The morning of the heinous attacks on New York and Washington I was struck by many things, but beyond the horror of the carnage, what really leapt out at me as I was watching CNN (like everyone else I...
John Boehner has always reminded me of the Disney character above name J. Worthington Foulfellow from Pinnochio. Take a moment to click on the link below and enjoy a video I dedicate to him on the last day of...
I've enjoyed being able to blog here at TPM Cafe. I hope reader blogs come back here soon. But in case they don't I want to share a few thoughts with you and I want to say thank you to...
Like every American with any sense of decency I find the idiot minister in Florida and his hateful and bigoted plan to burn Korans on the anniversary of 9/11 repulsive and sickening. There's been way too much pointless jaw...
Like many of my brothers and sister workers I have been thinking a lot lately about how to stop the predator class from feasting further on the workers of the United States and I keep coming back to the...
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the...
Once again our dumbass Democratic officials get snookered by the cheapest and most rank tactics GOP strategists can come up with on, of all things, a local zoning matter in New York City. That's all this really is and all...
You have probably read this document before, but not for a very long time. Take a few minutes and read it today. You will be glad you did. For at least the first 150 years of our nation's independence from...
The President delivered a speech tonight. Perhaps you saw it? Thud! He told us all what we already know: that the Deepwater Horizon "spill" is the worst enviornmental disaster in our history. Thud! He told us that in this matter...
A recent secret decision by a federal judge to grant a petition for habeus corpus was declassified and made public for all to see. The decision makes clear what an aberrant and odious policy the United States continues to pursue in...
Of all the bullshit lies we've seen justifying our unjustifiable imperialist wars in the Muslim world the latest lie being trotted out is, in my opinion, the most absurd and transparently lacking in any credibility whatsoever. Every lie and deception...
Climate change threatens the very existence of the human civilization it has taken 5,000 years for us and our ancestors to build. We have already gone beyond the point where any "easy" fixes are out of the question. ...
The greatest possible sin, IMHO, would be to allow the destruction of our environment to reach the point where humanity will have killed itself off by destroying this magnificent and bountiful planet that is mother to us all. If...
By his nomination of Solicitor General Kagan to the SCOTUS, the nominally Democratic President of the United States has closed the door on restoration of our republic dashing the hopes of millions who had voted for him precisely because he...
Ban all offshore drilling forever! It is the only way. We cannot afford to damage our environment with any more catastrophic oil spills. We simply can't. Our environment is already under siege as it is. The Gulf of Mexico...
Burning oil rig sinks, setting stage for big spill By KEVIN McGILL and HOLBROOK MOHR, Associated Press Writers Kevin Mcgill And Holbrook Mohr, Associated Press Writers NEW ORLEANS - A deepwater oil platform that burned for more than a...
Glenn Greenwald, almost alone---even on the internet, has been documenting the increasing lawlessness of the Obama administration and particularly the extension of the illegal, unconstitutional claim to have the authority to order the killing of citizens of the United States...
Tavis Smiley is doing a real public service by airing a broadcast tonight examining Martin Luther King's "Beyond Vietnam" speech. Smiley's program is called: "MLK: A Call To Conscience" and it airs this evening on PBS stations. The speech...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."Eisenhower---Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors,...
