Month: March 2007

[note: screwed the pup trying to edit….sorry.]   Founded in 1969-70 by John McConnell, EarthDay corresponds with the Vernal Equinox every year. and is celebrated world wide. Today, the Earth Flag that he designed,...

Democracy Dreaming Joel S. Hirschhorn What is this thing called democracy?  So easy to talk about, so difficult to make real.  Pure democracy is not what our Founders gave us.  Who would want a simple majority to...

Also at DKos. UPI Pentagon correspondent Pamela Hess of has been making the cable news rounds lately, and is telling some compelling stories about her experiences in Iraq.  Her interview on C-SPAN in early March of this...

What a day. First the President made a grave error: “The president spoke to the attorney general around 7:15 a.m. from the Oval Office,” said Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman. “They had a good conversation about the status...

As Mike Whitney wrote yesterday in Counterpunch, it’s pretty clear that Rove is behind the firing of the “Gonzales 8”: no one in the Justice Department had a motive for that, but it fits in perfectly with...