Tag: politics
member name: Shava Nerad
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April 12, 2006 09:21 PM EDT --
You can't make these things up. In the email newsletter of The Weekly Standard, conservative Michael Goldfarb is fearful of the progressive's trend to restrict the use of unhealthy substances: . . .
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July 23, 2006 02:27 AM EDT --
Shava looks into her crystal ball and says, Israel will establish a buffer zone in southern Lebanon which it will effectively annex, and that buffer zone will include the Litani River.
For over . . .
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April 30, 2006 09:37 PM EDT --
I have no idea where this came from, but I got it most recently from my email list from my old UU church in Eugene, OR:
Hillary and Bill Clinton and Al Gore die in a car accident and suddenly
find . . .
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August 11, 2006 11:09 AM EDT --
A Zogby poll of US registered Democrats shows that 79% of us are happy Lieberman was knocked of the ballot by Lamont.
71% are displeased with Joe's choice to challenge Ned as an independent, . . .
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March 22, 2006 12:46 AM EST --
Last year I arrived in Cambridge, MA after sixteen years gone. When I had left, I was an "envelope stuffer" for the Dems sometimes, but I was not involved in party affairs at all. . . .
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April 16, 2006 12:19 AM EDT --
Remember the Pentagon Papers? Some senator from Alaska had the balls to read a classified document, word for word, into the Congressional Record, and all hell broke loose . Remember some guy . . .
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August 23, 2006 04:44 PM EDT --
As Reuters reports, there's a phenomenal "radio silence" surrounding the kidnapping of a Fox correspondent and a free lance cameraman in Gaza.
The kidnappers, claiming to be with . . .
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June 04, 2007 04:00 PM EDT --
The world held its breath in 2002 when Daniel Pearl was held by terrorists in Karachi, Pakistan. The American journalist, accused by terrorists of being a CIA operative, was held for nine days and . . .
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February 07, 2007 04:54 PM EST --
As reports of hurricane relief fraud surface this week, the Bush administration and the state of Louisiana are likely to use this to further starve legitimate reconstruction in New Orleans.
When the . . .
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February 10, 2007 04:57 PM EST --
The on-again-off-again but clever magazine Radar gives us this piece of news analysis:
Bush ratings poll him lower than stepping in dog poo.
Truly a sad day for any administration.
(with a nod . . .
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April 12, 2006 08:33 AM EDT --
Cheney to Bush: Yes, sir, don't you remember telling me to give
those documents out?
Bush: No, I don't really...
Cheney: I was feeling restless, you were impatient, . . .
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January 30, 2007 04:13 PM EST --
Tony Blair gave Catholic adoption agencies all over the UK a twenty month grace period to provide fully nondiscriminatory adoptions to same sex couples, the Guardian reported today. Catholic . . .
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June 26, 2006 10:25 AM EDT --
A friend passed on this interview on jambands.com with Ann Coulter, deadhead. It's a great example of how your preconceptions about who "we" (any "we" ) are can be painted . . .
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August 09, 2006 03:09 PM EDT --
Ned Lamont defeated Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primaries last night, forcing the former VP candidate to run for his own seat as an independent.
It's amusing to see the blogosphere credited . . .
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January 11, 2006 02:02 AM EST --
Fourteen constitutional law experts, including law school deans, former attorneys general, a former FBI director, and high legal officials of various ilk (including reputable conservatives), have chimed . . .
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March 22, 2006 08:41 AM EST --
A young man got shot last weekend in my neighborhood. He had a history of drug arrests -- he also had a 2 year old. He was 19. He was shot multiple times in his car, where he was sitting . . .
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April 05, 2006 03:03 AM EDT --
Brian Doyle, deputy press secretary at DHS, has been delivering the Bush Administration's homeland security messages to the media for some time. Doyle assures us that Homeland Security . . .
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January 29, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Popular movements have changed significantly since earlier decades -- and I'm not talking about the 60's. In the 30's and 40's and before, the labor movement was a significant power . . .
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May 03, 2006 12:01 PM EDT --
Teri Mills, the great mind and big heart behind the National Nurse campaign, commissioned me to make healthy lunch baskets for the Dean Campaign when they came to Portland, Oregon.
The food baskets . . .
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June 29, 2006 05:10 PM EDT --
I am at the Media Giraffe conference in Amherst MA this week, and having an interesting time among all these bloggers and traditional journalist types.
I even got to meet Helen Thomas, one of my . . .
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