151 Articles

Sunday, May 11, 2008
An Open Letter to Attorney General Mukasey
(3 comments) A cautionary note to those on K Street: The cheek you swab next may be your own!

Thursday, May 8, 2008
Rocky Times Out
(9 comments) Knowing when to leave the ring is half the battle.

Saturday, April 19, 2008
The Best Argument Against McCain
(2 comments) While meat and potatoes issues, like the economy, are important to a Democratic win in November, it would be a mistake to underestimate the intelligence of the American voter, and ignore the looming crisis of a radical right wing Supreme Court.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
British Author Barred from U.S. for "Moral Turpitude"
(2 comments) The Bush administration's quiet jihad against foreign scholars and writers/

Saturday, April 5, 2008
Phi Beta Interrogator
We know we're in trouble in a war in which suicide becomes an act of resistance.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Indecency
(10 comments) If allowed to stand, a new Indiana law may pose a permanent threat to free speech not just in our lifetimes, but for generations to come.

Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Where?
(1 comments) Wealth may be, but hunger isn't a relative concept.

Friday, March 21, 2008
Our Man in Baghdad -- John McCain
(5 comments) Warbucks McCain is vetted, and wedded to a war policy that can only guarantee decades more of financial hardship for all of us.

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Coming Soon: 12 Step Program for Bloggers
(2 comments) In any 12 step program, it's always best to make it past the first step!

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Large, Sunny Crucifix for Rent
A lapse of ethics has little to do with one's private life, but rather with one's sense of public responsibility.

Sunday, March 9, 2008
Playing Footsie
(9 comments) Presidential election 2008: less concern about victory; more fine tuning the vision.

Friday, March 7, 2008
A Delegate Balance
(13 comments) There are times it seems like the only Party Hillary Clinton cares about is the one in her living room.

Monday, March 3, 2008
Why were they fired...
(4 comments) While Rep. Conyers' stance is singular, and singularly laudible, it's time to stop dancing around the issue of Contempt of Congress, and start telling it like it is. The firing of the nine U.S. attorneys was about nothing less than trying to disenfranchise as many Democrats as possible to ensure a fragile Republican Party that they can still hold the reins in November, and through 2016.

Saturday, March 1, 2008
Connecting the Nots
(2 comments) This is not the promised land, I promise....

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Arizona's Workhorse
(3 comments) No, Senator John McCain, but his sidekick Rick Renzi. My, my, how fast corruption breeds on the hill.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
Beebe Memorial Cathedral -- an open letter to Senator Ted Kennedy
(2 comments) The truth doesn't come with an expiration date.

Sunday, January 27, 2008
State of the Bully Address...
Any government that uses the liberties of the people as a prophylactic is one destined to fall.

Friday, January 25, 2008
Gitmo in Iraq?
This administration has made a career of occupation, and it's now looking to proprietize its legacy.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
John Edwards: Too Soon for Political Obituary
(10 comments) The Democrats need a fighter to win the presidency in '08, and there is only one: John Edwards.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Timed Release
The mainstream media has become an information delivery vehicle in much the same way that cigarettes are a nicotine delivery vehicle. The only difference is that the MSM works more like an antihistamine with timed release.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008
New Year's Eve Arrests at Huckabee Headquarters
(10 comments) Oscar Wilde once said "Only the superficial don't judge by appearances" and, judging by appearances, Mike Huckabee poses a far greater threat to democracy as we know it than bin Laden ever could.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
Moral Downsizing
(3 comments) Moral ambiguity can only lead to positional vertigo.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
How to End "State of Emergency" 101
Accountability may yet prove to be as much a problem in Islamabad as it is in Washington, D.C.

Friday, December 21, 2007
Forced Detox for Fox
Fox News best reflects Murdoch's good week...

Monday, December 10, 2007
Don't Start Without Me
A coalition of the killing must now become a coalition of the willing.

Saturday, December 1, 2007
Just Ask
Child support wasn't meant to be state support.

Saturday, November 3, 2007
No Wiggle Room
(2 comments) Artful dodgers, like Michael Mukasey, need not apply. Torture is not contextual; it is absolute.

Saturday, October 20, 2007
The Protect Who Act?
(6 comments) Just say "no" to abuse of power.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Press On
Information is the first casualty of war.

Friday, October 12, 2007
An Open Letter to Al Gore
(31 comments) World peace transcends politics.

Sunday, October 7, 2007
Another Poster Child for the NRA
(28 comments) Forget about Islamofascism; what about fascism in our own backyard?

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Who needs approval ratings when you have lifetime immunity?
(3 comments) While we've been busy watching the mullahs go after the moolah, the rope is getting tighter around those we call foes.

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Pass the Federal Shield Law
(5 comments) When journalists become an endangered species, truth is on the line. A society bolstered by lies, and misdeeds, is one destined to fall.

Monday, October 1, 2007
Duplomacy
(3 comments) Every president will be remembered for something. George W. Bush's legacy will be the introduction of a new concept---duplomacy.

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Move Over O.J.
(2 comments) O.J. blinked in court today when the charges against him were read. Somebody decided that should be front page news. America inhaled just long enough to eclipse the report yesterday that Congress is looking into allegations that a top official in the State Department, Inspector General Howard J. Krongard, used his "partisan political ties" to not only block investigations, but to completely ignore so-called "security lapses

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
To Friends in New York on 9/11
(2 comments) There can be no terror without fear.

Saturday, September 8, 2007
In Pursuit of Power
(4 comments) If phonecalls can be traced with alarming frequency, why can't the rocket scientists at Homeland Security figure out a way to trace Osama bin Laden's cell number? Could it be because they don't want to!

Thursday, August 30, 2007
The Hallelujah Glory Hole Choir
(5 comments) backlash is often worse than whiplash

Friday, August 24, 2007
Who's Packing in Pakistan
(3 comments) The war on terror is more about selective perception than selective service.

Friday, August 10, 2007
Banning Harry Potter
(2 comments) Censorship, not terrorism, poses a far greater risk to life as we know it.

Sunday, August 5, 2007
Under Pressure
(1 comments) A host of abstractions to hide a circus of fear...

Monday, July 30, 2007
Parsing Purgatory
Covering one's ass at the expense of the Constitution must come to be seen as an impeachable offense.

Sunday, July 8, 2007
Standing to Sue
(1 comments) The Bush years are the embodiment of privilege whether it be executive privilege, or state secrets privilege. And, in the end, it all comes down to covering one's backyard.

Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Firefights and the Fourth of July
More often than not, the buck stops right where it began.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
Beneath Contempt
(3 comments) Paris, Coulter, and other weapons of mass distraction...

Sunday, June 24, 2007
Rocky Days in L.A.
(3 comments) Those who champion the interests of the downtrodden in America today are at the greatest risk of incurring the wrath of the corporate giants.

Friday, June 22, 2007
Mr. President, Tear Down This Wall
(1 comments) The wall between government and governed, in the U.S., needs to come down. The truth must come out of its foxhole, and charges of high crimes and misdemeanors must see the light of day...

Saturday, June 16, 2007
Term Limits on the Supremes
(1 comments) Calluses are for feet, not courts.

Sunday, June 10, 2007
A recipe for national health: more Colin, less Rice
(3 comments) Not all votes of no confidence are created equally...

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Paging John Ashcroft
(4 comments) There are only two people on earth who know the whole story, and one of them isn't talking. What about the other one?

Monday, May 28, 2007
Climate / Whether Changes
(1 comments) Whether it's Hillary and big business, or McCain and big war bucks, it must remembered that a president's first four years are often spent appealing to the special interests that got them there, so who are those special interests? What policy, or practices will a president most likely endorse to get re-elected, and at whose expense? How much are they willing to compromise to get to where they want to go?

Friday, May 25, 2007
Atheists in Foxholes
(9 comments) What is within our power...

Sunday, May 6, 2007
From V-chips to Vetoes
(1 comments) The right to life vs. the right to live, and other V-chip moments.

Thursday, April 26, 2007
Star Power
Just say "no" to Neanderthals!

Saturday, April 21, 2007
The Boy Who Cried Wolfowitz
(2 comments) The cult of inconsequentials claims another...

Friday, April 20, 2007
They Got The Wrong Guy
(4 comments) Justice walks when money talks...

Friday, April 13, 2007
Putting Imus to bed....
In the final analysis, the Imus story comes down to supply and demand.

Sunday, April 8, 2007
Famous Last Words
(1 comments) When they capture us, we're called "hostages;" when we capture them, we're called "heroes."

Friday, April 6, 2007
A Matter of Convenience
(1 comments) the missing link...

Sunday, March 25, 2007
How's This for a Marriage?
Not only does the commander-in-chief need a refresher course in Geography 101, but his veep does, too. The troops we should support, if any, are the ones in Afghanistan; better still, the ones on their way home.

Saturday, March 24, 2007
The Ultimate in Ultrasounds
(5 comments) Privacy, and the right to independent decision-making also come under the heading of civil rights.

Sunday, February 18, 2007
Setting the Record Straight for President's Day
(1 comments) We need leadership that affirms our need for socialized medicine more than socialized ignorance

Friday, February 16, 2007
Putting a Noose around the News
(1 comments) Media consolidation is Slim Fast for consciousness.

Saturday, February 10, 2007
No Jihad Left Behind
(25 comments) He survived Auschwitz, only to be accosted at a peace conference in San Francisco...

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Conduct Unbecoming
(8 comments) Are commissioned officers the only ones required to uphold an oath? What about their commanders? What about the oath to uphold the Constitution; the First and Fourth Amendments?

Monday, February 5, 2007
"The U.S. versus John Lennon"
(3 comments) When you see a flag, duck...

Friday, February 2, 2007
Shoot First, Ask Later
(4 comments) Extraordinary rendition is what happens when militarism metastizes

Saturday, January 27, 2007
The Powers That Be
(5 comments) The mainstream media, and the politics of exclusion...

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Global Enablers
(4 comments) It's time to put torture back on the table...

Friday, January 19, 2007
Worldwide Open Season on the Press
(5 comments) Survival now depends on solidarity.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Following in the Footsteps...
(1 comments) "And the Executioner's face is always well-hidden..."

Sunday, January 14, 2007
Hitting the Bottom Line
(1 comments) The Pentagon's attempt at an economic embargo of the nation's top law firms.

Monday, January 8, 2007
Missing in Action
(1 comments) The concept of a "surge" is a weapon of mass distraction intended to deflect attention away from the Democratic domestic agenda, as well as the intentions of the new Congress to investigate executive branch malfeasance and wrongdoing.

Sunday, January 7, 2007
Details Emerge
(4 comments) No more troops; speak truth to war. They say that truth is the first casualty of war, but the lessons of recent wars in Vietnam, and now Iraq show, if nothing else, that honor is not far behind

Friday, January 5, 2007
On Loan from Charlie's Angels
(1 comments) Progressive change requires progress, and we're getting there

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Death of a Precedent
(1 comments) Dangerous liaisons between the White House and the press...

Saturday, December 30, 2006
Instant Karma
(5 comments) how about a remake, only this time: "Dead Man Talking..."

Sunday, December 24, 2006
Shock and Awe: The Politics of Redaction
(4 comments) Hey, Santa, how about some free press?

Thursday, December 21, 2006
"Natural Partners" -- Consider the Out-source
(4 comments) The President's implied policy of "just say no to nonproliferation" when it comes to trade, and the economic bottom line, may well put us on the fast track to a born again arms race.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
"To Impeach or Not to Impeach"
It's now up to Congress to become the Lost and Found for national priorities.

Sunday, December 17, 2006
The Testimony of Carne Ross
(2 comments) Sexing up the reasons for going to war...

Thursday, December 14, 2006
Dukes of Hazard
"You can fool some of the people, some of the time..."

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Annan Speaks
"The monster that had resorted to arms must be put in chains that could not be broken," Woodrow Wilson, July, 1919

Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Earth to Ahmadinejad
(18 comments) Ignorance is the gravest threat to world peace, and those who broker misinformation, regardless of ideology, do irreparable harm to the struggle for human awakening.

Monday, December 4, 2006
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
(1 comments) "Recast the U.S. military mission and the U.S. goals (how we talk about them) -- go minimalist," outgoing Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld.

Friday, December 1, 2006
Some Clarification Needed on the Word "Criminal"
(2 comments) "Every time you murder somebody, you're a criminal," thus spake the Commander-in-Chief

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
In Cahoots with the Cahooters
There is no country left, in the so-called free world, that doesn't have blood in its hands with respect to "extraordinary rendition," and the outsourcing of torture.

Sunday, November 26, 2006
And Now a Word from Big Brother
(1 comments) EFF takes on AT&T, and NSA surveillance, a work in progress...

Saturday, November 25, 2006
In the Under-belly of the Beast
Just when we thought it was safe to put another election behind us...

Saturday, November 25, 2006
The Buck Stops Where?
(3 comments) Moving past platitudes and into action...

Friday, November 24, 2006
Encampments
(1 comments) Something quietly came to pass, this week...

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
"Waking Up the Coast" / "El Despertar de la Costa"
(2 comments) The unsung heroes in the battle to protect civil liberties...

Monday, November 20, 2006
Murdoch Buckles....
(2 comments) media and print consolidation pose a grave danger to freedom of expression

Sunday, November 19, 2006
The Next Best Thing to Winning the Lottery...
"And now a word from our sponsors..."

Saturday, November 18, 2006
All in the Family?
"Imagine there's no countries, it isn't hard to do, Nothing to kill or die for, and no religion, too. Imagine all the people living life in peace..." John Lennon

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
"A Nation Deceived: A Work in Progress"
(1 comments) On the eve of Election Day, and one best characterized by the phrase "pinch me..."

Tuesday, November 14, 2006
What Part of the Word Outrage ...
(1 comments) Lawyers for Bush & Co. deny constitutional rights to hundreds detained at Guantanamo Bay, and attempt to have hundreds of lawsuits, challenging their detention, dismissed.

Thursday, November 9, 2006
And Yet A Reminder....The Third American Woman Killed in Iraq
(7 comments) Now that the election is over, and victory assured, it's time to get to work on human rights abuses committed by our own military...

Saturday, November 4, 2006
Live from "Mile High Coffee," Bush Unplugged
Fertilizer---it's not just for farmers anymore...

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Crisis of Opportunity
(2 comments) this is the Democrats election to lose, and if they do, you better have your bags packed, and your passport in your pocket.

Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Busted: Augusto Pinochet
Pinochet pays his dues; better late than never...

Sunday, October 29, 2006
"a little silly"
"no-brainers," and the folks who love them...

Thursday, October 26, 2006
The Scales and Scalia
(5 comments) Conspicuous consumption, or planned obsolescene of freedom of the press?

Monday, October 23, 2006
Forget the Sharks; What About the Swamps?
come on in, the water's fine...

Saturday, October 21, 2006
Thus Spake Zarabushtra
(2 comments) It may be "tough" in Iraq, but it's tougher at home...

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
not to change the subject, but...
some tips to avoid E.D. (election dysfunciton)

Monday, October 16, 2006
Outsourcing the Death Penalty
outsourcing, it's not just for torture anymore

Friday, October 13, 2006
how's this for a cover-up?
(1 comments) Was a British network journalist murdered, by U.S. forces, to stop publication of his report from Iraq in the early days of the war?

Thursday, October 12, 2006
Insulting Ignorance
Free speech...it's not just for dictators anymore

Wednesday, October 11, 2006
now that we figured out how to go in reverse...
(2 comments) If nothing else, today's plane crash into a Manhattan building shows, despite the chatter coming from Bush and Cheney, we're no safer today than we were on 9/11

Monday, October 9, 2006
here's a scandal for you...
Sex, Lies, and Laptops?

Sunday, October 8, 2006
The Truth and Anna P.
(11 comments) While there are consequences for telling the truth, the consequences for not telling the truth are greater...

Saturday, October 7, 2006
Outing Jeb...
closets: can't live with them, can't live without them...

Friday, October 6, 2006
in time for Columbus Day...
What part of the word "hell" don't we understand?

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Only Temporary?
(1 comments) Whose country is this anyway?

Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Dr. Dean to the Rescue!
In light of the Foley debacle, this is not the time for this administration to chastise Democrats for being "soft" on anything...

Monday, October 2, 2006
Oh, and here's a question...
(4 comments) Which "sordid subculture" poses the greatest threat to our freedom--the subculture of Internet onanists, or that of election fraud and "influence peddling?"

Sunday, October 1, 2006
"Operation Return to Sender"
"the I.C.E. Man cometh..."

Saturday, September 30, 2006
The Smoking Shorts...
how to tell the boxers from the shorts...

Thursday, September 28, 2006
drama queens have their place...
What's ailing Ailes?

Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Selective Deception
This administration wants to be "very cautious and very restrained" about the information it gives the American people...

Sunday, September 24, 2006
Cajones and "conservative hit jobs"
(6 comments) What Clinton did was "romper room" compared to the travesties of this administration...

Saturday, September 23, 2006
The November Surprise--bin Laden on a Silver Platter?
(13 comments) Skepticism is, at times, the only healthy response to a climate that breeds pathology...

Thursday, September 21, 2006
The Myth of Third World Purity
(1 comments) When the spectator becomes the spectacle...

Wednesday, September 20, 2006
What's in a Name?
Hubris is spreading faster than wildfires

Monday, September 18, 2006
If the Dems...
(2 comments) After nearly a decade of the "terror men," this is no time for the hollow men...

Friday, September 15, 2006
Impeach Condi?
(4 comments) following precedents not presidents...

Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Democracy Israeli Style
(1 comments) When truth becomes a vestigial organ, justice becomes a loaded gun.

Saturday, September 9, 2006
What Better Way...
Does fear of attack from without justify attack from within?

Thursday, September 7, 2006
The Gift of Opportunity: George W. Bush and The Politics of Word Play
(1 comments) Nobody can deny this president is gifted...

Monday, September 4, 2006
"Some Thoughts on Putting 'Labor' Back in Labor Day
who ran off with the American Dream, and how did it happen?

Thursday, August 31, 2006
A Wrongful Conviction
(2 comments) Being "pro-life" means being against the death penalty

Monday, August 28, 2006
You've Got to Love a Country

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Chez Denny's; Visions of Civil war... In America
(3 comments) Our government's declaration of war on "terror" was really a declaration of war on the American Dream, and nothing more than a transparent camouflage for an assault on the middle class. This was no mere assault, mind you, but assault with a deadly weapon, the weapon being nothing less than sabotage of the electoral process.

Sunday, August 20, 2006
"An Open Letter to President George W. Bush"
(7 comments) To be an example, we must set one...

Saturday, August 19, 2006
"Consider the Mindset"
(6 comments) Hiding behind the "enemy" line...

Sunday, August 13, 2006
"the al-Qaida type"
(2 comments) Will the real "good guys" please stand up...

Thursday, August 10, 2006
"Lamont not Lament"
Instead of Camelot, we now have chameleons.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
"A Necessary Distinction"
When occupation becomes a preoccupation...

Sunday, August 6, 2006
"When Might Makes Right"
There can be no holy war.

Saturday, August 5, 2006
"Dereliction of Duty"
All the news un-fit to print?

Friday, August 4, 2006
"Dial K for Kill Count"
Making quota Baghdad-style...

Wednesday, August 2, 2006
"A Shield for the Prez, but not for the Press"
Tweaking torture; revisionism and the new world order...

Tuesday, August 1, 2006
"The Gibsonians"
(2 comments) "We've all come to look for America..."

Thursday, July 27, 2006
One Small Step for the Senate, One Large Step for Mankind
(3 comments) "Take my rights, please..."

Wednesday, July 26, 2006
Is Psychosis Contagious?
When vision divides, it's time for change

Wednesday, July 19, 2006
"Blood Wedding in Beirut"
This warfare between brothers has to stop. This cycle of vengeance, and misunderstanding, that pits Sh'ite against Christian, Muslim against Jew, can only end in death and destruction for all. It is a cycle of shame, a shame that we all share, a disgrace that permeates every last inch of us, the least and the greatest who, in the final analysis, will share the same fate.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
"Hoekstra Unplugged"
The arguments of this administration are destined to become "endangered specious..."

Saturday, July 8, 2006
Heil, Liberator!
(2 comments) Liberation, not Beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

Monday, July 3, 2006
"Too Many Tragedies, Too Little Time..."
The face of wrongful conviction could well be yours or mine.

Monday, June 26, 2006
So, this is how it works...
Caveat Emptor... even the specter of sanity has been coopted... we break the law, then we make it law.