Election Day off

I won't be posting anything tomorrow--I'll be chauffering voters who need a ride to the polls from 9 am to 7 pm.  If you haven't already, give your party headquarters a call tonight or tomorrow morning and offer your time doing whatever needs to be done.

Yet another Republican demonstrates what "free" market means

The Republican conga line to the courtroom recently gained one more dancer: recently resigned Palm Beach County Commissioner Tony Masilotti.

Pastor Ted "talks to President George W. Bush or his advisers every Monday"

Ah, such fickle (and feckless) sorts, these D.C. Republicans.  Remember how they--especially the White House--really didn't know Jack Abramoff----until the White House visitor logs and loads of pictures of Big Jack at the White House hit the news?  Well, they're at it again, with Ted Haggard.

The four-point plan for sanity

Okay, I'm sick to death of the election.  I'm sick to death of politics in general, where all statements have ulterior motives for engines, and the only truth is that everyone's lying to some degree. So lets get right to the nuts & bolts.

Media reports on new jobs; once again, uninquiring minds want not to know

All excited about the drop in the unemployment rate?  Thrilled that it's the "Lowest in 5 Years" reported in conjunction with the fact that "employers added 92,000 new jobs" in October??????  

Journalism 101: get the damn headline right

I'm sure you've heard by now that the government managed to publish on the internet a series of Iraqi documents that essentially tell you how to engineer a nuclear bomb.  But have you noticed the tendency to diminish the story via headlines emphasizing the partisan nature of criticisms?

"Why do they hate us?" & the real IMF story from a former insider

Joseph Stiglitz does not toe the party line on the doings of the IMF, despite serving as chief economist and vice president of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000 (when, according to some pretty good evidence, he was dismissed under pressure from the U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, for failure to follow the program).

More gasoline on the Christian-Islam fire

While Republicans and extreme right commentators love to portray criticism of the Iraq war as a recruiting tool for terrorists, they rarely mention the recruiting value of things like Abu Ghraib or the many absurdly inflammatory remarks from their own kind (such as Coulter's "invade their countries, kill their rulers and convert them to Christianity").

Another headline they don't want to see: Top evangelical denies gay affair

Unproven as yet, but far from incredible, the Denver Post is reporting that a male prostitute has told a local television station that "he has had a three-year sexual business relationship with" Ted Haggard, "founder and senior leader of the 14,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and president of the multimillion- member National Association of Evangelicals."

The "Gotcha!" boomerang bites Boehner

When Republicans lost no time unleashing their well paid and tightly organized attack dogs on the story of John Kerry's recent gaffe, do you think House Majority Leader John Boehner expected that the poison boomerang would whip around and smack his butt?