August 27, 2007 – 11:55 am
I don’t trust the latest staff shakeups in the White House. First Karl Rove resigns, and now Gonzales. The President’s two fiercest defenders have both left the White House, and only two weeks apart. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been in favor of Gonzales leaving since he first stepped foot in the Attorney General’s office, [...]
August 16, 2007 – 11:15 am
From the Atlantic’s article, The Rove Presidency: “Rove has always cast himself not merely as a campaign manager but as someone with a mind for policy and for history’s deeper currents—as someone, in other words, with the wherewithal not just to exploit the political landscape but to reshape it. At the Christian Science Monitor lunch, [...]
An Excerpt from Al Gore’s New Book: The Assault on Reason: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions? The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the [...]
The Realignment of America:“It has become a commonplace to say that population has been flowing from the Snow Belt to the Sun Belt, from an industrially ailing East and Midwest to an economically vibrant West and South. But the actual picture of recent growth, as measured by the 2000 Census and the census estimates for [...]
Impeach Bush or Get Rid of the Impeachment Clause:“What is it about impeachment that has the Democratic Party leadership so frightened? Talking with members of Congress, one hears the same refrain: “I know Bush and Cheney have committed impeachable crimes, but impeachment is a bad idea.†The rationales offered are many, but all are either [...]
From A Mother’s Day for Peace: “In 1870, after the devastation of the American Civil War, social activist and poet Julia Ward Howe wrote the original Mother’s Day Proclamation calling upon the women of the world to unite for peace. Brave New Foundation created this new short video in honor of the origin of Mother’s [...]
From The New Republic’s The netroots is the most important movement since the Christian right: “Like any movement, the netroots is a pastiche of people and groups, with subfactions and varying levels of attachment. For that reason, there’s almost no characterization that is true of every member. And yet, as movements go, the netroots are [...]
April 16, 2007 – 01:11 pm
From Thomas Friedman’s, eleven-page manifesto, The Power of Green: “A new green ideology, properly defined, has the power to mobilize liberals and conservatives, evangelicals and atheists, big business and environmentalists around an agenda that can both pull us together and propel us forward.” It’s a long ass article to read on the Web, I know, [...]
From City in Florida Fires Official Who Planned To Change Sex: “The longtime city manager here was fired early Saturday, one month after he disclosed his plans to seek a sex change. The City Commission voted 5 to 2 to dismiss the man, Steven B. Stanton, after a six-hour hearing in which he and [...]
March 21, 2007 – 02:32 pm
From Why I Was Fired: “With this week’s release of more than 3,000 Justice Department e-mail messages about the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors, it seems clear that politics played a role in the ousters. Of course, as one of the eight, I’ve felt this way for some time.”
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