Month: September 2007

Alan Greenspan, Cowardly Snake

Remember all those speeches he made supporting the Bush economic policies and Bush’s tax cuts? Well, now that Bush is the most unpopular President in a generation, and Greenspan is no longer head of the Federal Reserve,...

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Saturday Morning Open Thread

How many protesters will the Washington police arrest for civil disobedience today? All those who plan to participate in the die-in organized by Veterans for Peace (VFP) and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) at the Capitol?...

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Saturday Painting Palooza Vol.110

Welcome back. This week we’ll be continuing with our 5×7 painting of Arizona’s Grand Canyon.  The photo of our subject is seen in the photo directly below.  (For those new to this series, I will be...

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What Congress should do about the war

We are stuck in Iraq with no good options because Congress has lightly ceded its war-making powers to the executive For more on pruning back executive power see The Pruning Shears. The Constitution of the United States, Article...

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Can We Ever Talk About AIPAC?

Colbert King asks Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) to ‘put up or…you know the rest’ regarding his comment that AIPAC “has pushed this war from the beginning . . . They are so well organized, and their members are...

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