it in their documents after that term finally (!) ended.
Thursday, January 29, 2009 Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years (15 comments)
This weekend, House Republican leader John Boehner played out the role of Jude Wanniski on NBC's "Meet The Press."
Odds are you've never heard of Jude, but without him Reagan never would have become a "successful" president, Republicans never would have taken control of the House or Senate, Bill Clinton never would have been impeached, and neither George Bush would have been president.
Friday, December 19, 2008 Alexander Hamilton's Advice To The Obama Administration (7 comments)
Alexander Hamilton, in 1791, proposed to the United States our first true industrial policy. We adopted it over the next few years, Abraham Lincoln reaffirmed it fourscore years later, and it was again affirmed by every President of the United States until Reagan began his now-28-year "Reagan Revolution" which has disassembled America's industrial base and impoverished our nation.
Thursday, December 18, 2008 Three Cups of Tea for Rick Warren (34 comments)
While some consider homophobe Rick Warren to be THE guy with a bullseye on his back for progressives, consider the metaphor of the three cups of tea for a moment.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008 Caroline Kennedy as Jimmy Stewart? (9 comments)
The bloviators say that Caroline Kennedy doesn't have enough "experience" in the political world to be a US Senator. "She's not tested," they say. "We don't know her positions."
What they're really saying is that she's not an insider, not part of the old-boy network, and thus not predictable.
Predictability is the key of get-along/go-along politics. Politicians are terrified of anything that may present a risk to them.
Monday, September 29, 2008 How Wall Street Can Bail Itself Out Without Destroying the Dollar (6 comments)
We've done it before. We financed the Spanish American War and partially financed the Civil War, WWI, and WWII with STETs. We stabilized our stock market with a STET from the mid-30s to 1966, and other nations are doing it today. It's time to do it again, this time using the STET so tax Wall Street can pay for its own bailout.
Friday, September 26, 2008 How Wall Street Can Bail Itself out without Destroying the Dollar (6 comments)
Create an agency to fund the bailout, loan that agency the money from the Treasury, and then have that agency tax Wall Street to pay us (the Treasury) back.
It's been done before, and has several benefits.
Friday, October 12, 2007 Ann Coulter and Justice Antonin Scalia to Synagogue - Jews Are Safer with Christians in Charge (9 comments)
The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) called on media to stop inviting Ann Coulter as a guest commentator and strongly condemned her comments that Jews should be "perfected" by accepting the New Testament and that America would be better off if Judaism were "thrown away" and all Americans were Christian.
"While Ann Coulter has freedom of speech, news outlets should exercise their freedom to use better judgment,"
Monday, September 24, 2007 Columbia University Shows True American Values (33 comments)
Columbia University, by inviting Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak, has shown confidence in the wisdom and adultness of their students and our republic.
Tuesday, September 11, 2007 The Problem With a "War" Strategy (2 comments)
The eerie juxtaposition of General Betrayus testifying today before Congress, and it being 9/11 (which helped Bush bring us disasters ranging from the PATRIOT Act to the Iraq War and Occupation) brings an opportunity to re-understand what's been happening here and in Iraq these past six years, and offers an insight into a way forward.
Monday, August 6, 2007 Roll Back the Reagan Tax Cuts (2 comments)
Our bridges are falling apart (among other things), and its Ronald Reagans fault.
Thursday, June 21, 2007 The Ultimate Felony Against Democracy: Privatizing Our Vote (9 comments)
This article is worth a new look.Why have we let corporations into our polling places, locations so sacred to democracy that in many states even international election monitors and reporters are banned?Why are we allowing corporations to exclusively handle our vote,in a secret and totally invisible way?Particularly a private corporation founded,in one case, by a family that believes the Bible should replace the Constitution...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 James Madison - "Impeach Bush Over Purgegate!" (2 comments)
According to James Madison, the "Father of the Constitution," if a President were to order or allow the "wanton removal of meritorious officers" such as US attorneys, such an action "would subject the President to impeachment and removal from his own high trust." The issue of the firing of people within the Executive branch for political purposes came up during a debate in 1789.
Monday, February 12, 2007 Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most American Human Right (8 comments)
When a demi-tyrant like Vladimir Putin begins lecturing the United States, as he did just a few days ago, on how our various behaviors over the past five years have "nothing in common with democracy," we should pay attention.
