Jackson Thoreau

                 

Jackson Thoreau is a Washington, D.C.-area journalist/writer. His latest book, "Born to Cheat: How Bush, Cheney, Rove & Co. Broke the Rules, From the Sandlot to the White House," debuted at the Take Back America conference in June 2007. More info on the book is at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/cheat.html

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25 Articles

Monday, August 13, 2007
Cheney helped force Rove out
(11 comments) Perhaps Rove wants to spend more time with his gay stepfather, the one who left Rove and his suicidal mother during Christmas time one year, to talk about "family values."

Monday, July 9, 2007
The Wonder Years of Rove and Cheney
(2 comments) The youth of Cheney and Rove has not been examined as much as Bush's younger days. But to understand why those men are so deceitful today, we must look at their upbringing, which Jackson Thoreau details in his new book, Born to Cheat.

Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Who took America? Take Back America conference asks some tough questions
Jason Alexander may have asked the toughest: Who took America?

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Should mental health screenings be required to buy guns?
(11 comments) And maybe we should look at what countries like Germany and Canada are doing to control homicide.

Friday, April 13, 2007
Third largest newspaper in Vermont joins chorus calling Bush worst president in U.S. history and for impeachment
(2 comments) Vermont paper joins chorus calling for impeachment

Wednesday, March 28, 2007
More scholars and others call Bush worst president ever; New book shows how Bush & Co. have broken rules all their lives
(5 comments) Let us make sure future generations don't make the same mistakes we did.

Sunday, February 4, 2007
Raise hell, for Molly
It's time for all of us who still give a damn about what Molly wrote about and believed to answer the call, once again.

Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Racism in 'Kramer' is in us all, even Sean Hannity
(5 comments) Republicans like Hannity denounce such exhibitions as Richards' and call them sick. What they see in Richards is a reflection of themselves. It's a reflection of our entire society.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
After six long years, it's almost safe to watch cable news again
(1 comments) Watching arrogant Republicans be cut down a few notches makes for good political theater.

Wednesday, November 8, 2006
After six long years, it's almost safe to watch cable news again
(1 comments) Watching arrogant Republicans be cut down a few notches makes for good political theater.

Friday, October 27, 2006
Republican puds run the dirtiest campaigns in history
Even the Washington Post says so.

Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Gingrinch lies: Republican sex scandals far worse than Democratic ones
(19 comments) Foley is just the tip of the iceberg in this Republican scandal. The list of Republican pedophiles is long, very long.

Saturday, September 23, 2006
New black republican group lies, distorts history
(1 comments) The National Black Republican Association claims that Democrats started and built the Klan, Republicans are civil rights champions, and Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican. Hogwash.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006
How do you keep your son from being brainwashed by the war racket?
(4 comments) Late general, current mother of fallen soldier provide some answers.

Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Coulter accused of plagiarism, taking items out of context in another book
Take the Republican challenge to find items Coulter took out of context or plagiarized in her latest book.

Friday, June 9, 2006
U.S. founders and Christ were liberals: We cannot let right-wingers like Coulter define liberalism
(4 comments) When Coulter calls liberals "Godless," she likely does not accept that U.S. founders and Christ were liberals. Liberals should take the opportunity to turn the debate around to the enormous contributions of liberals to the nation and world.

Friday, May 5, 2006
Stephen Colbert's new parody song
This is a parody song I recently rewrote from a songwriter's version earlier. I sent it to Stephen Colbert in hopes that he will perform a version at the next event he does with Bush in the audience.

Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Process that led to DeLay's resignation started with petitions and complaints
In 2003, I presented a petition to the House ethics committee signed by several thousand fellow Americans to oust DeLay. It was one of several such requests, and I believe these efforts helped give the committee some backbone to later go after DeLay.

Friday, December 2, 2005
Truth-telling LA Times columnist fired by Bush-supporting publisher
Columnist Robert Scheer, a voice of truth in U.S. journalism, was recently fired by a new Bush-supporting publisher of the Los Angeles Times who hated his column. Scheer has responded by co-founding a new online magazine called Truthdig.

Friday, October 28, 2005
Libby indictment names Rove - or 'Official A' - as confirming Plame's identity to Libby
Expect Rove to go down soon.

Tuesday, September 27, 2005
D.C. Peace Rally Provides Nuggets to Help Carry On Against the Bush Regime
I don’t know if anything will really get through to Bush....I do know that all empires eventually fall.

Saturday, September 10, 2005
Donate to help Ben Marble, the physician who lost his home in Katrina and told off Cheney
(2 comments) Our story has helped the eBay auction of Marble’s video of his Cheney confrontation climb above $1,900, as of early Sept. 10. But we’d like to do more to help.

Friday, September 9, 2005
Physician who told Cheney to go F*ck Himself Lost his Home in Katrina, Detained, Cuffed by Cheney's M-16-carrying Goons
(10 comments) But he lives to tell about it and is selling a video of the confrontation on eBay.

Thursday, September 8, 2005
Timeline shows the depths of callousness Bush & Co. displayed after Katrina hit
(1 comments) If you are hit by a major disaster and clinging to your life as floodwaters threaten to drown you in your home, don't expect any help from the Bush administration.

Friday, September 2, 2005
Trying to heal the Red-Blue divide
In the interest of trying to do my part to heal the Red-Blue rift in this country, I have lately been responding to right-wingers who email me, to start some kind of a dialogue, rather than just ignore them.

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