2016-03-19 18:53
I don’t know about you, but I'm getting more and more signals indicating that the land of the free and home of the brave is fast becoming a police state. That dreaded word, once absurd… Read More
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2016-03-19 18:53
To justify its invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has constantly trumpeted its plans to democratize a country long exploited by a dictator, to introduce the marvels of free-market cap… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
What’s to be our fateWith a gang that can’t shoot straight?They hire the whores And jump into warsWhile building the debtsAnd losing the betsIn every national sectorWhile playing… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
The current turmoil over illegal immigration--including the largest demonstrations in U.S. history--has resulted in reams of foolishness. Whether it be the standard complaint that "these peo… Read More
2006-04-12 01:44
As the price of labor goes downHalf the Right wears a frownMumbling bring on the beaglesAnd chase the illegalsAcross the South borderAnd build a high wallTo keep law and orderBefore we all f… Read More
2006-04-10 23:17
After the claim about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction was proven baseless, the Bush Administration retreated to the fallback position occupied by the great American myth: our se… Read More
2006-04-07 20:40
We hear a great deal these days from Democrats about the Fall elections, about the increasingly strong chances for a Democratic retaking of Congress, and especially about how best to accompl… Read More
2006-03-25 14:41
MSNBC's catoonist, Daryl Cagle, after hearing Bush explain his Adminstration's failure in Iraq this week after so many years, captures in living color the fact that looking backwards, "house… Read More
2006-03-24 17:01
When the machiavellian pols at the White House found out that some brave soul with a conscience in the Bush Administration had contacted the New York Times to blow the whistle on the clearly… Read More
2006-03-20 21:41
Our myopic president, G. W. Bush, has been traveling the country recently, hoping to head off the bad news emerging as America observes the 3rd anniversary of his disastrous venture in Iraq… Read More
2006-03-18 19:12
Mike Lester, with the Rome News Tribune in Georgia, captures Senator Russ Feingold's dilemma last week.The thing is that Feingold has not been consistent lately: to wit, he voted for Bush's… Read More
2006-03-13 06:32
Guest Blogger: Charlie Ara, Cerritos, Calif.This morning I attended the Cerritos Optimist Club's annual Oratorical Contest at the Sheraton Hotel. In addition to a delicious meal with parents… Read More
2006-03-09 07:34
As the Parker political cartoon describes well (and after today's vote in the House), Bush's plan for our harbors seem like a lost idea Read More
2006-03-04 06:44
The warning signs are rising again that the Bush administration really does intend to initiate another aggressive action against Middle East oil giant, this time Iran. Part of the problem mo… Read More
2006-03-02 09:00
It was widely reported in the Associated Press recently that the US Coast Guard raised some red flags when the proposed take-over by Dubai Ports World of certain US ports was brought to thei… Read More
2006-03-02 08:52
Paul Conrad's view of the Bush, er, Bush-Nixon Administration.Mr. Conrad always gets to the core of the argument Read More
2006-02-25 23:52
The War Prez is true to his sportAnd now can bring war to our portsWith terror at home and awayAs a new form of playWith Dubai at our feetWe’ll have warlords to beatAnd we’ll out… Read More
2006-02-24 08:09
Yes, journalist Eric Alterman reminds us one more time about the non-existent so-called Liberal media.Please see here Read More
2006-02-23 19:21
Bush has fallen into some very hot, if not boiling, political water with his proposed approval of the purchase by Dubai Ports World, a United Arab Emirates owned firm, of the London based Pe… Read More
2006-02-23 09:09
Did you hear about Donna Shalala, the former Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Clinton Administration?Well these days Dr. Shalala, as president of University of Miami, is batt… Read More
2006-02-21 19:19
We have another super political cartoon from Jeff Parker who is with Florida Today.Mr. Parker captures Bush true interests in this drawing, and it’s not the same interests of the men w… Read More
2006-02-21 06:26
Photo: Senator Jay D. Rockefeller IVIn 1954 during the contentious Army-McCarthy hearings, Army general counsel Joseph Welch reprimanded daffy Senator McCarthy by saying, "Have you no sense… Read More
2006-02-19 18:03
Over at The Reality-Based Community Blog there is a super post by Mark Kleiman named "Entries from the Republican-English Dictionary." It's a complete hoot.Two of my favorites are:*class war… Read More
2006-02-17 15:09
Photo: Rep. Shays (R-Conn.)A U.S. District Judge ruled that FEMA could evict 12,000 families staying at hotels, all causalities of America’s worst natural disaster: hurricane Katrina… Read More
2006-02-17 15:03
The more we hear about it, the more it becomes clear that Vice-President Cheney’s mishap, wherein he shot his hunting companion, Harry Whittington, stands as the perfect metaphor for t… Read More
2006-02-16 18:12
Mike Keefe, an award winning political cartoonist with the Denver Post, explains why VP Dick Cheney was able to dodge the draft back in the 1960's. Forget that going to school business Read More
2006-02-14 23:38
Long time political correspondent Bruce Morton (now with CNN) warns that the all-powerful imperial presidency is here to stay unless Congress asserts itself and defends its proper role withi… Read More
2006-02-14 20:45
The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that the Bush Administration continues on the wrong track insofar how the US deals with prisoners in our so-called War on Terrorism (WOT). Of course… Read More
2006-02-10 18:11
I told my good political friend last year that the best hopes of Democrats in Washington lie with the Republican moderates, especially in the Senate. I still believe that, more or less.Tomor… Read More
2006-02-09 20:57
There is a great background article in the Capitol Weekly about famed Sacramento political consultant Richie Ross who long ago worked as Assembly Speaker Willie Brown's chief-of-staff, to be… Read More
2006-02-07 17:59
The "Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s Surveillance Authority" hearings by the Senate Legislative Committee headed by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) yesterday were nothing sho… Read More
2006-02-06 10:01
Guest Blogger: Larry Caballero, La Palma, Calif.As an American, I am saddened by the culture of corruption in Washington DC, and it's disgusting that any politician is capable of abusing the… Read More
2006-02-05 15:42
The State of the Union (SOTU) address is a speech, mandated by the US Constitution to Congress, and as such, to the people of the United States collectively. Instead what we received was a s… Read More
2006-02-03 02:52
Guest Blogger: Eileen Becker Salmas, Southern CaliforniaThis year, both Groundhog Day and the State of the Union Address fall on the same day.As Air America Radio pointed out, "It is an iron… Read More
2006-01-31 17:11
The cloture vote yesterday to prevent the filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito resulted in a Mexican standoff in the Senate. The ultime goal, of course, was to block his nominati… Read More
2006-01-30 14:34
Recently a few well known Democratic political activists have been making the case that Democratic lawmakers in Congress should walk out when President Bush enters the Capitol House chamber… Read More
