Grass Roots Relief in TX/LA
I know that getting Barack elected means everything. We need to canvas, make phone calls, and donate donate donate. But Texas needs your help. Now. Because the government won't and no one(s) can do...
View ArticleA Sexy Way to Help in Texas
Check out American Rainbow Rapid Response (ARRR).If you don't know who that is, please read my Diary from Monday that got bumped by too many Sarah Palin diaries.Apologies for putting up a diary and...
View ArticleNO!! On Republican Tax Cut Bill
We have once again been taken for granted. We called. We Emailed. We wrote LTEs. We called, emailed, and LTE'd some more.In the rush to pander to the obnoxious, discredited ideas of the people who...
View ArticleBreaking--No Filibuster on Stimulus So Far
It wasn't even close. 61-36, with Teddy Kennedy showing up for the first time since the inauguration. Now it heads for an up or down vote in the Senate, followed by conference with the house to...
View ArticleNo Mandate Without Public Option: My Letter to President Obama
Apparently, the Obama Administration hasn't updated Whitehouse.gov, because you'll still find this chestnut on it:Establish a National Health Insurance Exchange with a range of private insurance...
View ArticleCanada: War Criminals Welcome, Buddy
Law abiding citizens not so much. Especially if you protested our former War-Criminal-in-Chief's War against Iraq, look like you might not own a home or have health insurance, look like you might try...
View ArticleMystery Solved: The Hedge Funds Did It
When I'm trying to figure out what motivates a person, I ask a question. "If you owned everything in the world, where would you put it?" A sane, non-megalomaniac replies, "If I had everything, I'd...
View ArticleA "Tortured" Letter to the President
I was out of town for the last few days and just returned to learn of President Obama's response to the "Torture Memos." So, like with many other issues, I made my opinion known via the White House...
View ArticleDear Mr. Obama: Torture is Illegal
Another day, another shocking betrayal by the (I almost wrote Bush...oops!) Obama administration. This morning on This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, pretty...
View ArticleDeath Penalty for Bush/Cheney War Criminals?
I was reading this excellent diary earlier about how we know of at least 100 individuals tortured to death by the Bush/Cheney torture program. I was going to make this a comment until I realized the...
View ArticleSen. Wyden: Take the Rockefeller Pledge
Here in Oregon, we have two pretty good Senators who pretty much do the business of the American people and residents of the Beaver State. Sen. Merkley sits on the HELP Committee that passed a decent...
View ArticleOWS: "No Leaders" + "Permits" This Sounds Familiar
This diary started out as a comment on angelajean's excellent diary about the leaderless nature of the Occupy Wall Street, etc., movement and how the lack of structure conflicts with permit...
View ArticleMy Misguided NC Neighbors Need Your Help, Not Your Anger
I've seen this before. It's the Red Tide. R after R after R after R. It happens on nights when the pulpit turns out its voters with threats of eternal damnation for those who don't vote for the Right...
View ArticleAnother way we could stop the Adelsons and their Billions: Prosecute Wall Street
Like many here, I truly enjoyed the notion that we could stop right wing billionaires from buying the upcoming election by getting "our" billionaires to pledge to match them dollar for dollar in this...
View ArticleGhosts of Hurricanes Past
So some media remembers RMoney's response to disasters during his severely conservative period. And we all remember how the Republican House insisted on budget offsets before taking care of Irene's...
View ArticleThe Difference Between a Tragic Murder...and a Massacre
With all due respect and empathy for the victims and families of this latest gun created tragedy...... Since a preponderance of the people seem to think our easy access to automatic weapons with high...
View ArticlePapantonio: Hobby Lobby Is DOA
Forget about corporate personhood.Forget about Super Natural Corporate Powers (courtesy of SCOTUS, inc.).Forget about Citizen's United (courtesy of SCOTUS, inc.).Forget about employee vs. employer...
View ArticleReason #1 SCOTUS Will Regret Hobby Lobby
After oral arguments in the Hobby Lobby case, I wrote a very misnamed but widely read diary in which I echoed Attorney and Ring of Fire radio host Mike Papantonio's argument that the SCOTUS would never...
View ArticleYou're right. We're Not Tolerating Your Intolerance.
It turns out the false equivalence meme pushed by the corporate controlled media that could end up landing us with a Trump presidency reaches to the local level. Here’s a taste of a column written by...
View ArticleDear Hillary Campaign: Please Send Bernie to Asheville to Close the Deal in NC
Let’s face it. There are probably bigger states with more EVs that Bernie could help swing into the Blue column in the next 19 days. States like AZ, GA, and (finally!) TX where there are significant...
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