Month: June 2007

The Democrats passed the Iraq War Supplemental funding bill, but is that the end of the story until September? Not exactly. There are still a few battles to fight this summer. Bob Geiger reports on a Pelosi conference call last...

I only get PBS television, so the forum hosted by Tavis Smiley last night was the first one I’ve been able to see.   It was held at Howard University and it focused on issues of Black America, which I was glad of,...

According to figures from the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission, we’re going to go into the 2008 election roughly 5-6 million votes behind the Republicans. As detailed in Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse, 5,220,576...

So I turn on the telly this morning and find breathless CNN anchors hyperventilating over the nuclear suicide car weapon of mass destruction discovered smoldering outside of a London nightclub. One report from the scene notes...

 My GGGGGrandfather came to North America in 1835. He was a humble Irish sawyer up in the Maritimes. That means he spent his day in the pit, drawing on the saw, up and down. Hard work by any measure. His son tried several...