Month: March 2008

Another Bush legacy for the next President is the privatization of basic infrastructure, such as roads. Last year conservative “privatization” ideologues at the Department of Transportation (DOT) decided the best way...

Both Vice President Cheney and Senator and presumptive nominee, St. John of the McCain visited Iraq this week and both told some real whoppers. Cheney went for the “old school” version of the Big Lie by continuing to...

< The topic below was originally posted on my blog, the Intrepid Liberal Journal, as well as The Wild Wild Left, The Peace Tree, Independent Bloggers Alliance and Worldwide Sawdust. Effective change agents and activists must...

One of the tenets of Liberation Theology is that Christ suffers along with the oppressed.  The verse from the Spiritual “Nobody knows the trouble I seen, nobody knows like Jesus” resonates not only in the...

There were a lot of inspirational parts to Barack Obama’s speech, but he gave the speech to solve a political problem. And, on that front, I think his most effective rhetoric came in the following passage. In the end,...