Category Archives: U.S. politics

She’d like a million signatures. Go here, please. If you’re not from California, there’s another link on that page, just above where the address info goes. Bring our soldiers home! Robert Devereaux

I commend to your attention Donald Rumsfeld: The War Crimes Case. A few paragraphs: Donald Rumsfeld was one of the primary architects of the Iraq war. On September 15, 2001, in a meeting at Camp David, Rumsfeld suggested an attack … Continue reading →

One more political entry before turning to other matters. I said yesterday morning, and Randi Rhodes agreed on the radio, that the voters of this nation have risen up just in time and saved it from fascism. Here’s a great … Continue reading →

The party of sanity and compassion handily won the House of Representatives, making Bush way lame, as lame as his brain. Here’s a nice post from Democratic Underground: America stood up and demanded the accountability that has been lacking for … Continue reading →

Not a lot to say today except, my fellow Americans, vote as if your freedoms and the national honor depended on it (for they do), vote Democratic, vote the faux-Republican scoundrels out, and let’s have a decent USA once more. … Continue reading →

This morning, I was struck with a book idea that has me considering the task of putting together a book proposal for whichever company publishes Howard Zinn’s "A People’s History" series of spinoffs from his magnificent and eye-opening A People’s … Continue reading →

Where have we heard it before? Ah, yes.  Hitler’s fanatical vegetarianism, not to mention his coprophagic sexual ways. Now, please see Susie Bright’s blog entry about Chimpy McFlightSuit’s hatred of "green food" and "wet fish" (poor dear Laura), as per … Continue reading →

Check this out. Money quote: "Each year new countries in less-developed parts of the world move up the Index to positions above some European countries or the United States. This is good news and shows once again that, even though … Continue reading →

The current Republican party has disgraced its own moderate and honorable past with the right-wing radicalism it has embraced in the last many years, and the Bush-enabling that has plunged us into a Constitutional crisis. We must vote against all … Continue reading →

For more on the sorry state of American politics, be sure to drop in on Rude Pundit. I don’t visit Rude Pundit often, but when I do I love the eloquence of his outrage at the monsters in charge, their … Continue reading →