Cornell Research: 44 percent of Americans favor curtailing some liberties for...
Very interesting research from Cornell which demonstrates that a large number of Americans favor curtailing the civil liberties of Muslim Americans. The link below provides a press release and two pdf...
View ArticleNY Times sat on story that could have changed the election!
According to a story, "The Emperor's New Hump" by David Lindorff, on the website, FAIR, the NY Times did not run a story about Presdient Bush's much talked about bluge under his jacket during the...
View ArticleDems Booted From N.C. Church Over Politics
So it has come to this. It was just a matter of time before a story like this would come around. This after day that NPR ran several stories covering Christian Right law schools and law firms...
View ArticleStar Wars, the movie, interesting parallels to the U.S. today.
Some may have seen this, but the author raises some interesting parallels between the new Star Wars movie coming out this week and contemporary times. Even George Lucas, who is quoted in the article,...
View ArticleThe Memo vs. Newsweek story
is finally making it's way into the newspapers of rural America. I live in rural Illinois, in a red county in a blue state. And today, the regional paper ran an article by Gene Lyons, who is a...
View ArticleResolution to get out of Iraq
Four Congressmen have issued a resolution to establish a timetable to get out of Iraq. Congressmen Jones, a Republican from NC, is one of two (R) co-sponsors. He is also having been quoted as...
View ArticleAmerica, a shining beacon of Jeffersonian Democracy (in Iraq)?
Michael Ignatieff's quite long, but fastinating article in the Magazine section of the NYTs today not only traces the history of American democracy and Democratic/Republican party politics, but raises...
View ArticleRight -Wing blogs, what are they saying regarding Katrina?
For those of you who regularly scan conservative blogs, I'd be curious to know how they are dealing with and writing about this national disaster. Who are they critical of? Are they critical of Bush?...
View Article"What Katrina Tells Us About Mr. Bush's Philosophy of Government."
I regularly read the History News Network blog and saw this article tonight. I've been thinking along these lines for a week now, but have yet been able to put it together as nicely as Leonard...
View ArticleWhitehouse blocks web search engines
I search the sight and didn't see any story on this, if I missed it, I applogize. I was reading Rick Perlstein's interesting essay about the conservative movement posted on the Huffington Post, titled...
View ArticleDept of Homeland Security investigates college student's research paper?
In today's posting on insidehighered.com, a sensational story to say the least, and if true, clear evidence of abuse of civil liberties which will have a chilling effect on the academic community and...
View ArticleCan't the Bush Admin. just follow the law? -- A Rant !
To modify and borrow a phrase from Rodney King, if the Bush Admin. would just use the system and abid by the laws in place, I could almost (albiet granted the manufactured and unjust war which helped...
View Article2008 Election, A sinking feeling
I've been home this week, spring break at the community college where I teach history. The free time has allowed me a chance to catch up on the news and read DKos more than usual, which is both good...
View ArticleAnother Victim of the Iraq War
There are so many stories related to the War in Iraq that makes one's blood boil with anger at Bush's "little" war of choice, one does not know where to begin. Here is another one I read in the...
View ArticleSoldiers revolt against the war . . .
Just like in Vietnam, US soldiers eventually joined the anti-war movement. History repeats. In a story that will come out in The Nation, over 1,000 soldiers have signed an internet a petition to...
View ArticleRep. Jerry Weller (R-IL) Foreign Land Deal conflict of interest adds to GOP...
The Chicago Tribune reports today that Rep. Weller has extensive land investments in Nicaragua, which are not fully listed in documents that he is required to file. More below:
View ArticleArmy School at Ft. Leavenworth Debate Iraq
There is an amazing story in the NY Times today about a quite serious debate going on among students and faculty about, not only on how the war was fought, but the responsibility of commanders to speak...
View Article"Stab-in-the-back" myth brewing from Buch & Co. on Iraq?
An interesting article posted on TomDispatch.com by William Astore, lieutenant colonel, retired (USAF). Astore has a doctorate in modern history from the University of Oxford (1996). He suggests that...
View ArticleA "Second Civil War" -- Daily Kos vs. DeLay?
In a new book (THE SECOND CIVIL WAR: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America. By Ronald Brownstein. The Penguin Press), reviewed by Alan Brinkley the NYT (Nov. 11,...
View ArticleObama / Clinton Tied . . .
in the all important delegate count. According to the latest information on the MSNBC website to date, Obama and Clinton have won 37 total delegates each. I am so tired of all the MSM announcing...
View ArticleObama's bridge between generations.
One of the passages from Obama's speech tonight that sent a historical wave of awe over me was his story of women who supported Thurmond that now campaigned for him (quote below). If that doesn't...
View ArticleDemocratic Voter Turnout Impact down the ticket?
During the general election it is conventional wisdom that large voter turn out for a party helps that party's candidates up and down the ticket in state and local races. Has anyone seen any stories...
View ArticlePrediction -- Racism will trip up the GOP in the general election campagin.
I realize that this is not a news flash by any stretch. However, if Obama is the Democratic Party candidate for President, which it looks more and more likely, some Republicans or their supporters...
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