Month: June 2006

A vote to renew the 1965 Voting Rights Act was cancelled yesterday after some Republicans argued about requirements for bilingual ballots and federal oversight of voting practices in some Southern states.  Some are of the...

I don’t know about all of you, but as I look around, waiting anxiously for what November 2006 will hold, I am at once stricken by a dark sense of Deja Vu.  If Democrats want to win, I propose we approach things...

This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever read. How many of you consider yourselves “hard fascis[ts] with a Microsoft face” or part of the “fascistic forces ranged against Lieberman”? The...

Today a letter is published in http://www.bistandsaktuelt.no/img/pdf/200605.pdf the Norwegian magazine. Page 2. A woman who used to work for NCA in Africa tells how she complained about NCA staff hiring prostitutes and sexually...

A year after a White House spokesman was asked whether Bush supports birth control, and more than 300 days after New York Rep. Carolyn Maloney and 19 colleagues asked the same question in a letter (they wrote five letters in...