Month: January 2006

(I couldn’t post this to Daily Kos, so I’m posting it here first.) We’ve all been media-saturated with what I call New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s “chocolate” statement.  You know: the...

Hugh Thompson recently died. LIke Robert Stethem, Thompson was another American military hero. He did what was right and paid a heavy price throughout his life for doing so. Despite a U.S. Military Academy standard of ethics far...

I don’t know where she came from (well, upstate New York I gathered) but I was watching the Democratic presentation of their ‘Honest Leadership’ thingy-ma-bob and I saw American Democracy’s Saving Angel:...

When I wrote this diary back in August, I noted that money going to fund “think tanks” was a waste when “progressives” already had tools available to counter the vast no-brain conspiracy of the Right....

From the Lansing State Journal: The new Medicare prescription drug program is causing all sorts of problems in Michigan and nationwide… a solution…Rewrite the Medicare program now… It is the opinion of the...