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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Osama bin Laden as Responsible for the 9/11 Attacks: Is This Belief Based on Evidence? , David Ray Griffin
(2 comments) While our criminal justice system insists on a trial, presentation of evidence and an opportunity for public oversight before guilt is determined for an accused, we seem to go to war based on merely the whim of our executive. Not that it was supposed to be this way, Congress was to have the sole right to declare war, but it appears that clause of our Constitution has been rendered quaint.

Monday, July 20, 2009
Excusing Outrages of the Right By Robert Parry
Still burning up about the theft of the 2000 election? Much of your anger should be directed at the mainstream right-wing media that played it down. And they continue to give radical-right wing opinion every benefit of every doubt, manufacturing doubt if none exists.

Saturday, July 4, 2009
Why Is Obama Staying in Afghanistan?
Probably most people who supported Obama are perplexed about why he is so intent not only on staying there but on expanding the effort. The reason we may not be hearing much from Obama on this is that the answer is complex and does not lend itself to our sound-bite news culture. A foreign correspondent for McClatchy is given over an hour to explain and incidentally demonstrate what reporting used to be about.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Conservatives Throw Bush Under the Bus
(3 comments) The Washington Times is a far-right (some would say loony-right) newspaper that never in the past would have criticized Bush or any other conservative. Why are they now calling for investigations and punishment? Could it be that they are concerned that Bush's unpopularity will bring down the Republican Party and the Conservative movement?

Friday, December 26, 2008
Guardian Daily: The Bush Years
This is a nice audio overview of the Bush years from a British perspective.

Thursday, December 25, 2008
No More Bail-out Money
Bernie Sanders speaks out on the bail-out for the banks.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Laissez-Faire Capitalism Should Be as Dead as Soviet Communism
(1 comments) Arianna Huffington argues that capitalism is now (or should be now) as dead as Marxism. Whether or not you agree, it is a topic worth considering.

Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Connell Stonewalls At Deposition
The first deposition of Michael Connell took place yesterday in Cleveland. This article describes the deposition and provides a review of the soon to be filed RICO lawsuit against Karl Rove.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Help Verify the Vote
(1 comments) If you live in or near Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania, you have a chance to do something significant to help ensure a fair election. An independent effort led by noted academics is planning exit polls in Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania to verify the official vote count.

Saturday, September 27, 2008
Palin for President?
There is a serious issue in front of us that is not getting nearly enough attention, and that's whether Sarah Palin is qualified to be vice president. Bob Herbert addresses this issue in a critical but thoughtful way.

Monday, September 22, 2008
Democracy Now: The $700 Billion Bail-out
If you want to stay informed, it is your responsibility to watch Democracy Now every day. However, you really do not want to have missed today's show. There was a great discussion of the proposed give-away to the biggest banks. Make sure you see or listen to it.

Saturday, August 9, 2008
Those Awful Democrats
It is hard to miss articles on this website urging people to vote for third party candidates or nearly equivalently, not voting in the upcoming election. The contention is that sure, Republicans are terrible, but Democrats are just as bad. In particular, Nancy Pelosi is worse than awful and needs to be removed. A quite balanced treatment of these issues can be heard in this "To the Point" edition. It's worth hearing.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Democrats Self-distructing; Four More Years
A strongly worded editorial that criticizes the Democratic leadership (and indirectly Clinton) for its shameful lack of discipline in the current primary battle.

Monday, February 25, 2008
What's Really Wrong with Newspapers
We often hear about the decline of newspapers, with the subtext that it is just a natural consequence of evolving technology or some other undefined force of nature. This article throws a nice bucket of reality on this sleepy kind of thinking. The article does not suggest this, but its observations apply quite as well to television and radio as well as newspapers.

Monday, December 31, 2007
Interview of Elizabeth Kucinich
We don't often get to hear extended discussions of issues by candidates or their representatives, and this is especially true of candidates other than the top one or two, as rated by the MSM. Here is a welcome exception.

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Paul Krugman on Unions
(1 comments) In the Christmas day op-ed page of the NYT, Paul Krugman talks about the role of Unions. At the Commonwealth Club last July, Krugman gave an extended lecture related to this and listening to it is time well spent.