Just Following Orders
I knew it was just a matter of time . . . but that doesn't make me any less enraged to hear it. The lawyer for one of the soldiers posed in those horrifying pictures from Abu Ghraib prison is on CNN...
View ArticleDaily Mirror editor sets example Rummy won't follow.
Newsday says"The Daily Mirror newspaper apologized Friday for publishing faked photographs of alleged abuse of Iraqi prisoners by British forces, and the editor stepped down." It's appalling to me that...
View ArticleEveryone Panic!
So everyone's talking about how The Terrorists are going to strike America this summer. I don't buy it. This fits a very clear Rovian pattern: News that is unfavorable to the Bushies begins to take...
View Articlesupport our troops with gmail invites
I wrote about this at my own website, but I'm reposting it here because I think Kossacks would be into this. I think it's a great way to support our troops, regardless of how we feel about the wars...
View ArticleAre the polls really that bad for Kerry? Probably not.
I believe that this election is the most important in American history, because it's a referendum on the Bush Agenda, which pretty much comes down to extremist policies (economic and otherwise) that...
View ArticleThe difference between the Swift Boat and National Guard controversies
Kevin Drum, via Josh Marshall:This story is a perfect demonstration of the difference between the Swift Boat controversy and the National Guard controversy. Both are tales from long ago and both are...
View ArticleGANNONGATE: Niagra Falls Paper calls on Rep. Slaughter to investigate...
The Niagra Falls Reporter has published a well-written open letter to Rep. Louise Slaughter, asking her to investigate: . . . how a partisan political organization and an individual with no credentials...
View ArticleABC Poll: 70% of Americans say Congress overstepped in passing Schiavo...
From ABC News: Americans broadly and strongly disapprove of federal intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, with sizable majorities saying Congress is overstepping its bounds for political gain. The...
View ArticleReporter ignores potentially embarrassing Iraq story.
From the Washington Post, via Today in Iraq:The Pentagon often whines about how the U.S. media only harp on the negative in Iraq. But there's some cheery, morale-building news about military-media...
View ArticleIf you thought rm -rf /bin/laden was funny, you're going to love this
I don't know if there are a lot of *nix geeks who read dailykos, but this post is making the rounds today, first at digg.com and later at boingboing.net. It's a recap of the (err, teh, I mean) war on...
View ArticleRoberts "not up to speed" on First Amendment
I've been on the fence about Roberts from the beginning. Thanks to Occam's Razor, I've learned in the last five years not to trust anything the Bush administration says, but I've kept as open a mind as...
View ArticleSchwarzenegger orders firemen to pose for photo-op while he works to...
In addition to countless lies, denying basic civil rights to gays and lesbians, and calling an unnecessary special election with powergrabs that masquerade as "reform," I present yet another reason...
View ArticleWhite House Set to Launch Propaganda Campaign Against Dems, Media Complicit
The White House is about to launch a "hit back" campaign against the Democrats, according to Dana Bash of CNN. The Columbia Journalism Review notes:Bash filed a CNN.com piece previewing the...
View ArticleGOP Implosion: RedState Sees Republican "Coup" Brewing
Via The Moderate Voice, I found a post at RedState which could either be a) disinformation or b) further evidence of the growing disgust the non-Taliban wing of GOP has for the Dobson-wing of the...
View ArticleTo everyone calling for impeachment . . .
In preparation for writing this diary, I tried to figure out how many times one of us has called for Bush's impeachment in the last six months. It will surprise nobody that the number is somewhere...
View ArticleMy Essay in Salon About My Dad and Talk Radio
I absolutely adore my family, and I will drop just about anything to attend a family get together, but I especially look forward to the annual family Christmas dinner at my mom and dad's house, which...
View ArticleMy Parents Respond to My Essay in Salon
"Nothing is more important than family." --My Mom.NOTE: This entry is extremely long. Please read it anyway. If you're short on time, at least read the beginning and end. Thanks.I spent much of...
View ArticleGitmo Detainees in their own Words on This American Life
On this week's This American Life, detainees from Guantanamo Bay spoke about their captivity, their interrogation . . . and their innocence. Their tales are chilling, and come straight from their own...
View Articlea statement of conscience
My government is supposed to represent me, and as an American citizen, I must accept responsibility for the things my country does in my name. It is with that responsibility in mind that I feel...
View ArticleThe next thing I hope Condi says nobody anticipated
Josh Marshall:I hope that when the political history of the last half century is written it will show, as it should, that the Republicans engaged in a brand of divisive electoral politics that pitted...
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