Month: May 2005

..Mum’s the word among the corporate media, the Democrats’ welcome challenge to the Bush administration in staving off a Bolton confirmation may prove to be good for little more than a couple of weeks’ of noisy...

When my spirited, sagacious 90-year-old mother calls me to complain about the heat, somethin’ is up! Tillie — that’s her real name — shivers in a sweater even when her thermostat is set at a suffocating,...

An assault on the Right to Vote by requiring Voter identification was narrowly averted on the floor of the Texas Senate about 1:30 this morning when Democrats used a parliamentary maneuver and a threatened filibuster (Remember...

Report from BBC News The Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4586159.stm This is Bolton’s watch and he’s clearly dropped the ball (bomb). Is he so tied up...

“But, in the end, I had to remind myself that I was dealing with children.”   Alex Kotlowitz, There are No Children Here. _____ I urge all progressives in Illinois to contact their state house members and ask...