Month: November 2005

The holidays are here and Fighting is in the air. In Iraq, the churches, the stores, congress and on the blogs. The battle-mentality is everywhere. And now that it is the holiday season the Merry Christmas War is back. Talk...

cross-posted from dembloggers and my blog Well, it didn’t take long for newly (and barely) elected Jean Schmidt to go from this: “I pledge to walk in the shoes of my colleagues and refrain from name-calling or the...

There is really not much to compare this to.  I would like to joke, like Monty Python, and say that no one expects the Spanish Inquisition.  Except that in America in the fall of 2005 it is not a joke at all.  It...

Matt Santos favors Medicare for all U.S. citizens! (Santos is the West Wing Democratic presidential candidate. Check out the Boston Globe’s “Debate was fictional, issues were real”: “Democratic...

[From the diaries by susanhu.] I had been planning for some time now to write a diary about the recent Federal ruling recognizing the Shinnecock Nation of Eastern Long Island as a legitimate tribe. They have been struggling...