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what year is this again?

Trying to keep L.’s previously laid-back and genial Smokey from stressing new mouse Coco into an early grave with an excess of affection (Coco, Spots and Smokey are all females, but that seems not to matter), I was much too busy last night to listen to Dummy.
Reading the transcript this morning was painful enough, so [...]

Fox Attacks Iran

It's sad that we have to point this out to people, but corporations now function as defacto governments, manipulating public thought and influencing political figures. Fox news is one of their most obvious propanganda outlets. Robert Greenwald's latest project points out how they have been helping build the case for going to war with Iran. [...]

Preznit Git R’ Done

This AP piece - which reads like it was written by an eighth-grader - seems like a press release contrived to counter any speculation of the whys, what and when of Rove’s departure:
Bush turns to executive action to get some of his agenda doneHis strength is sapped by an unpopular war, Democrats are running Congress, [...]

US anti-war group ordered to take down Iraq demo posters

A US anti-war group has been warned it will be fined 10,000 dollars if it does not remove posters in Washington announcing a march in the capital next month against US involvement in Iraq, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.“The ANSWER Coalition has received citations from the authorities in Washington threatening to fine us 10,000 dollars unless [...]

How different our country might be…

if we had a free press and heard/read pieces like this in the news instead of "fair and balanced" nonsense.  Here is a highlight.  Please read the whole article.
At this point, it is imperative that we let the world in on a dirty, little secret that many naive liberals have managed to lockout of their [...]

A National Network of Snitches

Although it isn’t particularly surprising, the FBI wants to establish a network of covert operative snitches in the US, to aid in the so-called War On Terror and who knows what else:
FBI Proposes Building Network of U.S. Informants
The FBI is taking cues from the CIA to recruit thousands of covert informants in the United States [...]

Prescott Bush Meant to Overthrow the Government

Or did he? An upcoming BBC report claims that W's Grandfather - who was convicted of trading with Nazi's in WWII - was also involved in the famous 1933 Business Plot, a fascist coupe attempt that was meant to unseat Roosevelt and install a capitalist-friendly military dictatorship in the US. It was reportedly foiled by [...]

People power? Where is it?

Enjoyed reading this letter to the editor in the Columbian today.  Used to think the people had the power.  Before Howard Dean's failed campaign, before John Kerry's failed campaign, before the failed Iraq resolutions, before US run Iraqi torture prisons, before illegal US wiretapping, before impeachment was taken off the table, before Scooter was given [...]

Bush’s Executive Order: Bringing the War Home

And in a bad way…
In a little-noticed executive order issued on Tuesday, President Bush directed the Treasury Department to block the U.S.-based financial assets of anyone deemed to have threatened “the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq” or who “undermin(e) efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq.”The order [...]

Whitehouse Penned Counter-Demonstration Manual Revealed

I don't know why this surprises me, given that this administration displays such blatant disregard for civil liberties and contempt for the very boundaries of their office as defined by the Constitution, but somehow it does:
A new lawsuit has been filed against a former high level staffer in the United States Presidential Administration of George [...]

Hugo Chavez Goes Further Down the Road to Dictatorship

UPDATED 6-5-07
Hi friends, I want to apologize for going off half-cocked on this story.
I too was sucked in by the mainstream myth about Chavez going too far. I am a free speech fundamentalist and don’t believe there are very many legitimate reasons for censorship. I also believe that we need to be vigilant against [...]

PBS Round-Files Documentary About Moderate Islam

What does publicly funded, “liberally biased” PBS do when a documentary about Muslims doesn’t fit the current narrative?
Why, they ban it, of course:
PBS has blocked the broadcast of Islam vs. Islamists: Voices from the Muslim Center. This new documentary — funded with a $675,000 Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) grant — contrasts the ubiquitous [...]