145 Articles

Thursday, November 19, 2009
HHS Task Force Mammogram Recs Slammed
(11 comments) Now it's time to find out how this HHS research organization could impanel a group of experts to recommend cancer treatment protocols when none of the physicians on the panel were oncologists and none had any identified clinical experience treating cancer.

Thursday, November 12, 2009
How We Got to Zero: General Eikenberry's Hail Mary
(8 comments) How did we get from McChrystal's request for 50,000 troop requests in early October to Eikenberry's "written reservations about deploying additional troops" just days before President Obama's planned decision?

Saturday, November 7, 2009
Foreign Contributions and the Supreme's Overdue Decision on Campaign Funding
(1 comments) Will the Supreme's open the door to foreign contributions to U.S. elections in their upcoming decision on campaign financing? Did Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put a poinson pill in the mix that prevents that outrage?

Monday, November 2, 2009
Failure by Design - The "Public" Option
(7 comments) The failure of the public option is no accident. It's all part of the long con that limits critical debate to unacceptable options advanced by allegedly differing parties. These debates always end the same way -- the perpetuation of the major corporate interests, the retention of those in power, and oligarchy; the triumph of The Money Party.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009
A Censored Headline and why it Matters:
(6 comments) Have you heard that one of the world's leading economic powers, the fourth largest economy in the world, banned electronic voting; said it was undemocratic?

Sunday, October 11, 2009
"Deficit Neutral" Health Care Reform
(4 comments) How does it feel to have your government place your health behind the needs of Wall Street crooks and advocates of endless war? Get used to it. We're number three and dropping all the time. Denying our medical needs is now a form of involuntary national service.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The G-20 Announces the "New World Order"
(6 comments) The people who brought the world to this state of decline and struggle are still in charge. They're fixing the very problems they created. What's their solution? Change the way banks are regulated.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
What Obama Actually Said About Health Reform
(17 comments) President Obama closed his address to the joint session of Congress by scolding those who have raised the absurd charges regarding his health care initiative. It was well timed and diverted attention from fundamental flaws in his proposal.

Friday, August 21, 2009
Screwing the Self Employed Out of Health Insurance
(3 comments) Hear anything about the self employed in the health care debate. They struggle to get affordable, decent health insurance in nearly every state. Why aren't they a prime target to support real health care reform?

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Corporate Tantrums Can We Trust these Companies with Our Health?
(2 comments) In view of the shouting, screaming and violent images presented at recent town hall meetings - sponsored by some major health insurers - who would trust these health insurance companies with their medical care and that of their families?

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Do you deserve to die?
(2 comments) Which major figures on either side of the debate address universal health care as a life or death issue? Who among the advocates of rationing are without health insurance? Who among them are unable to afford or obtain their own critical care or the same for their loved ones?

Thursday, July 16, 2009
GIVE IT BACK GOLDMAN!
(21 comments) It's socialism for the ultra rich and survival of the fittest for the rest of us.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
A Nation on the Brink - Mexico's July 5 Legislative Elections
Mexico approaches this election confronting the rise of a narcostate, growing economic chaos, social inequalities, citizen disenchantment--or worse ... Michael Collins and KennethThomas reort.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009
A Matter of Trust Mexico's July 5 Legislative Elections
(1 comments) Mexico's election for Congress is absolutely critical but getting no traction as an item here. After 2006's controversial (e.g. stolen) election, trust is a big issue. But will there be any. Original translations from the Mexican press show an extraordinary contest where the "leftists" are left and so are the right wing rulers.

Monday, June 22, 2009
"Give Me Liberty ..." Iranian People Demand Democracy
(17 comments) The actions of the Iranian people against the stolen election June 12, 2009 serve as an object lesson for oligarchs in nations around the world, including the United States.

Monday, June 15, 2009
Iranian Election Fraud 2009 - Who was the Real Target and Why?
(2 comments) There most certainly was election fraud in Iran in this election and every previous election under the current electoral system. The question is not, did fraud take place in this most recent election? Of course it did. You just need to study the Iranian Constitution and recent Iranian elections understand that, a step skipped by the major media and some nay-saying bloggers in the United States.

Saturday, June 6, 2009
The Binary Fallacy and the End of Both Political Parties
(23 comments) The two parties and the elitists who look down their noses on the overwhelming majority of citizens assume that the people will simply tolerate the creation of a catastrophe by one party and the perpetuation of that grave injustice to citizens by the other.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
SHIP OF STATE OR SHIP OF FOOLS
(10 comments) Who are the officers guiding our ship of state, steering us through the troubled waters of a failed economy and two tragic and costly wars?

Sunday, May 10, 2009
The Big "Con": Taliban take Pakistan and its "Another 9/11"
(12 comments) We're asked to believe that a fighting force of 5,000 Taliban is about to take over Pakistan, grab the nukes, and do another 9/11. Special advicor to the president Holbrooke says: "the people who are in this area who we are fighting either pose a direct threat, having committed 9/11 ..." Buy that an you'll buy anything the administration does in the name of the "Perpetual 9/11" excuse.

Friday, May 1, 2009
THROW THE BUMS OUT - ALL OF THEM Senate Millionaires Kill Mortgage Assistance for Citizens
(69 comments) The Senate millionaires are too stingy to provide even limited mortgage assistance for those in trouble. The depression and housing crash is largely their fault. But they don't care. They don't have to. Thanks for nothing. We're used to it.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Thank You Arlen Specter! Now We're Sure to Get the Following
(15 comments) Surely habeas corpus will be restored in an unashamed expression of support for that centuries old protection of civil liberties. No doubt, we'll see a repeal of the Patriot Act. That step back to some degree of civilization is sure to come.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Enabling Acts for an Era of Greed: The Money Party at Work
(9 comments) Huge majorities in both houses of Congress voted for legislation to allow the biggest bank heist of all time. But this time, it was the banks pulling the heist.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Murder Trumps Torture Says Bugliosi - An Interview
(26 comments) "If we prosecute those in America who only commit one murder, under what theory don't we prosecute a president who is criminally responsible for over four thousand murders?" Vincent Bugliosi

Thursday, March 26, 2009
HARDBALL IN OHIO & THE LOST BALLOTS Democrats May Lose Big with Brunner Senate Bid
"Democracy is mocked by the Senate candidacy of the chief elections official, Jennifer Brunner, who did absolutely nothing about the massive defiance by the 58 county election boards that lost or destroyed the legally mandated records of the 2004 presidential election. Some champion of democracy, some Democrat." -- Michael Collins

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Former Accused Iraqi Agent Susan Lindauer, Secret Charges and the PATRIOT Act in Action, Pt. 2
(28 comments) The Department of Justice did everything that it could to "disappear" formerly accused unregistered Iraqi agent Susan Lindauer. One of the first U.S. citizens indicted using The Patriot Act, she spent five years asking for a trial to prove her innocence. There was little "justice" in that Department. So now Lindauer's charges are dismissed and she's talking - about the U.S. Patriot Act and its peril for all of us.

Monday, March 2, 2009
Former Accused Iraqi Agent Reveals Facts about 9/11 Warning
(43 comments) The federal government dropped all charges against Susan Lindauer. Accused of being an "Iraqi agent," Lindauer maintained and provided proof that she was a U.S. intel asset for years. Now she's talking. This installment of the exclusive interview covers pre 911 intelligence efforts.

Sunday, March 1, 2009
Enough of Everything but Dollars - The Money Party at Work
(26 comments) We don't have enough dollars. It was the banks versus the people and we just lost. The theory is that without these payments, the banks will fail and we'll all be in a world of trouble without them. All of this depends on the questionable assumption that by saving the banks, we're saving our economy.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009
A Modest Proposal - An Iraqi Vote on Troop Withdrawal
(5 comments) Who asked the Iraqi people about the withdrawal schedule? As the self-proclaimed proponents for democracy and human rights, shouldn't the United States inquire as to the will of the people before initiating any policy changes? Failing to do so means we've skipped a critical step. How democratic is that? It's their country after all.

Thursday, February 19, 2009
Too Little Too Late? The Money Party at Work
(14 comments) Will the Obama foreclosure package be enough to stem the tide for those losing their homes? Will those "who have played by the rules," as Obama calls them, be salvaged the indignities and financial oblivion that begin in earnest if they're thrown onto the street? Or will those who broke all the rules profit immeasurably?

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Obama & the Military -- Tinfoil Blogging
(4 comments) But why did Obama get right up in the face of the military. He "demanded" a "strategy" is pretty tough language. That means that the military lacks a strategy. He won't send "troops without a coherent plan ..." Again, emphasizing that the military wants a commitment but has no plan to get out, just like they didn't in Iraq.

Thursday, February 5, 2009
Economic Disaster - Are You Next?
(26 comments) There's a rational, reasonably immediate solution to a good part of the economic disaster. The banks won't like it but you will. But first the sad facts about the human costs of our economic disaster.

Saturday, January 31, 2009
Fractured Priorities - USA Gets a D in Infrastructure
A graphic look at the nations recent report care on infrastructure - roads, bridges, school buildings, etc.

Friday, January 16, 2009
Feds Drop Case Against Accused Iraqi Agent
(9 comments) "(Jan. 16, Wash. DC) The Department of Justice entered a motion to drop all charges against Susan Lindauer yesterday morning, Jan. 15, 2009. The filing at the federal district court in lower Manhattan ends the government's attempt to prosecute her for allegedly acting as an "unregistered agent" for Iraq. Since her arrest in early 2004, she has repeatedly asked for a trial to present evidence ..."

Thursday, January 8, 2009
Ratings Rule in Obama's "Virtual" Cabinet
(21 comments) The appointment of television celebrity, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, MD, as Surgeon General of the United States looks like the boldest step yet in the creation of a "virtual" cabinet by President-elect Barack Obama. It's looking like cabinet members are being selected on the basis of "marketability and comfort" rather than qualifications and ideology, with two or three exceptions.

Sunday, January 4, 2009
Seating Franken and Burris: Memo to Congress
(13 comments) A government gains legitimacy through the ascent to shared rules and laws by the vast majority of citizens. No government can retain legitimacy, however, when the legislature fails to enforce and live by the very laws that they are sworn to protect. Democrats and Republicans are now unified along party lines in their defiance of the laws. Is this the new national unity we've been hearing about?

Monday, December 29, 2008
'Stop criticizing Obama. You'll ruin everything!'
(33 comments) Hildebrand starts out by arguing that, "This is not a time for the left wing of our Party to draw conclusions about the Cabinet and White House appointments." What time would that be? When we're all facing eviction? After the next new war we simply have to fight? When even more of those responsible for past failures are placed in positions of authority?

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Rick Warren: The New National Preacher - He's "Davos People"
(21 comments) Rick Warren has advanced offensive attitudes since 2005 at least. The most recent remarks about gays are part of a much broader pattern. But Warren is the Billy Graham replacement, the new national preacher. Of course he's the lead act at the inauguration. It's his job.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
End Presidential Pardons and Clemency - An Amendment
(12 comments) End Presidential Pardon's and Clemency with an amendment: The president shall not have the right to grant pardons or clemency.

Friday, December 5, 2008
GM, Ford - Won't Pledge to Buy American
(13 comments) CEO's of GM and Ford were asked directly if they would promise to maintain or increase use of U.S. suppliers in return for a U.S. taxpayer bailout. They failed to make the commitment. It doesn't take a PhD in the obvious to figure out that they're either not smart enough or serious enough to pull off the much needed federal assistance.

Friday, November 28, 2008
Cliffhanger in a Sea of Blue: Charlie Brown (D) Refuses to Give up in California's 4th Congressional District
(2 comments) California's 4th Congressional district is still too close to call. An aware Democrat is pushing the limits of state law to make sure every vote is counted.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Triumph of The Money Party: Lieberman and the Convenient Amnesia
(16 comments) (Wash. DC) The full exoneration of a clear traitor to the Democratic Party predicts how Congress will treat the dire challenges facing the country. There will be little is no opposition to the arranged marriage between corporate and government interests. There will be no remedies for the problems that were created as a result of this arrangement.

Monday, November 17, 2008
Unfinished Business: Tasks Ignored During the Bush Reign of Horror
(2 comments) What Obama promised matters. What the people expect matters more. What matters most is the crucial statement of the people. This election was a resounding no vote on executive lying, misdirection, deception, fabrication, and non stop failures.

Friday, November 7, 2008
2008 Presidential Turnout Flat -- How Did That Happen?
(14 comments) Don't tell me that the vote total in 2008 is the same as 2004. It makes no sense with all the new registrations, the huge increases in primary voters, the excitement. But they did tell all of us that. Where did the votes go?

Monday, November 3, 2008
Ohio: Suit Filed for Election Observers, "Dial Up" Provisional Ballots, and a Comment
(1 comments) The array of problems already exposed and those awaiting citizens on Nov. 4, 2008 comprise a sever indictment of the bureaucrats and politicians responsible for an election system that inspires real doubt by the public

Saturday, November 1, 2008
ACLU Stops Illegal Voter Purges in Michigan
(6 comments) The ACLU buried the Michigan Secretary of State n Federal Appeals Court. The court ordered Michigan to stop purging voters through a "voter caging" scheme and to restore those purged already. ACLU is just getting started. There 10's of thousands of voters who may be restored to the voter rolls.

Friday, October 31, 2008
Exit Poll Mess - 2008 The Past is Prologue
It's time for the exit polls again. In 2004, the media sponsored national exit poll ratified a stolen election with a claimed (and wrong) 66% increase in big city turnout and four million new big city white voters, never seen before or since. Will the media owned exit polls do it again?

Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Right & Left Wing Election Models Agree on Winner
(5 comments) Right and left wing election forecasters agree - it's a big Obama win shaping up. These independent analysts are remarkably close, unlike 2004. This is too big to steal easily. All the tricks can't stop the wave of primary and newly registered.

Friday, October 17, 2008
Voter Fraud - The Dog that Didn't Bark
(10 comments) Voter fraud is a contrivance based on a fiction. Extensive data shows that "Americans are struck and killed by lightening about as often" as voter fraud takes place. Spread the word.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008
SNAP! "White Shift" for Obama in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida
(2 comments) "White shift" is occuring in a big way in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. Nearly 1 million votes are converting to Obama from the one voting block McCain has left. A wonderful irony and the right time.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
2008: The Difficulty Stealing it this Time
(4 comments) There's one major obstacle blocking a theft of the 2008 presidential election. It's highly significant and challenges even the most devious minds. That obstacle is "net new" Democratic primary voters in 2008. "Net new" Democratic primary voters represent the difference between primary turnout in 2004 and 2008.

Friday, October 3, 2008
American Kafka: Susan Lindauer Demands "The Trial"
(1 comments) Why does the government keep delaying the Susan Lindauer trial. They accused her of being an "unregistered Iraqi agent." She denies that emphatically and has asked for a trial to prove her innocence for four years. What are they hiding?

Monday, September 29, 2008
Bailout Bill Defies Will of the People
(5 comments) The will of the people is just "collateral damage" if members of Congress determine that details like democracy and honesty are less important than the instructions of their leadership and the Wall Street firms that created this problem in the first place. (See analysis of proposed bill)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Bailout Blackmail - Just Say No! The Money Party (7)
We're being blackmailed into accepting the responsibility and debt for the worst managed financial institutions in the history of this country. The starting price, our debt, is $700 billion dollars. What's really about to happen is that the failed financial institutions will be rewarded for their bad behavior. As a result, they and others will be encouraged to do it again. It's just a matter of time.

Monday, September 22, 2008
The Money Party (6): Meltdown Perpetrators Position Themselves
(12 comments) (Wash. DC) Well, they finally did it. The Money Party exposed the nauseating underbelly of first world finance. It's a cross between a Ponzi scheme and a complex math puzzle, all geared to let those in charge rake off as much money as they can, whenever they can, while they leave us out in the cold. Unfortunately, this time their greed and lack of control has the world poised for a systemic economic meltdown.

Sunday, September 14, 2008
Palin's Dominance Dooms McCain
(8 comments) McCain took a "bridge to nowhere" thinking it was the path to his salvation. Given his total abandonment of any degree of consistency and civility in this campaign, it's hard to have much sympathy. Palin was a bad move no matter how hard the Orwellian faction spins it.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Did Justice Order Forced Psych Medication?
(4 comments) Susan Lindauer was accused of being an "unregistered foreign agent" for Iraq in 2003. She had a lot to say about her efforts as a U.S. intelligence asset. That earned her seven months in a federal prison for psychiatric evaluation. After recommending against forcing her to take heavy duty medications, federal prosecutors sought an court order to do just that. What's up with federal prosecutors ordering that? Who's next?

Friday, September 5, 2008
Michael Collins: Not One Dime for Georgia
(6 comments) The president of Georia had the bright idea to start a military conflict with Russia. The Russians didn't pass up the opportunity to knock him around in a way he'll never forget. Now we're giving him $1.1 billion to rebuild. Are we in the business of propping up the grandiose and deluded? Not one dime for Georgia!

Monday, September 1, 2008
Ron Paul's Rally for the Republic Challenges McCain, Imperial Republicans
(4 comments) Ron Paul is holding a "counter convention" in Minneapolis, the other Twin City. It began Sunday and is going strong. McCain may fret over this "in your face" intrusion on the official convention in St. Paul but he has more worries about the votes Paul will take away from the imperial Republican ticket in November.

Monday, August 25, 2008
White Paper Justifying Iraq War Written Three Months before Intel Report Arrived
(13 comments) Just when you'd think we've hit bottom, the White House outdoes itself. Doctored Oct. 2002 White Paper was actually written in July 2002 - 3 full months before evidence and conclusions arrived from the intelligence community. A new low in a long line of simply awful behavior.

Friday, August 22, 2008
The Book They Can't Stop - A Review
(46 comments) This is the book they can't stop. MSM won't take advertising and nobody wants the top selling true crime author of all time as a guest anymore. Yet Vincent Buglisi's, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, is #10 on the NYT best sellers list.

Monday, August 11, 2008
Bush, Manson, and the Media Blackout - Bugliosi Interview Part 2
(9 comments) "Manson was very evil. I wouldn't say Bush is evil in that he doesn't want to kill people. But I will call him a despicable human being who's extremely coldhearted and couldn't care less, couldn't possibly care less that thousands upon thousands of people are dying horrible, violent deaths because of what he did, couldn't possibly care less." Vincent Bugliosi

Thursday, August 7, 2008
Michael Collins: An Interview with Vincent Bugliosi Part 1
(17 comments) "Apparently its okay for George Bush to take this nation to war on a lie, to be responsible, criminally responsible for well over 100,000 deaths, but it's not okay to prosecute him. Not only isn't it okay to prosecute him, it isn't even okay to talk about prosecuting him. This is unbelievable what's going on in this country." Vincent Bugliosi

Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Michael Collins: The People, the Press, and the Case for Impeachment
(16 comments) The people lap the press on the road to the truth about impeachment.

Friday, July 25, 2008
Michael Collins: Bush Accused of Tyranny and Murder at Justice Hearings
(26 comments) The House Judiciary Committee held hearings on the Kucinich Impeachment Resolution today on Capitol Hill. In a carefully crafted presentation, from Chariman Conyers to the star witnesses, the message was clear. Bush has created a tyranical rule and he's accused of murder for using WMD as the rationale for war, when he knew that was untrue. According to Vincent Bugliosi's persuasive summary, this constitutes murder.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Michael Collins: Election Fraud & Tyranny - Part 2. (on Mark Crispin Miller's new book)
(2 comments) Part 2 of Election Fraud & Tyranny presents more election fraud outrages from 2006 and warnings for 2008 based on Mark Crispin Miller's new book, "Loser Take All." It's all about your democracy and Miller's use of outstanding citizen researchers and activists to make the very best case (better than any government agency, btw).

Monday, July 14, 2008
Michael Collins: Election Fraud and Tyranny: Part 1
(3 comments) Mark Crispin Miller's new book, "Loser Take All," identifies and analyzes election fraud, the foundation of extremist power in the United States since 2000. Torture, war, illegal wire tapping, the housing meltdown - none of that would have happened without election fraud.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
From the People Who Brought Us Judith Miller and George Bush
(11 comments) The New York Times enabled the war in Iraq by the flat out false reporting of Judith Miller. Then The Times editor Bill Keller withheld the illegal Bush wiretapping story before the 2004 election. Now, on a smaller scale, The Times continues the tradition with a hatchet job on Bush political prisoner Susan Lindauer. Their report on the June 17th competency hearing is just appalling. What's up with them?

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
M. Collins: 911 Prediction Revealed at Lindauer Competency Hearing in New York City
(5 comments) A long time associate of the accused, associate professor of computer science at Toronto's York University, Parke Godfrey, Ph.D., testified that Susan Lindauer predicted an attack on the United States in the southern part of Manhattan. According to his testimony, she said that the attack would be very similar to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Godfrey said that Lindauer made the last prediction on August 2001.

Thursday, June 12, 2008
An Exclusive Interview with Bush Political Prisoner Susan Lindauer
(3 comments) Collins: Of all the affronts and stress you've experienced in this open ended prosecution, what's been the most offensive element? Lindauer: "I am furious about the abuse that I have suffered. I regard this as a Soviet-style attack on my rights to dissent from the government. Snip Go to trial or drop the charges, which are ridiculous anyway. They don't have a case, and they know it."

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Bush Political Prisoner Gets Her Day in Court
(9 comments) There's little doubt left that Susan Lindauer is a real life political prisoner for her work to avoid catastrophe in Iraq. They couldn't keep her confined and she's not about to turn the tables and demand that the truth be told about her confinement and the disruption of her life. June 17, 2008 is the date when she gets to present her side of the story in court in New York City.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Texas Supreme Court Challenges Incest Taboo
(15 comments) The ruling by the Texas Supreme Court is an assault on widely prevailing standards of conduct and common sense. After reviewing the evidence and risks, any person "of ordinary prudence and caution" would say: Get the children out of there immediately; keep them away until an investigation is completed and their safety is assured! Where is the justice?

Friday, May 23, 2008
Bending Over For Bush - 21 Dems Help with $165 Bil.
(14 comments) We've come to expect this out of the lock-step Republicans who are "made men" in the culture of death. Weren't the Democrats supposed to make a difference? It is now abundantly clear that the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is still in the minority and that the people - Democrats, Republicans, and Independents have no party.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Polite Fascism Contracts the Right To Vote
(2 comments) In order to remain connected to reality, it's time to admit and proclaim the obvious fact -- our country is approaching a lawless state. The highest court issued a blatantly political decision that denies the vote in a way that places one political party at a significant disadvantage as we approach a presidential election and, more importantly, threatens to disenfranchise millions.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Clinton's Threat to "Obliterate" Iran
(11 comments) What kind of political culture is it that allows such an incredibly disingenuous and reckless statement to be made and then simply vanish without in depth consideration?

Sunday, April 20, 2008
Election Fraud in Pennsylvania?
(11 comments) A 2006 Zogby poll of 707 likely voters in Pennsylvania asked this question: "Do you think the 2004 election was stolen?" Forty percent said yes ... add the 40% of likely Pennsylvania voters who thought 2004 was stolen with the 35% to 40% who routinely stay home because they doubt the system. That produces a majority of citizens who have serious doubts about a system created to serve the elected and not the electors.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
"certifiable, insane"
Abu Zubaydah had to become what the administration needed him to be: an al Qaeda mastermind imprisoned just months after 9/11 and a font of invaluable information vital to national security. His birth reflected an act of political desperation. The administration had nothing up to that point.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Breathless Attack Journalism or Real Issues
Evelyn Pringle delivers a breathless critique of Barack Obama based on his past connections to civic and business figures in Illinois. This effort follows her series opener on Obama, The Wizard of Oz. In that effort we learned that "Obama is a political psychopath." Unfortunately, we don't get any specifics directly linking Obama to any of the charges in the article; just a litany of allegations against past or present contrib

Monday, March 31, 2008
Michael Collins: BUSH - CLINTON 2008
(4 comments) The vulgarity of Hillary's campaign created rare agreement by some in the mainstream and alternate media. Clinton's tactics are particularly vicious and her charges and sound bites appear to be an "intelligent design" for the Committee to Elect John McCain President.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
"Us versus Them" The Money Party (5)
(3 comments) We have been warned again and again that seeing the world as an "us versus them" proposition is a fatal error. It's polarizing. It leads to "class warfare." It absolves "us" of the collective responsibility we all have in a democracy. Can't have it, not allowed. Well, here's some news for "them". It is precisely an "us versus them" world.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Big City Vote Counting
(2 comments) Did you know Bush won 2004 in the big cities? Did you know he had an 80% increase white voters in big cities in 2004? It's no surprise he "lost" votes in New York City. As Mayor Bloomberg said on Feb. 20, 2008, "If you want to call it significant undercounting, I guess that's a euphemism for fraud."

Monday, March 3, 2008
Super Tuesday for Bush in New England - UPDATE: Measure Passes - Bush Indicted
(8 comments) Fitzgerald failed to indict. Congress failed to impeach. Now it's up to the cities and towns of America to bring Bush and Cheney to justice.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Massive Multiplayer Political Game
Massive Multiplayer Political Game - the alternative to campaigns without issues and fixed outcomes.

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Money Party to Citizens: Drop Dead!
(4 comments) Now they've done it. The Money Party road show just hit a speed bump at 90 mph and that speed bump was us. There are no more "booms" to hype. No more schemes to hook investors into the stock market. The high tech boom is dead and biotech turned into road kill thanks to a president who talks to God and believes that evolution is just "a theory."

Saturday, January 19, 2008
Collins: Kucinich Locked Out of Texas Primary Over Loyalty Oath
(13 comments) Kucinich struck another blow for democracy by challenging the restrictive loyalty oath required by the Texas Democratic Party to get on the primary ballot. He actually reads the contracts he signs. When presented with the loyalty oath required to run as a Democrat in the Texas primary, Kucinich prudently edited the document to reflect the requirements of free citizens living in a democracy:

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
ALL Diebold ALL the Time - It's the New Hampshire Primary
(12 comments) Why? It's been nearly eight years since the debacle of Florida and nearly six since the miracle Chambliss win against Cleland. Surely we have reliable, verifiable voting systems in place? It's been almost four years since the nationwide disaster of the 2004 election with irregularities still emerging. Hasn't all this been fixed?

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Forget the Torture Tapes
(14 comments) 5 Million Orphans 1.2 Million Dead 1.1 Million Injured Since the Iraq invasion. Where's the news on this?

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Congress Brings You... Thought Control on the Internet
(8 comments) Viewed from that perspective, there are at least two goals for H.R. 1955: 1) Chill domestic free speech by loyal, law abiding individuals or as the authors might have thought: "We're sick and tired of all these letters and accusations. Let's give them something to think about for a change. Whenever they make these accusations, they'll have to think about being tagged as a terrorist supporter."

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Internet Thought Control Bill Under Fire
(18 comments) Yesterday, the House Committee on Homeland Security issued a response to critics of H.R. 1955 - the "Violent Radicalization" bill designed to censor the Internet. Today, you can read a response and deside for yourself. It's not good news from the House. Either they don't know what the bill does or they're not being serious.

Monday, December 3, 2007
Minister of Death, Mike Huckabee - ""Surging" Republican
(25 comments) We're being sold plain old "Huck" champion of the common man, "good guy." In fact, Huckabee is an extremist who believes we're in World War III right now and says Islamic "fascists" are a bigger threat than the Nazi's. He executes the mentally ill and jokes about suicide. He may be the last stand of a corporate structure desprate to continue the Iraq war.

Monday, November 26, 2007
Scott McClellan - Where are the Headlines?
(45 comments) Didn't the press secretary just accuse Bush, Cheney, Card, Rove, and Libby of collective action to conceal the truth, i.e., a conspiracy? Didn't the concealed truth concern a major intelligence operation designed to keep us from getting nuked? If this doesn't rate intensive coverage and comment, what does?

Friday, November 16, 2007
M.Collins: The Money Party (3) - Big Lies You Must Believe
Corporate media's job is to emulate George Orwell's "1984" by generating meaningless concepts that bind us to false choices.

Saturday, November 10, 2007
Claim Democracy Conference - D.C. Report
The main attraction was a panel discussion which included with hard right activist Grover Norquist. For political junkies, this offered the prospect of a NASCAR moment – you know a big crack up over the scam concept of voter fraud involving a riled up Norquist and a passionate voting rights activist. It didn't happen. The hall reeked of civility. More on that later.

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Election Fraud 2004 - The Case Heats Up
(3 comments) What impact will the massive destruction of evidence by Ohio counties have on the federal case charging criminal election fraud in the 2004 presidential election? Some, but the case is still viable. Devastating findings by researchers for the plaintiffs are reviewed and a motive the destruction is provided.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Election Fraud 2004 - The Case Heats Up
(4 comments) What impact will the massive destruction of evidence by Ohio counties have on the federal case charging criminal election fraud in the 2004 presidential election? Some, but the case is still viable. Devastating findings by researchers for the plaintiffs are reviewed and a motive the destruction is provided.

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Destruction of Evidence - Ohio's 2004 Presidential Ballots
(7 comments) 56 of 88 Ohio counties defied federal and state law plus a federal court order and failed to preserve election records from 2004. Their excuses range from "the dog ate my homework" or "the janitor did it!." It's a disgrace and recently elected Democrats, Attorney General and Secretary of State refuse to hold these county election officials responsible.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007
American Cassandra - Susan Lindauer's Story
(1 comments) EXCLUSIVE! Susan Lindauer's Story & Interview. Two months before Iraq invasion: "Using your own act of war, Osama and his cohort will irrevocably divide the hearts and minds of the Arab Street from moderate governments in Islamic countries that have been holding back the tide. Power to the people, what we call "democracy,"- will secure the rise of fundamentalists." Susan Lindauer's last letter to Andrew Card, January 6, 2003

Monday, October 8, 2007
The Money Party (2) - A Contract FOR America
(10 comments) Hey, hold on there! Who says we have lousy leaders? Just about everybody. Between 40% and 60% of voting age citizens stay away form the polls in just about every election. In 2004, there were 221 million voting age citizens and 44 % of them, 98 million people, chose not to vote. Of the 226 million potential voters in 2006, a whopping 62%, 141 million people, stayed home.

Sunday, September 30, 2007
The Money Party - The Essence of Our Political Troubles
(23 comments) The Money Party is a small group of enterprises and individuals who have most of the money in this country. They use that money to make more money. Controlling who gets elected to public office is the key to more money for them and less for us. As 2008 approaches, The Money Party is working hard to maintain its perfect record.

Monday, September 24, 2007
Ten Things Congress Did Instead of Getting Us The Hell Out of Iraq
(2 comments) 4. One day Congress was feeling so powerful it decided to trash the great protection against unlawful imprisonment, the writ of habeas corpus. This dates back 800 years to the Magna Carta. You can now be arrested without a charge, denied a lawyer, and held indefinitely. They said it's just for terrorists but they lied. As a special bonus, those torture techniques for terrorists can also be used on U.S. citizens. Taser alert!

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Attorney General Mukasey and the Rule of Law
(6 comments) . This is no more Bush's nomination than the Gonzales departure was a Bush dismissal. There are strong pressures influencing this process. The nominee is not a Bush family friend so far as we know. He's not a good old boy that Bush can nickname and joke with over a long neck beer. He's from New York City, born in the Bronx, a committed intellectual and jurist, with an acerbic wit Is there any Bush appointee who matches?

Saturday, September 15, 2007
George W. Bush, a Judiciary of One
The Bush-Cheney White House is responsible for the birth of a new constitutional doctrine. Bush has elevated himself to become a judiciary of one. When the president signs legislation passed by Congress, he frequently adds his own signing statement stating those legislative provisions he intends to ignore based on his interpretation of the Constitution. This caused the New York Times to note, "President Bush doesn't bother..

Thursday, September 6, 2007
If not now, when?
We've endured seven years of cascading failures from 911 to Iraq enabled by rigged elections and supported by a decadent set of politicians who lack the will to even fight for themselves.

Monday, September 3, 2007
Secret Disservice: HR 811
(2 comments) The current version of Holt's bill up for vote this week backs off of the public right to inspect voting machine software, open source code, in a big way and lets vendors keep secret the software and methods that determine your elections. Let me put it another way, you don't get to see how the voting machines work that elect the officials who govern you – ever!

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
911 General Strike Gains Momentum
(6 comments) "No Work, No School, No Shopping – Hit the Streets" The 911 General Strike called by a coalition of antiwar, 911 Truth, and pro impeachment groups is gaining strength with gatherings scheduled across the country and rapidly expanding activity on the Internet, where the idea originated.

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Notes from the Underground - The 2004 Election Still Matters
(1 comments) The still corpse of the Bush campaign had been reanimated. It arose from the death of certain defeat, danced a gig, and trotted off center stage to do its considerable damage for the next three years: death and destruction in Iraq; dismantling of the United States Constitution; the abandonment of Katrina's survivors (for all the world to see); augmented by an impressive and elaborate parade of other calamities ...

Monday, August 13, 2007
GENERAL STRIKE IN USA on Sept. 11, 2007 – 9/11
(30 comments) Only Four Weeks Left Until Sept. 11, 2007 - Should the General Struke achieve momentum and see hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, "hit the streets," politicians will be faced with a real dilemma. They can continue to ignore, delay and dissemble, reaping the consequences in 2008. Or they can act promptly and effectively to satisfy the demands of the American public.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Congress Authorizes Wire Tapping President
(5 comments) Who would have thought that a nervous president with 25% approval cold pull off a legislative victory on warrantless surveillance? Well he did but he's in for trouble. The Blue Dog Dems and their Senate collaborators inserted an ambush provision allowing wire tapping White House phone calls and emails (satire).

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
IMPEACHMENT: "Did the President ask you to go?"
(1 comments) Senator Charles Schumer's questioning of Gonzales lays the groundwork for impeachment of the president based on the most odious crime imaginable, trying to take advantage of a sick man, a man recovering from surgery, a man whose wife has insisted that there be no visitors. It's not only a "high crime," it's a heinous one as well.

Tuesday, July 24, 2007
The First One's Free ... then you pay DEMOCRACY RELOADED
(4 comments) Electronic voting has stripped elected officials of the ability verify their own elections (even if they wanted to). It failed to address the real problems of Florida 2000 and the nation Were all these losses worth a few less than reliable, highly corruptible voting machines from third or fourth tiered technology companies? If they can't show that they were elected, do we have to obey?

Friday, July 20, 2007
Florida Politics - Paradise for Sale (to the highest bidder)
(2 comments) Progressive Democrat John Russell told Florida Democratic State Chairman Karen Thurman that "the concern is there is only one party in Florida, the money party, and you represent the Democratic side and Al Cardenas is representing the Republican side. Where do the ordinary people fit in? We only have so much time." It gets better. See the full interview.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Florida Citizens Versus Party Insiders
(7 comments) Read about how a sure sin in Florida can turn to a loss in 2008. Is this any way for the Democratic Party to behave: "Karen Thurman is the current Chairman of the Florida Democratic Party. Al Cardenas is the former Chairman of the Florida Republican Party and a major player in Republican politics in Florida. Al pays Karen $3,500 a month to lobby Democrats in Washington in behalf of Miami-Dade County."

Saturday, July 14, 2007
US Internet News Editor Scores Big in DC Madam Case - Bloggers Doing Major Research
(4 comments) USA Internet news provider Citizens for Legitimate Government (Lori Price) was one of the few to get the DC Madam's phone numbers. Bloggers using the site got Vitter's number. ABC had these numbers for a week and came up with "nothing much of interest." How about that. Internet news providers are proving the model on a major story. Congratulations.

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Full Frontal Assault – The Vitters Square Off?
Senator David Vitter, the family values politician from Louisiana, admitted that he'd committed "a serious sin" and strayed from his marriage. There are always consequences. Vitter may be sleeping lightly with good reason. In a 2000 interview, wife Wendy wowed to take action, Lorena Bobbitt Style, if she ever discovered that her husband David ever strayed from the marriage.

Sunday, July 8, 2007
Al Gore's Devastating Indictment of President Bush
(9 comments) I reported on Al Gore's Jan. 16, 2006 speech at Constitution Hall. When I saw Gore hosting the concert, I recalled the article and realized that Gore recognized the dangers of Bush well in advance. Fun article and there's a link to the speech. 12 standing ovations, at least!!!

Monday, June 18, 2007
Election 2004: The Urban Legend Action Package-Tell Your Rep
(3 comments) Take action on the latest findings that Election 2004 was a complete mess built on absurd assumptions: Bush had less rural votes in 2004 than 2000, 2 million less, but increased his big city vote share in 2004 by over 150%. He won it through "big city" vote gains. Give us a break!!! If they say 'get over it,' say: "A three year old major crime is always news until it's solved."

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Sludge Report #177=Bigger Than Watergate II
The Muckraking "Sludge Report" from "Scoop" Independent News (C.D. Sludge) strikes out on election fraud. "Scoop" helped launch the hunt for lousy e-voting machines in 2003 and has been "of record" on election fraud since the 2002 mid term elections. Today, Sludge draws conclusions from "2004 Election: Urban Legend" - how Bush won 2004 in the big cities (stranger than fiction). Not a dull moment...

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
2004 Election: The Urban Legend - Bush Won in Big Cities
(13 comments) Did you know Bush had 2 million less votes in the rural sector in 2004 than 2000? Did you know that rural America contributed 16% of total votes in 2004 but 23% in 2000? Surely you knew that the "big city" voting segment was up 66% in turnout in 2004 and that Bush went from 26% in 2000 to 39% share in 2004? Bet you didn't know Bush took election 2004 on the basis of gains in the "big cities" (over 500,000)?

Monday, June 11, 2007
Kucinich Says No to Holt Bill - His Alternative, "Paper" for President
Cong. Dennis Kucinich withdrew his support for the Hold bill, H.R. 811. He says he will reintroduce H.R.6200 from the last congress - a bill requiring paper ballots for presidential elections. This article presents and discusses the bill. It was published last November when Cong. Kucinich first introduced H.R. 6200, "The Paper Ballot Act"

Saturday, June 9, 2007
Collins: US Attorney Hit List as Early as 2005?
Carol Lam was one outstanding United States Attorney. She nailed down one of the biggest political corruption cases in recent history with a guilty plea from former Republican Congressman Randal "Duke" Cunningham in November, 2005. His crimes included conspiracy to commit bribery, fraud... A recently released Department of Justice email carried by Talking Points Memo Document Collection raises an interesting question

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
In Praise of Great Reporting:
(1 comments) This week we honor the Kansas City Star, that fine McClatchy newspaper in Kansas City, Missouri. Thanks to a heads up from Missouri activist Phil Lindsay, we have a wonderful narrative on the US Attorney scandal in Western Missouri.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
An Interview with Helen Thomas
(1 comments) An interview with America's most distingished journalist.

Monday, May 28, 2007
"The Soldier Vote" - A Memorial Day Tribute
(3 comments) When we ask soldiers to go to places like Helmand Province, Afghanistan to risk their lives, we have an obligation of the highest order: make sure that they're able to take part in the democratic process that ultimately determines their role and fate in the U.S. military. ...when a soldier shows up to vote, give him or her a ballot, then send it off to the soldier's state with orders to count it in the appropriate election.

Thursday, May 17, 2007
Comey's Evidence of a Crime - Impeachment Charges Just Sitting There!
(14 comments) Tuesday was a remarkable day at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. The exchange between Sen. Charles Schumer, R, NY and former Deputy Attorney General James Comey provides clear evidence pointing to criminal activity by the president, U.S Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former presidential adviser, Andrew Card. If Comey's testimony is supported, they all face serious charges.

Monday, April 30, 2007
Did Bush Commit Election Fraud? (Part 2)
(2 comments) This article describes the coordinated effort on the part of the Republican Party to establish alleged voter fraud committed by Democrats as a serious problem. Despite the disruptions it caused, an evaluation of the evidence shows the effort failed on multiple levels. Yet the effort perseveres and the myth that voter fraud is rampant is promoted even today by Republican operatives and others who should know better.

Monday, April 23, 2007
Did Bush Commit Election Fraud?
(9 comments) There is sufficient evidence in the public domain to strongly suspect that Bush committed election fraud in the handling of the U.S. Attorney firings. ... Pressuring a U.S. Attorney into a bogus indictment is a federal crime. Domenici lawyered up after Iglesias described his conversation with the senator. Gonzales and Sampson both denied initiating the call on the firing. So it's Bush, and only Bush, as the author ...

Wednesday, April 18, 2007
"We Pretend to Vote, They Pretend to Get Elected"
(5 comments) This is a big week for elections and voting rights advocates. In addition to being a huge political event, the activity surrounding the Holt Bill, H.R. 811, is highly symbolic,. The symbolism is that of diversion and denial. Holt is the apotheosis of the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA). That nihilistic effort was supposed to take care of the problems of Florida in 2000. Unfortunately, Congress missed the point.

Monday, April 9, 2007
"Who Willed It?" In Honor of the Easter Rising, Ireland, April 1916
(9 comments) The will of the people, expressed through free and fair elections, should be the foundation of our country. WHO WILLED that the president lie us into a war that creates rather than eliminates terrorists? WHO WILLED that the White House order government scientists to suppress the truth about everything from new medicines to global warming, scientists supported by our tax dollars?

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Sleep Walking Through History - Willing Participants in Our Own Demise
(4 comments) The shocked reaction to the abrupt dismissal of eight U.S. Attorneys points to the essence of our current political problems. The broad based political reaction to the Gonzales firings contains one critical assumption: this is an aberrant act. Something terribly wrong has taken place and the political establishment rises to defend the system. The system wasn't abused so much as exposed.

Monday, April 2, 2007
U.S. Attorneys: Asleep at the Switch - The Long Road to Democracy
U.S. Attorney Iglesias didn't do much prosecuting for "voter fraud" in 2004, nor did he do much election fraud investigating and prosecuting either. Voter fraud occurred at a rate of 24 cases between 2002 and 2006. This type of fraud is an individual act and, in the aggregate, is a non event impacting an immeasurably small fraction of the vote. U.S. Attorney's, some even trained on vote fraud by Iglesias...

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
"Turning Point" The Long Road to Democracy - Weekly Comment & Links
The Long Road to Democracy is a weekly comment and collection of news links on election fraud, voter suppression, and voting processes. This week concerns "voter fraud," the scam that ruined the USA and the Justice Department that brought it to you; plus other items. Enjoy

Monday, March 26, 2007
Rough Justice by Gonzales Exposes "Voter Fraud" Scam
(2 comments) The Bush-Gonzales firings of U.S. Attorneys unearthed a much bigger scandal. The Department of Justice has deliberately pursued "voter fraud" cases (8 convictions a year!) as a means of promoting laws theat lead to voter suppression. Minorities & the poor are the victimes but we all lose as a result. This is the second in a series in "Scoop" on "Fired Federal Prosecutors."

Monday, March 19, 2007
Iraqi People to White House - Leave. No "Timetables"
(2 comments) A majority of the Iraqi people (a) condone violent attacks on our troops and (b) want us out immediately. How hard is it to figure out? We want out, they want us out, "timetables" are a sham under these circumstances. Out now! Respect the will of Americans and Iraqis. Show some leadership Congress!

Monday, March 19, 2007
Voter Fraud and Federal Prosecutors - The Long Road to Democracy
The Long Road to Democracy is a weekly comment on election news and voting rights issues by Michael Collins. This week offers a very brief course on the contrived issue, "voter fraud," and the intense news generated by that issue in the fired Federal prosecutor scandal.

Monday, March 19, 2007
The Long Road to Democracy - Weekly Links
The best links of the week - articles on election fraud, voter suppression, and voting processes. This is the second part of The Long Road to Democracy weekly news service, published every Monday.

Saturday, March 17, 2007
The Long Road to Democracy - Optical Scanners Stole 2004!!!
(3 comments) "The Long Road to Democracy" is a weekly news comment and story summary provided by Michael Collins and Election Fraud News. The weekly comment is from acclaimed physicist David L Griscom,Ph.D. He clearly demonstrates how optical scan and optical scan form manipulation could have resulted in the theft of the 2004 Presidential Election. Fascinating...plus a free PowerPoint. Links of top stories also (Selection 2). Enjoy.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Fired Federal Prosecutors and Election Fraud; Sacked for Indicting Republicans
(5 comments) December 7, 2006 was Pearl Harbor Day for eight distinguished federal prosecutors. They were fired for no good reason. A careful review shows that four of the eight had one thing in common: the way that they handled election fraud cases sent the White House and other Republican leaders up the wall.

Thursday, March 8, 2007
VOTING RIGHTS History Made In Florida by Gov Crist
(4 comments) Republican Gov. Charlie Crist is making Voting Rights history by moving ahead on restoring the voting rights for 600,000 Florida ex-felons AUTOMATICALLY when their sentences are up. Read the article then see the links for the 15 worst states in the country. TAKE ACTION and click on the Governor's name, send her/him an email along with this article. It's time for universal suffrage!!!

Thursday, March 8, 2007
Florida Solution to Fear & Loathing in the Voting Booth
(1 comments) Believable voting: take optical scan forms filled out by voters and make the the ballot of record; have citizens hand count them in public; use the optical scans to check the hand count...all in public run by CITIZENS. Let people vote without hindrance & public fundingn of campaigns...you've got DEMOCRACY.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
The Long Road to Democracy
(2 comments) The Long Road to Democracy is a weekly comment and set of key links concerning voting rights and election fraud. This weeks comments are on the Florida restoration of voting rights for ex-felons; the Missouri initiative for hand counted paper ballots; and the Florida initiative for paper ballots.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Show Me the Vote!
(6 comments) Missouri Activists are the first to fight back against e-voting with a state initiative to ban "the machines" and return to real paper ballots.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Can we work "within the system"? A response to those who think we can.
(11 comments) "We pretend to vote, they pretend to get elected." Is Congress serious about their reform bills? "Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss." We demand the right of all citizens to vote. We demand the right to know that our votes are taken and totaled. We will not tolerate the nonsense of election system complexity. What does the government have to hide: the questionable legitimacy of their election?

Friday, February 16, 2007
Essentials Of the Voting Systems Debate
(16 comments) The people must take their elections back from the professional politicians and their "experts."

Monday, January 15, 2007
Wrong Winner Chosen Twice by Same Voting Machine
(8 comments) QUESTION: How do two Democratic Congressional candidates hundreds of miles apart lose by less than 400 votes for almost exactly the same reason? ANSWER: The same type of voting machine throws out 15% of the votes in for Congress in each district right in the middle of the Democratic stronghold.

Thursday, August 31, 2006
Democracy Denied: Meet the New Boss
Pre-Certification Swearing in by Hastert Terminates All State Legal Authority Over Elections The People's House is now the Speaker's House. "If they can do that, they can do anything. Why even have an election? They could just swear in whoever they want because the election need not be final." - Paul Lehto, Attorney for Plaintiffs Aug. 25, 2006

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The Mexican People: Heroes of Democracy
(1 comments) The millions flooding the public squares supporting Obrador's cause are fully conscious as they act in civil disobedience. Their goal is an end to decades of corruption which steals the wealth, lives, and soul of a nation of intelligent, hard working, creative people.