Month: September 2005

I use the words “class warfare” and “race warfare” sparingly because I think that the concepts behind those words are so serious as to require restraint.  We shouldn’t cheapen their meaning...

cross-posted at dKos Sorry, I don’t usually do rant diaries, but I’m just boiling over and can’t take much more. First there’s Military Tracy’s diary about how the head of the National Guard is...

This is from Andrea Garland, who is from New Orleans: There are supplies sitting in Baton Rouge for the folks in New Orleans, but the National Guard has the city surrounded and is not letting anyone in or out. They are turning...

I’m sure we’ve all read, by this time, about the cuts in the Bush budgets for completing hurricane protection projects.  Now it will cost BILLIONS for clean-up and THOUSANDS are DEAD.  Shouldn’t...

As the 90’s wore on I began to have a kind of grudging respect for Mayor Giuliani. There were many things I didn’t like about how he ran the city. Many, many things. But I couldn’t deny the amazing...