Month: January 2006

I really don’t have a lot to say here myself except that it is becoming increasingly clear that the Bush administration obviously has no compunction about exercizing its power to punish its “enemies.” It seems...

Cross Posted at Daily Kos Asked about Abramoff, [Senate Minority Leader Harry] Reid told the Las Vegas Sun, “I don’t know him. I don’t want to know him. I know nothing about it other than what I read in the...

by Patrick Lang (bio below) My friend Paul Petty wrote last night to tell us that his son, Captain Christopher Petty was killed in action yesterday in Iraq. “Greater love hath no man than this, that he give up his life for...

In the weeks following 9/11, the NSA collected names and information on thousands of Americans, long before Bush gave them explicit authorization to wiretap without the need to obtain warrants from the FISA court. And then, out...

We are a people who long for peace.  Peace in the world, peace in our country, peace in our own hearts. And yet we often feel anything but peaceful, and we often act and react in ways that seem antithetical to the thing we...