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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
America's Love Affair with Obama; Showing Signs of Fraying
(24 comments) The bloom is off the rose, though, with some audacious gardening, it could return.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Part 2: Photo Essay: Heroes Fighting for Single Payer Arrested in Philly For Civil Disobedience
(2 comments) part two of phot-essay: All across America, protesters are ramping up the fight for real, solid healthcare reform-- single payer-- by protesting and engaging in civil disobedience. Over 100 have been arrested in the past weeks. I witnessed and documented the protest and arrest of 13 demostrators at the Philadelphia Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters in center city Philly.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Photo Essay part 3: Heroes Fighting for Single Payer Arrested in Philly For Civil Disobedience
(2 comments) The third and final segment of the Photo essay. All across America, protesters are ramping up the fight for real, solid healthcare reform-- single payer-- by protesting and engaging in civil disobedience. Over 100 have been arrested in the past weeks. I witnessed and documented the protest and arrest of 13 demostrators at the Philadelphia Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters in center city Philly.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
Accusing Election Fraud, Corruption, Karzai Opponent Withdraws From Election, Raising More Questions for USA
(2 comments) Candidate withdraws, claiming corrupt election process. Will this give more traction to opponents of continuing the war?

Saturday, October 31, 2009
The Health Care Reform Republicans Want
(5 comments) Republican claims that they want health reform their way are bogus. They want more gifts to the health insurance industry.

Saturday, October 31, 2009
Photo Essay: Heroes Fighting for Single Payer Arrested in Philly For Civil Disobedience
(10 comments) All across America, protesters are ramping up the fight for real, solid healthcare reform-- single payer-- by protesting and engaging in civil disobedience. Over 100 have been arrested in the past weeks. I witnessed and documented the protest and arrest of 13 demostrators at the Philadelphia Blue Cross Blue Shield headquarters in center city Philly.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Give 'Em Hell Harry, Starting with Lieberman
(18 comments) Time to make the lives of opponents of health care reform living hell. Do whatever is legal to make them and their families and all around them annoyed, irritated, hassled, and worrying about what will come next.

Saturday, October 24, 2009
Review: Phil Roy's In the Weird, Small Hours CD
Phil Roy's In the Weird, Small Hours delivers delicious, sensually pleasurable sounds to your ears, head and heart. If you're not familiar with Phil Roy, this is a great intro to his talents-- his brilliant voice, musicality, timing, heart, performing.

Thursday, October 22, 2009
A Time To Kill the Killers, A Time for Outrage
(36 comments) It's time to kill the most horrific mass murderers and family destroyers in America of the last decades-- health insurance companies.

Sunday, October 18, 2009
Identifying the Enemy and Murderers in the Health Care Wars
(17 comments) "Now all the criminals in their suits and ties are free to drink martinis and watch the sunrise" --Bob Dylan

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Harry Reid, Future Health Insurance Lobbyist
(16 comments) Reid, so far, deserves to lose his job, just like Tom Daschle, who now supports the health insurance industry, did.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A Crazy Idea; Replace the US Senate it with Senatiament
(9 comments) We need real democracy in America, if America is to virtually survive, and that means the end of the tyranny of the senate, where senators representing a million or less people have voting power equal to senators representing 10, 20, even 40 million.

Monday, October 12, 2009
Email's End?
(11 comments) Every change in communications medium causes big changes in culture. Email was a culture changer. Now, email is being upstaged by social media.

Friday, October 9, 2009
Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize?
(110 comments) I woke up to a text message from CNN that Obama had won the Nobel peace prize. First thought-- "Why? What did he do to earn it?

Friday, October 9, 2009
Selected Takes From Twitterers on Obama's Nobel Prize Win
(3 comments) full spectrum of response-- some pretty funny stuff

Thursday, October 8, 2009
Are Mainstream Media Covering 21st Century Freedom Riders Fighting For Health Care Civil Rights & Ending Wars
(10 comments) The mainstream media went crazy covering the teabaggers and noisemakers at town halls. They SHOULD be covering protests against the war and protests FOR health care as a civil right too.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Pumps Beck Czar Meme in Top Front Page Headline
(3 comments) ,,,that headline is pure echo of the meme Fox News psycho screech pundit Glen Beck has been screaming on a daily basis, that Obama has appointed "Czars, Czars and More Czars" to run the government

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Interview With Pro-Bono Civil Rights Defense Attorney Paul Hetznecker
(6 comments) The day after over 80 protesters, many of them OpEdNews.com contributors, were arrested in front of the White House, it seems like a good time to publish this interview I did a few weeks ago with Paul Hetznecker, who defends protesters as part of his life work.

Monday, October 5, 2009
Yellow City? Spineless Cowards Almost Everywhere in DC
(20 comments) Am I wearing yellow-colored glasses, or is cowardice really tinting Washington almost everyone you look. Thank goodness for Grayson, Kucinich, Kaptur, Sanders and the house progressive caucus. I want to see more members of congress stand with Grayson and I want to see Obama dump his DLC Clintonites

Sunday, October 4, 2009
Eviction Yard Sale
(3 comments) a scene that is surely replicating itself all over America.

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Separating the Journalism Baby From the Newspapers Bathwater
(12 comments) Newspapers are dying. Let them. There may have been people who wanted to rescue the buggy whip industry. But they were misguided. It was transportation they really cared about. We need to initiate dynamic, bottom up approaches to support the dying field of Journalism, not newspapers.

Saturday, October 3, 2009
Quotes-- A New Content Category On OpEdNews
(5 comments) Now, OpEdNEws has a powerful quotation database program that should prove valuable to writers of all stripes. And YOU can add quotes to it that appear in the database and on your member page.

Thursday, October 1, 2009
White House blog, Online Programs Director is Former OpEdNews Writer
(3 comments) Is there life after OpEdNEws? There sure has been for Jesse Lee.

Thursday, October 1, 2009
Reasons to call it The Healthcare Holocaust.
(33 comments) How many deaths make a holocaust? What kind of intention must exist for a massive death count be called a holocaust? Grayson deserves our thanks for using the holocaust analogy.

Friday, September 25, 2009
G20 Pbgh; Police State Ghost-Town; Pics and Video of Tear-gassing
(34 comments) Take pictures. The police use photos and videos to craft false scenarios and lies. The best defense for protesters is to take still images and videos of police-- thousands of them. Get their faces, their shifting positions. This is one of the most powerful defenses when protesters are charged.

Friday, September 25, 2009
G-20 Arrest or Kidnapping
(16 comments) Men wearing military fatigues grab a protester and throw him in an unmarked car.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Fighting For Justice, For Freedom Of the Press in Philly, Where Police Arrest Journalists
(22 comments) he more I talk to people the more I am convinced that this was an intentional effort by the police to silence the press. From the reports I've received, what happened to Cheryl Biren was not the normal way things are done.

Monday, September 14, 2009
OpEdNews Reporter Arrested While Photographing Protest
(14 comments) freedom of the press was abused by the Philadelphia police on saturday. A year ago, Cheryl Biren co-authored an article commenting on the arrest of Amy Goodman and others, saying, "" A free press where reporters can engage in their journalistic duties without threat of arrest must be respected. Take action." It is ironic that now, Biren is a victim.

Monday, September 7, 2009
PA Protest Against School District Refusing to Show Obama Speech
(19 comments) In a suburb outside Philly, a school district has banned the Obama speech. Local actvists and community members showed up to the tune of over 100 protesters, to demand the speech be shown.

Sunday, September 6, 2009
Van Jones Resigns; Left To Hang By Obama For Cursing Republicans and Signing 9/11 Truth Statement?
(82 comments) Van Jones called Republicans what most of the people who voted for Obama call them. And he signed a statement calling for further inquiry and explanation of 9/11-- the original 9/11 truth document. Was he left hanging by the Obama Administration for doing what scores of millions of Americans would also do?

Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Spineless Dems or a Dem-Trifecta Driven Filibuster-Proof Congress and a Media Carrot
(27 comments) It is a great gift, an extraordinary honor to be handed great power. Failure to wield the power with courage and integrity may be one of the worst failures of character, perhaps even a mortal sin.

Monday, August 31, 2009
Will Spiderman Become a Teabagger? Will Loss Of Super-Hero Diversity Hurt Our Culture?
(16 comments) Will Disney's management, with its history of channeling conservative messages on ABC, subtly influence the way superheroes operate-- defending torture, invading countries that didn't start a conflict? Will Captain America become a privatized Blackwater or Xe mercenary, killing innocent bystanders in Iraq?

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Wall Street Journal Reports On Health Care Rationing By US Insurers
(2 comments) Right wing health reform opponents would have you believe that Obama's health plan or single payer health care will bring rationing to health care. They suggest that the big, bad Obama plan and the nasty Democrats want to institute health care rationing that will kill granny. The truth is health care rationing is a usual and customary part of the current health insurance system in the US.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Rob's Twitters
Check out why Rob's all a-Twitter.

Monday, August 24, 2009
So My Congressman Calls Me In Response to Yesterday's Article...
(22 comments) at 9:00 AM sharp, my congressman called in response to the article I wrote about our interaction yesterday.

Sunday, August 23, 2009
Questions for My Dem Congressman after His Health Care Town Hall, where he pointed me out as a liberal he disagrees with
(20 comments) My congressman points me out in the crowd as a liberal he disagrees with. I call on using right wing talking points to attack single payer. He's not a bad guy, but he used me personally and got things really wrong on single payer.

Friday, August 21, 2009
American Justice is At Risk. What Are You Doing About it?
(30 comments) While the health reform debate is roaring, as it should be, with the yellow back dems, including Obama, in full spineless coward mode, except for a handful, there's another important situation that must be covered-- the failure of Obama and AG Holder to remove the Bush appointed toxic prosecuting attorneys-- the ones who have criminally engaged in prosecutorial misconduct.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Why Holder and Obama have not fired the Bush Appointed, Rove-Vetted DOJ Attorneys
(33 comments) It's an unprecedented outrage. There are scores of attorneys-- partisan, engaging in serial prosecutorial misconduct, like the cases of Gov. Don Siegelman and Cyril Wecht, and these Bush-appointees are still on the job, doing damage to the US, to justice and innocent victims. I offer a theory why this breach of trust by Obama, why he has failed to do what every president before him has done.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Abolish the Senate, Starting with Some Whittling
(36 comments) Seeing the way a handful of senators are serving their health industry contributors better than they are their constituents, or the health of the nation, it is clear the US Senate itself needs some major surgery. The United States has the world's oldest living democracy. It is a problem. We are stuck with a house of congress that utterly fails to fairly represent the people, giving disgracefully disproportionate power to...

Thursday, August 13, 2009
Death To Granny!! But by who?
(10 comments) It's time that the US took back it's integrity and rescued Granny from the corporatists and their dupes who have been killing grannies every day.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Technical Problems on OEN
We had some technical problems overnight and this morning. If you attempted to submit an article and received an error code, please try again. In the meantime, feel free to catch up on some of the other great articles that have been published recently. Take some time and check out another category column that you may not have explored before like the Life/Arts/Science section, Best Web/Opeds, etc.

Monday, August 10, 2009
Double Standards and Disingenuosity On Bellowing Townhall Disruptors
(24 comments) liberal protesters who did not attempt to disrupt political events have been treated very differently than the right wing disruptors. The right wing echo chamber, pundits and their MSM enablers are engaging in incredibly disingenuous reporting and interpretation of the protests. Time to bust these loudmouths and straighten out the media-- and for Dems to get the job they were hired to do-- pass a serious healthcare rehab bill.

Friday, August 7, 2009
America Under Attack-- Today
(38 comments) this is no joke. The attack has already hit millions and there is no sign the military or intelligence agencies are doing anything to protect America from the growing threat.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
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(2 comments) temporary test. this posting will be removed shortly

Monday, August 3, 2009
Specter Supports Single-Payer, Sort of, At Teabaggered Town Hall With Sebelius
(13 comments) Specter announces that he sort of supports single payer, amidst a teabaggered cacaphony opposing any healthcare reform

Sunday, August 2, 2009
On Blog and Media Site Policies on Censorship, Filtering, Noise and Artifact-- an Engineering Metaphor
Physiological technology, which measures heart rate, brainwaves, muscle tension, etc. has some similarities with websites, when it comes to filtering out noise and unwanted signals.

Monday, July 27, 2009
White House Declassifies 1000 Global Warming Evidence Photos Bush Hid
(1 comments) Bush admin's top secrecy used to hide evidence of global warming.

Sunday, July 26, 2009
How to Use Twitter Hashtags to Blast Your Reach and Build Your Follower Base
(4 comments) You can easily use hashtags to reach many more people and build your follower base faster.

Friday, July 24, 2009
The Big Stupid in Cambridge
(74 comments) was it racism, or two stubborn men with too much testosterone?

Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Distracted-- the Coming of a New Dark Age; Rob Kall Interviews author Maggie Jackson
(1 comments) Maggie Jackson's book, DISTRACTED describes a world entering a new dark age, where attention is becoming a lost art and shallowness prevails. Rob Kall interviews her about culture, politics and more.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Re-inventing, Evolving and Tweeting the New Media
(4 comments) This is a time of great change-- chaos, flux, where disruptive technologies are bringing about drastically new ways of doing and being, seeing and experiencing. It is dangerous to each of our futures to get stuck with what used to be proper or correct.

Saturday, July 18, 2009
Why You Should Twitter... on OpEdNEws and beyond
(8 comments) if you're not on twitter yet, you're making a mistake. Here's how to get started and use it with a bang and with OpEdNews.com

Friday, July 17, 2009
House Dem's Placebo HealthCare Reform
(15 comments) The House Dems have offered a placebo in the place of REAL REFORM in their first, outrageous, totally unacceptable draft at health care reform. It deserves only rejection and a loud outcry demanding better. Unfortunately, co-opting centrist dem enablers, like HCAN, Moveon, ACORN will probably go along with it. HCAN is already trying to help sell this piece of trash.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
OpEdNews Has Been Twitterized
(1 comments) we've integrated with the Twitter API to make it incredibly easy to tweet articles, for members to be followed on twitter.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Sotomayor hearings are a sham
(21 comments) There is zero chance that she will not be approved. There are zero reasons for her not to be approved. The Republican Majority is using it to build cred with its dwinding racist base, in the process showing off how sexist, ignorant, hypocritical and intolerant they can be.

Sunday, July 12, 2009
Attorney General Holder Considering Opening Torture Investigation-- Like the Failed Abu Ghraib Lynddie England Coverup?
(26 comments) limited investigations of the worst torture abuse could be opened by AG Holder, but probably not investigations into John Yoo and torture policy and decision makers.

Saturday, July 11, 2009
URL Shorteners are For More than Shortening URLs
whether for twitter, phone calls, books, printed literature, print ads, billboards or signs on trucks, shortened URLs are valuable. It seems most people don't know much about them or the added features many URL shortening sites offer. This tutorial will help you get up to speed.

Friday, July 10, 2009
Blocked Whistleblower Protections Put Obama Transparency Promises at Risk; Intvw with Whistleblower advocate Tom Devine
(3 comments) transcript of an interview with Whistleblower advocate Tom Devine, discussing the unhappy situation whistleblowers are now in, thanks to a decision by a Bush appointee holdover Obama failed to replace.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Rove Deposed By Conyers Under Cloud of Secrecy AND Harriet Meiers Was Deposed Last Month
(17 comments) Under a cloud of secrecy, Karl Rove was deposed by John Conyer's House Judiciary committee, a few weeks after Harriet Meiers under the radar June 15th deposition.

Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Health Insurance Whistleblower Wendell Potter-- Interview; Details How Insurers Screw Insureds
(4 comments) Wendell Potter, who last week testified before Congress about a duplicitous health insurance industry, tells us they shouldn't be trusted, how they are screwing the insured.

Sunday, June 28, 2009
youngbillymays tweets; "My dad didn't wake up this morning..."
(2 comments) a poignant, plaintive tweet that will surely be heard around the world.

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Will Romantic e-mails between Gov. Sanford and His Paramour Maria Help or Hurt Him?
(23 comments) Received a month ago, but not published because they were unsubstantiated-- romantic email exchanges between Stanford and his paramour, Maria.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Iranian Protester Asks Obama Question At Press Conference... Through Huffpo Reporter Nico Pitney
(2 comments) An Iranian protester, with the help of blogger/new media journalist Nico Pitney, literally gets to ask a question at a presidential press conference.

Monday, June 22, 2009
Who's Supporting or Opposing Ahmadinejead or Mousavi?
(51 comments) This is complicated stuff with different stakes for a diverse range of groups. OEN is seeing different perspectives on what's happening in Iran from different writers. I try to lay out some analysis of the analysis and I ask a LOT of questions to get beneath the mainstream media and the easy reflexes in a situation that is, in someways crystal clear and some ways highly nuanced.

Sunday, June 21, 2009
Congress Finally Votes for Impeachment... But...
(53 comments) The House of Representatives unanimously votes to impeach, but the NY Times gives it on paragraph on page 12-- at least it's section A.

Saturday, June 20, 2009
Cindy Sheehan's Revolution Journey
(4 comments) Cindy's new book on revolution against the robber class takes her on the next stage of her heroic journey

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Facebook Personalized URLs-- Free But Going Fast
if you haven't grabbed your personalized facebook URL yet, grab it fast.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Iran's 3rd Revolution: 7 Protesters Killed, Journalists Threatened with Arrest if They Report Street Protests
(17 comments) things are moving fast. Perspective on how events could lead to a third Iranian revolution

Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wingnut Murder Spree or Are WE Part of the Problem?
(124 comments) imbalanced extremist wingnuts are being "activated" into murderers by extremist activators in the media and on the web. Expect a lot more.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Obama Embraces Bluedog Paygo and Announces Banks Repaying $68 Billion in Bailout Funds
(5 comments) Calls for PayGo, the Bluedog favorite, and reports big bucks being repaid.

Monday, June 8, 2009
Is Comcast Manipulating the American Media?
(12 comments) Is Comcast changing the channel on the american media? The answer is yes. The question is will it affect more than our reflex habits? Will it affect democracy?

Saturday, June 6, 2009
Progressive and Bluedog Caucuses Clash Over Health Care
(19 comments) moderate and conservative dems side with republicans and big health insurers, opposing progressive policies.

Friday, June 5, 2009
Will Buchenwald Persuade Obama to Pursue Justice for the Tortured?
(21 comments)

Sunday, May 31, 2009
Did Bill O'Reilly's Words Kill the Abortion Doctor?
(15 comments) No blood on his hands, but check out his lips.

Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Obama Chooses Sonia Sotomayor, A Latina SCOTUS Nominee!!
(32 comments) Obama will be announcing today that he is appointing Sonia Sotomayo, a 55 year old Puerto Rican judge as his replacement for David Souter, according to Politico.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009
As Senate Blocks Guantanamo Closing Funding, Habeus Hating Judge Allows Indefinite Imprisonment There
(2 comments) 90 senators who are afraid of being accused of allowing Guantanamo prisoners into their states opposed funding the costs for closing Guantanamo. Judge Who's Allowing Unlimited Imprisonment of Guantanamo Prisoners Also Scuttled Plame Lawsuits and Opposes Habeus Corpus

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Nancy Pelosi; Courageous Hero
(54 comments) I'm no great fan of Nancy Pelosi, but she's showing more cojones than Barack Obama, Colin Powell or Leon Panetta.

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Rob Kall Interviews Sibel Edmonds
(17 comments) Rob Kall interviews Sibel Edmonds, discussing Jane Harmon, Turkey, Dennis Hastert, Edmond's being silenced...

Saturday, May 16, 2009
Obama Picks a Clarence Thomas for the EPA
(122 comments) another betrayal by Obama, in the form a of a minority appointee-- female, latina, but look at hear history. Do we have a Clarence Thomas for the environment? Obama came talking about change but the change we've seen is HIM looking more like the do-nothings in congress on both sides of the aisle... except what they do for corporations and lobbyists.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Get Out In the Streets And FIGHT for Universal, Single Payer Health Care
(42 comments) A family member's brutal beating by a gang has me extra pissed. Time to get out in the streets to demand universal health insurance like every other first world nation has. There are too many horror stories affecting too many Americans.

Monday, May 11, 2009
Angels And Demons-- a Satisfying Thriller With Some Messages
(1 comments) Angels and Demons, opening in theaters on May 15, delivers, and even 911 truthers and conspiracy theorists may find dialogue and story elements that support their way of seeing the world.

Friday, May 8, 2009
What does bottom up mind have to do with you personally?
(35 comments) how does using a bottom up mind, seeing with bottom up eyes, engaging in work and projects and relationships have to do with you personally? That's my question. That's why I'm writing this book, because I believe that if you have "bottom up consciousness" you will more intentionally both tap the power of bottom up to make a difference in the world AND your life and you will challenge the top down systems and structures...

Monday, May 4, 2009
Is Army Abusing Children With its Latest Experiment, the Army Experience Center?
(107 comments) Protest of Army Experience Center charges army with child abuse. Seven protesters arrested.

Thursday, April 30, 2009
GOP Starts Robocall Attack Against Specter; Is Specter Vulnerable as Dem Candidate?
(5 comments) is Specter vulnerable as a democratic Senate candidate? GOP robocalls have started already.

Monday, April 27, 2009
Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?
(268 comments) The results on what's really happening with the swine flue epidemic are not in. This could be a frightening situation with dire possibilities and the theories are flying. The comments section below is a great place to add your links, theories & facts to flesh out the full picture. OpEdNews.com is a bottom up media site where the members play an essential role in covering the full story. Let's really make it happen here.

Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Freddie Mac Acting CFO Suicides
(14 comments) money losing mortgage giant Freddie Mac's acting CFO was found dead, an apparent suicide.

Monday, April 20, 2009
Are Progressives Being Duped by a Megacorporation's Disinformation Attacks?
(21 comments) Can you imagine a multibillion transnational corporation wants something big-- legislation that will change the way business is done in a way that's a quantum leap better than it currently is? Can you imagine the company using distraction and disinformation techniques to attack activists who oppose the bill?

Sunday, April 12, 2009
Draft The Bankers; Contain the rats
(20 comments) draft the greedy rats leaving the sinking financial ships.

Saturday, April 11, 2009
Grey and Drizzling in America
(61 comments) the state of america and what we need to do about it.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Notes from a High Powered Local Writers Group
(3 comments) I've been to plenty of writers groups over the years. Some are deadly boring, with nothing but grey haired budding poets writing about their nursing home experience. This one, run by first rate writing trainer and consultant and best-selling author Jonathan Maberry, was packed with useful info. These are the raw notes.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Taking A Lost Case to the Supreme Court-- Three Times?
(21 comments) There's something wrong with this picture: Altria, formerly R.J. Reynolds, the tobacco company, has been rebuffed in it's third effort to get out of paying a $79 million punitive damages judgment a jury awarded in 1999 because the widow of a patient who died of lung cancer, as AP reports it, "convinced a jury that Philip Morris should be held accountable for misleading people into thinking cigarettes weren't dangerous or...

Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The Most Evil Corporations, Industries and Orgs
(92 comments) Lately, we're having more conversations about corporations whose behaviors have been outrageous, shameful, even criminal. These conversations sometimes lead to people saying this or that company is the worst, the most evil, the most murderous, the most corrupt or corrupting, the most destructive, most exploitive.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Making the Next Evolutional Phase of Journalism Happen
(5 comments) We, meaning democracy, need journalists but not necessarily newspapers. We need investigators and analysts, muckrakers and data diggers, catchers, scoopers, finders, see-ers and detectors. We need the work of journalism.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Time for CNN to Either Fire Up or Fire John King
(20 comments) Yesterday, John King hosted Dick Cheney. Some might call it an interview. I'd say it was close to ... shall we say oral sex. King serviced Cheney.

Thursday, March 12, 2009
A New Innovative Commenting and Comment Flagging System
(47 comments) After several weeks of work and more weeks of design, we have a new commenting system that is a quantum improvement over the old system. It's faster and easier to create a comment.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009
DOS, Left Brain Minds Playing with Fire Metaphors in Windows Times
(22 comments) We need leaders and even pundits who can think and analyze in ways that meet the challenge of the times.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
The Status Quo Is NOT on the Table
(18 comments) "The Status Quo Is NOT on the Table," says Obama, declaring tha there is no room for people who want to keep things as they are when it comes to health care.

Thursday, March 5, 2009
Failure of Trust-- in Bailout / Stimulus Packages & How LImbaugh/GOP are Undermining America
(14 comments) trust is the missing ingredient in the bailout and stimulus plans. Without it, the money doesn't go as far, the lending doesn't happen and the economic crisis deepens. Rush Limbaugh and the REpublicans who are attacking

Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Interview with Barry Schwartz, TED Speaker, on Wisdom, Incentives, Education, Making Wise Choices and When Settling is
a close to one hour interview with TED conference speaker Barry Schwartz

Monday, March 2, 2009
Get Thee Hence Spake the Neanderthals, And They Were One--Like the New GOP and Rush Limbaugh
(1 comments) Is Rush Limbaugh leading the GOP along the way of the Neanderthals?

Monday, March 2, 2009
Thom Hartmann Leaves Air America; with interviews with Thom, AA CEO and more.
(20 comments) Thom Hartmann is with a new radio syndicator, leaving Air America with a loss of over 60 radio stations in the prime time slot from noon to three PM EST-- the time Al Franken used to fill before Hartmann took the slot over. Includes interviews with Thom Hartman, Air America CEO and Hartmann's manager

Sunday, March 1, 2009
Attending CPAC; A Visit To the Belly of the Beast
(22 comments) It was an almost biblical experience, somewhere between a whale's belly and Sodom and Gomorrah, one way or another, in the belly of the beast, where Rush Limbaugh proudly declared he hoped Obama would fail. And he is not alone. There were thousands of people at this event who choose ideology and single issues over America.

Thursday, February 26, 2009
On Eating Apples
(15 comments) The past three days, I've eaten an apple a day. That's a small miracle and a new experience for me.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Poll: Michelle Obama Most Popular First Lady in Decades
(3 comments) Michelle Obama garners more favorable ratings than any past fist lady in last several decades.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Poll: Public Supports Obama Following through on campaign promises, not Doing BiPartisan Dance with GOP
(21 comments) a CBS/NY Times poll shows Obama receiving very high levels of support, with public opinion with him pursuing his goals, not attempting to make nice with Republicans

Monday, February 23, 2009
Coming Soon-- Riots in America?
(127 comments) The Guardian reports that "Britain is preparing for a summer of rage." Has President Obama failed to reinstate Posse Comitatus because he is expecting and preparing for riots in the USA?

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Former Bush Lawyer Behind Facebook's PR Nightmare
(11 comments) if there's a sign of wrongheaded legal changes, look for a Bush connection!

Monday, February 16, 2009
Is Obama "Yooing?" Time to Create a Clean-up Team To Identify and Cancel Bad Bush Rules, Edicts and Policies
(8 comments) Obama is using his advisers to cover his decisions to make wrong choices on separation of church and state and presidential privilege. We need to nip this in the bud.

Friday, February 13, 2009
It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario
(45 comments) David Brooks describes a dark, depressing future that is best seen through the eyes of right wingers who don't have faith in America, Americans and transparent, open, fair, rational economics. Like night dwellers reveling in stygian "safety", the fear the world that clean government and regulations will create. Those nocturnal capitalists may very well face doom-- and it is well deserved. But a new business model is rising.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009
State By State Funding Details for the Economic Stimulus Bill
(7 comments) find out the how much money your state is getting and where the funding is going. And find out how much red states with senators who voted against the funding are getting.

Saturday, February 7, 2009
Create Search Engine Optimized Great Article Titles
(7 comments) Here are some tips on creating a great title that is crafted to hit a home run with search engines. A great title can dramatically increase the number of reads your online article will get. A weak title can cut the reads to a tiny fraction of what it could be.

Friday, February 6, 2009
Phelps and Obama-- leading the way Towards legalizing Marijuana.
(77 comments) Neither Barack Obama or Michael Phelps are out in the streets protesting for the legalization of Marijuana use, but let's face it, when the most gold medal winning human and the most popular president in decades both have cannabis use in their history, it's hard to argue that weed is bad for you and will f*ck you up. When ultra-achievers have a record of inhaling, it turns the whole "evil marijuana" narrative upside down.

Friday, February 6, 2009
Brain Dead Senate Economasturbation
(10 comments) what's the difference between the senate Republicans, calling for all of the next bailout phase to be tax breaks, and a brain dead patient?

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Mr. Obama, Start Walking Your Bottom Up Talk
(19 comments) President Obama cites his bottom up intentions and promises all the time, almost every day. Yesterday, he said, when he was admitting he screwed up, with Daschle, "Ultimately, I campaigned on changing Washington and bottom up politics."

Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Dunn and Bradstreet Credit Rating Blackmail?
(5 comments) In times of war, companies who make excessive profits by exploiting the war situation are called profiteers. It feels like D&B is acting like an econonomic crisis profiteer.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Dump Dirty Daschle, Designate Dean
(18 comments) Daschle is tarnished and the wrong man for the job. Obama must dump him. The best man for this job is...

Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Daschle Withdraws From Nomination; Demand Dean
(31 comments) Acknowledging the bad press and vulnerability to Republican criticism his tax and lobbying liabilities inflicted upon the Obama administration, Daschle has withdrawn his name from the nomination for Heath Czar.

Sunday, February 1, 2009
GOP "Webification" Effort Could Backfire
(12 comments) It is not a bit surprising that Republicans, seeing the powerful success of Obama's bottom-up campaign, with its historic fundraising power, its grassroots mobilization and the database of millions, want to try to replicate the technology. It may not be that simple for newly elected RNC chair Michael Steele to "web up" his right wing minions.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
An Adult Dog Story and Rush Limbaugh's Fantasies
(6 comments) Rushbo reminds me of my horny, forever frustrated dog.

Monday, January 26, 2009
Video: Rob Kall Talks to Senator Debbie Stabenow on Universal Healthcare
(4 comments) I was at the Progressive Media Summit Meeting last week, an invitation-only event held by the Democratic Senate Outreach committee, headed by Sen. Debbie Stabenow. I tried to pitch her on supporting state level efforts to achieve universal health care. Watch me, in this interview:

Sunday, January 25, 2009
What Makes You Cry-- Besides the Obama Inauguration?
(81 comments) I told a few people about it-- how, during the inauguration, I cried. I told them how, all morning, leading up to the inauguration I was choking up, so much, at some points, that I had trouble talking.

Friday, January 23, 2009
Video : Rob Kall Interviews Sen. Bernie Sanders on Economic Crisis, 911, Bottom-up
(14 comments) Interview- Sen. Bernie Sanders by Rob Kall, on Investigating Causes of Economic Crisis, Profitters from 911 and Where's the Bottom Up in the Bailout

Thursday, January 22, 2009
First Report from the 2009 Progressive Media Summit Meeting
(3 comments) hot news, impressions of some of some of the new senate members, based on one-on-one conversations.

Thursday, January 22, 2009
White House Transitions; Missing Keyboard Letters vs. Missing Century
(4 comments) One has to wonder. Did the Bush White House leave ancient garbage technology for the incoming Obama team? Were they actually so technologically backward they failed to update their computers in six years. Or did they remove computers that might have records that might still have hard drives with evidence?

Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Share the Joy. The World Has a New President of the USA
(48 comments) Drying the tears from my eyes, I invite you to share your hopes and joys today.

Sunday, January 18, 2009
Taking On AIPAC: How to Support Palestinians AND Israel and Peace and Justice
(46 comments) Supporters of the Palestinian people need to start thinking smart tactically as well as strategically. Simply demonstrating against the Israeli invasion, occupation and abuses has proven to be a failed tactic for helping the Palestinians. The answer must include taking on AIPAC and providing a way for legislators to support Irael AND peace and Justice

Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Gaza Invasion Protesters; Don't Feed the Beast-- Let's start talking about smart protest."
(67 comments) You have to wonder. Does it help the Palestinians to vilify Israel or "Zionists?" Or do the words and protests, signs and blogs actually make things worse for the Palestinian victims of the latest Israeli military excesses?

Friday, January 9, 2009
Some Theories on Roland Burris: It's Not Over Yet
(14 comments) Burris may not have paid to play, but there may be other forces who did, planning to soften the competition in 2010. And the current game is not yet over. Harry Reid's dilatory tactics may produce game changing results.

Thursday, January 8, 2009
Rob Kall Interview with Chris Hedges on Gaza, Hamas, AIPAC and more
(21 comments) I interviewed Chris Hedges, in depth, on Hamas, Gaza, Israel, AIPAC and more.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Not Getting Gaza News on Al Jazeera? Then You're Not Getting the News. Here's How to Get it On-Line.
(18 comments) There are routine, weekly reports on the decline of the old media. The situation in the Middle East is highlighting that situation.The Networks are falling further behind. The current hot, hot news in the world today, the Gaza conflict, exemplifies this decline of the old media. The fact is, the networks can't give you the best news coverage on Gaza. Cable TV, for the most part, can't. But you can get it on the net.

Friday, January 2, 2009
Progressive Rabbi Michael Lerner on Israel/Gaza Interview transcript
(6 comments) What's a progressive Rabbi's take on the history and current situation between Gaza and Israel? Transcript and link to MP3 of interview

Friday, January 2, 2009
Was Israel Punked by Hamas? Are Progressives Supporting Palestinians Being Punked too?
(41 comments) If you are one of those who simply vilify Israel, you are helping the right wing Israelis who want to keep the perpetual state of war going. They use your comments and postings describing your hate and vilification of Zionism and Zionists to prove that their approach is right.

Sunday, December 28, 2008
Gaza and Tijuana; What if Rocket Bombs Were Launched from Mexico Into California
(172 comments) What if rocket bombs were rained on southern california soil from mexico? How would US citizens and legislators respond? How would peace-loving citizens cope?

Friday, December 26, 2008
CIA Firms Afghan Ally Relations With Viagra
(15 comments) The challenge is how to arouse tribal leaders interests in cooperating with US forces. Cash handouts can cause showy displays of new money purchases that can ruin the value of an informant. Weapons gifts can easily end up in the wrong hands. So what's an anti-insurgency US military officer to do when faced with over-60 year old tribal leaders with three or four wives?

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Demand Congressional Bailout Oversight!
(14 comments) The members of congress really screwed up, failing to include oversight and accountability in the $700 billion bailout. They can at least pass emergency legislation that controls what's left and that retroactively requires the beneficiaries to report what they've done with the money.

Saturday, December 20, 2008
Which of These Progressive Positions Are Extreme Left?
(139 comments) The word is that Obama is a pragmatist, that he won't pander to the far, extreme left of his party. Instead, he will hew to the center. The word is that the progressives on the left are expecting too much, that their positions, issues and stands are too extreme. Are they? Here's a list of some progressive positions. Which one is extreme?

Thursday, December 18, 2008
Town Hall on How The Economc Crisis is Affecting Us
(1 comments) Today, we're holding a town hall in Bucks County PA, talking about the local impact of the Economic Crisis. Here's the list of speakers and topics. I've created this page, so, after the meeting, people at the event and others can discuss the economic crisis and the topics discussed at the meeting.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Secret Service Issues New Policy: Bloggers to Go Shoeless
(32 comments) The Secret Service has ruled that bloggers must go shoeless when attending political events. After the flack raised by Secret Service critics who questioned why President Bush found himself at the mercy of an Iraqi journalist's size tens, the security org took a preemptive position, requiring that all bloggers, journalists and hosts from Air America, PBS, NPR and MSNBC would be required to remove their shoes before...

Monday, December 15, 2008
Interview with Steve Hildebrand; Steve, Did you tell Progressives to Shut the F Up?
(53 comments) A couple days ago, Steve Hildebrand, Deputy National Campaign Director for the Obama Campaign, wrote an article-- Message to Obama's Progressive Critics. It raised such an uproar that it was discussed in all the major news outlets, it got talking heads and pundits talking about it. So, I invited Steve Hildebrand on my radio show to talk about it, starting with the question, "Did you tell progressives to STFU?

Monday, December 15, 2008
Bail Out The News Industry and Investigative Journalism
(17 comments) While the Federal reserve and congress are bailing out corporations so big we can't allow them to fail, let's talk about bailing out the newspaper industry, or at least, journalism-an element so essential to our democracy and the honest, efficient running of our government that we can't afford to be without it either. Imagine if the government funded, a "news conservation corps" of 10,000 investigative reporters

Monday, December 15, 2008
16 Reasons I Like the Idea of Caroline Kennedy Replacing Hillary as NY Senator
(18 comments) She brings the same kind of credentials Hillary brought when she ran-- blood relation proximity to power. Hillary did pretty well. She'd cream Rudi Giuliani come 2010 when there's a competitive race.

Friday, December 12, 2008
Do Flat Out Globalist GOP Traitors INTEND to Kill the USA's Auto Industry?
(34 comments) What do you call someone who sells out his countrymen? A traitor! What do you call someone who unneccessarily puts one of America's biggest industries at serious risk and sells out millions of his country's workers abilities to make an honest living? An effing extremist right wing Republican senator

Friday, December 12, 2008
Illinois Attorney General Calls For Blago's Removal
(8 comments) breaking

Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Bottom-up Blindness; The Reason to Fire Detroit Execs
(6 comments) Detroit's Big Three refused to adopt the bottom up approach which Toyota, Nissan and other international manufacturers used to achieve success. The failure is even more egregious because GM, Ford and Chrysler management knew about the bottom-up secret to Japanese auto-making success and ignored it.

Monday, December 8, 2008
Post-'08 Election Day Art; Handmade Progressive Pins and the White House Xmas tree
LisaBeth Weber is a local Bucks County PA artist entrepreneur and friend who's been making pins for progressives. Then she was invited to do an X-mas tree ornament for the whitehouse X-mas tree.

Monday, December 8, 2008
Obama's Most Progressive Act Yet; Solidarity With the Chicago Factory Worker Sit-in
(45 comments) There may be a time, not too far down the road, when the the Republic Windows and Doors Factory protest will looked at as a tipping point event that woke up the American people. If that happens, it will be because YOU were inspired and did something locally in the next two or three days.

Sunday, December 7, 2008
The Extinction of Right Wing Neanderthals; The Rising of Bottom-up Intelligence
(43 comments) I'm getting a feeling for what it might have been like for modern mankind to experience the dwindling disappearance of the Neanderthals. I hesitate to use this analogy, because it is an insult to Neanderthals, but I DO get this funny feeling that we are seeing a similar phenomenon""the dwindling disappearance of right wing, stupid, bigoted, intolerant, xenophobic right wing extremists and the rise of bottom-up intelligence.

Monday, December 1, 2008
Vampires in America
(15 comments) Americans seem to be transfixed with blood sucking undead beings. And why not. There are many bloodsuckers walking the halls of the corporate world-- people who heartlessly and soullessly have sucked the life out of the American economy.

Monday, December 1, 2008
How About A REAL MONSTER Museum?
(9 comments) How about a museum that tells the stories of the world's most despicable humans and organizations? It could tell about the rise to power, the tricks used to fool the public, strategies used to consolidate power, abuses, offenses,crimes against humanity, destruction, damage, pain caused to individuals, nations, cultures, the world.

Sunday, November 30, 2008
Acorns Gone; Nature Does What GOP Fails to Do
(12 comments) the acorns have disappeared from the DC and surrounding areas.

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Moron Warning
(32 comments) This article is particularly for those who don't understand the anger that builds up from having taken and failed or under-achieved on college admission tests. This fury can be called SAT ire.

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Samantha Power Returns to Obama Team
(8 comments) Obama staffer who called Clinton a "monster" now working on interim team for dept Hillary is expected to head

Friday, November 28, 2008
71% of Liberals Think Obama is Liberal
(20 comments) poll shows most americans consider Obama liberal-- just 4% consider him conservative

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Terror Attack in Mumbai-- Twitter Covers It Amazingly
Mumbai terror attack-- max your info through twitter.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Interview with Stephen Larsen, author, THE FUNDAMENTALIST MIND
(4 comments) talking about the neurobiological and mythic bases for the Fundamentalist Mind

Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Obama Will Spend over $3 Trillion on ECONWAR! Fire and Penalize the Bank Oligarchs
(68 comments) Call me crazy if I don't accept that these failed CEOs are STILL getting tens of millions in pay instead of being fired and replaced. Call me crazy if I see our financial system as one that allowed the US to be looted. Yes, when companies are so big they can't be allowed to fail, and when they demand 100s of billions from we-the-people, then our nation is being looted by-- what do you call them? Pirates? Financial terrorists?

Monday, November 24, 2008
Obama Appoints Berkeley Prof Christina Romer to Chair Council of Economic Advisers
(20 comments) she wrote the chapter on the great depression for Encylopedia Britannica

Monday, November 24, 2008
Forbes: Paulson Worst Secretary of Treasury
(5 comments) Forbes says Paulson is worst Treasury sec in modern times. And Robert Reich says the bailout was sold on false pretenses

Sunday, November 23, 2008
How To Deal With Pirates (American, not Somalian)
(75 comments) we need to face facts. A criminal class is pirating America.

Sunday, November 23, 2008
Bush Should Go NOW, but...
(14 comments) a NY Times writer calls for Bush and Cheney to let Obama take over

Friday, November 21, 2008
The ONLY Way We Are MOST POWERFUL
(5 comments) is to work together. That will take organization and fighting the liberals' tendency to operate as loner individuals or organizations.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A Bottom Up Rescue Plan for the Auto, Bank and Mortgage Companies
(26 comments) Obama keeps talking about bottom-up approaches to the economy. Here's how it could look for the big three auto companies and the banking and housing industries.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008
First Black Top Cop; Eric Holder, Attorney General
(18 comments) just imagine how a black AG may affect tin horn, redneck sheriffs. The deputy says...

Monday, November 17, 2008
Of Resuscitating Old Shoes, Relocalization and Toxic Globalism
(9 comments) This morning, I found myself going through old shoes in the closet, seeing which ones I could "resuscitate" with new shoe laces. I found two pairs. I'm avoiding buying new ones. I imagine that across the USA, across the whole planet, there are billions of people going through this process-- figuring out how to stretch money that buys less that is a lot less "safe" to go a bit further.

Sunday, November 16, 2008
Obama's Herculean Challenge; Time to River-Wash the Big Three Auto Companies and the Economy
(28 comments) Lessons from Greek Mythology's Labors of Hercules have much to teach Obama as he faces some very real Herculean tasks.

Sunday, November 16, 2008
Regarding Election and ASSASSINATION Talk at School
(3 comments) a junior at a Louisiana High school reports on assassination threats and repression of speech

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Bailouts Must Come with Equity AND Interest
(7 comments) Hank Paulson and Bush's cronies are ripping the American people off. Just look at the bank deal cut by Gordon Brown. Banks signed deals giving much higher interest rates on the stock the UK bought in their companies. We need MUCH better deals for all the balance of funds spent from the $700 billion bailout fund

Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Alaska Recount: Begich Moves Ahead of Stevens
(2 comments) it gets more interesting

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
GA Republican Rep. Broun and AP Confabulating a-- Folie � deux?
(13 comments) Associated Press (AP)-- the right wing syndicator counterpart to Fox Faux news, reports..., not, it's more like echos or trumpets the psychotic ramblings of Republican Georgia congressman Paul Broun, who warns of an Obama dictatorship.

Monday, November 10, 2008
Assassination by Lapse In Security
(20 comments) There have already been security-lapses in protection of Obama. An intentional security lapse is probably the most likely means that will be used in any assassination effort.

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Obama; Landslide or Not, Time to Question and Critique Or Not
(17 comments) The USA is in deep trouble. We've elected a man by an incredible margin. He's going to be president for four years, at least, Let's pray for him and give him time to get his administration off the ground. Let's do it with lots of feedback. He's invited it and can take it.

Sunday, November 9, 2008
Skinning the Cat; Time To ReFrame Some Progressive Values, Issues and Goals?
(25 comments) Maybe the best way to move the progressive agenda forward is to relabel it in this time of political and ideological upheaval. There are many ways to skin a cat.

Saturday, November 8, 2008
Try the Buddha Machine
(3 comments) very cool music you combine the way you want.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Emerging from the Bush/Cheney Cloud to Face PPPTSD and Learned Helplessness
(15 comments) After eight years of the dark cloud and litany of abuses cast by the Bush/Cheney administration, many of us are dealing with PPPTSD-- political, partisan PTSD and learned helplessness. There are some answers that could probably help anyone adversely touched by the last eight years.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Let's Call Him Liberal, Socialist Barack Hussein Obama
(34 comments) They attacked and vilified him with these names. Let's embrace them.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Maps Have Changed!
there's a lot more blue in the USA and Carville's PA with Alabama in the middle.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
Are Conservatives Dumping Sarah Palin and Throwing Her UNDER the Bus?
(26 comments) sure looks that way.

Thursday, November 6, 2008
The Obama-Clinton Cabinet? We Voted for CHANGE, Not Recycling
(105 comments) Please, president-elect Obama, keep your promise, starting with your cabinet and bring change to this nation, not re-cycling.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
The World Breathes a Sigh of Relief as America's Light Goes Back On
(68 comments) America has become, again, a beacon, a light that illuminates and energizes the hopes of humanity, making what is best in us shine brighter.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Observations the Day After; winners, loser, demographic analyse...
(18 comments) lots of exit poll stats, conclusions to be drawn on who won, who lost, who was effective... who wasn't.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Robert F. Kennedy,Jr. Being Considered by Obama Team for Top EPA Post
(6 comments) a brilliant move, Kennedy is a highly respected protector of the environment. The appointment would be a cabinet level post.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
PA, OH-- Congratulations President Elect Obama!
(27 comments) Ohio gives the presidency to Obama and Florida will probably tip for Obama too.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
CT's Chris Shays loses
(1 comments) last Republican in the NE states loses.

Monday, November 3, 2008
Will Philly's Hillary Voters Hand McCain the Presidency?
(16 comments) Hillary supporters could hand Pennsylvania to McCain

Monday, November 3, 2008
Will the Dems Need Magic 60 to Pass Legislation?
(18 comments) Even if the Dems don't reach the magic 60 filibuster-proof votes, they should still be able to get a lot of legislation accomplished.

Sunday, November 2, 2008
Interview with Naomi Wolf
(16 comments) Naomi Wolf on the coup that took place on October 1, on participating in the revolution, on Obama, on the bailout...

Friday, October 31, 2008
Conservatism vs. Profligacy
(9 comments) Joe Scarborough and Peggy Noonan were discussing the rejection of the last eight years of Bush. They suggest that Bush and the Reublicans, instead of operating as the conservatives they promised to be, went more liberal, went left. I disagree.

Friday, October 31, 2008
Getting ready to hold Obama's feet to the fire.
(29 comments) With an Obama victory, progressives have a mandate and responsibility to aggressively envision and describe, outline and propose positive new directions for our culture, nation and world.

Thursday, October 30, 2008
Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road; A liberal's perspective
(22 comments) An old friend sent me something like this, but clearly written mostly with a right wing slant. So I rewrote some of the people's explanations, deleted some and added a bunch. All the ones below were created by me.

Thursday, October 30, 2008
After Waking Up to the Threat to Liberty, What Do You Do?
(19 comments) In my conversation with Naomi Wolf, we agreed that millions of people were awakened from their slumber of the past horrific Bush years. Perhap's you're one of them. Now that you are awake, it's time to face the fact that the Declaration of Independence and the constitution literally make you RESPONSIBLE to do what it takes to make sure liberty and justice are not only protected and maintained but taken even further and better.

Monday, October 27, 2008
Breaking: Alaskan Sen. Stevens Guilty on All Counts
(10 comments) longest serving senate Republican found guilty on all counts.

Monday, October 27, 2008
Interview: McCain Fellow Hanoi Hilton POW & Naval Academy Dorm-mate; Why He Won't Vote For McCain
(7 comments) expect four more of the last eight years-- in the Neo Con thinking; the insulated decision making; not listening to the members of the Cabinet; listening to an insulated, closed group of right-wing, politically oriented Neo Conservatives. I would expect him to be bellicose to other countries like Iran, I would expect him, if he took a notion, to launch missiles if something irritated him or something ticked him off.

Monday, October 27, 2008
Opportunities the Ted Stevens Conviction Offer the Democrats
every other Democratic senate candidate should be using the Stevens corruption conviction to not only tar the Republican senators up for election, but also to challenge those GOP candidates to publicly censure and cast out Stevens.

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Naomi Klein; an Interview with Rob Kall
(12 comments) a 45 minute interview with Naomi Klein, on her book Shock Doctrine, on the elections, the bailout, the economic crisis...

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Breaking: US Helicopters Attack Syria at Iraqi Border Point
(11 comments) Syrian TV claims US forces land, execute commando attack. The attack produces nine dead, four wounded.

Sunday, October 26, 2008
For Undecideds Who Don't Like McCain or Obama
(12 comments) Yesterday I met two men who were undecided. Both told me they didn't like either candidate but they were determined to choose one to vote for. I think there are a lot of those kinds of folks out there. Here are some reasons I gave to choose Obama.

Friday, October 24, 2008
A Lipstick on a Pig Campaign Metaphor; McCain's Biggest Staff Budget-- Make-up Artist
(3 comments) a massive cosmetic budget for the far right's picks and while they're at it, their policies.

Thursday, October 23, 2008
A Happy Yard Sign Story With A Lesson
(3 comments) I parked, walked to the front of one of my favorite local restaurants and there, in front of its sign, was a McCain Palin yard sign. What was I to do?

Thursday, October 23, 2008
Beware the Deadly Palinflower
(18 comments) While little is know of the rare and dangerous palinflower, this brief photodocument details the developmental phases of this rare and deadly flora known to wipe out whole cultures and to destroy political parties

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
There's Something in the Air
(38 comments) hope, with photos

Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Is Biden's Prediction A Gaffe
(13 comments) Joe Biden says that within six months of Obama being president, he will be tested with a manufactured international incident which he will need help with. Right wing pundits call this a gaffe. But it also has the potential to strengthen Obama's image

Sunday, October 19, 2008
Colin Powell Endorses Obama
(33 comments) the last BIG endorser?

Sunday, October 19, 2008
OpEdNews: News Site, Blog Site, Hybrid Site or New Media?
(19 comments) What's in a name?

Sunday, October 19, 2008
Explaining How Stolen Elections Keep Obama From Being a Sure Win to a Friend in Tribal Area Pakistan
(12 comments) The world is hoping for an Obama win, but they may not realize just how ugly things will get on voting day and afterwards.

Sunday, October 19, 2008
Conservative Radio Host/Pundit Michael Smerconish Endorses Obama
(4 comments) Michael Smerconish, early morning drive time talk host for Philly's conservative Big Talker Clear Channel radio station, who is followed on the station by Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, then Sean Hannity, has endorsed Barack Obama.

Friday, October 17, 2008
McCain's Snivelling On Letterman The Last Straw?
(25 comments) John McCain is a gambler. So he took a gamble and went on the David Letterman show last night. It should be the final straw that pulls the support out from under him. The gamble was a huge failure-- a massive error in judgment. It is clear that McCain failed to assess he depth or risk of the gamble-- just how much he could be hurt, how bad he would look in so many ways.

Thursday, October 16, 2008
Joe the Plumber-- the Parasitic Leech
(97 comments) Joe the plumber talks like your average right wing libertarian. He doesn't want to pay his way. Joe talks like corporate polluters have historically acted-- avoiding paying for the damage they've done by dumping or spewing.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Big Bankers Blink; Paulson's Unprecedented Power; Shock and Awe Hints at the Good and Evil We May Soon Face
(30 comments) Paulson wields extraordinary power. We all need to think about what further uses it can or may be put to.

Sunday, October 12, 2008
The Mailer That Put the Final Nail in the McCain Campaign Coffin
(76 comments) Close to 100 million Americans received mailers last week, or will receive them next week that will put the last nail in the coffin of the McCain Pailin campaign.

Saturday, October 11, 2008
Name This Economic Disaster
(39 comments) The 1929 disaster was called the "great depression." No-one was blamed. This mess we're in was caused by greed, bad leadership and a lot of other secondary reasons. It should be named to reflect those failures.

Friday, October 10, 2008
Worldwide, Stock Prices Plummet, Assets Crumble in Days.
(19 comments) bad news now and for the foreseeable future.

Thursday, October 9, 2008
CBS's Spoiled Poodle Dean Reynolds Bites Obama-- Reports his Plane Smells
(18 comments) a leak in the facade-- a mainstream media whiner doesn't get the lap-journalist treatment the right wing gives their primped and trained pups, so he gets nasty and kinda racist with Obama

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Lying Traitors vs Economic Cowards
(43 comments) What kind of person sells out his or her country for gain? Most would call them traitors. What kind of person lies and distorts for gain. Most would call them liars. I'd call them Palin supporters, starting with John McCain.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Debate Redux: Crushed McCain
(5 comments) It wasn't like Obama won this brilliantly, but McCain lost it bigtime.

Monday, October 6, 2008
Those Who Call Obama A Muslim
(37 comments) This morning, I received an email from someone who called Obama a Muslim.

Monday, October 6, 2008
Meet The $700 Billion Bailout Czar
(26 comments) There is a new Czar in America""the man who will be running the $700 billion budget bailout/rescue program-- assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs-- Neel Kashkari.

Monday, October 6, 2008
Neel Kashkari; The $700 Billion Bailout Czar
(3 comments) There is a new Czar in America""the man who will be running the $700 billion budget bailout/rescue program-- assistant secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs-- Neel Kashkari.

Monday, October 6, 2008
An Interview with David Korten, Author of When Corporations Rule the World
(2 comments) On corporatism, the bailout, how the world would look post-corporation, post contemporary capitalism.

Sunday, October 5, 2008
Topsy Turvy Week Shows Need For Fixing a Broken System
(15 comments) When the right and the left agree more than the center, it tells us it's time to fix our very broken election system.

Friday, October 3, 2008
Sarah's De-G'in of American Speakin'
(11 comments) Palin's language, picked up by pundits, is another symptom of how the right is selling out.

Friday, October 3, 2008
Biden-Palin Debate: Discipline and Heart Beat Fluff, No Stuff
(37 comments) Joe Biden was the surprise winner of the debate. Here's why.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Memo to Biden: Don't Let Your Head Steal Your Heart's Best Blood
(4 comments) When it comes to a choice between heart or head, the American public will always choose heart.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
Really, Chuck? Bend Over, AGAIN?
(37 comments) Let's get something straight. I'm a registered Democrat. Last night, I watched the Democrats in the senate, save for a small handful, totally screw the American public. Today, I get this mass email from Chuck Schumer:

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Bush Emergency Patsy Dems on Both Side of the Aisle Sold Out, Even Though Pelosi's Bums' Rush Failed
(11 comments) Dem sellouts fell for the same Bush hurry-up and pass the bill crap that Dubya used to sell the Iraq war, but this time, the Bush plan to rip off America was far more obvious and the Dem failure to listen to and protect constituents was even more glaringly obvious. Change that from Dem failure to to listen and protect to Dem intentional betrayal of constituents.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Interview With Senator Bernie Sanders on The Bailout
(6 comments) Sanders says it's time to break up companies that are too big to fail.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Republicans Released Ad Attacking Dems For Passing Bailout-- Before Vote Failed
(11 comments) Republicans planned to use bailout vote against dems. What a surprise.

Monday, September 29, 2008
The Stupid $425,000 Per Person instead of Bailout AIG for $85 billion Email
(12 comments) There's an email for dummies going around. Don't forward it, please.

Monday, September 29, 2008
House Rejects Bailout Bill
(30 comments) Bitter blame game between Dems and Republicans.

Monday, September 29, 2008
Make All Bailout Beneficiaries Pay
add a small tax to make every beneficiary of the bailout pay a small amount to insure the money invested is returned. That's what they did after the 1929 depression. This is a brilliant solution that shows the taxpayer that the congress is covering their backs.

Monday, September 29, 2008
Make All Bailout Beneficiaries Pay
(1 comments) This progressive says congress should take a fiscally conservative approach and only pass a Bailout that pays for itself. Do it by making all the bailout beneficiaries pay. Even better, do it bottom up, but if that's not possible, at least do it so the bottom-- main street- is stuck with the bill.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Bipartisan Betrayal of Main Street, Bailout Hands "Victory" to Bush
(43 comments) As expected, the Democratic leaders of congress are selling out Main Street, handing the real plums of the bailout to Republicans, putting lipstick on this bailout pig. But that's the way Pelosi's 110th congress has always worked. This Democrat is not impressed.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
New Ways To Navigate OpEdNews and Find the Content You Want to Read
(6 comments) A new way to navigate OpEdNews-- and a new and better way to rank articles.

Sunday, September 28, 2008
Sorry McCain.We Know What You Said & Did When You Came To Wash. DC. Nothing!
(2 comments) Unfortunately for John McCain, his little adventure in hysterical drama, in response to the economic crisis is NOT a mystery. We know what he did, where he went, what he said and it is not only not impressive, it is pathetic.

Friday, September 26, 2008
Cowboy McCain Makes Cowboy Bush Look Like A Genius
(6 comments) McCain comes riding and farting into Washington on his blind donkey, pressuring congress to rush things that are already being rushed too much so the debate will proceed. He politicizes negotiations, because if the house doesn't show that things were NOT settled, then McCain looks even more like an impulsive fool who wasted a lot of time & bluster rushing to DC. So his house Republican enablers rescue him by killing any deal

Thursday, September 25, 2008
Sarah Palin Won Governor Race with Less than 50% and less than most congressional race winners get
(3 comments) Did they count moose votes?

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Reject the Bail Out-- Re-Invent The Lending System to Maximize Liquidity
(11 comments) Now is the best opportunity congress has ever had to do something extraordinary and visionary to make US business and finance better.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
McCain Cancels Friday Debate. Is he an Unstable Single Track Man in A Multiple Track World
(46 comments) Can't McCain handle dealing with more than one challenge at a time? Obama replies: "It's part of he president's job to deal with more than one thing at once!"

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Did Palin Punk CNN or Are they Shilling For Her Bogus Alternate Investigation
(2 comments) Is CNN helping McCain Palin sell a sham investigation?

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Primary Bailout Guideline Should Be Bottom-up For Tax Payers First
(10 comments) As members of congress explore solutions-- and I hope they are really exploring, not just working from the the proposal Paulson has submitted-- they should be keeping one thing foremost in their minds-- "How will this help taxpayers and stabilize the economy-- not "How will this help the failing financial entities?" The answer is to take a bottom up approach to both fund and make the final decision on which companies to save

Monday, September 22, 2008
Interview with David Ray Griffin on the Rob Kall Radio Show
(21 comments) An interview about 911 Truth with author David Ray Griffin, author of "New Pearl Harbor Revisited," on the Rob Kall Radio talk show, with co-host Jon Gold

Sunday, September 21, 2008
A Resounding Bottom Up NO on the Bailout-- From the Entire Progressive World
(62 comments) The voices are unanimous on the left, rejecting the Paulson bailout. Before the start of the Iraq war, there were millions of Americans who KNEW the WMD claims were false and the war was a terrible idea. But the Dems in congress didn't listen. Let's force them to listen this time. And let's hope Obama hears us too and makes the right choice this time too.

Sunday, September 21, 2008
Wall Street Journal Says, "The End of Wall Street As We Know It"
(5 comments) Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been approved by the Federal Reserve to be transformed from investment banks to more regulated traditional banks. This will get them access to more Federal credit.

Saturday, September 20, 2008
WMDs and Financial Meltdown-- RelatedThreats? Related Dem Congress Failure?
(15 comments) Have you seen the reports of the shocked faces of the leaders of congress when Bush's economic czars Paulson and Bernanke informed them of the deadly threat of financial meltdown the US, even the world economy faced if something dramatic was not done immediately. So they come out, shaking in their boots, telling the nation how awful things were, how close to the abyss we've come. Sounds too much like a WMD story to me

Saturday, September 20, 2008
Ron Paul On the Bank Bailout; video
(1 comments) "this is like addicts getting a fix"

Friday, September 19, 2008
How Dare They Spend Trillions on Corporate Welfare, Without...?
(55 comments) They're spending over a trillion dollars to rescue doddering, failed companies that deserve to die. How dare they-- the congress-- allow the Fed and the Whitehouse to spend so much without oversight. In times like we are experiencing tough, visionary leadership is needed and we're not seeing it.

Friday, September 19, 2008
The Future of the Internet-- Covering the WEB 2.0 Expo
(4 comments) twitter, facebook, social networking... and where the web is headed...

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
How Many Ways Can John McCain Lie? (video)
(1 comments) John McCain Lost In Space Video

Monday, September 15, 2008
Diagnosing Sarah Barracuda; Borderline? Bipolar?
(48 comments) I'd like to see the complete medical and psychiatric history of Sarah Palin. Could be interesting. I'm particularly interested in her psychiatric background. You have to ask, what diagnosis would you give to a student nicknamed, "Sarah Barracuda."

Sunday, September 14, 2008
Does McCain's Diminishing the Public's Trust in the Media Put Country First?
(8 comments) Democracy needs a healthy media. Like the nerves in the body that tell the brain what's going on in the periphery, the media keeps the national body healthy by keeping constituents informed of what's going on, what's going wrong. You wouldn't shut off or damage YOUR nervous system. It's just as unhealthy for Democracy to abuse and mistreat the media.

Friday, September 12, 2008
Why should we Depend on Obama's campaign team to Beat the right wing machine?
(34 comments) Why should we depend upon the proven-to-be-spineless democratic congress or Democratic party to protect our rights. There are millions of motivated, smart progressives who have the ability to make a lot more things happen than we're currently seeing happen.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
Obama Should Attack McCain's "Country First" Narrative Head On
(8 comments) Time to unleash Obama the MAN, the guy who can be tough-- and time to systematically attack McCain's America/Country/Nation First branding and narrative. It's the biggest McCain lie and where the GOP has invested the most.

Thursday, September 11, 2008
New On OpEdNews.com; Tag Popularity and Tag Page Content Popularity
(2 comments) Two new features! Tag popularity shows the most popular 50 tags over the time period you select for the content category you select. Tag Page Popularity shows you the most popular articles, diaries, etc. for any one given tag, for the time period you select. The new system is designed to tap the bottom up, wisdom of the crowd to enable you have different navigation options.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008
"Books Banned by Sarah Palin" Email Is Urban Legend
(35 comments) Don't forward that email you just got, or received three or five or ten times. It's bogus, even though the thought is dead on accurate.

Monday, September 8, 2008
Book Review: Salvation Boulevard written by Larry Beinhart
Don't Plan on Sleeping Once You Start This Book

Sunday, September 7, 2008
McCain's Offshore Drilling Approach is Bad For America; We Need a Better, Smarter Approach
(11 comments) Offshore drilling is a ruse to get votes-- a ruse that sells out America by leading us down the wrong path. The old saying says that only a crazy person keeps digging to get out of a hole. Well, continuing to drill for oil, as the primary solution to our energy problem is that kind of crazy. Excessive, unnecessary energy use, as we have become accustomed to, is a dangerous threat to our national security.

Saturday, September 6, 2008
Is McCain Campaign Interfering In Alaska Troopergate Investigation of Palin?
(6 comments) It looks like supporters of John McCain are taking aggressive actions to kill an investigation of his running mate Sarah Palin, to prevent an October Surprise-- adverse findings that would cast a negative light on her character and leadership

Friday, September 5, 2008
Time To Call Your Congressional Reps to Demand Hearings on Police Abuse of Journalists
(21 comments) hearings must be held.

Thursday, September 4, 2008
Republican Reality vs. "The Show" and the GOP War Against the Press
(8 comments) Peggy Noonan's open mike uh oh moment told the truth that casts light on the lie the RNC event is trying to sell, that all the GOP members are sold on weak, shrill, inexperienced, but good speaker, Sarah Palin. Is this all about protecting her, preventing her from being interviewed?

Thursday, September 4, 2008
Update from the Streets of Minneapolis
(21 comments) OEN reporter Kevin Gosztola reports on actions a

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
What Does a Tough Progressive Media Site Look Like?
(32 comments) It goes after right wingers and doesn't let them hide behind artificial niceties that would never be upheld if and when the tables are turned. That's for sure.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Noonan and Murphy Caught on Tape Discussing Palin: "Cynical", "Gimicky," "Political Bullshit. ""It's over."
(4 comments) transcript or see it on youtube

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
My Take on Covering Potentially Taboo Topics Like Bristol Palin's Baby on OEN
(123 comments) my take on OEN's coverage of topics you may not think OEN should be covering. I believe that this article, for the most part, represents the senior editorial team's position at OEN, but I've invited them and, of course, YOU, to comment, to put in your two cents worth... or more.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Sarah Palin's Business Shut Down By State
(5 comments) failure to disclose, failure to report... sound like Cheney?

Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Lieberman Consumates His Sellout To GOP, Backing Palin
(4 comments) turncoat former democrat shills for McCain

Monday, September 1, 2008
McCain's Palin Pick Proves His "Put My Country First" Hypocrisy
(3 comments) McCain's and the GOP's "Put America First" branding is about to backfire on them.

Monday, September 1, 2008
Two AP Reporters Arrested at RNC Protests in MN
(2 comments) fascism runs rampant in the twin cities.

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Police State In Republican Convention City
(66 comments) Protesters in Minneapolis "preventively" targeted, handcuffed, some arrested, by teams of 25-30 officers. Computers taken. These people did nothing but plan to protest or protect other protesters by videotaping police.

Sunday, August 31, 2008
Hurricane Gustav Emergency Resources; Please add your additional info as comments
(8 comments) check here for resources and updates on Hurricane Gustav

Saturday, August 30, 2008
Local Alaskans See Sarah As Potent Asset But Vulnerable
(7 comments) What do local Alaskans think about Sarah Palin? That was my approach, wanting to get past the pundits and Washington insider takes on McCain's new partner. So I started calling people I thought would give me a clearer perspective-- Democratic party leaders in Alaska.

Friday, August 29, 2008
"Welcome, Rich White Oligarchs!" --Daily Show Billboard Greets Republicans In Minnesota
(9 comments) Drivers in Minnesota are enjoying this Billboard welcoming the Republicans who will be nominating John McCain as their presidential candidate.

Friday, August 29, 2008
McCain VP: Sarah Palin, AK Gov. Help Build a profile on her
(101 comments) Help Build a profile on her in the comments section.

Friday, August 29, 2008
Todd Palin, Alaska's First Man
(2 comments) some info from wikipedia on the spouse of Sarah Palin

Thursday, August 28, 2008
Howard Zinn's Advice to Obama
(34 comments) On August 20th, I interviewed Howard Zinn on a wide range of subjects. This article covers his Advice to Obama on how to win.

Monday, August 25, 2008
Cindy Sheehan Bugged in Denver
(67 comments) Cindy Sheehan returned to her Denver hotel room today to find the door unlocked and ajar. She walked in to discover a man working on her phone, screw driver in hand.

Monday, August 25, 2008
No Joke! Fox "News" Attacks CNN for Being Partisan
(10 comments) Fox "News" runs ad attacking CNN, saying CNN = partisan politics

Saturday, August 23, 2008
Biden's Biggest Vulnerability Should Be Neutralized, Running Against McCain
(25 comments) a Biden vulnerability that's neutralized by similar abuses by McCains.

Thursday, August 21, 2008
Bob Ney (R-OH): Prosecuted for Not Playing Ball with Bush Administration
(10 comments) "They've taken bloodsport to a whole new level in this administration"

Wednesday, August 20, 2008
New Zogby/Reuters Poll: Obama Down 5, in an Almost Perfect Storm
(49 comments) Obama may be hitting a perfect storm of bad news this week-- a warning of where things could go in late October

Tuesday, August 19, 2008
My energy car dream.
(9 comments) For years, I'd dream it was the last day of finals and I'd missed so many classes I didn't know where the final was going to be. Finally, I outgrew it. Apparently, a lot of people have dreams like that. Then, I started having electric car dreams.

Monday, August 18, 2008
Did McCain Cheat At Saddleback?
(35 comments) maybe there's a reason McCain was so well prepared for his chat with Rick Warren at Saddleback.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Obama's Giving McCain Enough Rope to Hang Himself With Russia Georgia Reaction
(12 comments) McCain is talking tough with Russia. Problem is, he's a gnat on a lions ass and he doesn't realize it. McCain is having a flashback to 1969. Back then, in THAT cold war, the US was a superpower and Russia was a hollow chimera. We know that now. But now, we also know that Russia is up to its eyeballs in oil money. T

Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Cleaning the Two Party Garbage Out of the DrainTo Make Room for the Cream of the Heart
(45 comments) It's time for Independents, Democrats and Republicans to come to toghether, in agreement that the congress sucks, to demand equal treatment for third party candidates and instant runoff elections so citizens can vote for the candidates they really want and the lesser of two evil candidates they prefer to settle for.

Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Bottom-up versus Top-Down Food and Farming
(8 comments) there are bottom-up and top-down ways to grow food and deliver it to people's tables. Guess which is the big corporate way.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008
McCain's Energy Solutions: Digging a Deeper Hole, Failing our National Security
(8 comments) During FDR's presidency, he framed roads, worker security and the like as national security issues. Today, even for several decades, our elected officials have failed to provide us with energy security. It's clear, the solution is to get the oil addiction monkey off our backs. Drilling for more oil is just digging a deeper hole when we are trying to get out of the hole.

Monday, August 4, 2008
Will Progressives, with their No Difference and Lesser of Two Evils Psychoses, Give McCain the Election?(includes poll)
(86 comments) Some people say there is no difference between Obama and McCain. Then there are the "don't vote at allers" and the lesser of two evils purists who, practically speaking, by voting for candidates with zero chance of winning, are not really voting in a way that will affect the election. At this stage in the game, they're all anywhere from a bit nutty to flamingly out of their minds, practically speaking, supporting McCain.

Sunday, August 3, 2008
Bottom Up Democracy at PDA, Top-Down at DNC
(24 comments) the future of civilization is a move from top-down hierarchical leadership and process to bottom-up participation with a new kind of leadership. the DNC had better wise up to this or they will be left behind as history moves forward.

Saturday, August 2, 2008
Report from the Progressive Democrats of America Convention
(7 comments) In Cleveland, the DNC is discussing the Democratic Party platform. In Chicago, PDA (Progressive Democrats of America leaders are planning how to move Obama and the congress further towards the progressive point of view.

Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Impeachment-- Key To Dem Win In November
(14 comments) It's time the Democrats in the congress did what the vast majority of democrats want, and the constitution demands-- impeachment hearings for Cheney and Bush.

Monday, July 28, 2008
Kill Liberals-- The TN Unitarian Church Murderer's Motive (with poll)
(56 comments) The 58 year old killer who entered a Unitarian Church in Tennessee was set on killing liberals. Article includes poll

Tuesday, July 22, 2008
McCain to NY Times; Damn It My Friend, Can't You See? I Am Right, Obama's Wrong. Let Me Repeat...
(23 comments) Senator McCain is beginning to show us what a McCain presidency will look like and it ain't pretty. It's creepy. Not surprisingly, the right wing echo chamber is demonstrating what it will act like, with its latest clueless demonstration, proving they are good at what they do-- echoing talking points and delivering messages-- but short on the goods when it comes to even getting what it means to function as a journalistic unit

Friday, July 18, 2008
Coming Soon; The Non-US Citizen Vote For Obama
(11 comments) When Obama hits foreign shores, some of the billions of people who wish they could vote in the November US elections will come as close as they can get to getting their wish.

Thursday, July 17, 2008
Dalai Lama: "I Love President Bush... but... Lack(s) Understanding of Reality"
(36 comments) yesterday, in Philadelphia, the Dalai Lama commented on Bush, the war in Iraq and Saddam Hussein.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Blame the USA's Energy Disaster, Including the Collapsing US Auto Industry On Congress
(8 comments) The USA is in danger because of cowardly, horrendously bad judgment that decades of congressional legislators have engaged in. Their failure has led to an out of control national debt, skyrocketing gasoline prices and the collapsing of the USA Automobile industry.

Monday, July 14, 2008
McCain's Phil Gramm is Worse than Obama's Rev. Wright
(29 comments) We've heard ten thousand times about how awful it is that Obama kept worshipping at the church led by just awful Reverend Wright, how he kept going for 20 years. Well it sure seems to me that McCain.s decades long, close relationship with Phil Gramm, his most embraced economic advisor, signifies much worse than Obama's case.

Monday, July 14, 2008
This Bud's for Vous
(15 comments) In one fell swoop over 50% of the American beer market becomes a foreign asset on InBev. Earlier this week it was the Chrysler building. It's hard to imagine something like Bud Beer being a non-American product. It's almost up there with Mom and apple pie. Makes you think they might be next.

Saturday, July 12, 2008
Poll Shows 74% COULD Give Congress a Positive Rating; Tell Us What 'll it Take.
(36 comments) our poll showed that 26% think there's no hope for congress, but 76% showed signs of hope. What do you need from congress to give them a positive rating?

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
How the width of a horse's butt determined the Size of the Space Shuttle
(2 comments) sometimes the reasons we do things are based on a long series of connections that go Waaaay back

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
The Election Equation; Why pollsters get it wrong and Why Pundits Spin like they do
(2 comments) Everyone talks about it. Do a poll posing a theoretical Democrat against a theoretical Republican candidate for president and there is a 15% or more advantage for the Democrat. But plug in the names and you see as low as a 2% difference in the polls. Why?

Saturday, July 5, 2008
Libertarian Legacy? Ron Paul's Campaign Manager, 49, Dies Uninsured, Of Pneumonia, Leaving family $400,000 Debt
(31 comments) What a testament to the Libertarian creed, which abhors the idea of universal health care.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
OpEdNews Writer Wins $10,000 Writing Award
(4 comments) OEN member and friend Ward Wilson has been honored with an award. His essay "The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence" has been selected as the winner of the Doreen and Jim McElvany Nonproliferation Challenge Essay Contest. read part of the article and a similar article he posted on OEN

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
July 4th for Ron Kovic, Nadia McCaffrey, and wounded Americans
Born on July 4th, gung-ho Ron Kovic charged off to Vietnam. In a war hinged on falling dominoes, Kovic lost his idealized America. Often he lamented, "What more could I give, or the nation take?" Kovic returned packed in a wheel chair battling demons.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
My Experiment With Rep. Robert Wexler on Fixing One Media Flaw That Angers A Lot of Viewers/Listeners
(8 comments) I can't tell you how many times I curse under my breath when a news anchor doing an interview drops the ball and lets the person being interviewed have a pass when he or she avoids answering a question or doesn't answer it directly or changes the subject or replies with an answer that demands another level of questioning. So I was extra frustrated that I was guilty of this on my own radio show. But we came up with a solution.

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Awakener; My Occupation. And yours?
(15 comments) today, when filling in a registration form on a website, I realized I had a new occupation to list, that encompassed many of the others I've listed in the past. I am an awakener-- someone who wakes up others. quotations on awakening at the end of this article

Friday, June 27, 2008
Send the Justices FROM Hell TO Hell
(83 comments) The supremes from hell-- Scalia, Alito, Roberts and Thomas. I wish the worst for them-- not their families, but them. Their decision on guns will absolutely cause the deaths of thousands of innocent victims, more likely tens of thousands. And I'm not exactly wishing the best for their families, either. These pariahs, cloaked behind the scales of justice, have made terribly bad decisions that deserve a karmic response.

Friday, June 20, 2008
Pentagon: Over 1000 Nuclear Weapon Parts Missing?
(12 comments) Many people have raised the spectre of nuclear WMDs being sourced from nefarious sources-- from errant former Soviet states, from N. Korea, Iran or Pakistan. It may be that to those fears must be added the threat that American nuclear weapon technology may be circulating in the black market as well.

Friday, June 20, 2008
Why Obama Will Pick Jim Webb for VP
(35 comments) There's enough buzz about the possibility of some conflict with Iran, either US or Israel initiated that we have to take this very seriously. Once conflict starts, this could give McCain, with his military credentials, at the least, a claim to having better experience... To balance McCain's dubious claim of military experience, Obama will have to bring in a VP with military experience.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Gore Reflux, Corpstream Media and Taking Impeachment Local
(7 comments) maybe the republicans will impeach, if the corpstream media talk about the abject failure of Bush and Cheney. Maybe we can still persuade our legislators if we go, with strategy, to local campaign events this summer.

Friday, June 13, 2008
Pay to Pee? Pee for Pay?
(3 comments) This morning, on Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, after reporting that United Airlines was going to start charging for Water and soda, joked that they'd "soon start charging for a visit to the ladies' room.

Friday, June 13, 2008
Breaking: Tim Russert Dead
(10 comments) The host of Meet The Press is dead at 58

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Rebut Conyers' Reasons Not To Impeach
(32 comments) Last Friday, Code Pink was granted a meeting with Chairman John Conyers, in which he challenged the intrepid, peace-lovin' protesters to explain to him why he should dismiss the five most common reasons indicating that impeachment is not possible. The five reasons are below.

Thursday, June 5, 2008
Why Hillary Lost: She Failed to Share Her Heart's Stories
(22 comments) Mark Penn interpreted that his polling suggested that Hillary should avoid the soft stuff and stay on issues. And Hillary thought she knew all she needed to come up with the stories in her life that she told on her stump speeches. They both were wrong.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
GOP Says Liberals Elected Obama
(5 comments) a look at the stale GOP talking points

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Pro-Impeachment Pelosi Challenger Shirley Golub Is Defeated
(3 comments) In a long odds, valiant effort to send a message to Washington that it is time to end the war and impeach Cheney and Bush, Shirley Golub had little chance and a lot of gumption.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Obama's Win ; How It Will Change the Leadership and Future of the Democratic Party; With Poll
(20 comments) Obama's win means a major change in the leadership of the Democratic party, policy, direction and people. I've interviewed Ed Rendell, Joe Trippi, Ned Lamont, Markos "dailykos" Moulitsas, Patrick Murphy (D-PA), Katrina vanden Heuvel, Christy "firedoglake" Hardin Smith, and more to see the future of the Democratic party.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Impeachment Season? How Bush Can Use His Own Impeachment to Leave a Significant Legacy; with Poll
(19 comments) Time to use the summer election season to put heat on Dems? Yes! Time for the dems in the house to use impeachment hearings to put the heat on the right wing Bush admin rubber stamp enablers? Absolutely! Poll included

Saturday, May 31, 2008
FL and MI Resolved, Puerto Rico, Montana and SD Remain
(5 comments) all delegates, half a vote for FL and MI. Obama needs somewhere between 64-68 and will probably pick up 30-40 by Tuesday. Over 200 superdelegates left.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Pelosi's First Primary Opponent Since She's Been An Incumbent is Number One On Act Blue... and a Lesbian.
(8 comments) House speaker, Nancy Pelosi may be in the campaign battle of her life, in the primary election she is in on June 3.

Friday, May 30, 2008
Putting Down Our Dog and Thoughts on Scott McClellan
(25 comments) Spending the morning with our 14 year old Yellow Lab and finally, having the veteranarian put her down today has me thinking a bit differently about things, including Scott McClellan

Thursday, May 29, 2008
Rove's Obama Hit-Job Re-Run Oozes Out of Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Section
(2 comments) Like a leaky toilet, Murdoch's find-the-lowest-level media model has expanded the Op-Ed section, on some days, to a third page-- the page before the inside back pages. Today, there's an article by Karl Rove, a stale, limp semi-re-run, in which he appears to unveil his new, yet old strategy of attacking Obama as a flip-flopper.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Will Hillary Be Obama's Cheney?
(22 comments) Will a Hillary Vice Presidency continue the precedent of presidential candidates picking VP running mates who also serve as insurance against impeachment and as pit bulls who do the dirty work?

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Libertarian Candidate Bob Barr; John McCain's Ralph Nader? With Poll
(16 comments) Will Bob Barr play the role of Nader to John McCain, or will his most likely base, Ron Paul supporters, pull from Obama?

Sunday, May 25, 2008
Joe Lieberman; Fascist Censor (with poll)
(53 comments) what a surprise. Now, warhawk, faux Dem Joe Lieberman is attacking our constitutional rights.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Rumsfeld's Mind: If 9/11 Worked, Why Not Try it Again
(45 comments) Call me a conspiracy theorist. But when Donald Rumsfeld spoke, in late 2006, to the pentagon propagandists the NY Times recently exposed, he, in opining the loss of both houses of congress to the Democrats, suggested that "the US could benefit from another terrorist attack,"- Jason Linkin reports.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Explaining the Relationship Between Grateful Jews and Christian Zionists With a Twilight Zone Story
(4 comments) When I explain the tie between Christian Zionists and the Israelis who are so enamored with them, I usually tell a story from Rod Serling's Twilight Zone that explains the relationship perfectly.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Lonnnggg Vice Presidential Selection Waiting Game
(1 comments) don't expect to find out very soon WHO will be the running mates for Obama or McCain, unless...

Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Will SuperDuper Delegates Change The Race?
(7 comments) There have been a few superduper delegates so far. Will more of them announce themselves and when they do, will they totally change the primary race?

Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Zogby Polling :Female Voters Deserting Hillary
(17 comments) Zogby polls in the past week show steadily declining support for Hillary among women. Blacks, and under 70s. moving to Obama driving the change.

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Dem Wins Long-Held Louisiana Republican Congressional Seat
(23 comments) Good and bad news for Democrats. Bad and Bad news for Republicans

Sunday, May 4, 2008
Interns Wanted for OpEdNews.com
(1 comments) An internship at OpEdNEws offers incredible opportunities to experience the best, most cutting edge aspects of journalism, and new media today. Interns will have opportunities to build their resume's with serious work assignments and projects.

Friday, May 2, 2008
Time to Hit Back Harder
(58 comments) tamp down your tolerance of right wing BS and speak up

Thursday, May 1, 2008
Hero Mandela On US Terrorist Watch List"- Could it Affect AIPAC and Mideast?
(16 comments) Mandela has to get special permission from Condi to come to the US, because he's on terrorist watch lists. Steps are being taken to change this "shameful" situation. But the effort could find opposition from AIPAC, because of the precedent it might set.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Is The SCOTUS Picking Another President?
(47 comments) Who does today's Scotus Decision help more, Obama or Hillary? In this case, timing is everything.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
New Bush "Justice" Dept. Letters Justify More Torture and Criminal Acts
(4 comments) Bush's judiciary gestapo writes more letters, like signing statements, that break laws, this time, international human rights laws.

Sunday, April 27, 2008
Awakening To A New Way to See Politics, as Well as the Rest of Your World
(14 comments) The future is a state of mind that keeps us from the present. The art of taking the evolutionary leap to higher consciousness is to stay in the present. We need to function honestly, from the heart, with integrity, in the present. Just imagine if politicians did that-- doing the right thing, not anticipating how that would affect their election chances.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
No End in Sight... Well, not until Denver.
(8 comments) It's becoming clear. This will not end in June. It will not end when the superdelegates commit to Obama. It will go all the way to the convention and there, the Clintons will start to REALLY turn on their ugliest efforts to persuade the delegates that Obama has been irreparably damaged.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Progressives vs. Liberals. How are they different
(5 comments) some polling data comparing liberals and progressives. And hope that we can have a conversation on the differences between them.

Monday, April 21, 2008
Book Review The LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch
(3 comments) The first and only book that made me cry through half the chapters. Randy Pausch is dying of cancer. As is traditional at many universities, he gave a "last lecture" which is usually given by elder, retiring professors. But Pausch's last lecture because an internet youtube phenomenon. And now, after a book he did is out, it is a huge, runaway bestseller, so hot, they literally can't keep the books in stock in bookstores.

Friday, April 18, 2008
Take Back Control of Debates From the Networks
(23 comments) How About Debate Integrity... and taking Control Back From the Networks? It's time for the major parties to refuse to allow the networks to plan, script and program debates. They've made it clear they are incapable of doing what's best for Americans, for democracy.

Thursday, April 17, 2008
Will Hillary Take SS Benefits Away From The Boomers
(17 comments) David Axelrod says "baby boomers could see their social security benefits cut.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Explosive Food Inflation-- The Big Presidential Issue?
(11 comments) Could the price and availability of food become one of the 2008 campaign's biggest issues? Or maybe, we should be asking, why the explosive inflation in food prices is not already THE issue, after the economy.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Hillary, Sans Q&A
(11 comments) last night I attended a Hillary rally in suburban, blue collar Philly, then had dinner with some Hillary supporting friends.

Monday, April 14, 2008
Time To Pepper Obama and Clinton With Progressive Questioins, Like Impeachment
(36 comments) At every campaign Clinton or Obama event, progressives should be asking tough questions that push Obama and Clinton left, or nail down their positions on progressive issues like impeachment

Monday, April 14, 2008
Did Hillary Do A "Man Thing" Dukakis Moment?
(9 comments) first there was dukakis in a tank, then Kerry going hunting, and now, there's Hillary, belting down shots and beer.

Friday, April 11, 2008
Book Review: The State of HEALTH ATLAS
(1 comments) a fascinating book that visually maps health and the causes of disease throughout the world.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Randi Rhodes Gone From Air America
(14 comments) after episode where she called Clinton and Ferraro names, which led to her suspension, Rhodes calls it quits with AAR.

Thursday, April 10, 2008
Randi Rhodes To Start on NovaM Radio on Monday
(7 comments) "It's a done deal!" Randi Rhodes to appear on Larry King Show

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

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Monday, April 7, 2008
New Pennsylvania Poll: Clinton and Obama Dead Even
so much for the vaunted double digit Rendell lead.

Monday, April 7, 2008
Hillary's History of Failure to Vet Facts And Use Them With Good Judgment
(1 comments) Hillary's repeated gaffes over claims about her past, about the patient who died without health insurance-- they tell us she does NOT have what it takes to take information, process it, and make those three AM decisions.

Sunday, April 6, 2008
Time to Attack The Right Wing's Core Values-- Less Taxes and Less Government
(94 comments) You Want to talk about less Government and less Taxes? Make My Day.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Desperate Times Demand Revolutionary, Visionary Response
(57 comments) Liberals have gone limp. Progressives have wilted their passion, or lost sight of their mission. Democrats have been co-opted and are settling for far too little. We've made progress in waking up America. Now it's time WE wake ourselves up, elevate our standards, reinvigorate our values and make a lot of noise and DEMAND a hell of a lot more from the current crop of candidates.

Friday, April 4, 2008
Clintons Reveal Income of Over $109 Million since Bill Left Office
income details

Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Specter Plans to Shut down the Senate
(17 comments) Specter claims to be spitting mad about the Dem failure to confirm Bush appellate court Judge nominees. So he plans to slow or shut down the US Senate. One problem. He's Waay off on his assessment

Monday, March 31, 2008
BEWARE Do NOT Trust Paulson's Plan to "Protect" and "Regulate"
(25 comments) Trust former Goldman Sachs CEO Paulson as much as you trust Bush to do the right thing and tell the truth. Expect the plans to hurt consumers, take away protections, de-regulate industries, take away the influence of congress, increase partisan influence, corporate influence and protect corporations from litigation and prosecution.

Saturday, March 29, 2008
Reading Bob Casey's Obama Endorsement and the future of the Democratic Party
(21 comments) Casey's endorsement says a lot about what's going on in the Democratic party and what progressives need to be doing.

Monday, March 24, 2008
Hillary Calls for Alan Greenspan and Robert Rubin to Fix Economy
(9 comments) going backwards one mis-step at a time

Sunday, March 23, 2008
"Who is this guy, Obama? He Scares me," a dear friend asks.
"I don't want to hear about character," he said, "I want to know he can kick ass at the negotiation table and be tough as necessary when things get tough."

Friday, March 21, 2008
Hillary's 3 AM Girl Likes Obama, Makes Own Ad
(11 comments) two videos

Thursday, March 20, 2008
A Report on Take Back America 2008
(2 comments) a report on the meeting, some quotes, some color, with an idea of what I did there.

Thursday, March 20, 2008
Photo Shows Clinton Met With, Received Wright
(39 comments)

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Spitzer's Whore Should Not Make a Nickel
(98 comments) letting her get rich after being used for a Spitzer sting will set a very bad precedent

Sunday, March 16, 2008
Is The Word "WHORE" Offensive? Is it a dirty word?
(109 comments) let's discuss this. I think there is a different perception for men and women and would like to sort it out and understand it better.

Thursday, March 13, 2008
A Post-Bush/Cheney To-Do List of Herculean Proportions
(28 comments) As soon as Bush slithers out of the Whitehouse, the next president, presumably a Democrat, unless the Dems totally screw up, will have a huge cleanup job. Hillary and Barack both talk about the mess they'll need to clean up. It would be useful to put together a list of things to-do, to recover from the Bush-Cheney disaster. Here's my shot at it. I'm hoping you'll help fill it in using the comments.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
OpEdNews; Beyond a News Site-- it's your community
(23 comments) OpEdNews is an evolving entity, more than a news site. It's an evolving, ever changing experiment and YOU are a part of that experiment.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
What is the DLC and Who is Its Queen?
(13 comments) The DLC is one of the clearest enemies of the Progressive movement. This article discusses what the DLC is its queen, Hillary.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Jason Leopold Wins Religious Freedom Foundation Award
(3 comments) Regular OpEdNews.com contributor Jason Leopold has won the prestigious Religious Freedom Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Award.

Monday, March 10, 2008
Spitzer Hires A Hooker, MSM Goes Ballistic
(21 comments) thoughts on Spitzer's situation

Friday, March 7, 2008
Superdelegates WILL Decide: Will They Allow Clinton To Take the Scorched Earth Path?
(37 comments) The real Democratic primary is over. Obama won. Hillary lost. The DNC and Dem leadership must decide-- Do nothing and allow a Clinton scorched earth attack or cut the required delegates to win by the number of MI and FL delegates no longer counted, in which case, Obama wins handily, exceeding the number needed to win, if even a small percentage of remaining uncommitted superdelegates commit for him.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
Explosion On Times Square
(25 comments) military office hit. Fears that it may be terrorism related has whole area in a lockdown, CNN reports.

Thursday, March 6, 2008
DNC and Howard Dean Should Tell Florida Republicans and Gov Crist Where to Go
(19 comments) the right wingnut majority in the Florida legislature is playing malicious games, trying to manipulate the Democratic Party's primary.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Hillary Takes Three Out of Four, McCain Comes to End of Primary Trail
(21 comments) all the winners and Huckabee.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Right Wing Canadian Prime Minister Tied to Leak Slurring Obama
(28 comments) yesterday I speculated that there was no reason to trust the Canadian right wing leadership regarding reports of Obama signaling a different message regarding his stand on NAFTA to the Canadian embassy. Today, that speculation is supported by...

Monday, March 3, 2008
Do You Trust Bush Appointees? How about his Canadian Right Wingnut Ally's Appointees?
(22 comments) today's trash is a report that Obama sent a rep to tell the Canadian embassy that he's not serious about his NAFTA talk. Do you believe it?

Monday, March 3, 2008
Canadian Govt: No Contradiction From Obama
a formal statement from the Canadian govt disputes Clinton camp claim that Obama sent message to Canada that he doesn't mean what he says about NAFTA

Sunday, March 2, 2008
Ricin Man Identified-- Home, Warehouse to be Searched
(29 comments) unfolding story raises more questions than answers.

Saturday, March 1, 2008
Who Is the Ricin Man? No Terrorism During Bush's Watch... Except for Anthrax and now, Ricin...
(25 comments) Ricin found in a Las Vegas hotel room, along with an anarchist book, guns, and no reason to consider terrorism? Oh, and by the way, we can thank George Bush for protecting us from terrorism for the past seven years... at least from knowing about it.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Impeachment; a Challenge to Dem Integrity and Courage
(33 comments) Dems face a decision-- do the right, courageous thing, and have an opportunity for incredible new levels of long term power in congress, or reach for new lows of spineless cowardice and settle for holding on to or slightly increasing their power, for a short time, in the congress.

Monday, February 25, 2008
Did Bush Unintentionally Help Obama Beat Hillary In Texas
(6 comments) Bush's dumping and leaving almost a quarter million Katrina victims, mostly black, in Texas, may be a big gift to Obama.

Friday, February 22, 2008
Only The Power of Story Can Save Clinton's Campaign
(32 comments) This morning, Terry McAuliffe sent out an email, linking to a video that he thought was Hillary's most persuasive moment in last night's debate. The problem is, Hillary totally blew it. She didn't answer the question and she should have. If her campaign team had understood STORY and prepared her, she would have, instead of avoiding it, embraced the question as a gift offering her an opportunity to show who she really is.

Friday, February 22, 2008
Congressman Rick Renzi (R-AZ) Indicted
ethical cloud turns to torrent.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Rove Goes After Obama, With Hillary's Help... Or Helping Hillary
(9 comments) Good thing Karl Rove has a job writing for the Wall Street Journal, because his latest political thoughts are pretty limp. Of course, Rove is not honored by those on the right for his political writings. He's revered as a dirty trickster-- brewing up false accusations, third party attacks, disenfranchisement of minority voters. I review Rove's OP-Ed in today's WSJ, attacking Obama.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
OpEdNEws Demands Civility Among Disagreeing Progressives
(111 comments) It is healthy for progressives, who share agreement on many issues to disagree on some-- candidates to support, immigration, Israel/Palestine, 911 Truth, Atomic Energy, Ethanol... and the best approach, in my opinion is to keep the conversation open-- sans nastiness. But we're going to get tough on people who refuse to be civil.

Thursday, February 21, 2008
Rioters in Belgrade Serbia Set US Embassy on Fire
riots are real. Fake comments are inspired by the Onion.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Obama Crushes Hillary in WI and HI
(8 comments) Trounces Hillary even among demographic groups she was depending upon to win.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Is Obama Liberal Enough
(4 comments) the right is spinning Obama as a "hard left" liberal. Fact is, most hard left liberals aren't satisfied with Obama's liberal credentials.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Dear Excite. Why Are You Blocking Email from OpEdNews.com
(12 comments) excite AND hotmail are both blocking emails from OpEdNEws. Let them know they are the dupes of right wingers trying to sabotage us.

Monday, February 18, 2008
Time to Re-Assess How We Celebrate Presidents Day
(12 comments) We've had enough BAD presidents so it is time to reconsider HOW we spend presidents day

Sunday, February 17, 2008
Obama Votes Stolen in NY; The Good News and Bad News
(7 comments) voting trustworthiness at risk again.

Friday, February 15, 2008
Some Views on Obama and Clinton Campaign Spins
(6 comments) some of the claims for strength from the Obama and Clinton camps can be interpreted very differently

Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Holding Progressive Things Together
(48 comments) Things can fall apart. I see it happening in little ways. We have to DECIDE to hold them together as new frictions develop between Hillary and Obama supporters and third party supporters.

Monday, February 11, 2008
Freedom of Speech vs Article Rejection
(62 comments) is it a violation of freedom of speech to reject an article submitted to OpEdNews? Here's a look at some correspondence between a writer whose article was rejected by a volunteer editor and me, the publisher. The writer accused me of violating first amendment rights.

Sunday, February 10, 2008
This Time, Will it be "The Integrity Stupid"
(9 comments) the Clintons are sliding down a slimy slope, going from bad to worse. When voters have a choice between competence and integrity, there is usually no issue.

Saturday, February 9, 2008
Hillary Clinton-- Victim of the War on the Feminine, Just like the 9/11 Victims
(67 comments) the right's hate of the archetypal feminine runs deep and parallels the Islamist extremist mindset that responds to western secular values and media with terrorism.

Friday, February 8, 2008
Book Review; The 4-Hour Workweek; Escape 9-5, LIve Anywhere and Join the New Rich
(1 comments) not at all about politics, possibly politically incorrect, but full of useful ideas and questions. -- #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller

Friday, February 8, 2008
Matthew Rothschild Reveals New, Fascist FBI Project that Looks Like Communist Insider Program
(1 comments) The state sets up a cadre of loyalists, people delegated to be insiders, in times of martial law, given special powers, even authorization to kill to protect institutional property. That's right these comrades of the state are authorized to kill citizens,if, for example, they throw a can of blood red paint on a building.

Friday, February 8, 2008
John Conyers; Don't Be Brave. Be Smart- Smart Enough to Use the Claw of the Impeachment Hammer.
(28 comments) What it will take for John Conyers to go from not yet to NOW on impeachment.

Friday, February 8, 2008
MSNBC's Schuster's "Pimped Out" Chelsea Remark Draws Clinton Camp Ire
(1 comments) Schuster puts MSNBC on the Clinton sh*t list.

Thursday, February 7, 2008
Breaking; Romney Withdraws-- McCain Becomes GOP Candidate
(20 comments) Says it will aid a surrender to terror by making it easier for Hillary or Barrack to Win. That pretty much makes McCain the GOP Candidate for President

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Editing the OpEdNews queue

Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Obama Tops Hillary In Super Tuesday Delegates
(15 comments) as expected, Obama did better than older polls had predicted. And, as predicted, the spin war is on.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Who WIll Decide? Will Super Tuesday, Dem Machine Superdelegates, Super Money, Diebold, the Corpstream Media Or Super Th
(10 comments) There are way too many ways that candidate choices are influenced-- that should not be.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Zogby Poll: Obama Soars Past Hillary in CA,
(6 comments) poll data shows Obama developing a growing lead in CA. In many states, the undecided will decide the outcome.

Monday, February 4, 2008
Endorsement, Poll, Campaign Article Link Roundup
(5 comments) links to loads of articles on endorsements, polls emerging in anticipation of Super Tuesday

Sunday, February 3, 2008
Two Superbowls, Please!?
(5 comments) who's playing? That's right. Until today, if you asked my the teams playing, or where they were playing, I wouldn't know.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
Superstar Weather Guy Punxsatawney Phil Predicts
(1 comments) what kind of weather will we have for the next six weeks? Phil knows.

Saturday, February 2, 2008
Slay That Green Dragon
(205 comments) The pseudo-neurobiology of green dragon syndrome- angry rejection of both Obama and Hillary

Thursday, January 31, 2008
Clinton to 9/11 Truther; "Look Like Idiots" Now Go Away
(11 comments) Bill is not very nice to 9/11 truthers

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Conyers Tells Rob Kall: Impeachment Not Off the Table; A You Tube Video
(115 comments) Rob Kall interviews John Conyers-- and uber blogger Matt Stoller video recorded it. Youtube link, transcript included. And Conyers says, on tape, Impeachment is NOT off the table, and more.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
OpEdNews Report on Senate Dem Progressive Media Summit
(6 comments) Harry Reid Tells Progressive Media, "but for you, this country would be in much worse shape than it is today." at an invitation only Progressive Media, over 20 US Democratic senators and house leaders meet with leading progressive media talk radio hosts, bloggers, writers and executives.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Hillary's Gambits-- Dirty or Brilliant?
(6 comments) There are two ways you can look at the way Hillary has been playing the primary game.

Sunday, January 27, 2008
Edwards Beats Hillary Among White Voters
(26 comments) some possible good news on a day when most Edwards supporters are feeling dejected and disappointed

Saturday, January 26, 2008
Trolls, Anger, Taking Offense and One-Hit- Wonders
(69 comments) In which I explore dealing with trolls, anger, taking offense, flaming and reasons to find tolerance, forgiveness and appreciation, even amongst assholes, myself included.

Saturday, January 26, 2008
Poll: Paul Pulls 50+% of 18-24 Vote, Twice as Many Women
(1 comments) fresh poll data, just in

Friday, January 25, 2008
Poll: Edwards up 40% in Last 4 Days in SC. Obama down 10%
(17 comments) Edwards is surging as Obama drops. if this continues, Edwards could pass Clinton in polls. Already, he's in a statistical dead heat.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Screw the Bandaids. Pull the Goddamn Knife Out
(32 comments) Congress is playing the snuff videographer role-- in the worst kind of reality show imaginable.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Is the Dem Congress Criminally Insane?
(73 comments) This coming year will be a time when the damage Bush and Cheney have done so far will seem miniscule, compared to what they can and will do if allowed to continue running the US into the ground. In the SC debate, yesterday, the DEM candidates agreed that Bush has been incredibly destructive. Failure to impeach and quickly end the occupation will send the US into an irreversible nosedive.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Is the Dem Congress Criminally Insane?
(73 comments) This coming year will be a time when the damage Bush and Cheney have done so far will seem miniscule, compared to what they can and will do if allowed to continue running the US into the ground. In the SC debate, yesterday, the DEM candidates agreed that Bush has been incredibly destructive. Failure to impeach and quickly end the occupation will send the US into an unrecoverable nosedive.

Monday, January 21, 2008
Bloody Tuesday? Global Markets See Worst Day since 9/11.. US to Follow?
(48 comments) Will presidential primary candidates deal with the REAL news that is happening as the worthless, corpstream MSM media almost ignore it. Today, global markets saw their worst day since 9/11. NINE ELEVEN!. And we hear about minutiae about the Florida Primary, about Rudy Giuliani's failing campaign. Wake Up America!! We are in dire economic danger.

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Bio-Politics; Nature vs Globalism, Conservatism and Libertarianism
(24 comments) The laws of life are harsh. Fail to respect them and you die. Why should we expect the world of mankind to not be subject to those same laws?

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Nevada/South Carolina Primaries Update With Stats
(4 comments) updates and stats from yesterdays primary events

Sunday, January 20, 2008
The Gift of Edges
(3 comments) a poem

Sunday, January 20, 2008
Obama Puts on the Gloves for Bill Clinton
in just 100 words Obama confronted, challenged and cut down former President Clinton for his out-of-line advocacy for his wife's presidential campaign.

Saturday, January 19, 2008
Hillary, Romney Win Nevada, Ron Paul comes in 2nd, McCain Wins SC
(8 comments)

Friday, January 18, 2008
When All You Think You Have to Fix the Economy is A Prime Rate Cut and Tax Rebate.... You Better Think Again
(22 comments) Psychologist Abraham Maslow had a saying, "When all you have is a hammer, everything is a nail." We need to be smarter and not give money to people to pay off bills or buy imported junk from China. A flat tax rebate give-away is a VERY bad idea.

Thursday, January 17, 2008
Deleted Whitehouse E-Mails; Another Bush Criminal; Another Reason to Impeach
(14 comments) Tools have different uses. You can use a claw hammer to hammer in a nail or pry a nail out. Impeachment is a tool. Dems rejecting impeachment focus on the "hammer" aspect of impeachment focuses on voting to impeach in the house and convict in the senate. It was the "claw" aspect of impeachment that pried out the evidence which pushed GOP senators to do "THE WALK" to the whitehouse which persuaded Nixon to resign...

Wednesday, January 16, 2008
How to Love Right Wingers
(35 comments) There are a plethora of toxic books by right wingers, excoriating liberals. So I came up with an idea. Do the opposite. Write a fun, funny book about how to love right wingers. This is the first in a series of articles I'll be doing, and I invite others to get involved. How can you not love someone whose brain is so confused, so mushy, that he actualy prefers Dubya over... almost anyone? You have to have loving compassion.

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
They're Ba-ack... So What? congress that is
(5 comments) back in time to do more nothing, to block investigations of criminals, to keep the war going... to keep their super health care benefits... and what about that economy? that war? that tattered constitution? What about the fact the US is now rate as a high surveillance, low privacy nation? Never mind, just pay attention to the dangling story of Brittany Spears, back and forth-- Bad Kevin, Bad Brittany, kidnapped children...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Kucinich out, Romney Wins, Paul beats thompson and Giuliani
(11 comments)

Monday, January 14, 2008
Questions We Should be asking of and About Candidates
(10 comments) Here's an incomplete list of questions we should all be asking ourselves about the remaining candidates? And maybe, just maybe, the corpstream, lamestream media ought to be asking these questions at the entertainment debates, instead of the weak, shallow questions they tend to ask. "Diamonds or pearls?" Unbelievable!

Monday, January 14, 2008
Superdelegates... Bad for Democracy
(13 comments) Don't like the electoral college and the idea that a president can be elected without a majority? You'll hate the way superdelegates can and will affect the primary election process-- unless you like feudalism.

Sunday, January 13, 2008
USA's Economic Disaster Tsunami Is Under Way. Ordinary Solutions Won't Work to Save Us
(54 comments) Bush's presidency, with his rubberstamp Republican and Democratic congresses, was the earthquake. Now we face the economic disaster tsunami produced by the earthquake. The ordinary solutions-- income tax cuts, prime interest rate cuts-- they won't help and could make things worse. Visionary, courageous leadership is essential.

Friday, January 11, 2008
The Wall/Murdoch-Street Journal Asks, "Barack or Hillary?"
(17 comments) The question is all about which Dem candidate is going to be easier to beat. " Mr. Obama? If he really has tapped into something deep in the American soul, and if he can keep tapping until November, it's conceivable he could bring with him a new wash of Democratic seats that could reshape the Washington political landscape for years to come."

Thursday, January 10, 2008
Do New Hampshire Vote Count Questions Harbinger Super Tuesday Vote Theft Disaster?
(37 comments) We were warned that there could be problems with vote counts, because of e-voting vulnerabilities. The warnings came true. And now, we face a disastrous set of e-vote rigging risks on Super Tuesday.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008
New Hampshire-- The Comeback State and the Races are Wide Open
(27 comments) New Hampshire turns the pollster predictions upside down on the dem side. GOP candidates are in a wide open race.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
An Iran Gunboat War Start Fantasy Scenario
(29 comments) Would Bush or Cheney rig the start of a war with Iran? If so, what might it look like?

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Since Change is THE Issue, What is Change?
(13 comments) I'm a quotation addict, so this was an excuse to create a file of quotations on CHANGE. So here's a big batch, wherein you get to read what a few hundred some wise folk say about change--

Monday, January 7, 2008
Is Obama the Drug High America Wants and Needs? Politicapharmacology 101
(32 comments) No joke. Obama literally has a drug advantage over his opponents and even arch right wingers are doing the drug, getting high on Obama.

Saturday, January 5, 2008
URGENT: Complain to ABC Advertisers About Its Ban of Kucinich, Gravel and Hunter from Tonight's Debate
(51 comments) It shouldn't matter if you support any of these candidates. Disney's ABC network is acting in an anti-democratic, anti-American way. They must be sent a message.

Friday, January 4, 2008
Iowa Wrap up
(9 comments) stats and observations

Friday, January 4, 2008
Paul Supporters Fight Back-- Dump Fox News Stock Intent on Sending it Tumbling
(5 comments) Striking back at Fox News for leaving him out of a debate in New Hampshire, Ron Paul supporters have dumped their holdings in Fox News. The graph shows their success

Thursday, January 3, 2008
HUGE News for Dems: Iowa Dem Caucus Turnout Could Double GOP Turnout
(22 comments) a landslide of independents on the Dem side suggests that Republicans are in big trouble

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Could the Conventions Decide Candidates In Both Parties
It's been a long time since a primary was decided at the party convention, but it could happen.

Thursday, January 3, 2008
Obama, Hope and HIstory
(29 comments) There is something in the air tonight. It's the stirring of history, mixed with hope fulfilled.

Saturday, December 29, 2007
The War Against Humanity; Targeting the Real Axis of Evil
(6 comments) Corporations, corporatism, corporate personhood are the subject of this article.

Friday, December 28, 2007
How to Erode and Destroy Democracy-- a Dozen Tested Strategies
(16 comments) tips to fascists, dictators, corporatists, militarists, imperialists, neocons, right wingers, theocrats, theofascists and terrorists...

Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Can We Talk Strategy-- Even if it includes thinking about Right Wing Candidates
(55 comments) yesterday, I wrote an article, endorsing Ron Paul for the Republican presidential primary (NOT for president.) Some friends and readers challenged me on this. Over 100 Kos readers treated me to the most horrific day of insults and name calling I ever experienced in my life. Here, I try to explain my ratioinale for the endorsement and call for support for Ron Paul, in a broader framework.

Monday, December 24, 2007
Endorsing Ron Paul, and Why Progressive Dems Should Support Ron Paul
(184 comments) Even if progressives don't vote for Ron Paul, there are some great reasons why his candidacy is good for the progressive cause and why progressives should support him as the Republican primary candidate of choice.

Sunday, December 23, 2007
Move Review: Charlie Wilson's War--
(7 comments) this is a movie that produces confusing emotions. You want to root for Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, but they are doing bad things, the kinds of things that Dick Cheney and Ollie North like.

Saturday, December 22, 2007
Electing a Leader For President; What Leader Traits Do YOU See?
(27 comments) What are the criteria, the skills, abiltiies, talents, the behaviors that make a good leader? What do you think-- about each candidate's leadership history, skills and promise?

Friday, December 21, 2007
How About an Impeachment Truth Movement?
(37 comments) Too many people are thinking about impeachment as an act aimed at removing the president. And it's true, that is one aspect of the impeachment process. But that's putting the cart before the horse. The most important reason to impeach is to open up hearings-- hearings that Bush is not allowed to claim presidential privilege to block subpoenas.

Thursday, December 20, 2007
4.5 Billion Year Old Meteorite Creates 65 ft. Crater And Gases which Sicken Onlookers
(5 comments) video

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Jacksonville Explosion-- Domestic Terrorism?
(5 comments) There's an Explosion at a Jacksonville, Florida, chemical plant, with evacuation of half a mile radius. That's the kind of ripe, easy-pickings target that has been described as particularly vulnerable to terrorists-- and that evacuation is the kind of result that terrorists would love. But if terrorism was involved, do you think there is any chance that we'd be told by the government? I don't.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Russian Nuclear Fuel Delivery to Iran Proves Bush/Cheney War Drums Are Illegit
(6 comments) more evidence that Bush and Cheney trade in lies and fraud to trump up war and continuation of the occupation in Iraq

Monday, December 17, 2007
Dodd Proves Dems Can Filibuster-- Or Threaten to-- And that It Can Work
(6 comments) FISA bill delayed, at least until Jan 15. That's right. Delayed. The Dems WILL cave.

Friday, December 14, 2007
Schussing or struggling through slopes and life
there are two kinds of skiing-- hard work, straining, easily tiring, thinking yourself down the mountain, or effortless, easy, natural schussing, where you see the mountain a whole different way. And in life the same is true-- some postures cause pain and ineffective hard work. Others elevate you to success almost effortlessly.

Thursday, December 13, 2007
Anti Climate Change Right Wingnuts Spin and Twist Pope's Message On Global Warming
(7 comments) They must be getting desperate. Bali climate change meeting, Nobel Prize for Al-- the right wing, anti global warming spin is getting lamer and even bizarre.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Tools for Warming the Heart-- and Having a Happier Holiday
(5 comments) this has zero to do with politics... It's some wisdom I've gleaned from the Positive Psychology hat I've worn the past 25 years

Friday, December 7, 2007
Rebuttals to Reasons NOT to Impeach
(22 comments) Even people who believe Cheney and Bush broke the law, lied us into war, betrayed the constitution-- some don't think impeachment is a good idea. This article provides rebuttals to reasons Not to impeach.

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Post NIE-tal Thoughts...Congressional Medals of Honor, Journalistic Testicles, Impeachment Urgency and Pelosi's Treason.
(25 comments) the intelligence officers who mutinied against Cheney deserve congressional medals of honor for stopping a war that would have been treasonously started with lies and deception. These revelations provide further proof that Cheney, then Bush should be impeached. Failure to put impeachment on the table, by Pelosi, makes her an accessory, aiding and abetting Bush's and Cheney's crimes

Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Bush Hearts Uranium
(8 comments) in which rob half jokingly engages in half poetry, writing, half stream of thought, as Bush gives and takes at his press conference, in response to the NIE.

Saturday, December 1, 2007
What The Hell Are Dem Leaders Doing, Blowing Money In Dem Primaries
(18 comments) why are the dem leaders throwing away money interfering in primaries that local dems should be deciding?

Friday, November 30, 2007
Living in the Post-Election Era and Really Protecting the USA
(15 comments) I look at the news of elections coming in Pakistan, Russia, votes on constitutional changes in Venezuela... and I think of the USA's last two flawed presidential selection events... and I wonder, "have we entered the era where elections WERE?? Have elections become a joke, a sham, a ploy used by people and groups with great power to steal the ultimate power-- of leadership of a nation?

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
The Mideast Peace Summit-- Joke, Holy Grail, Fool's Errand and Bush's Hell
(12 comments) We see images of Bush with Olmert and Abbas. If there were comic strip "thought bubbles" over the heads of these leaders, the words "What the hell is this moron going to do?" would have to be writ large. And then, we'd see, in the next box of the comic strip, more thought bubbles, "Oh well. We're being paid."

Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Impeachment Forum in Bucks County PA, with Rob Kall, Dave Lindorff, Elizabeth Holtzman
(1 comments)

Monday, November 26, 2007
Trent Lott Resigns, Joins Hastert in Republican Leader Rush to Avoid New 2008 Lobbying Regulations
(9 comments) New lobbying regulation laws that go into effect in 2008 could produce a rush of end of year resignations by Republicans dreading working in a congress with an ever greater Democratic Majority.

Sunday, November 25, 2007
Disaster Capitalism and its Shock Doctrine-- making Nazism seem tame
(30 comments) Naomi Klein's book SHOCK DOCTRINE describes perhaps the most horrific, monstrous movements in the history of the world-- Disaster Capitalism's Shock Doctrine. It has caused the deaths, maiming and torturing of millions throughout the world. It's supporters and promoters should be tried, convicted and imprisoned in the deepest, nastiest prisons.

Saturday, November 24, 2007
Another Prime Bush Ally Dumped-- Aussie Howard "Suffers Humiliating Defeat"
(27 comments)

Friday, November 23, 2007
Pentagon Lies: Omits 20,000 Brain-Injured Vets from Count of Injured
(3 comments) far more victims exist, but are not reported because of bogus counting policy. And the count could actually be in the hundreds of thousands.

Thursday, November 22, 2007
Sardonic Thanks-- 16 or so things to be somewhat thankful for
(8 comments) the world hasn't blown up yet. We can still select which worthless mainstream media channels we watch. We're still in happy denial about...

Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Treasury Sec Paulson Expects Tidal Wave of Mortgage Problems; and One Republican Senator is blocking Major Interventions
(4 comments) While all the signs of a perfect economic storm are registering more and more clearly, Bush admin is waffling and barely waking up, while a single lone Republican senator is blocking even minimal intervention.

Monday, November 19, 2007
Blame Invertebrate Congressional Dem Leaders For Local Campaign Losses
(5 comments) Thousands of local Democratic candidates for office in local elections nationwide- line candidates, candidates for supervisors, council seats and the like lost in close races because of the spineless or compromised failure of Pelosi and Reid to do what the dem majority in congress was mandated to do-- end the war. The tragedy is that the local candidates and dem leaders did what they were supposed to and should have won.

Sunday, November 18, 2007
Book Review: Hero With a Thousand Faces
(1 comments) One of the Top 100 Most Important Books of the 20th Century, Joseph Campbell's book is a treasure trove with a map inside that can help you understand some of the most important stages and journeys in your life. Or, you can use its ideas to write better stories or plan for changes, planned or unexpected, in your life, your work, your relationships...

Friday, November 16, 2007
Swiftboat Innoculation; Can the DNC Plan Ahead, Smart?
(5 comments) Beating Right Wing Fear And Smear Tactics with Innoculative Political Advertising The DNC has a LOT more money than the RNC. They ought to consider investing in some general ads that INNOCULATE voters against future republican attack, swiftboat and fear induction ads. Call it "Swiftboat Innoculation."

Friday, November 16, 2007
Thoughts on the Las Vegas Dem Debate.
(13 comments) Edwards, Richardson and Biden came off very solid, with strong ideas. I think the three of them did best in this debate. Hillary didn't lose or gain ground. Obama failed to look like a rock star, standout, dynamic leader.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Help Build a List of Arguments AGAINST Impeachment
(34 comments) If you're going to discuss impeachment with anyone-- centrist Democrats, liberals, right wingers, Nancy Pelosi, etc. you ought to be able to answer the most common objections. So, the first step is to list the most common objections.

Saturday, November 10, 2007
A Book Review; The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America by Susan Faludi
(2 comments) dissecting the myth that emerged after 9/11 attacking strong women, inventing strong men. Great writing, brilliant reporting and weaving history and contemporary events with new eyes.

Friday, November 9, 2007
Lions for Lambs; Movie Review
with Robert Redford, Meryl Streep and Tom Cruise, this movie delivers

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Shameful! Big Tobacco Swiftboats Healthcare for Children
(6 comments) Were tobacco lobbyists behind the failure to overcome Bush's veto of the SCHIP bill?

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Military Blocks Marine's Testimony That Torture Derailed Terrorist's Prosecution
(4 comments) Can Bush block any person from testifying before congress? Will congress back down on this and give up even more of the power that balances our system of government?

Thursday, November 8, 2007
Is Chris Matthews Shooting for White House Press Secretary?
(1 comments)

Wednesday, November 7, 2007
American Freak-- Surgery and Other Treatments Needed
(33 comments) so far the treatments attempted have failed. The patient-- American democracy, the constitution, America the good influence on the world- has mutated into a horrific, metastasized freak, infected by right wing and weak dem parasites, vermin and toxic germs.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Rosie May Be Moving to MSNBC 9 PM After-Olbermann Slot, As MSNBC Moves Left
(10 comments)

Tuesday, November 6, 2007
A Day in The Trenches-- Working the Polls, Then Watching the Counts Come In
(1 comments)

Monday, November 5, 2007
Chicago H.S. Students Face Expulsion Following Peace Sit-in
(25 comments) Last Thursday, Oct. 1, students at the Morton West High School in Berwyn Illinois held an anti-war peace rally at ten AM. They'd planned it for a few days. About 70 students showed up, the student we interviewed, who asked to be anonymous, told us. By the end of the day of peaceful, non-violent, courteous protest, around 30 students were suspended, told they would be expelled

Sunday, November 4, 2007
Pakistan "Emergency" Ban of Constitution, Independent Media-- A Media Emergency In USA Too
(10 comments) Pakistan should be THE News this morning. But America's mainstream media has pretty much died. Infected by corporatism, it has become the corpstream media-- corpselike and corps controlled. We are living in dangerous times. We have much to fear-- not the the things the Bush administration and the right wing suggest-- but the things the Bush administation and the right wing perpetrate. WE in the new media must do their job.

Thursday, November 1, 2007
Who Are the Most Influential Progressives, DINO Moderates, Cross-Partisans and Conservatives in America
(10 comments) a partial listing, supplementing a list started by the UK's Telegraph. We're depending on you to help put together this list.

Thursday, November 1, 2007
Kucinich's UFO Experience-- An Excuse for The MSM to Pull a "Dean Scream" Media Hit Job?
(33 comments) I like the fact that Kucinich has seen a UFO. It's one more bit of evidence that he's a man who has the courage to explore the edges of what it is to be human. But his strong rise in polls and his tough positions on health care and other issues make him a targe for the same kind of media hit job attack that Howard Dean suffered.

Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Covering the Dem Debate in Philly for OpEdNews and Gravel's Counter Event
(8 comments) this is barely about the debate, more about my experience of covering it, with multiple agendas, with photos. I drop a lot of names here. Plus-- Cutting Mike Gravel out, Kucinich on UFOs, Men for Hillary

Monday, October 29, 2007
Do Reid and Pelosi WANT The Occupancy of Iraq to Continue?
(36 comments) I think Reid and Pelosi are part of the problem. They could end the occupation/war now and they keep telling us about needing 60 votes in the senate. That's pure BS.

Sunday, October 28, 2007
What Will it Look Like After the Dems Declare they Refuse to Further Fund the War
(37 comments) I asked leading progressives what it will look like when and after the dems inform Bush that they will no longer fund the occupation. Responses came in from Dennis Kucinich, Cindy Sheehan, Jeff Cohen, Mike Malloy, David Swanson, Swami Beyondananda, Brent Budowsky

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Interview with Dennis Kucinich; "Fear is not a basis to run a government in a Democracy."
(19 comments) I interviewed Dennis Kucinich about the details of a plan to refuse to fund the war. What would it look like? He replied with the quote in the title in answer to my comment that Democrats are not refusing to fund the war because they are afraid the Republicans will accuse them of refusing to fund the troops.

Thursday, October 25, 2007
Book Review: Thom Hartmann's Cracking the Code
If Persuasion is Power, Thom Hartmann's newest Book Can Enable You To Achieve Your Maximum. Thom Hartmann, one of the top progressive talk radio "stars," has delivered a gift to anyone who wants to persuade others. It will be required reading for anyone trying convince people to act, take a stand or vote in some way.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Shame on NBC for Banning Mike Gravel From Its Next Debate
(14 comments) Gravel was notified that he did not meet the NBC criteria for debate participants. This is a dangerous step. What right do the media have to decide who has a shot at winning. Contact info included, so you can tell NBC they are wrong.

Monday, October 22, 2007
Hillary or Giuliani, democrat or republican-- It's all in the Questions
(27 comments) questions and answers-- who would you rather have as leader if we are to fight Iran? Who would you rather have if you want to prevent a fight with Iran? Hillary or Giuliani? A Dem or Rep? Which question do you think right wing talk show host Michael Smerconish asked his base?

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Fractal Politics-- Local Trickle Down of Campaign Lie, Distortion Tactics
(1 comments) In Bucks county, where I live, we see attack ads, framing and distortion and lies that come from the same mold that spawned the ugly campaign strategies of Karl Rove and Grover "starve government to make it small enough to drown in a bathtub" Norquist. The next few weeks should be spent on local politics, building the base, doing GOTV, and reminding voters which candidates and parties got them in the mess they are now in.

Sunday, October 21, 2007
Invertebrate Dems' Congressional Failure Hurting Candidates Chance in Nov Elections
(6 comments) The invertebrate Democrat congress is doing more than failing at their mandate to bring the troops home. Their repeated failures have driven their poll ratings down to pathetic lows and this is now affecting, adversely, their potential to maximize any hopes for victory they will have next year.

Friday, October 19, 2007
Term Limits; Good or Bad
(22 comments) do term limits throw away valuable experience? Or do they prevent fossilization of legislatures?

Friday, October 19, 2007
Joke: Outsourcing Help Hotlines
(3 comments) I was feeling a bit depressed the other day, so I called the "Help Hotline". The call went through to a 'call center' in Pakistan.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
The DCC Just Hung Up On Me
(55 comments) I won't tolerate being in an abusive relationship... and that's what it seems to be turning into between me and the Democratic congress. Shame on them.

Thursday, October 18, 2007
Rep Pete Stark on Youtube, Speaking Truth to Power, Really Pissing off Right Wingers
(31 comments) Stark spoke in during the time when the veto over-ride vote on SCHIP was being held. "The truth is, Bush just likes to blow things up."

Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Monster Corporation Advertisements in the MSM-- Buying the MSM, making it Lamestream
(1 comments) I picked up the daily paper I have delivered to my home and there was an insert in the plastic bag they put the paper in. It was a big, four color, two sided, 22 x 34 inch glossy coated paper ad with a picture of a helicopter-- from United Technologies on one side and a drawing of an Olympic facility on the other. Now why would I be given an ad like that?

Sunday, October 14, 2007
Prophetic Dream? Or Screamingly Obvious Nightmare About Our Fascist Future
(29 comments) A "dream" or nightmare woke me up last night. On the surface, it was fairly harmless. The monster wasn't ugly, or horrific, simply an administrator with power to abuse.

Friday, October 12, 2007
Ralph Nader: Things Are a Lot Worse than We Thought!
(6 comments) Bush calling for martial law, cancelled 2008 elections-- as reasons a congressman gives for NOT impeaching

Thursday, October 11, 2007
Can Patrick Murphy End The War; Is He Dem Leader,Future President or Get Along Guy?
(6 comments) as the only Iraq vet in congress, Murphy could, with more credibility than any other member of congress, call for ending the funding of the war and the military-- something that the dem led congress DOES have the numbers to do now, in both the house and senate. This would be a major act of leadership by Murphy, but could put him at odds with the Dem congressionial leadership.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Obama Says He Will Vote for NAFTA Expansion
(13 comments) same day the wall street journal reports that the globalization is worsening the divide between rich and poor. If you wondered whether Obama is too friendly with corporatists, this may give you an inkling.

Sunday, October 7, 2007
FBI Puts Antiwar Protesters on Criminal Database; Canada Uses It To Ban Protesters From Entry
(22 comments) "The FBI's placing of peace activists on an international criminal database is blatant political intimidation of US citizens opposed to Bush administration policies," says Colonel Wright, who was also Deputy US Ambassador in four countries. "The Canadian government should certainly not accept this FBI database as the criteria for entering the country."

Friday, October 5, 2007
Wake Up Time for the "Stupid White Man"
(15 comments) the strongest supporters of the right wing are white males. They need to be reconsidered as voters who can wake up and vote on the left. The fact is, they have long been victims of right wing policy. The Dems would be smart to figure out how to reach them.

Friday, October 5, 2007
Save the Date October 27 for A Major AntiWar Event, Possibly in Your Backyard
This demonstration will be at a lot of cities-- Boston, Chicago, Jonesborough, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle... So make sure you make it.

Thursday, October 4, 2007
Judge Rejects Larry Craig Request To Withdraw Plea
(1 comments)

Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Shut Limbaugh Down In Iraq, for his sibilance at the end of soldier
(32 comments) lamestream media sell Limbaugh's lame excuse. House Dems should dump Limbaugh and replace him with Thom Hartmann-- attaching this as an amendment when they, spinelessly hand over funding of the war to Bush.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
How Website Owners Can Share the Wealth with Currently Unpaid Writers
(35 comments) Currently, the vast majority of people who post content to blogs, blogging communities and websites don't get paid. The owners of the site make the money from ad and sales commission revenues. It could be different. Without losing much revenue, website publishers could share the wealth.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007
WSJ ReportsGOP Losing Grip On Long Loyal Business Vote
(6 comments) Long loyal leaders in business are bailing from the Republican party as they perceive it being more and more controlled by religious, social conservatives who give a back seat to long help economic conservative priorities such as fiscal responsibility, small government, restrained government spending

Sunday, September 30, 2007
Will UAW/GM Health Care Deal Doom Universal Single Payer Health Care?
(17 comments) Should Congress Block the GM/Auto Workers Union Health Deal? Will Union Management of Bazillion Dollar Health Plans Hurt Universal Single Payer Health Care (USPHC) Progress Will GM's exit from health care start a run, where employers rush to get out of health care provision? Is there an opportunity here for USPHC advocates to make a quantum leap in progress?

Sunday, September 30, 2007
Do the Progressives, Liberals and Even... the Moderates You Love Depend Upon the Lamestream Media?
(6 comments) If you knew someone you cared about was afflicted with a brain disease that could be easily treated and possibly cured with a simple intervention, wouldn't you tell him or her about it? Well, what about all the people you know suffering from lamestream media addiction and chronic true media dietary starvation? Here's a simple solution

Saturday, September 29, 2007
Bill Clinton at His Best
(21 comments) Clinton brings together 52 current and former world leaders and many more luminaries-- heads of corporations, NGOs, etc. to make some positive changes happen, through commitments.

Friday, September 28, 2007
Take Limbaugh Off the Air in Iraq
(54 comments) Don't let Limbaugh get away with calling soldiers who support withdrawal from Iraq "phony soldiers."

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Saddam Could Have Been Removed Without Iraq War
(12 comments) Saddam offered to go into exile if allowed to take a $billion dollars with him. Bush turned him down and began an unnecessary war.

Tuesday, September 25, 2007
microlithiasis, testicles and effing googling
(3 comments) I become a victim of medical googling

Friday, September 21, 2007
Rudy's Phone Call Interruptus
(4 comments) What does it mean when a guy doesn't have either the self discipline or assertiveness to turn off his phone, to not answer it when he's doing something important. A staged con?

Thursday, September 20, 2007
Urgent!! Dems Must Defend Moveon from the Right Wing's "Betray Us" Attack
(35 comments) There's a swiftboat type ad running on TV that attacks moveon.org for the Betray Us ad it ran in the New York Times. It's very smart, very dangerous and absolutely something which the leaders of the democratic party-- Howard Dean, Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer and Rahm Emanuel should be very careful in the way they handle.

Monday, September 17, 2007
Sally Field Censored by Fox
(21 comments) "I would've liked to have said more bleeped-out words, but that's life."

Monday, September 17, 2007
Will Iraq's Blackwater Ban Raise Troop Levels in Baghdad?
(15 comments) After a firefight, allegedly involving blackwater, which produced 8 civilian deaths and 14 wounded, Iraq has "withdrawn Blackwater's license to operate in Iraq. Will the ban have teeth? and, if thousands of blackwater security and mercenary workers have to leave, or can't work, will General Petraeus have to INCREASE troop deployments to Baghdad?

Saturday, September 15, 2007
Bill Maher Doesn't Quite Get His Hands Around 9/11 Truthers
(9 comments)

Thursday, September 13, 2007
President Petraeus?
(6 comments) The general every member of congress loves to suck up to as apolitical and straightforward wants to be president, according to sources.

Thursday, September 13, 2007
Assassination of Sunni Sheikh "Ally Against Al Qaeda" Reveals Charade Petraeus Fronted to Congress
(17 comments) Like so many of the fictions the Bush administration has perpetrated, events have unfolded that revealed the underlying truths and the lies used to hide them. Who would have thought the Petraeus fronted fiction would unfold so fast? The assassinated Sheik turns out to have been a con man, a front man Petraeus has used to put a "face" on his "success." But the death proves the failure and shows the lies underlying Petraeus plan

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Time to Confront the Desperate Losers Who Speak of Victory in Iraq
(27 comments) Once the Dems find their spines and take their stand, a lot of other things will fall into place. The right wingers will collapse even further into their failure, looking more incompetent, foolish and traitorous to the US, the troops and democracy than ever. The Dems will charge forward with their hearings. The clouds will disperse. The sun will shine.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Did Israeli Jets Violate Syrian Airspace to Test New Russian Defense Technology Also In Iran
(10 comments) adding to the Iranian brew- Russian and Chinese munitions?

Sunday, September 9, 2007
The Price of Their Fears
(9 comments) Buy their fear and you buy a lot more to be afraid of that they don't tell you about. Face them and find your heart and ...

Friday, September 7, 2007
Zionism, Zionists; Defining meaning, Abuse, Overuse
(22 comments) Let's try to discuss this with civility and without namecalling.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Murdering Democracy
(3 comments) Bush, Right Wingers, Trans-national Corporations, Media Oligopolies and Fundamentalists with loyalties other than the USA are savagely attacking and endangering American Democracy.

Thursday, September 6, 2007
Introducing "Think Twice" Word Detection System To OpEdNews
(91 comments) the system detects words that we think content submitters should consider carefully before using. Some are abused and used to express hate. Some are "languaged" and have extra meaning imbued in them by language strategists like Frank Luntz, and some are foul language, which we are trying to discourage the use of. There is no censorship at all, only suggestions to think twice.

Monday, September 3, 2007
Don't Allow Invertebrate Dems In Congress to Insult You. They CAN Stop the War
(20 comments) The dems CAN stop the war, even without enough senate votes to pass a bill, even without enough votes to over-ride a Bush veto.

Sunday, September 2, 2007
As Republican Hypocrisy Party Tanks, Conservatives Lean Libertarian
(13 comments) and a homework assignment for Sunday morning political news watchers

Saturday, September 1, 2007
MoveOn Shows Their Bias Again, In Another Flawed Poll
(6 comments) this is the third or fourth time Moveon has run a bogus poll, setting up the answer by providing incomplete, biased information, this time on a bad bill it looks like they want to support. So they leave out key information, ask members to vote, and if they do, based on the info Moveon provides, it looks like moveon got member support. Shame on Move on

Friday, August 31, 2007
Using and Banning Handles and Pseudonyms on OpEdNews
(124 comments) it looks like, for articles, pseudonyms and handles will be banned for article bylines, and this article invites you to comment on considerations to ban handles for comments on articles, bylines for diaries and comments on diaries or other content.

Friday, August 31, 2007
Review: Open Focus Brain-- a landmark book that explores how we pay attention and how to do it better
an important, groundbreaking book that promises to become a classic over the decades. More than any other book, it reminds me of Herbert Benson's RELAXATION RESPONSE. Just as Benson took a simple concept-- relaxation-- and created a landmark book on how to do it... simply, Les Fehmi, with co-author Jim Robbins, has laid out an approach to attention that is remarkable in its simplicity and power to change lives.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Banning some words HERE on This Website
(254 comments) we've set a policy of banning some words that tend to be abused for hate. Mention any high traffic progressive websites that allow as wide a discussion, including postings of articles and blogs on the middle east as OpEdNews. Most block all discussion or only allow or encourage articles and blogs on one side or the other-- Pro-palestinian and anti-Israel, Anti- zionist or Pro-Israel. Before crying censorship name a site.

Monday, August 27, 2007
Gonzales Resigns...Finally
(4 comments) Will it slow the momentum of congressional investigations?

Monday, August 27, 2007
Dem Congress Must Insist Gonzo's Replacement Must Promise to Open the Books
(9 comments) And the Dem Congress must insist that Bush appoint a replacement who will be trusted and respected by all Americans-- someone who will begin to heal our wounded nation

Saturday, August 25, 2007
Will Chertoff Replace Gonzales As AG?
(28 comments)

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Creating a Set of Laws for All Religions, Like Asimov's Laws of Robotics
(21 comments) I believe that a short collection of basic laws or rules need to be developed that civilized, mature, evolved religions all subscribe to. These rules should aim toward supporting humanity, earth and life with respect for differences

Thursday, August 23, 2007
Christiane Amanpour's "God's Warriors"
(40 comments) Toxic Distorters of original teachings

Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Movement Metaphors and Finding Heroes In Congress
(7 comments) Tapping all the power at your disposal is not an easy thing. Great power comes with great risks and some danger. But wisdom, strength, confidence and determination, added together enable the strong to make full use of their power. This is lofty territory....

Monday, August 20, 2007
Drive, Don't Vote the "Ripe" Right Wing Incumbents Out of Congress
(2 comments) Think of all the Republicans who WERE committee chairs, who USED TO wield incredible power, who are now relegated to observer status, forced to watch as the Dems make policy. It's time to target the right wing incumbents who are ready to "fall off the vine" and retire-- to make them so miserable in their job, that they don't want to come back, that they'd rather sign up for a cush job in the private sector instead.

Saturday, August 18, 2007
Judge Asks Whitehouse for Permission to Release Info to ACLU
(1 comments) Secret Court Asks For White House View on ACLU Inquiry

Friday, August 17, 2007
Did Another "Brownie" KILL Three Utah Mine Rescue Workers?
(15 comments) If the lamestream major media were doing their job, they would not mention the mine disaster without mentioning the fact that Bush appointed Stickler circumventing the will of both parties in congress, and the fact that Murray's mines had been cited for so many regulation violations

Monday, August 13, 2007
Karl Rove To Resign August 31
(14 comments) Says Dems will be split by FISA battle, that Hillary will be Dem 2008 Pres candidate

Monday, August 13, 2007
Rove Announcement Shows How Murdoch's Wall Street Journal Buy Affects WSJ and Fox News
(2 comments) Today, we see a few ways that the Murdoch buy of the Wall Street Journal will affect the vernerable newspaper.

Sunday, August 12, 2007
Iowa Straw Poll-- Did Romney Spend over $1000 a vote to win it? Either Way This is a Loss for Republicans
(18 comments) A vote with little meaning and bad news for Republicans should hearten the Democrats

Saturday, August 11, 2007
Movie Review; Stardust does its magic
fun, definitely worth seeing

Monday, August 6, 2007
Weapons killing our troops; From Iran or From US?
(10 comments) Why aren't the lamestream, stenographic media asking what's going on with the missing weapons?

Monday, August 6, 2007
Time To Privatize Bridges? Or Time to protect America from Privatizers with Federal Regulations?
(12 comments) One of the biggest items on the transnational corporate, globalist right wing agenda is privatization. In the third world, they aim for privatizing water, oil, energy... So, it is no surprise that the Wall Street Journal, on it's right wing extremist, wild and crazy editorial page, defends the idea of privatizing bridges.

Friday, August 3, 2007
Coming Next From the Lamestream Media; Bloated, Rotted Bodies
(1 comments) there's ever reason to expect the worst of the mainstream media in the coming days, as bodies of the missing show up.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Using Fly Psychology To Kill
(6 comments)

Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Disaster! Freeway Bridge Collapses in Minneapoplis MN

Tuesday, July 31, 2007
WSJ RIP
(3 comments) Murdoch's buy of the Wall Street Journal looks like it's going through.

Monday, July 30, 2007
Legislate for Wind and Solar Power-- Against Selfish Neighbors
(5 comments) It's time for congress to start supporting local, individual efforts to create American independence... and to protect them from selfish neighbors.

Monday, July 30, 2007
Dems to Start Gonzales Impeachment
(27 comments) sweet!

Sunday, July 29, 2007
Home Depot Supports O'Reilly, but Lowes Pulls Ads; Which Box Will YOU Do Business WIth?
(15 comments) to boycott or not... or to reward good behavior

Saturday, July 28, 2007
Night Thoughts on Taking Our Progressive Acticism to the Next Level
(9 comments) ideas, strategies you CAN do.

Friday, July 27, 2007
Did Bush Admin Order Tillman Murdered to Silence Him?
(49 comments) Tillman, a courageous, patriotic pro football hero was coming out against the war. If he spoke out to the media, attacking the war and the Bush administration it would have been devastating to US support for the Iraq war and the 2004 campaigns of George W. Bush and his Republican supporters. If Tillman returned home from his tour of duty, opposing the war and supporting Kerry, his voice could have changed the 2004 Elections.

Friday, July 27, 2007
Cheney Getting Re-Wired-- Going Under Knife
(5 comments) It's said Cheney's personality changed when he had his last pacemaker implant in 2001-- that it affected his brain. Is Cheney being re-wired with some new chips?

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Revolutionary Woman-- a book review
(1 comments) It's hard to know how to start writing about Gioconda Belli's autobiography, The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War, since it reached and touched me in so many ways. This is the story of a woman, a mother, a revolutionary fighter, now living in Santa Monica, who used to wear a machine gun as a part of her JOB!

Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Time to Take Action; Depending on Congress is Not Enough
(24 comments) Alcoholics living the 12 steps face the fact that there are things they can't change. We progressives must face the fact that there are things the Democratic congress WON'T change. We're going to have to do it some other way.

Saturday, July 21, 2007
Republicans Lose When They Win
(6 comments) When the Dems pulled a bipartisan majority in their overnight effort to end the war this week, it was amazing how many lamestream media orgs showed their true colors by framing their effort as a loss. The funny thing is, these orgs, which pretty much framed the Republicans as winning, didn't realize it, but in a way, they were helping the Dems.

Thursday, July 19, 2007
Impeachment, Bush's Child Health Care Veto and Univeral Single Payer Health Insurance
(12 comments) There's a loose connection between the Dem congress's position on impeachment, Bush Vetos and universal single payer health care.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Murdoch Buy of Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Deal Moving Forward
(8 comments) More Nails in the coffin of the Lamestream media?

Monday, July 16, 2007
Time to Wage War on the The "Winning the War in Iraq" Lie--
(13 comments) It is time that the politicians on the left start taking a stand calling the "war on terror" and the idea of "winning in Iraq" the bogus lies that they really are, and the people who are still under spell as the dupes of the propaganda assault that they are. It's time that we start using the language against the parties that are pushing for the war, like charging the oil companies with war profiteering

Monday, July 16, 2007
Pittsburgh Paper Owned by Major Right Wing Think Tank Funder Turns Against Bush
(4 comments) The Pittsburgh Tribune Review, owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, a wealthy rightwinger who has been one of the major funders of the conservative think tanks, has turned against George Bush's Iraq war plans and even questioned his sanity.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Clone Cindy's Pelosi Strategy In Your Backyard
(39 comments) and some thoughts on who's the wimp

Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Notes to myself on Impeachment
(6 comments) I'm wearing my impeachment tee shirt today.

Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Republicans are Approaching Impeachment Mentality
(8 comments) Republicans in the senate are taking itty bitty baby steps down the road towards impeachment.

Sunday, July 8, 2007
What If Bush's Supreme Court Blocks Congressional Oversight by Hearing and Subpoena?
(26 comments) It's very likely that Bush or his surrogate has already discussed strategy with the Supreme Court Whores who put him in office and who are now tearing apart the constitution, precedent after precedent.

Saturday, July 7, 2007
Dismantling the Corporate Behemoths and Leviathans
(17 comments) I come to the realization that I hate my cable provider, which I feel stuck with.

Saturday, July 7, 2007
Do Lamestream Media and Right Wing Echo Chamber Sell Iran/Al Qaeda Connection To Gin Up War Talk?
(2 comments) It takes a right wing echo chamber to sell a war, with ginned up reports of terrorism collusion...

Friday, July 6, 2007
The Good and The Bad , and What to Do
(19 comments) They're out there. Things are getting better, but we have to act fast and harder. What to do now.

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Thank You Dubya
(7 comments) an ode to dubya

Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Some Talking Points on Bush's Commutation of Libby's Sentence
(12 comments) some answers to right wingers defending Libby

Monday, July 2, 2007
To the Right and Left, Congress Sucks-- Time to Work Together.
(28 comments) I heard Glen Beck, who, generally, I never agree with, say it. I agreed with him. Huh? The congress is screwing both the left and the right.

Monday, July 2, 2007
Criminal Bush Commutes Criminal Libby's Sentence
(63 comments) Rule of law in America at a new low. Get out Jail Free. Libby pays fine. Anyone think he won't have it paid for him? Is there law left in this country? NOT!!

Sunday, July 1, 2007
Sicko Delivers Politically, Emotionally, Entertainmentwise.
(29 comments) I go to movies to be entertained, touched, inspired-- to make me laugh, to have my heart moved, my tear ducts pumping. Sicko gave me all of that and more. It's a testimony to the pure brilliance of Michael Moore and to the desperate need America and the world have for a hundred more Moores-- people who can turn over rocks and cast light on the dark parts of the times we live in.

Friday, June 29, 2007
Time for YOU to Get Local With Impeaching Cheney, then Bush
(18 comments) It's time for you to take impeachment to your local Democratic groups, especially if your district's representative is a Democrat or moderate or libertarian leaning Republican. Every week, more members of congress are signing on to Dennis Kucinich's bill to impeach Cheney, and Cheney is smelling rottener and rottener every day.

Thursday, June 28, 2007
In Defense of Anne Coulter and Support for Paris Hilton... sort of.
(6 comments) We need more tough talking speakers on the left. They don't have to call the same names as Coulter, but getting as much media attention, and doing it with REAL substantive accusations, picked up by the media because of the intensity and toughness... that could be a good thing, something the left could use more of. And besides, I've written a lot of that kind of stuff, pulled together here.

Tuesday, June 26, 2007
If Dems Won't Oust Cheney, GOP Has Plan
(26 comments) Sally Quinn has written an Op-ed-- A GOP Plan To Oust Cheney-- which suggests Cheney's time as VP may be short. She writes, "The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove VP Cheney from office. Even before this week's blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising."

Monday, June 25, 2007
Tell The Lamestream Media to Cover Cheney MORE, NOW
(12 comments) turn up the heat on the mainstream media. Tell them to do their job, that you want to hear and see a lot more about what's going on with Cheney's refusal to obey the law, his attempt to have it both ways. Demand that they wake up and start protecting democracy.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
High Doses of Gravel, Richardson, Obama and Edwards at TBA
(6 comments)

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Tapping the Progressive Energy and Inspiration at the Take Back America Conference
(5 comments) reporting from wash d.c.

Friday, June 15, 2007
Hamas Victory is Bush "War Against Terror" Failure
(45 comments) In the spin wars, the Hamas victory over Fatah, in taking Gaza, represents a major failure of the Bush "war-against-terror." This article uses right wing spin terminology to make extra clear how the Hamas victory can be seen as a major Bush failure. The question is, why aren't the lamestream media putting it that way?

Thursday, June 14, 2007
Death by vomiting on ER Floor; Murder Weapon: Denial of Universal Health Insurance
(84 comments) Instead of Dying, Lying on A Hospital ER Floor, Edith Rodriguez Would Have Lived, If She Resided in any Country With Universal Health Care The Latina who died in the ER, Edith Rodriguez, writhing in pain, on the floor of LA's King hospital blood, was not only killed by the heartless inaction of the doctors, nurses and staff on duty there.

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Liberal FL County Considering Refusing to Give Business to A Limbaugh Broadcasting Radio Station
A creative, tough Florida leader, elected by liberals, rejects putting paid county content on a right wing radio station

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The Palestinian Mufti's Deal with Hitler: Kill All the Jews in the Middle East
(11 comments) If Hitler's troops had reached the Middle east, he had a deal with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, which they made when they met in Berlin...

Saturday, June 9, 2007
Another Way of Thinking About Time--
(5 comments) in life, in terms of leaving Iraq.

Friday, June 8, 2007
Reasons to Reject and Replace the Holt HR 811 Bill on Voting Integrity
(5 comments)

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Beyond Oil Prices-- How Big Oil and Big Auto Companies Are Hurting America
(14 comments) Oil companies are not only war profiteering, their beating up and destroying a lot of small businesses as they move towards oligopoly and monopoly as they price fix.

Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Restricted Military Equipment "Slips Through Cracks" on Way to Iran
(4 comments) The Bush admin is compaining that Iran is sending military equipment into Iraq. Maybe Iran is just returning US gear too. Or maybe, something very fishy is happening, when F-14 aircraft are "accidentally" sold for scrap.

Monday, June 4, 2007
Is that Jerry Falwell Calling for the Carpet Bombing Of Gaza?
(13 comments) Crazy, loony, blaming victims in bizarre ways for their own suffering...

Saturday, June 2, 2007
Can Democracy and Muslim Sharia Law Live Together?
(26 comments) It doesn't look like democracy fares very well when Sharia Law is allowed much power. In supposedly democratic Malaysia, a country which describes itself as a Muslim country, the right of a person to choose his or own religion is no longer in question. You can't decide to stop being a Muslim if that's what you want to do.

Saturday, June 2, 2007
Going Local For Some Great Reasons
(7 comments) Do you know who grew YOUR food. Farmers Tali, John and Jim grew the food I've eaten today. I know who they are and I live near their farms.

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Is China the "Next USA?"
(1 comments) what will the world and the USA look like WHEN China becomes THE economic world megapower?

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Saving the Future From Cowards
(24 comments) It's been a tough week. Screwed by the dems on the Iraq funding, Cindy Quits, our most productive editor quits, the head of a local voting integrity org-- another inspiring bundle of energy and inspiration quits-- This sucks.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Youtube video: Suffering From Republican Memory Disorder? Try this treatment
This is funny.

Sunday, May 27, 2007
Iraq and Wounded Knee-- Over 130 Years of US Criminal Behavior and Erosion of Democracy
(11 comments) I just watched the HBO docu-drama, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. It is impossible to not compare the story of the treatment of America's indigenous people, the behavior of the military and the leadership of the nation, with what we've been subjected to by the Bush administration and the Republican hawk leadership. Same-old solutions will not work. The Two Party System WIll not save democracy.

Thursday, May 24, 2007
Block The Iraq Funding Bill. That's True Support for the Troops.
(2 comments) History Will Judge Those Who Oppose No-Strings Funding as being the Ones Who Truly Support the Troops History will treat those who vote to give Bush the money, without hard schedules for withdrawal as failures and sellouts.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007
God To Dead Jerry Falwell; Go to Hell... Now!!
(115 comments) Falwell drops dead. You won't find kind words for this dead carcass here.

Monday, May 14, 2007
Tony Trupiano Starts A New Progressive Talk Radio Show Today
starting in June, rob kall will be a regular guest on the show.

Saturday, May 12, 2007
Department of defense to block troop access to Myspace, Youtube, MTV, Blackplanet , photobucket and more sites
(35 comments) Military further blinds our already abused and betrayed troops

Friday, May 11, 2007
If Dems Don't Act Nice in the Primary
(14 comments) this youtube video shows what it will look like, if it hasn't already begun

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
11 Republican Cogressmen to Bush; "You Have No Credibility"
(3 comments) One Republican congressman told Bush, ""The word about the war and its progress cannot come from the White House or even you, Mr. President. There is no longer any credibility. It has to come from Gen. Petraeus."

Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Poll: 39% of Public Already Support Impeachment
(1 comments) While hack lamestream news anchors and reporters mock impeachment advocates like Dennis Kucinich as far left wackos, a new poll shows that 39% of responents supported impeachment of Bush AND Cheney, and that 42% of indepents, the people who will decide the next election, support impeachment.

Monday, May 7, 2007
Publishing Without Comfort; Thoughts on Editorial Policy
(72 comments) Today, I published an article that makes me uncomfortable and which will probably make you uncomfortable. Here's why I published it.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Is Linking Protected by Free Speech? DIGG'ers Tell Copy Protection Nazis Where to Shove It
(2 comments)

Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Review: Boston Legal. If you Love Keith Olbermann, You May Love Boston Legal
(1 comments) smart, covering the issues of the day, with humor, depth and wit.

Friday, April 27, 2007
Progress Towards Impeachment is Going Well
(18 comments) impeachment will happen step by step. The things that have to happen have been falling into place as they should

Thursday, April 26, 2007
Dems Must 'Stay the Course' in Iraq Funding
(11 comments) when Bush casts his veto, the Dems must hold their course and refuse to fund the Iraq Bush experiment until their requirements are met. Bush will have to give in. This is a standoff the Dems can win.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Dick Cheney-- the Chronic Iraq Priapist
(8 comments) Is Dick Cheney a victim of political Viagra syndrome

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Pat Tillman's Brother and Mother Testify On Pat Tillman's Fratricide
(8 comments) This testimony repeatedly swayed me between tears and outrage. Their words are powerful and should be replayed repeatedly by the mainstream media. Sadly, that is unlikely. "By making up these false stories, they are diminishing their true heroism..."

Monday, April 23, 2007
Was VA Tech's Cho a Right Winger?
(6 comments) The right wing and their lamestream media have milked Cho's massacre to further their emotional message... be afraid, be terrified.

Sunday, April 22, 2007
Cable News' War Against America; Time to Fight Back
(30 comments) This past week, all the news networks have been intolerable. At a time when the Iraq disaster is getting far worse, when corruption is coming out so fast that Bushco's whack-a-mole cover-ups have not been able to keep up, our national media go psycho bonkers on covering the VA Tech massacre, filling in gaps with Anna Nicole's baby and the NASA nut. This is not an accident. It's a way to NOT cover news that should be featured.

Thursday, April 19, 2007
Do Under 30s Support Bush and War More?
(10 comments) Today's NY Times reports a new poll which found that under 30 respondents were far more supportive of the war and Bush than over 65 respondents.

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Thoughts on Virginia Tech
(17 comments)

Monday, April 16, 2007
AIPAC is Bad for Israel. It needs Competition
(27 comments) Israel is in the same boat as America, with policy making leadership that is really bad-- bad for Israel, bad for America, bad for the world. That said, I find AIPAC has been bad for Israel and bad for the USA. They have effectively stifled discussion of the full range of options for Israel by US legislators. American Jews must make change happen.

Sunday, April 15, 2007
Could Brownie Be Bush's Best?
(1 comments) Gonzales, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld-- no idea when to quit. And there's that brilliant diplomat of such great achievement-- Condi...

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Congress Must Issue Orders to Confiscate RNC Hard Drives Immediately
(15 comments) 22 Whitehouse staffers conspired to violate federal law-- the Hatch Act-- by using RNC email instead of Whitehouse emails. Now we discover that they were "accidentally" deleted.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Whitehouse Use of RNC Emails May Open RNC to Permitted Dem Watergate "Exploration"
(1 comments) What if the Democrats had a shot at looking over a massive range of emails by the Republicans... and it was legal, forced upon the Republicans due to their own malfeasance?

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Defense Secreatry Gates "Supports" Troops-- Extends Afghan/Iraq Stay from 12 to 15 Months
(8 comments)

Monday, April 9, 2007
Bush's Monica- No Blowjob-- Just Screwing
(7 comments) Monica Goodling could be the straw that breaks the camel's back for the Bush/Cheney whitehouse. But instead of giving Bush a blowjob, she spread her legs, integrity-wise, and screwed American justice. She helped set up, plan and coordinate the firing of at least eight US attorneys who were engaged in investigations of Republican corruption.

Saturday, April 7, 2007
Katrina in the Justice Dept; Bush Appointee Gone Wild Drives Three DOJ Attorneys to Resign from Minneapolis Office
(9 comments) This is like a Deja Vu from the days of Hurricane Katrina-- a whitehouse boosted, political, partisan appointee, this time, in the Justice Department, is SOOO bad, her aides have resigned en masse.

Friday, April 6, 2007
Time to End the Interim Appointment Rat-Hole
(2 comments) I started to title this article with the word 'loophole,' but this loophole has been abused to install rats-- people who fail to measure up to congress. It's a rathole. It should be stopped up in the first days congress returns.

Thursday, April 5, 2007
Los Angeles Readers Check Our Our Writer Jayne Stahl's Reading; The Battle for Ulysses
Benefit for the A.C.L.U. of Southern California Legal Programs

Thursday, April 5, 2007
New Right Wing Slime Machine Approach: Fire-The-TruthTellers
(13 comments) Across the spectrum of the right wing echo chamber, they are taking a new approach to dealing with the people who are the most effective at getting out the truth. They call them crazy, inappropriate, unethical, out of control.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Did Obama Beat Clinton Fundraising?
(11 comments)

Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Jail Monica if She Doesn't Show
(7 comments)

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
In the Presidential Primary, There's Gender vs. Ideology; Gender is Winning, So Let's go with the Flow-- Recruit Oprah.
(3 comments) If you're a person who is interested in politics, like me, then you might be scratching your head. I don't know anyone who is progressive, or a democratic activist who supports Hillary for president. Yet she keeps coming out on top in most polls.

Monday, March 26, 2007
Justice Department- Whitehouse Go-Between Claims Fifth
(6 comments) One of Alberto Gonzales chief aides-- the one who functioned as liaison between Justice and the Whitehouse, one OpEdNews identified as a strong candidate for subpoena last Thursday, has refused to appear, claiming the fifth. The mainstream media are glossing over the fact that her roll was go-between for justice and the whitehouse.

Sunday, March 25, 2007
Judiciary Corruption, THE WALK and President Pelosi
(7 comments) Justicegate will flesh out new Republicans who will participate in "THE WALK" that will lead to Nancy Pelosi Becoming President. This article discusses reason why it will happen after January 2008.

Friday, March 23, 2007
Another Youtube Video Attacking Hillary Clinton
(1 comments) this one follows a different classic motif

Thursday, March 22, 2007
Looking For Another Rose Mary Woods
(2 comments) Rose Mary Woods made a huge difference in the watergate hearings. We need someone like her now, for the justicegate hearings.

Wednesday, March 21, 2007
On Youtube: Boxer Puts Down Imhofe; You Don't Do This Anymore
(7 comments) How sweet it is. Imhofe WAS the majority chair of the environment committee for the Senate. Not anymore.

Monday, March 19, 2007
Fractal Politics: Local Marching or Marchturbating; Dems Legislating to stop the war or Jerking us Around.
(12 comments) Fractal Politics; microcosm Whether it's a local peace march or war-ending efforts in congress, it takes strong, tough leadership. Anything less is ineffective and will accomplish nothing except further loss of hope and participation by the grass roots.

Monday, March 19, 2007
Ad Attacking Hillary Takes Youtube to the Next Level
(2 comments) must see youtube video

Monday, March 19, 2007
Humor: New From Apple-- the I-Rack
First there was I-pod, then I phone, then I-microwave, I-vacuum cleaner and now.... ta da.... I-Rack!!!! Hilarious!!!

Monday, March 19, 2007
White House Shopping for Gonzales Replacement;
(7 comments) The question- will he resign alone or with Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty. Meanwhile, a list of candidates is developing.

Saturday, March 17, 2007
Donald Trump: Bush Worst Prez in History, Condi Waves, Doesn't Cut Deals
(15 comments) The Donald tells us his opinions of all the prez candidates he knows and more

Friday, March 16, 2007
Impeach Bush Advocates Get On C-SPan at Plamegate Hearing
(5 comments)

Wednesday, March 14, 2007
What If?....... Bush resigns first?
(1 comments) which makes Cheney president?

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
NY Times/ CBS Poll Analysis: Only 15% Support Action Against Iran, Cheney Postiives at Record Low
(4 comments) Dems way ahead of Republicans for 2008 Prez race, republicans thought corrupt by three times as many... Analysis and interpretation by OpEdNews

Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Gonzales Countdown: Will Patrick Fitzgerald Be Next Attorney General?
(62 comments) Gonzales is toast. Who will Bush replace him with, given that the Dems will have to approve him or her? Introducing Gonzales Countdown-- articles chronicling the final days of Attorney General Gonzales

Monday, March 12, 2007
Video From 1989; Giuliani says: 'There Must Be Public Funding For Abortion'

Sunday, March 11, 2007
Dem Failure to Block War Now is Replay of Their Inexcusable Vote for the War in 2003
(3 comments) Just as there were millions of Americans who saw through the WMD lies that Bush and Cheney used to sell the war-- to the Democrats who voted for it, there are even more Americans-- voters-- who know that the Democrats are doing it again. They are wasting time and American lives voting on legislation that is based on lies and deception.

Thursday, March 8, 2007
Edwards Did It. The Rest of the Dem '08 Prez Candidates Should Refuse to Do The Fox Debate in Nevada.
(13 comments) The Dem candidates will show whether they understand that the 2008 presidential race will be an exercise in asymmetric WAR, and that Fox will be one of the main weapons of the opposition. Any candidate who supports FOX by participating in a Fox special deserves Democratic supporter suspicion over his or her trustworthiness.

Thursday, March 8, 2007
Dems Must Embrace Their Power They Have NOW to End The War: but First Must Overcome Their Fear
(12 comments) The Republicans are very smart. They know that the Democrats have the power to stop the war. Yes, The Democrats have the power and the votes right now to stop the war. They don't need Republican help. They don't need Joe Lieberman. They don't even need all the bluedog dems. The problem is the Republicans have, brilliantly, made the Democratic leadership afraid to use their power.

Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Privatizing Walter Reed With The Help of Halliburton and Dick Cheney
(7 comments) How many crying wives and mistreated soldiers-- the ones who have survived in spite of inadequate gear-- does it take for the congress to wake up?

Monday, March 5, 2007
Walter Reeding Iraq--
(5 comments) This is a pattern that is not isolated to Walter Reed Hospital, not isolated to the Military hospital system, not isolated to the VA medical system. It's a top down pattern, just like Abu Ghraib, just like the humvee armor, just like the absense of kevlar vests... just like the failed WMD intelligence... just like the failure to secure Iraqi weapons and ammunition depots immediately after Bush's "mission accomplished."

Friday, March 2, 2007
Anne Coulter's Advice to College Students: "Start a Joe McCarthy Club"
(12 comments) and she as much as calls John Edwars a faggot

Sunday, February 25, 2007
Bush Funding Jihadists Connected to al Qaeda as Part of Iran War He Has ALREADY STARTED
(16 comments) Bush has instructed Pentagon special planners to be ready to bomb Iran on 24 hour notice-- to be ready by spring, and he's so anti Shia, he's working with and indirectly, through Saudi buddies, funding jihadist Sunnis with connections to al Qaeda.

Friday, February 23, 2007
Call Me Paranoid. Pentagon Creating Red State Officer Corps
(12 comments) The US military has moved reserve officer training corps (ROTC) out of big cities and the northeast part of the US-- to the south and midwest. No wonder troops are so conservative. The army doesn't try very hard to recruit leaders from blue states. Allowing my paranoia to run wild, let's talk about the implications of a red state army officer corps.

Thursday, February 22, 2007
The Iraq War Vote Test
(25 comments) Back in 2003, I passed the Iraq war vote test. So did millions of other americans who refused to buy Bush's WMD and Saddam story. I didn't buy Colin Powell's moment of betrayal of America and his personal integrity. Neither did 100+ members of congress. Now some of those who voted for the war are struggling with how to explain their votes. Well they should be struggling. Why should we trust their judgment and courage now?

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Fox Smears Obama and Gets Hit Back
(5 comments)

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
White House and Pentagon Cowards Betray Real War Heroes, Again, Failing to Support the Troops
(20 comments) Real war heroes-- the kinds who demonstrate incredible courage and the face of death-- have not been recognized by the Bush Pentagon. It's another way the troops have been let down and not supported by those who claim to support them.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Questions Pollsters Should Be Asking... NOW... to save America!
(5 comments) pollsters and the mainstream media who pay them are failing to do their job, not asking the questions that need to be asked.

Sunday, February 18, 2007
OpEdNews Makes Web 2.0 Technology Accessible to Groups
(1 comments) OpEdNews has added a new set of technologies, unique on the web. This technology is designed to support, enable and empower groups by allowing them to tap the power of the WEB 2.0 technologies that are available on OpEdNews. The goal is to provide tools and technologies for the millions of groups throughout the US and the world focusing on advocacy, interest, political, service and other interests.

Friday, February 16, 2007
The Ed Schultz Show Is Owned By Right Wingers. Does It Matter?
(10 comments) The Ed Schultz show claims to be the most listened to progressive talk radio show, but it is owned by some seriously right RIGHT wingers. We're talking about heavy hitting media people who formerly played a major role in Rush Limbaugh's success. Will their business acumen help the progressive cause by helping Ed Schultz, or do they have political interests motivated by ideology?

Sunday, February 11, 2007
Bush is Anna Nicole
(1 comments)

Sunday, February 11, 2007
G.O. G.R.E.A.T. with OpEdNews.com
Imagine if you could publish, on a major, high traffic website, you own organization's articles, links to important news and op-eds related to your organization and the issues it cares about.

Sunday, February 11, 2007
Grammys Stick it To The Right, Handing DIxie Chicks Multiple Awards
(4 comments)

Saturday, February 10, 2007
Number One Job For Congress: Stop Iran War
(11 comments) forget about any other legislation. Kill Bush's ability to make war with Iran, with any other country.

Friday, February 9, 2007
"Pelosi Jet Size Envy" Leads Right Wingers to Get Egg On Faces
(20 comments) Upset that the Democratic House Speaker might have a bigger Pelosi Jet then Denny Hastert had, house Republicans went ballistic, with the help of pentagon wonks who gave her a hard time, even though she is the leader of the org that determines Pentagon funding. And Pelosi didn't even ask for the jet. Huh??

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Time to Put a Big Leash on Bank and Credit Card Company Penalties
(2 comments) I'm tired of being ripped off by banks and credit card companies. time to cancel the bankruptcy gift that sell-out legislators gave credit card companies and restrict penalties banks and credit cards charge.

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
New Moveon TV Ad Targets GOP Senators Who Blocked Anti-Escalation Measure
(4 comments)

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Edwards Campaign Bloggers are Attacked By Right-- Edwards Holds Strong
(8 comments) How does a presidential candidate function when right wing extremists-- some of the nastiest, ugliest, most despicable haters-- go after some of his employees because of things they said in the past on their blogs? That's the question the progressive blogosphere is raising.

Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Lust in space
coming next space station soap operas.

Sunday, February 4, 2007
Conversing With the Right
(12 comments)

Sunday, February 4, 2007
Plants With Eyes; Youtube video

Saturday, February 3, 2007
Jupiter As Seen From Mars

Friday, February 2, 2007
Bush Redefines Victory-- And We Don't Want It
(5 comments) The last thing we want is a "Bush victory." Victory? When you are in the middle of a football field piled 12 feet deep with excrement, the goal is to get the team out of the sh*t. There is no victory. There is a disgusting, awful slog to get out and then a time of cleaning up, recovering, getting the stench out and healing the team's trauma. Then we can go see about cleaning up the field, which is already a disaster.

Monday, January 29, 2007
The Historic, First Ever DC Massive Impeachment March No-one Reported On
(28 comments) Yesterday, I reported on the Antiwar Event in Washington D.C. That's what it was billed as. That's why I went-- to send a message to stop the war, to stop Bush, Cheney, Lieberman, McCain and their enablers. But I finally realized something quite extraordinary. This was not JUST an antiwar event. It was the largest and perhaps the first major IMPEACHMENT event ever to occur in Washington DC.

Monday, January 29, 2007
New Video Ad; Join the Troops, Stop the Escalation
(1 comments)

Monday, January 29, 2007
Thom Hartmann to Replace Al Franken on rescued Air America Radio
(8 comments) Exclusive first interview with Thom Hartman since word he's replacing Al Franken, and news on how he's been doing around the country, with interviews with radion station management and Arbitron ratings

Sunday, January 28, 2007
Huge Antiwar Demonstration in DC
(21 comments) with Backstage VIP area pics

Saturday, January 27, 2007
Interview With John Conyers, on Impeachment and Investigating Bush
(43 comments) John Conyers, chair of the congressional Judiciary committee, talks to OpEdNews editor Rob Kall about impeachment and hearings.

Friday, January 26, 2007
Binding or Bullshit!! Congress Not Doing Enough to Stop Iran War
(34 comments) Congress must act immediately, with BINDING LEGISLATION. Anything less is an insult to all Americans.

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Surge Already Under Way and Maybe Iran War Too
(9 comments) Is it too late to stop the surge? Can the congress actually do something to stop an Iran war? Not if they keep on doing what they're doing. Here's what they need to do.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Forget about "sense of congress" legislation by Bush Enablers
(10 comments) Pass binding legislation stopping the troop escalation and clearly forbidding Bush from any attacks on Iran, Syria or anywhere else.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
If Bush Had an Epiphany and Woke Up, He Could Be My Hero
(22 comments) This op-ed describes a fantasy-- one that would I think would be the BEST news the world could face in the next few years. Imagine George Bush had an epiphany and realized he was wrong, that he fired his advisors and started thinking and acting like a progressive, as though his place in history depended upon it...

Monday, January 15, 2007
Conversation with a Mercenary-- and How Congress Can Play Hardball to Stop the War
(7 comments) I chat with a mercenary on a van ride convinced me-- the plans for the surge are as idiotic and mindless as the rest of the Bush/Cheney war plans. Congress has options people have'nt spoken about-- ways to play hardball with Bush and his supporters.

Saturday, January 13, 2007
Pro Bono Lawfirms Threatened by Gitmo Official for Defending Detainees
(6 comments) When does an American turn into a monster? A Nazi? A Joe McCarthy? A threat to democracy? Threatening noble people who do the difficult, sometimes punishingly thankless job of standing up for justice is one way the right wing is now pumping through its echo chamber.

Friday, January 12, 2007
Did DLC- Ford Connection Cause Ford TN Loss?
(2 comments) It looks like Harold Ford could be the next head of the DLC. Could his loss in the Tennessee Senate race be due to his connection with these fake Dem, republican-lite corporatists?

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
How Bush Screws America
(4 comments) humorous video-- adult content, though "nudity"

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Neuro Biofeeedback,Positive Psychology and Story Come Together in One Meeting
(2 comments)

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Book Review: EXILE by Richard North Patterson

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
The Bush- McCain Lieberman Victory Fantasy
(13 comments) Finally, Bush described what his idea of VICTORY looks like. The problem is, it's a total fantasy that will never happen.

Monday, January 8, 2007
Terror Gas in NY?
(15 comments) One terror event in the US will destroy Bush's last claim to strength. Do YOU believe his Homeland Security appointees when they say there is no terrorist involvement?

Sunday, January 7, 2007
Pelosi for President?
(29 comments) It is likely that as Nancy Pelosi becomes more and more visible, she will become more and more of both a darling to some and a target to others. That's the way things tend to work in Washington. Will her popularity keep rising? Will the mainstream media start identifying her as a potential presidential candidate, regardless of what she says her intentions are?

Saturday, January 6, 2007
Miers Departure a Good Sign
(9 comments) The good news is that Miers is leaving because Bush knows that he is in for a lot of battles, that frat boy dubya is out of the frat house (Republican led congress) and into the street and he's going to get his ass kicked-- a sweet, sweet image to consider.

Friday, January 5, 2007
A Progressive Mandate
(34 comments) Moving From Outraged to Optimistic, From Finding Problems to Envisioning Possibilities It's time for a new, really progressive mindset that clearly spells out the positive future that is much nearer on our horizon now.

Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Dem Congress Must Revoke Bush's War Powers ASAP
(18 comments) One of the first things the Dem led congress must do is to formally revoke and rescind the congressional authorization for Bush to wage. war.

Saturday, December 30, 2006
Killing Saddam Helps Al Qaeda , Hurts USA
(7 comments)

Friday, December 29, 2006
Do Domain Registrations Predict Republican '08 Ticket?
a big list of Giuliani and McCain domain names registered-- by who knows who...

Friday, December 29, 2006
Tapping the Power of story
(9 comments) Stories define who we are and enable us to communicate in ways no other collection of words can achieve

Thursday, December 28, 2006
Politics and Positive Psychology; Reconciling and Integrating Them
(24 comments) For 20+ years, I've been involved with the world of Positive Psychology-- before it even had a name. The other day, a reader, who checked out my positive psych website, asked how I reconciled my political work and punditry with my positive psychology work. This is a stab at starting to explain.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006
The Dem Price for Bush's Surge or Iran Adventure
(3 comments) What is the "price" the dems will charge Bush to do his surge... or his Iran adventure. The answer should be... "There is no price."

Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Movie Review; Dream Girls
(1 comments) I was dragged, unenthusiastic, to see Dream Girls yesterday, and found myself joining a sold out audience in repeated moments of clapping.

Monday, December 25, 2006
Pelosi and Conyers-- Smarter than Impeachment-
(74 comments) A lot of people are angry with Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers because they say impeachment is not on the table. I say "thank goodness." You see, I'm in a hurry. I want to see the big cleanup in Wash. D.C. happen much faster-- including showing Cheney and Bush the door, and maybe, the prison yard. Pelosi and Conyers are doing things exactly right.

Saturday, December 23, 2006
Dear DCCC; Video Hound and Youtube Bigot Goode for his "Macaca Moments" For Starters, as well as The Rest of the '08 Op
(3 comments) The DCC should hire a "videohound" to use the strategies that worked so effectively to help take down Conrad Burns and George Allen on VA rep. Goode, the bigot. Actually, expect "videohounding," where incumbents and their likely opponents to become a routine, ordinary part of politics, and the Youtube phenomenon. The DCCC better get on it, because the RNC will surely have their team working on it. They learn fast.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Tara Trumping the Media and Its Failure to Cover Bushidiot's War Stupidity
(3 comments) Slutty doper Tara Conner-- the latest distraction for Bush and his War Idiocy

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
The Good War-- Against Christmas
Right wing idiots like Bill O'Reilly have made Christmas toxic. There SHOULD be a war against his way of using and abusing Christmas

Monday, December 18, 2006
Joy Behar Calls Rumsfeld 'Hitler-like' on 'The View'
(2 comments)

Sunday, December 17, 2006
Waking Up in America-- the Last Holdouts
(10 comments) There are some people who wake up very painfully. They blink alot. They roll over in bed, grimacing, scrunching up, pulling the covers back over them. They momentarily open their eyes, not yet adjusted to the light and then squeeze them closed again... And this is going on politically for millions of Americans. They are finally, finally smelling the coffee, hearing the wake-up alarms-- that America is in trouble.

Friday, December 15, 2006
Will Republicans Find the Courage to Tell Bush and Cheney It Is Time To Go?
(11 comments) Every day the Republicans in the congress continue to allow Bush to stay in office, they violate their duty to their constituents, to the nation, to the constitution, to international laws.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Envisioning a Positive Future for Congress, America, Humanity and The Planet
(6 comments) It's a good to time put out ideas on how congress can do good, how the US can start moving towards becoming better...

Monday, December 11, 2006
Tom DeLay Learns About Blogging
(2 comments) Tom Delay Posts a blog and gets "love"notes... not. So within hours, he pulls down the blog.

Friday, December 8, 2006
One Month After Nov 7, It's Clear, The New Left Won, and the Crash of the Right Is Gaining Momentum
(14 comments) A month ago, on November 8th, the clouds broke over America and the rest of the world too. Hope shined through. The train wreck that looked like it was hurtling towards the end of democracy was stopped. A look at how the left and Al Qaeda have been helped by Bush, and how the new left's progressives are very different from the old left

Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Elder Bush Cries
(22 comments) And we too weep-- for America, for the thousands of dead soldiers, the tens of thousands of physically maimed soldiers the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and their families who will live lives damaged by post traumatic stress disorder, the millions of Iraqis who have to deal with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of murdered Iraqis...

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Exploring Inner Space in Outer Space-- with Biofeedback
What motivates an astronaut, an outer space explorer, to spend a lot of time under water in an underwater habitat?

Monday, December 4, 2006
Courtesy of the USA; Rape and Torture of Heroes of Democracy
(15 comments) Recent US laws and policies don't just affect potential terrorists and "enemy combatants." They affect the bravest heroes and heroines the world is seeing nowadays.

Saturday, December 2, 2006
Music Review: Phil Roy-- Melt Click to listen to the audio
My favorite driving music.

Friday, December 1, 2006
Sue the Bastards!! Take the E-Voting Machine Manufacturers and Secs of State To Court
(3 comments) The other guys are playing for keeps, and when they win by cheating, people die (Iraq, toxic environment, lax drug laws, worker safety, etc.) The stakes are so high, we need to be able to go after these criminals with every legal tool possible. Democracy, freedom, human rights and human safety are on the line.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Why isn't Mainstream Media Skewering GIngrich for Anti Free-Speech Remarks?
(18 comments) if a Dem said it, they'd be tearing him or her a new piece of anatomy. But a repug said it, so he gets a pass.

Sunday, November 26, 2006
The Left Won Big and IS taking Back the US and the Planet, Even Though the Mainstream Media Say Otherwise
(26 comments) As the right wing extremist world is shrinking, imploding, melting, collapsing-- you get the message-- it's media surrogates and spinmeisters are desperately doing all they can to recast their loss and the left's gain, dishonestly claiming conservatism won and progressives lost. Bullsh**. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Friday, November 24, 2006
Wil Gay DIVORCE Help Gay Marriage?
(2 comments) With no law for or against gay marriage in RI, will a divorce case based on a marriage in MA set precedents?

Thursday, November 23, 2006
Wow, Do We Have a Lot to Be Thankful for This Year. Now , About 2007....
(10 comments) Call them prayers, hopes, wishes, even ultimatums... here are some ways the incoming congress could give us reason for thanks in 2007.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Will the Dem Congress Get Smart and Push Fox News to Swing Liberal?
(9 comments) The Whitehouse used it's ability to control access to the media to cast an influence on the the media. Will the Dems be smart, tough and organized enough to do the same?

Monday, November 20, 2006
If FOX Aired Simpson's
IF I DID IT
(4 comments) It doesn't matter. THEY already did IT.

Saturday, November 18, 2006
Draft Muslim Nations To Deal With US Exit from Iraq
(14 comments) The US will soon leave Iraq, and like it or not, many Muslim neighboring nations will be affected by that departure. It would be wise to "draft" them to prepare for the US exit. They should meet and plan to deal with the USA's absence from the area.

Friday, November 17, 2006
OpEdNews Exclusive
Clear Evidence 2006 Congressional Elections Hacked
(27 comments) Results Skewed Nationwide In Favor of Republicans by 4 percent, 3 million votes

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Youtube Video: UCLA Student Tasered by Campus Police
(1 comments) Youtube Video-- upsetting example of fascist police abuse.

Thursday, November 16, 2006
Rightwing Influenced MSM Media Pattern Emerging
(5 comments) The response to the Pelosi Murtha nomination shines a light upon a pattern we can expect from the mainstream media. Just because the Democrats won doesn't mean the right wingers have lost their rat fangs, scorpion stingers, toxic slime or stab in the back stilletos. Expect the worse

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
For Trustworthy Elections; Dump ALL the Machines, Require Paper
(9 comments) There are no 100% trustworthy electronic voting systems. We must throw out the electronic machines and go to a paper only model, like they have in Canada and Switzerland. Nothing less will do for making the vote 100% voter verifiable, recountable and trustworthy. Period!!

Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Windows Tip: Switching Windows fast and easy
have a lot of windows open and want to switch fast, between two windows? Here's how.

Monday, November 13, 2006
Ultimately, Republicans Will Force Bush/Cheney Resignation
(48 comments) Once the dirty truth comes out-- that Bush was a criminal and constitutional violator in SO many ways, the 31% rating for Bush we see today will look huge. The American public will demand that something be done. They will insist upon the rescue of the constitution. Bush's 31% rating will look so good then that Republicans will be forced to demand Bush's and Cheney's resignation or face massive 2008 congressional losses.

Sunday, November 12, 2006
Rachel Maddow; Progressives Won Big This Election

Saturday, November 11, 2006
New, on OpEdNews-- Image and Video Freedom
We've made it REALLY easy to submit youtube videos or images with articles or just alone

Friday, November 10, 2006
Acetaminophen Tylenol Brand Substitute Found to Have Metal Pieces in Pills
Should you throw out the acetaminophen in your medicine cabinet?

Friday, November 10, 2006
No Impeachment? No Problem. Think Nixon and President Pelosi
(44 comments) I want Bush out. He's a criminal in so many ways-- war, constitution, democracy... it's a long list. I want him to do jail time. But I'm not worried about Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean keeping their promises no to impeach. I think my approach is more likely to produce the result so many of us want-- President Nancy Pelosi in 2007.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Bush Press Conference: Rumsfeld to Resign and more
(12 comments) Bush announcing Rumsfeld resignation, answers questions on election, war, etc.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Senate Majority Accomplished; Why Allen and Burns Are Not Calling for Recounts
(7 comments) The senate is secure. The repugs have too much to lose to allow Allen or Burns to pursue recounts.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
What Can Happen Here?
(19 comments) I keep a copy of Sinclair Lewis's prophetic novel, It Can't Happen Here prominently displayed on my desk. The jacket reads; What Will Happen When America Has A Dictator?

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Last minute polling hilights and hopefuls.
Some hopeful last minute stats, some hopes and prayers and the stats that go with them

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Exit Polls, Canvassing, Counting Chickens-- with Pictures
Meeting a real CBS exit poller, and counting chickens while canvassing.

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Dems Win House, Senate; Wrap-up of Election Results
(4 comments) a recap of last night's and this morning's most exciting results

Tuesday, November 7, 2006
A New Light Dawns For America and The World
(7 comments) Mission Accomplished. We've taken back the house and senate after six tough, years, and now the hard work of cleanup and re-visioning begins.

Monday, November 6, 2006
Republicans Using Robo-Calling Nationwide to Suppress Vote
(3 comments) This article is a collection of reports from blog sites on emergence of robo-calling to suppress the vote.

Sunday, November 5, 2006
Borat Movie; Hilarious Yes, Antisemitic No.
(3 comments) With Youtube video

Saturday, November 4, 2006
Video Ad: $100 If You Can List All The Republicans Under Investigation Or Convicted In One Breath
(2 comments)

Friday, November 3, 2006
HBO's Hacking Democracy Was Fabulous; Execute Vote Corrupters
(9 comments) You must watch this!!

Friday, November 3, 2006
Cuckolded by Bush
(10 comments) Part of the trashing of a cuckolded man, part of the shame and embarassment that is part of being cuckolded is the reality that the cuckold chose his mate. He made a decision to commit to someone who ended up cuckolding him. Likewise, the person who voted for George Bush, or for slimeball congressfolk has been cuckolded-- betrayed, embarassed, dishonored, emasculated, taken advantage of, made a fool of....

Thursday, November 2, 2006
Carl Strock, Another Bush "Brownie" Heading Construction in Iraq and Afghanistan
Besides Rumsfeld, there is another total loser Bush Appointee playing a major role in compouding the incompetence and failure in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Thursday, November 2, 2006
"Bush Victory" in Iraq, and Rising Scum Insanity
(3 comments) A Bush Victory is Worse than a Pyrrhic victory-- and will go down in history as an example of the way NOT to wage a war. Meanwhile, the level of scum will rise higher than ever before as the repubicans get so desperate they start reeking and ranting insanely.

Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Kerry's Apology; Some Suggestions--With a Bite
(1 comments) here are a batch of ways he can apologize, while biting back at the new generation of swiftboaters

Monday, October 30, 2006
No Democratic Party "Win" Next Week
(11 comments) Next week, it looks like the Republicans are going to lose big. They deserve to. They've been corrupt, dishonest, more loyal to corporations and religious extremists than to our nation, our workers, our industries. The Republicans have been loyal rubber stampers to the worst president in the history of the US. They have enabled and supported, unflinchingly, the most hated, the most despised man in the history of the planet.

Sunday, October 29, 2006
Mike Malloy Is Back on the Air on New Liberal Radio Network
(10 comments) Starting October 30th Malloy goes live

Saturday, October 28, 2006
Choosing: Courage or Fear, Heroes or Traitors
(14 comments) We live in times when stark choices confront us. There are those who would have us live our lives based on fear, based on loyalty to "things" and entities that do not serve humanity, that do not serve a positive future. But the other choice is a vision of a glowing, positive, hopeful tomorrow that brings light, peace, growth, cooperation and blessings to humanity. There are threads of that vision out there.

Thursday, October 26, 2006
RNC Ads-- So Desperate and Sleazy, They're Helping the Democrats
(9 comments) Republicans have overdosed on their own koolaid. Across the USA, the RNC is running ads that are filled with desperate, despicable lies, race baiting and false accusations. But they are so out of touch and so transparently bogus, I think they're actually hurting the Republican candidates.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Facing Death--- Thoughts after a Funeral
(1 comments) death, god, sqirrells, shit, spirals and what's left

Sunday, October 22, 2006
Time to Replace Some Antiquated Parts of Our Democracy
(24 comments) With less than 20% happy with congress, now is the time to change some basic, antiquated aspects of our democracy. Instant Runoff voting, campaign financing, third party equality, free candidate access to TV and radio advertising.

Friday, October 20, 2006
Fitrakis Ohio Voter Purge Investigation Continuing-- Letters Found
(14 comments) This article will recap the the evolution of the last few days of news regarding voter roll purging in Ohio, with an update from Bob Fitrakis, since he has seen and had reports of several vote purge related letters and uncovered more information on statewide vote purge activities, including private, vendor control of the voter rolls.

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Ohio Lawsuit to Reinstate hundreds of thousands of Purged Democratic Voters to be Filed Fri or Monday
(8 comments) "The Ohio elections may have already been won," says Ohio voting rights activist and attorney, Bob Fitrakis, responding to reports of massive voter purges in Democratic precincts.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Autobiography of a No-Holds-Barred Investigative Journalist
Review of NEWS JUNKIE, by Jason Leopold

Monday, October 16, 2006
Ending the Separation of Church and State Cuts Many Ways
(5 comments) start taxing churches. Get rid of special treatment of churches in court... if we're going to do away with separation of church and state, then churches should get equal treatment with any other business.

Sunday, October 15, 2006
Bush's Final Iraqi Mission Accomplishment; An Al-Qaeda-Run, Partitioned State
It looks like the final accomplishment of the mission George Bush achieved in Iraq is the establishment of a new country run by Al Qaeda as a Taliban style state.

Friday, October 13, 2006
Air America Declares Bankruptcy-- Files Chapter 11
(13 comments) In an effort to reorganize financially, the world's biggest progressive radio network has filed chapter 11, telling employees there will be no layoffs.

Sunday, October 8, 2006
Bush's Democracy "Crusade" Creating Iraqi Terrorist Export Explosion
(4 comments) Rob Kall interviews Yemeni journalist Mohamed Al Azaki, who reports that the Muslim world has reacted to Bush's claims to be promoting democracy, while really waging culture and economic war has led a generation of Muslims to reject Democracy. And he reports that Iraq has become a training ground, enabling it to be the prime EXPORTER of Al Qaeda terrorists to points all over the world.

Sunday, October 8, 2006
Moderate Republican Fitzpatrick's Swiftboat Attack, Proves He's an Enabler of Rightwing Extremists
Scratch a republican moderate and underneath, you find an enabler of the worst, most corrupt rightwing extremists

Friday, October 6, 2006
Rob Kall: President Hastert? or President Bohnert? Second-in-lines from Hell, no... make that from Republicans
(5 comments) Republicans Offer us Outrageously Incompetent Leaders Entrusted to Protect Us and our Future

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Rob Kall: Lay Low on Calls for Impeachment . Focus on Investigating "Cover-up Republicans"
(22 comments) Forget about impeachment for a few months. We need candidates who are willing to commit to investigating all the areas the right wing has covered up or ignored-- corruption, scandals, dirty tricks, fraud, crooked lobbyist activities, crooked deals with corporations.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Hastert: Should He Stay or Should He Go?
(3 comments) Will dumping Hastert send a message that will hurt the Republicans? Or will keeping him send a worse message that they can't police their own, they refuse to confront their problems, their corruption, their failures?

Sunday, October 1, 2006
Condi Rice: Bush Won't Win War on Terrorism During His Presidency
(10 comments) In an interview with this weekend's Wall Street Journal, Condeleeza Rice said, commenting on the war on terror, "I don't think that this is a battle, if you will, or a struggle that's going to be won on George W. Bush's watch."

Thursday, September 28, 2006
Rob Kall: Keith Olbermann Terrorized and Gov Tries to Hide it
(37 comments) Olbermann sent white powder in mail, silenced by Gov, detained in Hospital...

Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Bush Announces De-Classification of April NIE Document; Do you Trust Him To Release A Full Disclosure, Truthful Document

Thursday, September 21, 2006
Rob Kall: Pinhead Anchors Bash Chavez, Give Ahmadinejad Easy Passes
(36 comments) and a Bash Bush contest. Can you outdo Chavez and I? Post your comments describing Bush.

Monday, September 18, 2006
Pope Provoked Muslim Rage To Help Bush and Republicans
(32 comments) Ratzinger is not stupid. Including the reference to the passage that has incited Muslim anger was no accident. It was a calculated, intentional strategy designed to help George Bush and the Republicans in the 2006 elections, just like the Catholic church systematically helped Bush and the Republicans in the 2004 elections, through Cardinals and Bishops who attacked Kerry.

Sunday, September 17, 2006
Dump the WTO, NAFTA and CAFTA and Bring Back Tariffs
(14 comments) Sure, we live in different times and there is a need to face the realities of a gobal economy. But that doesn't mean we should just bend over and allow our butts to be kicked and our native industries destroyed, or that we should allow rampant outsourcing of labor.

Saturday, September 16, 2006
Gas Price Manipulation to Influence Elections?
(2 comments) If the major energy companies are dropping gas prices to help their good friend and partner George Bush, and to influence the November elections, they should be charged and prosecuted. For What?

Friday, September 15, 2006
Rob Kall: Sink the $50 Million Swift Boat Fleet Before It Arrives
(8 comments) What will the DNC, the DSCC and the DCCC do about the ugly, dishonest, fact distorting ads the RNC has budgeted $$50 million to run?

Monday, September 11, 2006
Depending on Disney-Like Media to Elect Progressives
(4 comments) I'm going to guess that the odds are that the daily newspapers and the local TV stations where you live are Republican friendly. This means, that at some level, you're dealing with stacked odds against your candidates.

Monday, September 11, 2006
Fox News is tanking. Other Cable News Networks Up
good news!! Bushmedia takes a dive.

Sunday, September 10, 2006
Disney/ABC's Swan Song
(22 comments) Yeah, sure the right wing bloggers and talk show hosts love this despicable piece of blatant partisan attack propaganda. But I believe, I am sure that there are plenty of more moderate Republicans and a LOT of independents who are pretty disgusted with this too. This is un-American. Disney/ABC deserves to be toast!

Sunday, September 10, 2006
A Day at Camp Democracy
Free lodging, lectures, music, entertainment... great cameraderie with fellow activists from all over the USA... What more could you ask for?

Friday, September 8, 2006
Poll: More Republicans Blame Israel for World's Anti-American Views
(1 comments) Pew poll offers new perspective on which party supports Israel better

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Boycott Advertisers on ABC's 9/11 Lie Fest
(23 comments) The way to hit back at networks that get so ugly they are despicable in their partisan lies is to hurt their pocketbooks-- to cost them advertising dollars. So let's just put the word out. If you advertise on ABC's 9/11 Lie Story, you're going to be boycotted.

Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Wedge Issues and Winning Issues for Democrats
(7 comments) Just as Republicans have gay marriage and flag burning as their "wedge issues," there are issues that independents strongly support that Democrats passionately love. These are wedge issues to aggressively advocate in right wing opponents' faces as a tool for winning elections. An OpEdNews Zogby People's poll identifies powerfull issues candidates can use to win campaigns.

Sunday, September 3, 2006
Who Is Israel's Best Friend?
(10 comments) Are the Bush administration and it's Republican rubber stampers Israel's best friends?

Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Rob Kall Book Review, of Thom Hartmann's SCREWED
Hartmann has hit another grand slam homerun with his newest book, Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class -- And What We Can Do About It

Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Bush Parasitizes Goodness
Like a leech, Bush uses actual GOOD people to hide behind and inspire people, since he certainly is totally unable to do it himself.

Monday, August 28, 2006
How Many Wasted Media Hours? Karr DNA Doesn't Match Jon-Benet Evidence
(4 comments) The pseudo-news media-- CNN, MSNBC, FAUX, just spent the past week plus totally wasting the airwaves on dozens, if not hundreds of hours of speculation and tripe-- covering a ten year old murder-- when they could have been doing their jobs.

Sunday, August 27, 2006
Rob Kall: Traitors and Heroes/Traitors as Heroes
(30 comments) This is the beginning of a series of articles and conversations about traitors-- to the US, the constitution, humanity, freedom, democracy... It will explore who they are, who they treasonously betray for and what they get in return. You're invited to join the conversation...

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Santorum Endorses Lieberman, reports that Robert Casey Supports Lamont
The Republican embrace and endorsement of Joe Lieberman is fleshing out and filling in. And word has it, if Joe wins, there's a huge double cross for the democrats in the offing.

Monday, August 21, 2006
Why DLC Doggies Hump Republicans
(4 comments) Dog psychosexual analyses of right wing Dems.

Monday, August 21, 2006
Democratic Democracy; Insist on Instant Run-off Voting for the 2008 Primaries
(3 comments) Now that HAVA (the help America Vote Act) has made it possible, the Democratic party should absolutely use the computer's abilities to enable Instant Run-off Voting (IRV.) IRV allows the voter to specify first, second, even third, fourth and fifth choices. It means you can vote for the candidate your really like the best, and also for fallback candidates.

Friday, August 18, 2006
I See Stupid White Men. What Makes Them That Way?
(39 comments) Why are men between 25 and 50 so, so stupid, when it comes to politics and e-voting?

Friday, August 18, 2006
Terror Ingredients: Piss, Vaseline and Screwdriver
(6 comments) Because a woman had a jar of vaseline, a screwdriver, possibly of "excessive" length, and because she acted crazy, major terror alarms went off, the media went bonkers and homeland security went into action.

Thursday, August 17, 2006
Grassroots Sweating for Democracy.... and Paper
(1 comments) If you're going to be an op-ed pundit, talking about politics, e-voting, etc., it's a good idea, ocassionally, to go out an talk to real people. A grange fair is a great place to do it.

Sunday, August 13, 2006
Lebanon Winners and Losers and The Future of Warfare.
(15 comments) Rob Kall; Israel and the USA are the big losers, at first glance, with Iran, Sh'ia Islam as the big winners. But at a deeper level, we all win, if the lessons learned are integrated into future plans.

Friday, August 11, 2006
Rob Kall: Terrorist Bust or Rovian Political Asymmetric Warfare?
(15 comments) Talk about controlling the narrative. Call me a wacko conspiracy theorist. But then explain how making an operation like this so visibly public makes sense in any way other than as a media ploy.

Thursday, August 10, 2006
Right Wing Joe Spin
(5 comments) The right wing echo chamber has come out with their take on the Lieberman defeat-- negatively depicting the Democratic party

Wednesday, August 9, 2006
Rob Kall: Turncoat Joe "Zell" Lieberman-- The Next Zell Miller?
(3 comments) How can you screw the Democratic party Joe? Let me count the ways.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Is BP Prudhoe Shutdown Iran War Profit Seeking?
(5 comments) Is the BP Prudhoe shutdown based on expectations that oil prices will double or triple when the Iran war begins?

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
OpEdNews Shut Down By Rightwing Web Warfare
(13 comments) If you tried to check in on OpEdNews. We were shut down because of a malicious lie.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Lamont Wins!!! 10:30 PM Track the Lamont/Lieberman McKinney Race Results
(5 comments) McKinney behind, not looking good.

Tuesday, August 8, 2006
Post Lieberman Loss Tactics; Time For Hardball with Dem Friends of Joe.
Time for Dems to come together. action page to tell your Democratic senator or congressperson.

Sunday, August 6, 2006
Interpreting a Lamont Win and Lieberman Loss-- Who Else Wins and Loses?
(3 comments) What does a Lieberman defeat mean for other candidates and the Democratic party?

Sunday, August 6, 2006
Hanoi Jane-- Meet Beirut "Bill"; "Left's" Anti-Israel Rhetoric Could Cost Dems Congress Take-back
(10 comments) I'm sure Jane Fonda's trip to North Vietnam was well intentioned. But in the long run, her trip has been used by right wingers so devastatingly. Let's hope the left's advocacy for the Lebanese (a generic "Beirut Bill")does not become used in a similar way, hanging an albatross around the necks of November 2006 Democratic candidates.

Wednesday, August 2, 2006
Mel Gibson-- Reflecting America's Shadow Self-- An Opportunity to Heal America's Shadow Bigotry
(16 comments) I'm not ready to accept Gibson's apology. Saying he's not a bigot is like saying he's not an alcoholic. But Alcoholics can go on the wagon and lead good lives, and Gibson could learn from his "moment of insanity" and do good works that make a differnce in awakening Americans to their shadow selves. Then I could forgive him.

Monday, July 31, 2006
Progressives' Middle East Dialogue and the Danger of Falling into the Right Wing's Deadly Trap
(17 comments) Progressives are in danger. If they don't talk out and talk through what's happening in the mideast, rather than just echoing standard recriminations, the right wing will lure and outflank them into taking positions that could kill the momentum to take back the congress.

Sunday, July 30, 2006
Lebanon: 60 Confirmed Dead-- 19 of Them Children -- Condi Not Welcome
(3 comments)

Sunday, July 30, 2006
Is Syrian Shoot-Down of Israeli Drone A Move Towards Full blown War?
Israel and Syria, whether they like it or not, may be moving closer to full blown war. The messages they announce and the actions they are taking are definitely not clear, nor consistent.

Sunday, July 30, 2006
Hizbollah's Deadly Asymmetric Warfare Media Campaign
(12 comments) Hizbollah is creating victims intentionally to win the asymmetric media war. They fire rockets near civilian centers where they know Israel will stupidly respond with missile attack, drawing them into a disastrous creation of carnage that is a media debacle

Saturday, July 29, 2006
Family of Captured Israeli Soldier Opposes Lebanon War
the mother of one of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers says NO to war

Friday, July 28, 2006
Time for Tough Love for Israel from America and American Jews
(26 comments) In movies, there is often a hyper war-monger military advisor telling the president to nuke someone. The weak president almost does it, but something saves the day. Not in Israel. Now, american Jews MUST do what American Legislators cannot do-- use tough love on Israel

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Israel, Lebanon... and the US, Syria, Iran and Iraq all Victims of Extremist Religious Fascists-- and Fanatics.
(10 comments) Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine real, lasting peace coming to the middle east while the religious extremists-- Muslim, Jewish and Christian-- are still making their trouble.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Rob Kall: Once the Iran War Starts
(6 comments) some of the things that will happen after the Iran War starts.

Monday, July 24, 2006
I Get a Letter from President Bush
(5 comments) It's a fundraising letter, inviting me to join the RNC. It tells how wonderful the Republican party is and all the good it has done-- and the dangerous threat of a Democrat (not Democratic) party victory.

Sunday, July 23, 2006
Rob Kall: Middle East Wiggle Room-- To Be Bought at a High Price, But Not Optional
(12 comments) The US is solidly supportive of Israel as a country. That's really not negotiable. Where there is wiggle room is how the middle east conflict is handled, how the US leans on Israel, how Iran and other power players lean on the Palestinians, Lebanese and the various "terrorist" groups, how the US works with Israel's other neighbors, how the main issues on the table are dealt with.

Friday, July 21, 2006
Middle East Politics Divides Progressives
(30 comments) The Israel / Palestine / middle east conflict is a divider for progressives and liberals who agree on many other issues. It is a dangerous issue and Anti-Israel progressives could be going down a path that could cost the Democratic party the fall elections, handing them to Republicans and right wing Christian theofascists.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Casting Blame , Finding Solutions to The Middle East Conflagration
(26 comments) The same old accusations don't help. There are so many stakeholders with complex interests in the middle east it is no wonder, peace there may be the hardest thing in the world. This article explores some of the issues, many of the stakeholders, and sets writer guidelines that expect more than the same old.

Monday, July 17, 2006
Bush: We got to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this "SHIT."
(6 comments) Bush says to Blair at G8 conf.

Saturday, July 15, 2006
How to Use Middle-East Conflict to Sell War With Iran, Take Iraq Failure off the Front Page and Salvage the 2006 Electi
(9 comments) How do you get Americans to support a war with Iran that has been on the agenda for neocons like Rumsfeld and Cheney? If the right wing is going to have any chance of holding on to the congress, the war has to heat up, fear has to build and Karl Rove MUST have new material to use for his fear, terrorism, hold-the-course talking points.

Saturday, July 15, 2006
Phila Area Forum on the War: The Middle East War: How We Got Into Iraq; How We Get Out; and How We Stay Out of Iran
(1 comments) Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern speak in Bucks County PA, Saturday, July 22.

Friday, July 14, 2006
Middle East Chaos; Who Benefits?
(16 comments) The insanity in the Middle East is increasing. It's gotten me thinking who benefits from this. Consider this somewhat wild, unsubstantiated speculation.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Brokaw AND Global Warming Attacked by Gov Paid Media Attack Artist
(1 comments) In a double hitter, a government paid professional right wing political media hit man has attacked another journalistic leader AND the science of global warming. Outrageously, this is being done under the letterhead of the Senate committee on the Environment and Public Works, under the name of Senator James Imhof, majority chairman of the committee.

Monday, July 10, 2006
Hummer-- the Big Car for Big Losers
(17 comments) A New Hummer ad proves it. GM actually targets losers with poor self esteem for customers

Friday, July 7, 2006
File Under Fascist; Creating Strategies to Turn Out The Light
(1 comments) Our taxes are funding research to devise ways to decrease freedom of information access. The man doing it was the Green Beret senior legal advisor for six years. For this friend of fascism and Bush apologist, black ops and secrecy are his middle name.

Thursday, July 6, 2006
Why is Joe Lieberman Supported by Sean Hannity, George Bush, and the Republican Party
(2 comments) Hannity defends and lauds him, The republicans will cut him slack and not fund his republican opponent if he runs as an independent. Bush won't visit the state to support the Repubican opponent if Joe runs as an independent. You can tell a lot about a person by his friends.

Wednesday, July 5, 2006
Is Ken Lay Dead? And if so, Was it Really a Heart Attack?
(17 comments) If I were as rich as Ken Lay, I'd arrange to appear to have died, so my friend George Bush wouldn't have to pardon me. He could just tell Gonzalez to ease off on the investigation of the death, and follow it with a quick cremation. Or maybe... Lay was about testify against others to get a reduced sentence...

Saturday, July 1, 2006
Rob Kall: Being a Positive AND Tough Progressive
(3 comments) It IS possible to be a positive progressive visionary while at the same time taking on, confronting and fighting right wing cretins, crooks and criminals-- in other words-- kicking rightwing ass.

Saturday, July 1, 2006
Is NJ Gov. Jon Corzine Running for President?
(1 comments) He's shut down the NJ government in a bold move that is bringing him national attention for demanding budget responsibility.

Thursday, June 29, 2006
Book Review: Great Quotation Book for Lefties
The Quotable Rebel : Political Quotations for Dangerous Times-- a tool for progressive activists

Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Rob Kall: Progressive Democrats Are the New Conservatives
(4 comments) "No Plan, No Positive Vision"-- That's a chiseled in granite right wing talking point used to attack the Democrats.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Osama!! I'm Shocked. They're Tracking Our Financial Transactions! Thank Allah the New York Times Leaked This Surprising
(5 comments) This is the ridiculous scenario Bush and his right wing echo chamber want us to swallow.

Monday, June 26, 2006
Exploring Inner Space in Outer Space-- using Biofeedback
What motivates an astronaut, an outer space explorer, to spend a lot of time under water in an underwater habitat?

Saturday, June 24, 2006
Rob Kall: Bushstapo Uses Entrapment-Tainted "Terrorist Arrest" of Laughable Bozos to Bump CIA Massive Spying on Bank R
(4 comments) most of the mainstream media ignored the important news and fell for the bait the Bushstapo threw them. It was a brilliant day for media manipulation and spin for Karl Rove.

Friday, June 23, 2006
Book Review; Rain of Ashes
Rain of Ashes is an extraordinary novel by an extraordinary man, Robert Wolff. When the book arrived in the mail, I literally whooped for joy, I was so excited to see the newest work from Wolff

Thursday, June 22, 2006
OpEdNews: Possible Log-in and other Problems Today
(1 comments) we're in the process of moving to a new web hosting provider. During the move, which could take up to 48 hours, from when we started last night.

Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Rob Kall: It's the Occupation, Stupid; Dem Language Lesson Desperately Needed
(17 comments) The Democratic leadership needs to finally get it that There is no war in Iraq. And the idea of a "war on terrorism" is a bad one that isn't working and never will.

Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Some tips on writing with your heart and your head
(2 comments) Want to get started writing? Here's how-- from empty screen to finished, up on the web. It's easy and fun.

Sunday, June 18, 2006
Trusting in Blind Stupidity
(16 comments) That's the Rove/Republican game plan. They trust that the remaining members of their base will automatically, stupidly, continue to produce the knee jerk reactions to phrases like hold the course, cut and run, and suggestions that to fail to go the distance with the war is an act of cowardice.

Friday, June 16, 2006
Enjoying the Afterglow of a Great Take Back America Conference
still recovering, still working on following up on the successful networking and contacts made at the best progressive conference I know of.

Friday, June 16, 2006
Osama Bin Laden Dead Virus Email Warning

Sunday, June 11, 2006
The American Trance
...Perhaps the people in the trance are the sensible ones. Why make yourself crazy about something you can't change? They're right, we can't change it unless we identify it. We live in a capitalistic society, greed is admired and envied. This is America. Maybe someday you'll be that rich, and get all those benefits...

Thursday, June 8, 2006
Busby Redux; Cheap Dems Who Can't Change Their Losing Ways
Francine Busby came within four points of beating Brian Bilbray. This was the most important race of the spring, one that would be claimed as a harbinger of things to come in the fall by the winning side. Then why...

Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Tues. Elections: Repug Takes Cunningham Cal Seat. But Some Good News
(1 comments) Busby and Winograd Lose. Good news in CA Gov Primary and in Montana Senate primary for progressives.

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
It's Not About Banning Same-Sex Marriage. It's about Birth Control, Abortion and Feudal Regression to a New Dark Age
(1 comments) The marriage amendment isn't about marriage. It's about pumping up the neanderthal theofascist minority that really wants to take us back to the dark ages when Kings got their power directly from God.

Sunday, June 4, 2006
Tap The Power of Story To Max Your Message or Campaign
(2 comments) The most powerful way to get people to embrace your ideas is to package them in stories. This article describes how to identify stories to use to promote your candidate, issue or product.

Friday, June 2, 2006
The Not-Filibustered Alito-Lieberman Disaster Unfolds-- Time to Dump the Lot of the Invertebrate Democrats
(5 comments) We all knew it. Alito was a time bomb, ready to explode, soon, working his way into the laws of the land. He did it bigtime this week, taking away protections from whistleblowers, siding with employers, and we have Harry Reid, Hillary, Barrack Obama, Diane Feinsten and the rest of the spineless, worthless Big D democrats to blame. `

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Bush Legalizes Corporate Enronism, Further Whittling Away At the Floodgates Protecting America from Dark Times
Now, Dubya and his spy chief surrogate John Negroponte can "excuse" publicly held corporations (like Enron) from their responsibility to accurately report their financials. It's just another whittling away at the safety measures built over the past 200+ years to make Americans safer.

Sunday, May 28, 2006
Gutless Coward Bill Frist Shows How He'd Function as President and Demonstrates Why Republicans Must Lose Congress
(7 comments) Gonzalez armed invasion of congressman William Jefferson's office is a clear violation of separation of powers. The leader of the senate should be taking a tough stand on this. But we have Bill Frist, who is such a sleazeball, oweing to so many politicians and corporations, organizatiions and religious extremists, he can't make more than a whisper.

Friday, May 26, 2006
What It Will Take to Get Progressive Candidates to Win and Take Back the Democratic Party
(1 comments) My intense experience with campaigning before and the day of the 2006 PA primary yielded lessons and insights on how to not only get progressives to winbut to take back control of the Democratic party.

Thursday, May 25, 2006
Enron Lay and Skilling Guilty on All Charges
These disgusting excuses for humanity are going to jail. Next... Lay's buddy George and the whitehouse crowd. Or... will Bush or one of his judges pardons them.

Thursday, May 18, 2006
Start Blogging on OpEdNews
Now you can start your own blog and publish diaries on OpEdNews

Monday, May 15, 2006
Jason Leopold update on Rove Indictment Story
(17 comments) wondering why the mainstream media haven't reported on Rove's indictment yet? Having doubts about the veracity of Jason Leopold's report. Read on...

Monday, May 15, 2006
Urgent! May 16 is Last Chance to Help Insure A Santorum Defeat and elect a progressive US Senator from PA. YOU can Help
YOU can make a difference in the May 16th PA primary and can help put a strong progressive in the primary instead of a centrist, anti-abortion, pro-Alito pick of the DLC leaders. Forward this article and phone everyone you know in Pennsylvania

Sunday, May 14, 2006
Poll: 91% of Democrats Not VERY Happy with Democratic Leadership; What to Do About It
(12 comments) The May OpEdnews/Zogby People's Poll found that 91% of Democrats have a less than very favorable opinion of the Democratic Leadership. Over 92% of Dems support Abortion rights. Here's how to send Dem Leaders a message you are not happy-- and how to get better leaders while you're at it.

Sunday, May 14, 2006
Poll: Fox Is Most Watched News Network; Fox Watchers and Right Wing Radio Listening Patterns explain Bush's Remaining Su
(1 comments) poll analysis when most often watched TV news network is used as a demographic variable.

Sunday, May 14, 2006
WaPo's Bogus NSA Poll Gets High GOP Echo Chamber Rotation, beyond the Usual Toxic Fox/Rush Drudge Routine; Poll data on
All the TV networks worked it. That' why we need new networks. They are going after the Fox viewers, which IS the network more people watch. This is bad news.

Saturday, May 13, 2006
Poll: of Non Fox News Viewers, 64% support Censure of George W Bush, 75% Want Cheney Impeachment Investigation Started.
The OpEdNews/Zogby People's poll clearly shows that Fox News is the only thing keeping the Bush administration from being thrown out of office and into jail.

Friday, May 12, 2006
Questions in the May 2006 OpEdNews.com/Zogby People's Poll
42 campaign horse race and issue questions, plus 29 demographic questions

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Pennacchio Rising, Casey Falling in Stats Based on Sample of Millions
The PA senate race from a Web Stats perspective

Thursday, May 11, 2006
2nd OpEdNews/Zogby People's Poll; Censure, Bush Lies, Stolen Election, Nuking Iran, Impeaching Cheney, PA Senate Race an
Did Bush lie?, was 9/11 adequately investigated? Impeach Cheney? e-voting vs. paper? Attacking Iran? windfall tax on oil companies? embryonic stem cell research? tax the rich? election finance reform? We have answers.

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen; according to viewers of all news networks except Fox News
(10 comments) Viewers who favor any other news source but Fox believe,by as much as 70% to 24%, that the 2004 Election was stolen. This article explores who Fox Viewers are in Detail based on the latest OpEdNews/Zogby People's Poll

Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Canvassing at a farmers market in Central Bucks PA
It's primary time. Here's a detailed, mostly mundane account of a morning spent doing grassroots activism at a huge local farmers market.

Monday, May 8, 2006
Dump Diebold____ At Your Bank
(4 comments) Tell your bank to stop using Diebold. Hurt Diebold where their deepest pockets are most vulnerable.

Sunday, May 7, 2006
In Spite of Mainstream Media, Pennacchio Is the Best Senate Candidate, and A Casey Defeat Will Help Insure a Santorum De
This article covers two topics, first-- the uneven, preferential coverage Bob Casey has received throughout the senate race and second an explanation of why, a defeat for Bob Casey would be the best way to win an election against Rick Santorum.

Friday, May 5, 2006
How One Moderate, Honest Republican in Congress Can Save His Job and The Nation
(2 comments) and how Democratic candidates better get their values, issues and priorities straight. It's impeachment, stupid.

Thursday, May 4, 2006
Casey Tanking, As Predicted, But Faster.
Casey continues to drop as OpEdNews predicted.

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Wealthiest, Most Educated in US as Healthy as bottom economic and educational rung in England
Brits healthier than Americans at half the cost.

Wednesday, May 3, 2006
Blackwell Wins, or Steals Ohio GOP Gubernatorial Primary
(3 comments) Blackwell slinks into the general election for Ohio Governor. Ohio-- one of the most corrupt holes on the planet.

Tuesday, May 2, 2006
First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments
(40 comments) While we're waiting the last few days for blogging, Try an open thread here. just add your two cents on whatever's on your mind.

Thursday, April 27, 2006
2nd OpEdNews/Zogby People's Poll Invitation to Suggest Questions
(7 comments) We invite YOU to help us determine the issue questions for our second OpEdNews/Zogby People's Poll

Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Bush's Siege Mentality
There are plenty of signs Bush is operating from a siege mentality. A desperate, cornered animal is a dangerous thing. Expect the worst from Bush. But at the same time, we must continue to tighten the noose, push harder for impeachment.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006
BirdBrain Watching; Echoes in Empty (ditto)Heads;
(2 comments) You can tell a right wing radio listener by his repetitions of the spewings of the talk show hosts

Sunday, April 23, 2006
Lies from the Whitehouse; David Broder Says We Have to Take the President at His Word
The liar in chief and his chief press liaison are mistrusted by billions.

Sunday, April 23, 2006
Rob Kall: President Pelosi, or President Rice? Demand That Democratic Candidates Support Impeachment Now
(9 comments) impeachment is looming more and more likely. Just the threat of it could lead to Cheney's resignation. Will Bush appoint a replacement who will pardon him? Will the congress approve Cheney's replacement... before or after the Dems take back the congress?

Saturday, April 22, 2006
Heroic CIA Whistleblower Fired For Revealing Secret CIA Run Prisons
Tell your legislators to support this courageous whistleblower

Saturday, April 22, 2006
Joke: Just Like Sheldon

Thursday, April 20, 2006
Getting America Ready for Recovery From The Right Wing's Devastation
(1 comments) Once the Dems take Back both houses of congress, there will be a lot of recovery, a lot of work to do, impeacments, a new president, reinstating laws, prosecutions...

Thursday, April 20, 2006
Waking the Dead
(13 comments) What do you have to do to wake up the remaining Bush supporters?

Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Face Transplant for Bush Whitehouse
(2 comments) Whitehouse Spokesman Scott McClellan resigns.

Monday, April 17, 2006
Rich Rapists and Cannibal Killers; Distraction News Goes Into High Gear
(1 comments) A lot of serious news is coming down, adverse to the right wing, so the MSM cranks up the garbage.

Sunday, April 16, 2006
Come To PA to Help Get Pennacchio on the Ballot Against Santorum

Thursday, April 13, 2006
Canada's Biggest Newsweekly Asks; Is George W. Bush the worst president in 100 years?
(2 comments) Macleans, Canada's largest circulation newsmagazine, takes a clear look at just how bad Bush is.

Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Noble Goals; How the Far Right Routinely Distorts and Corrupts them
Take a drop of truth and spin it into a big lie, or a series of lies- the right wing talk radio standard formula

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Heroes Wanted
(3 comments) The word hero has become cheapened. Any person who joins the military and goes to Iraq is NOT a hero. Who are your living heroes? How do candidates fail on the journey of the hero?

Monday, April 10, 2006
Urgent Message to Congress: Put The Brakes On Bush's Iran Plans; Reject Nuking Iran
(1 comments) Pass a motion NOW cutting off Bush's permission to wage further war or use any means not spelled out.Reject Nuking Iran

Saturday, April 8, 2006
First WE Have to Take Back the Democratic Party to Take Back America
(8 comments) getting local is essential to taking back the democratic party, which is essential to taking back America.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
OpEdNews Editor Warned by Capitol Police For Article
(16 comments) I have censored my article about Katherine Harris after being warned by a capitol police special agent. This is the story of what happened.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Phone Polling Failed to Detect Chinese Passing US Internet Usage
Polling by phone, currently the gold standard, may be on the way out. It failed to detect a huge trend.

Sunday, April 2, 2006
Black November; A Terrible Day in American History, or an American Terrorist Group?
Will the Ken Blackwells and Katherine Harrisses of the corrupt right wing steal more elections this fall, now that HAVA has forced even more voting districts to go electronic? And will the criminals Blackwell and Harris get their due as murderers of Democracy?

Thursday, March 30, 2006
Breaking : Hostage Jill Carroll Released--

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Card Resigns as Chief of Staff, Replaced by 'Yosh" Bolten,
Andy Card has resigned, enabling Bush to maintain his perfect record of never firing anyone, even the most incompetent. Bush has replaced Card with OMB director Josh Bolten, a Bushco insider.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Migrant Criminalization-- the Next Right Wing Invented Iraq Quagmire
(3 comments) This illegal immigration issue is a blend of distraction from Iraq and the Bush collapse, a right wing adoption of racist, xenophobic ideas that originate with the KKK and neonazis, and a potentila disaster that could become as destructive, chaotic, out of control and costly as the Iraq war. The answer is not amnesty. We should look to the man who may be the world's most beloved hero for our answer, Nelson Mandela.

Monday, March 27, 2006
Pimping Suicide, Pimping Jesus
(1 comments) In the middle east, there are "pimps" who recruit, train, equip and place suicide bombers. In America, there are ministers who pimp Jesus for power and money, which they get from their right wing political "johns--" the dupes who trust these pastor pimps who whore Jesus, Peter, Paul and John for their own interests-- money, massive mega-churches, expensive cars, huge homes and power.

Thursday, March 23, 2006
"Inside Local Pages" Go Live on OpEdNews
Major new feature, designed to empower local activists with our content management software and reader reach. Find out how YOU can use it. Become an editor for your area.

Thursday, March 23, 2006
Aussie Network Reports on OpEdNews
(1 comments) and maybe... we irked the Australian Prime minister enough to take action

Thursday, March 23, 2006
Bush-Induced Right Wing Mental Dysfunction;
(1 comments) Intentional Agoraphobia, Sub-Clinical Panic Disorder and psychologically induced and maintained reflexive political Responses

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Call For OpEdNews Editors
Let OpEdNews help you take your activism and passion for your issue to the next level

Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Democracy Not Served in Illinois;
Instant Run-off Voting Should Be National Dem Policy Duckworth "win" with 43% of vote is not good for Democracy, and hardly a mandate.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
N.O.W. Blows it AGAIN on PA Senate Race
(2 comments) It's hard to imagine a women's organization doing a worse job in advocating for womens' rights than N.O.W. has done in Pennsylvania. First they vaccillated for over nine months, after their first choice candidate Barbara Hafer, obediently withdrew for the democratic bosses, to make room for an anti-abortion candidate. Now they've endorsed a can't win candidate.

Tuesday, March 21, 2006
The Latest Right Wing Echo Chamber Bash on Hil and Bill
(3 comments) Drudge and others are starting a new spin to bash Hillary aimed at the weak men who suck up to the right wing echo chamber the most.

Sunday, March 19, 2006
Free Support for Progressive Local Activists, Candidates, Organizations
tap the power of our content management system and our internet reach for your activism, campaign or organization.

Sunday, March 19, 2006
Nazis in Nebraska
Your next party could get you jailed.

Sunday, March 19, 2006
John Yoo; Enemy of Democracy
(1 comments) Architect of Bush's position that the president can do no wrong in a time of war, Yoo is one of the worst threats to law and democracy.

Saturday, March 18, 2006
Who's Screwing America's Female Democrats?
(8 comments) Women, Who make up the Majority of the Democratic Party, are being Stabbed in the back, by a Few Senate Leaders, a Governor and a whole bunch of spineless Women's Organizations.

Friday, March 17, 2006
There Really Is a Culture of Republican Corruption.
(3 comments) Poll data shows that republicans and conservatives see the world differently. They think everyone is corrupt, and act accordingly. We analyze who is most conservative, who sees most and least corruption.

Thursday, March 16, 2006
When the Electronic Voting Buy Comes to MY County
(3 comments) Betrayed, outraged, that the worst, most corruption-prone Vote system is Foisted upon my own community

Monday, March 13, 2006
The Hyper-Spin Attack on Feingold
(1 comments) Get Ready for a Full Ultra-Spin Right Wing Echo Chamber Attack on Russ Feingold. The stronger the attack, the more seriously they take him as a threat.

Monday, March 13, 2006
Casey Fails to Win Key Endorsement Vote
DLC "annointed" anti-Roe candidate Bob Casey Jr. failed to win an endorsement vote in Bucks County PA-- a county that Democrats MUST win to get elected in PA.

Saturday, March 4, 2006
Actual PA Vote Shows Polls Lie on Pennacchio/ Casey
(2 comments) THE key county any democrat must win to take PA held an endorsement vote. Progressive dark horse candidate took 46%, and that was with Casey supporters using "proxy" votes to beat Pennacchio.

Saturday, March 4, 2006
Get Local to Kick Out Backstabber Democratic DLC Incumbents and "Annointed" candidates To Take Back the Democratic Party
(2 comments) local action this year will build major strength for Progressives. Make the turncoat incumbents like Lieberman and Feinstein work hard and spend serious money to keep their jobs, and maybe, just maybe, we'll dump some of these losers and win seats for real progressives

Friday, March 3, 2006
Trickle Down Republican Corruption; Poll Results show right wing corruption exists at all levels
(1 comments) Trickle down. or grass roots, from the bottom up, right wingers are corrupt, or more willing to tolerate corruption up and down the line.

Monday, February 27, 2006
Dubaious Decisions
The Bush administration says that the UAE is trustworthy. They say that the deal has been evaluated. Don't believe either.

Sunday, February 26, 2006
The Wimp Factor; Defining the Real Wimps
(1 comments) Beyond Candidates, the Characterization of Dems and Liberals as Wimps must be Countered

Sunday, February 26, 2006
Rob Kall Talks Live, Sunday 6-7 PM EST
On Internet Radio and KCAA

Saturday, February 25, 2006
Rob Kall Live, Sunday 6-7 PM EST
On Internet Radio and KCAA

Friday, February 24, 2006
Should the Number One Candidate Criterion be Ability to Buy TV Ads?
(3 comments) Poll Shows voters want free ads for candidates and fixed money from Government.

Thursday, February 23, 2006
Progressive, My Ass
(4 comments) DFA, PDA, moveon.org-- are they anything more than wimpy projections of the DNC? They seem to be acting that way in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, February 22, 2006
"Ports Deal Reviewed By Angencies. Trust Us" OH, BTW, There's a terrorism Connection. Oops
Those agencies are totally filled with Michael Browns, Tom DeLay interns and Former Corporate Lobbyists. There's every reason not to trust them

Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Diagnosis and Treatment of Right Wing Little Dick Syndrome
(3 comments) Like the dumb souls, called "little heads" in the movie, Defending Your Life, I see "little dicks" as dumb white men who use their support of pseudo-macho Bush and his stupid war and the whole range of right wing causes to feel more manly. There is a cure.

Sunday, February 19, 2006
Who Are the Enemies of Democracy?
(5 comments) As the United States drifts closer and closer towards fascism we must recognize that it is no accident. Democracy has been assaulted on many fronts by many individuals and organizations. If there is to be any hope of halting the drift toward fascism, it is essential that we identify the Enemies of Democracy

Saturday, February 18, 2006
Redneckville
(8 comments) How would you feel if you could travel back in time and visit a rally in Germany, supporting Hitler. Would today's stupid white men have been Hitler Supporters

Thursday, February 16, 2006
Republicans vs. Democrats = War of the Sexes
(3 comments) Some people have talked about a class war that the right wing has been waging on the middle class and poor. But there's another war being waged by the right wing-- against women and the feminine archetype.

Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Alito Filibuster Was Not In the Cards, Nor the Nuclear Option
(1 comments) polling data predicted filibuster defeat, but also rejection of the nuclear option. Republicans won because of early groundwork laid in language weaponizing, spin, and because Democrats acted like lawyers, not marketers, as Republicans did.

Monday, January 30, 2006
No Filibuster, No Re-Election for Blue State Senators
(2 comments)

Sunday, January 29, 2006
OpEdNews.Com/ Zogby People's Poll; 100% of Blacks Oppose Alito and Think Iraq War Unjustified
lots more issues results on Alito, Nuclear Option, Paper Ballots, impeachment, election reform, Corruption, Abramoff Scandal, Bush's Criminality... and raw demographic info for vote integrity/election advocates to use and disputing Kos

Saturday, January 28, 2006
OpEdNews.com Zogby People’s Poll
Issue Questions on voting, ballots, elections, election reform.

Saturday, January 28, 2006
The Power, the Gold and Inside Secrets of Polling
What you don't know about polling and The OpEdNews.com/Zogby People's Poll found that people oppose the Nuclear option, who opposes Alito, which demographic group dropped 50% in support of Casey when they learn his policies, strong support for Free candidate air time and no contribution campaigns, majority feel Bush broke law and lots more

Friday, January 27, 2006
85% of Democrats are more likely to vote for a candidate who supports impeachment.
(1 comments) OpEdNews.com/Zogby People's Poll

Friday, January 27, 2006
Statistics from the OpEdNews / Zogby People’s Poll Statistics
for the PA race for US Senate.

Friday, January 27, 2006
All The Questions On the OpEdNews.Com/ Zogby People's Poll
(1 comments) the complete questions as given to the panelists of the OpEdNews/Zogby Poll

Friday, January 27, 2006
OpEdNews.Com/ Zogby People's Poll
(1 comments) Casey Plummets When His Positions are Known, Santorum Loses to All Democratic Candidates, Paper Ballots Soar, Privatized Vote Gets Big No, Impeach Bush if He's Guilty... lots more.

Thursday, January 26, 2006
Tomorrow-- The OpEdNews/Zogby Poll Asks Questions Progressives Want answers to
(2 comments) that Mainstream Media Polls Won't Ask-- including the first Real Poll covering all the candidates in the Santorum Senate Race

Thursday, January 26, 2006
Where the Experts in the Worlds of Story Meet
Besides energy, story is the biggest business in the world. There’s only one place in the world where experts in all the different worlds of story come together, and that’s StoryCon the summit meeting on the art, science and application of story.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Make Mrs. Alito Cry Again
Put the tears back in her eyes by making sure her husband is filibustered.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006
DLC Golden Boy Casey French Kisses Alito
(1 comments) I started off titling this Casey Supports Alito. But that was too weak. "Embraces" -- still not strong enough. So... maybe their lips didn't touch, but the thought of their tongues intertwined is about equal in disgustingness to the idea of a blue state Senatorial candidate endorsing the very essence of right wing extremism-- Samuel Bush-can't-do-anything-wrong Alito.

Friday, January 20, 2006
Rob Kall: The Republican Habit-- like Heroin, it's hard to break, but deadly and Destructive
(3 comments) Like victims of family sexual abuse, who are often in total denial, we need to help these people wrestle with the reality that they have been betrayed, in a sense, raped and abused by the politicians they trusted.

Thursday, January 19, 2006
Criminals Everywhere You Look; Time to Clean the Stables in Washington
Corruption is Rampant. It's reasonable to assume that any Bush appointee is a corrupt, dishonest, lying betrayer of the interests of most Americans and American resources. Perhaps the answer is in drastice changes in the way we manage elections, so NO monetary contributions are made, or none over $100.

Monday, January 16, 2006
Dems Ranked as Less Trustworthy than Repugs in Latest Zogby Poll
(2 comments) In spite of all the republican scandals, people see Dems as having less integrity. Blame the spineless DLC centrists.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006
In Defense of Liberalism
I am sick and tired of right-wingers accusing those of us who want more democracy and individual freedom for all Americans, of being unpatriotic.

Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Sue Diebold
No, Sue is not a person related to the Voting machine company. I mean sue as in litigate their digitally duplicitious asses. If you can't beat them, litigate massively, in civil court, with the goal of owning the company

Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Alito Must Go!! We Must March in the Streets to Send the Message Loud and Clear
We must March in the Streets to send a massive message. This is a bigger threat to our future than the war was. Alito on the Supreme court will cast the final die-- the USA's future is on the line.

Sunday, January 8, 2006
Do YOU Have an Exit Plan? Plan to Be in the Streets in the Next Two Weeks, or You'll Need One
(1 comments) Bush and his toxic penetration into the depths of the heart, soul and DNA of America is far worse than the horrible we already thought it would be.

Saturday, December 31, 2005
Is 2005 the Year Republicans and Bush Were Finally Seen as the Corrupt Destroyers of America they truly are? Or is 2005
(2 comments)

Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Bush's Criminal, Toxic Presidency Poisons All Areas of Government, Not Just Spying
It's time we start asking who knew Bush was breaking the law and when they knew. Because they should be charged with aiding and abetting the crime. The corruption among Republicans has become a permeating, unrelenting, ubiquitous stench that is choking democracy, poisoning America's future.

Monday, December 19, 2005
Did Congress Pass Legislation Allowing Bush to Violate The Law Against Illegal Spying?
(4 comments) Will they continue to allow him to keep doing it now that he's confessed? If WE THE PEOPLE don't act on this, and demand an end to it and serious, legal repercussions, the USA is lost.

Sunday, December 11, 2005
Some people aren't born stupid. They watch Fox and listen to right wing talk radio, and depend on their Ministers and Ra
(4 comments) Who needs the Taliban when we have evangelical ministers and orthodox rabbis keeping their women in the dark ages, barefoot and pregnant... Who needs madrassas that teach hate and intolerance when we have them here...

Monday, December 5, 2005
Now we know; Bush Has Corrupted the Justice Department, Too
Texas, Georgia, Guam... Bush political appointees are corrupting the justice department, preventing the legal experts from making sure laws are followed, making political decisions where law should rule.

Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Bush's Nothing New Reframing Trifecta; Is He Fighting Saddamists, Sodomists, or Doesn't it Matter
(1 comments) As usual, Bush is talking in code to his religious base, and double duplicitously, is evoking reflex responses to old lies he told, energized and firmly planted in his brainwashed supporters brains.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005
If Dems Win 2006 Elections, WIll Bush/Cheney Resign to Make Hastert President?
(9 comments)

Sunday, November 27, 2005
What makes a hero?
(4 comments) The term hero has been diluted and abused. A hero is not necessarily someone who survives being in a war, or who happens to pull someone out of a car wreck. We call the former a survivor and the latter a brave person.

Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Liberal and Redneck Joke

Monday, November 21, 2005
Republican Policies and Evangelical Right Wing Extremists Are Closing 9 GM Plants
(2 comments)

Sunday, November 20, 2005
Withdrawal From Iraq Is the ONLY Way Our Soldiers Will NOT Have Died In Vain
(2 comments) the best way to give meaning and honor to the dead and wounded Americans is to follow through with the Investigations, then start indicting and impeaching the real war criminals.

Saturday, November 19, 2005
Right Wing Cowards Who Cut and Run
(2 comments) When Staying the course means betraying troops and nation

Friday, November 18, 2005
Movie Review: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
where's the story?

Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Desperate Bush Attack Dogs Accentuate the Right’s Descent
(2 comments)

Monday, November 14, 2005
Is Bush China Competent?
(2 comments) How much damage can Bush do on this trip?

Sunday, November 13, 2005
Right Wing Cowards Killing Americans, Destroying Families
(9 comments)

Saturday, November 12, 2005
Dems Didn't Know What Bush Knew.
(7 comments) Bush lied to Dems and withheld key information

Friday, November 11, 2005
Bush-Supporting Evangelicals; Abuse Victims?
(1 comments) It's amazing how politicized evangelicals act like victims of physical or sexual abuse.

Tuesday, November 8, 2005
US Used Chemical WMD in Fallujah-- video; US GI witness being swiftboated.
Italian state TV reported this morning that the US used chemical weapons-- white phosphorous, which melts human flesh to the bones "I saw the burned bodies of women and children.

Sunday, November 6, 2005
Republicans Still Keeping Secret Evidence Administration Used Reports They Knew Were False to Bring US to War
The US has been staying in a war for more than a year since senate Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee bottled up information that showed the administration knew that evidence they cited as reasons to go to war was provided by a source who was known to "fabricate" bogus information.

Sunday, November 6, 2005
As the Republicans are Tanking, Disown the Old Democratic Party Hack Pundits While We're at It
(1 comments) How do we convince the netowrks to stop putting on Centrist, DLC hacks as talking heads, and replace them with tough, smart progressive voices who put the right wing echo chamber parrots in their place?

Saturday, November 5, 2005
The Bush Cult and the Koolaid.
(3 comments) The people who followed Jim Jones trusted and believed in him. They even went to Guayana, where Jim Jones promised to start a new society, just like the Republicans, led by Newt Gingrich, promised to start a new America. Just like the neocons

Friday, November 4, 2005
South American Protests: Bush Is the Most Hated Man in the History of the World?
(1 comments) George Bush is the most hated, most reviled man in the history of the planet-- more hated than Hitler.

Thursday, November 3, 2005
How Bad Can it Get When You Have Five Pro Business, Anti-Church-State-Separation Judges on the Supreme Court?
(3 comments) The horror stories that will unfold as an unbeatable majority of shills for church and corporation control the supreme court have begun. Welcome to Feudal America.

Thursday, November 3, 2005
Building a Progressive Political Infrastructure: Wanted; Progressive Pollster…. Benefit package includes job responsibil
If there were a honest to goodness progressive polling organization, or possibly even if there were funds to pay the main polling organizations, things could be very different.

Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Is Sony Supporting the Christian Right?

Wednesday, November 2, 2005
Dear Harry
(2 comments) Harry, you finally showed the Democrats have some spine. Keep exercising it.

Saturday, October 29, 2005
Right Wingers See Themselves as Pariahs
(1 comments) Right Wing leaders and politicians KNOW their endorsements are the kiss of death. They are the walking dead, politically, but they haven't figured that out yet.

Saturday, October 29, 2005
Bush Meets Bush; Iran’s President learns by example
Bush is setting an example that other world leaders are picking up on-- Iran's President Ahmadinejad-- for example.

Thursday, October 27, 2005
Miers Out-- Next Chess Move in the SCOTUS Nominee Game
Is the looming "Nuclear Option" a Queen Swap that will hurt the Republicans More than the Democrats? Why the democrats should excercise the filibuster and why the Republicans WON'T exercise the Nuclear Option

Monday, October 24, 2005
Right Wingers Getting Nervous as Miers' Role in Bush Corruption Unfolds
(1 comments) Bush corruption, previously put behind and buried is being unearthed and could come to light in Senate judicial committee hearings. And one of the Judges Bush Brought to DC to endorse Harriet is deeply involved.

Sunday, October 23, 2005
It’s hard to avoid the reach of Fox and It’s People
You'll be amazed and want to wash yourself clean when you see all the ways Fox is in your life

Saturday, October 22, 2005
Are Progressives the New Moderates?
(3 comments) It is time to take back the language and define Responsible Progressives versus Self-Centered, Destructive Regressive Right Wing Extremists

Thursday, October 20, 2005
Tough Liberals
(2 comments) If we, as liberals can’t get tough, in these times, then we will be all talk and nothing more-- which has pretty much been the status of the Democratic party since Bush was installed by his father’s supreme court.

Thursday, October 13, 2005
Let's Nail Dennis Hastert and Bury Bush, DeLay, Frist and Rove with New Tough Organizations

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Dear Iraq Troops, Vets and Their Families
(1 comments) After thinking about our conversation about your struggle to respect, honor and stay loyal to the troops you fought with in Iraq who died, i believe that Honor and Loyalty Demand you Reject this War and Its supporters in the White House and Congress

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
A Note to You Bush-Supporters, You've Been Duped, Betrayed and Made a Fool Of.
a sanitized version of the earlier article that was titled-- Bush Supporters, You've Been Screwed.

Monday, October 10, 2005
A review of the Paul Krugman Monday October 10th article titled, “Will Bush Deliver?”

Sunday, October 9, 2005
A Note to You Bush-Supporting Suckers, You've Been Screwed
(4 comments) Your Good ‘ole boy George W. has taken you for a ride and maybe, just maybe you’re beginning to wake up and figure out that he’s been screwing you, screwing your family and screwing this whole country. I'm going to tell you how you've been screwed.

Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Taking Back the Congress with the Help of DeLay, Frist, Bush, Brown and Mier
At the big picture, national level, the right wing, republican world is a chaotic mess. It would seem that they would be in big trouble for the 2006 round of elections. But there’s a fly in the ointment and that’s local candidate loyalty.

Monday, October 3, 2005
Immediately Oppose the Outrageous Nomination of Harriet Miers
(5 comments) Don't delay, send your senators a message that this insult to the judicial system will not be tolerated

Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Michael Brown__the Right Wing Republican Poster Boy
Brown is a symptom and to cure a problem, you don't treat the symptom, you treat the disease.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The actual Video of Ben Marble telling Cheney to Go F*ck Himself and Marbles New Song Go F*ck Yourself Mr. Cheney
(3 comments)

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
The Tree of Liberty is Wilting
(4 comments) We must ACT not talk to save it and stop being nice to the enemy. Right wing ENEMIES smile and wear friendly Santa pins and “Jesus loves you” pins while marching as soldiers for the transnational corporations that would kill you if it helped their bottom line.

Sunday, September 25, 2005
We Want Krugman Back. We Need Him
NY Times New Pay-To-Read Policy Betrays Democrats and Progressives by cutting off access to Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, Bob Herbert and Maureen Dowd

Thursday, September 22, 2005
Get to Know Ben Marble, an Interview with the Guy Who Told Dick Cheney to Go Fuc* Himself.
(4 comments) an in depth interview

Wednesday, September 21, 2005
With Bush and Republicans Weakening, It’s Time To Reject Roberts and Weak, Centrist Democrats
(4 comments)

Saturday, September 17, 2005
Republicans’ Biggest Lies
(6 comments) The core values and mottos the right wing extremist Republicans (who have come to represent the norm in the republican party) define themselves with are lies that hide their opposite.

Thursday, September 15, 2005
Bush Can't Even Pee Without A Handler's Permission
(2 comments)

Tuesday, September 13, 2005
God to Bush and Right Wing “Religious” Extremists
(2 comments)

Sunday, September 11, 2005
Rob Kall: "IT" Is Happening Here!!
(1 comments) Heavily armed mercenaries, authorized to kill, roving US streets. “detainment camps” for US citizens—victims of Bush’s Levee Flood. These have to stop NOW!

Friday, September 9, 2005
And You Wonder Why The Police Were Shot At in New Orleans
(2 comments)

Thursday, September 8, 2005
Is the DLC's Pick to Run Against Santorum Really the People's First Pick
Ed Rendell, Chuck Schumer and other DLC dems claim Bob Casey, jr. is the messiah who will bring a democratic win to the promised land. But the statistics say otherwise.

Wednesday, September 7, 2005
Levee Drowning The Supreme Court—Shameful Again
(3 comments) Reject John Roberts—Another under-experienced, Bush stealth/political appointee

Sunday, September 4, 2005
Do Not Ignite. Fire The Bush Time Bomb
We have to start hiring the best people based on competence, excellence and experience, not based on political loyalty and the ability to suck up, lie and cover-up.

Sunday, September 4, 2005
Why Nero burned Rome, How Bush Will Let the Vultures Descend Upon New Orleans
(1 comments) The famous line is that Nero Fiddled, while Rome burned. But historians believe that Nero wanted Rome to burn. The part that burned was where the poorest of the poor lived. And Nero wanted it to burn so he could expand his palace there.

Saturday, September 3, 2005
How Republican Philosophy and Bush Policy Killed Victims of the New Orleans Levee Flood
(6 comments)

Friday, September 2, 2005
Bush Apologist/ Alibi Provider Head of Army Corps of Engineers, Fired Haliburton Whistle-Blower
The man Bush is using to counter the news that he cut funding for hurricane safety projects in New Orleans is the same hatchet man who fired a whistleblower who reported inappropriate Halliburton contracts

Friday, September 2, 2005
New Orleans Horrors Turn Some News “Entertainers” Into Reporters
The raw horrors and tragedy of third world New Orleans is driving some usually sold-out news reporters to become real journalists telling the truth, asking tough questions, challenging FEMA managers and politicians who spew BS

Thursday, September 1, 2005
Bush: Zero Tolerance of Law Breaking= Zero Compassion, Zero Understanding
(4 comments) George thinks there should be “zero tolerance,… so people don’t exploit the vulnerable”

Thursday, September 1, 2005
FEMA Stands Down. Chaos Reigns City Out of Control
Feds Fail to Help Rescue, Fail to Lead-- infants dying, desperate refugees getting angrier...

Thursday, September 1, 2005
We Get Letters: Shut Up, they Say. This isn't the Time to Talk Politics
(3 comments) Like Hell it isn't!

Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Hurricane Katrina-Bush
(6 comments) Bush and his Republican cronies fingerprints are all over the gulf disaster and the gas price rise that will hit the US and the world.

Friday, August 26, 2005
Book Review: Message From Mother: Gather The Women, Save The World
As Important as Lakoff's Don't Think of An Elephant, Jean Shinoda Bolen's book has an answer that we already know from Mother Cindy. We need to gather the women to save the world

Tuesday, August 23, 2005
The RightWing Cesspool Overflows. A Pattern Begins to Emerge: The Dark Innards of The Political & Religous Right
(3 comments) It’s Ugly, almost Demonic, and people are talking about the AntiChrist— a deceiver who preys upon the faithful— as do Bush and other leaders of the Christian Far Right

Sunday, August 21, 2005
Real Democrats Must Burn Down the DLC, To Keep It From Burning Them
(1 comments) The DLC represents the republican-lite wing of the Democratic party. We need to get the DLC's influence out of the mainstream of the Democratic party. It will take talking about it and getting it into the open to make it happen.

Friday, August 19, 2005
Rubber-Stamp Republicans are Killing Our GIs
(1 comments) That’s the message the Democrats should be shouting, as they unify to demand Withdrawal From Iraq.

Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Trashing Crosses, Desperately Sliming Cindy and waking up Red America With a kilodeath Alarm Clock
(1 comments)

Saturday, August 13, 2005
What if the Democrats Continue to Fail and America Falls?
(3 comments) Billions of people in countries outside the US