Month: October 2006

The Last Throes of the Republican Majority

Our nation faces a threat to our freedoms, and the stakes could not be higher. —snip— We’ve seen that type of hate before — and the only possible response is to confront it, and to defeat it.  This...

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CT-Sen: Back to the ground

(cross-posted at Deny My Freedom and Daily Kos) As some of you may or may not know, I did some canvassing for the now-Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut, Ned Lamont, this summer. A lot of sweat, sore feet, and...

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NRCC as Classless as They Come

You’re sitting in your New York City hotel room trying to make a phone call to the state Department of Criminal Justice Services. You screw up the prefix and the next thing you know you are connected to a phone sex line....

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Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 405

this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war we love and support our troops, just as we love and support the Iraqi people – without exception, or precondition, or judgment. image and poem below the fold Honor...

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