November 2, 2006
Spotlight on Ted (no relation to Merle) Haggard. Founder of what is called today a mega-church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, The New Life Church. Head of the 30 million member National Evangelical Association, a position he abruptly resigned amid allegations to be discussed momentarily.
October 31, 2006
Things are looking pretty scary these days, regardless of one’s perspective, be it so-called liberal or so-called conservative.
October 3, 2006
Condoleeza Rice ignored warnings delievered by members of her own government and by former staffers of the outgoing Clinton administration concerning Al Qaeda’s intent to strike in the U.S. months before 9/11. This is news? Today the State Department confirmed, though Dr. Rice has no recall of the fact, that CIA Director George Tenet briefed her as National Security Advisor on the Al Qaeda threat in a meeting on July 10, 2001.
September 28, 2006
President George W. Bush came one step closer today to wielding the power to undo nearly 800 years of human progress with the stroke of a pen.
September 21, 2006
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez complained to the U.N. General Assembly in New York yesterday that the hall “still smells of sulphur” following U.S. President George W. Bush’s address to international diplomats there the day before. Standing firm as one of the world’s more outspoken critics of the Bush administration and of the influence of U.S. policy in international affairs, Mr. Chavez called for reform of the U.N. and charged that Mr. Bush promotes a “false democracy of the elite” and a “democracy of bombs”.
September 11, 2006
I feel it’s necessary to make this retroactive post for the record. It’s a link to an amazing litany of facts one ought consider each year on the anniversary of 9/11.
August 30, 2006
Thaddeus Russell, in a brilliant piece published today in Salon (which may require some hassle to view, but is well worth the annual subscription fee to have at one’s disposal), explains exactly why we can “cut and run” in Iraq, and leave the democratization of the Middle East to its citizens.
August 18, 2006
In a landmark ruling handed down Thursday, U.S. District Court Justice Anna Diggs Taylor ruled the Bush Administration’s warrantless spying program is an “obvious” violation of the Fourth Amendment, was illegally implemented without regard to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and should be halted immediately.
August 10, 2006
Authorities in Great Britian arrested 21 people in and around London Thursday, claiming to have foiled a terrorist plot to blow up transatlantic jetliners bound from London to the United States. Security was raised to its highest level in Britain, and carry-on luggage was banned on all flights. Huge crowds backed up at London’s Heathrow airport as officials searching for explosives barred nearly every form of liquid outside of baby formula.
August 8, 2006
The first crack in the neoconservative facade appeared tonight just after 11:00pm Eastern time, when Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman conceded his state’s Democratic primary to millionaire challenger Ned Lamont. Just three months ago polls showed the three-time incumbent senator held a commanding lead over his little-known opponent. With but three months before this year’s mid-term elections, conservatives everywhere must be feeling less secure than they have in quite some time.