my thoughts on my life and my world
If any small group of people or individual deserves the title of Shadow President or Puppet Master, it’s the Office of Legal Counsel.
Please take a few minutes to read the following interviews from the script of a PBS Frontline episode entitled “Cheney’s Law.”
I’m ashamed that the last place I bought gasoline was a Chevron station. If the city of Berkeley can pull off a boycott of Chevron, I too can go down to the next station (by the way, Chevron owns Texaco). I already had good reason to do this, but Monday’s Flashpoints settled it [...]
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Americans are turning out [...]
I just can’t believe how similar this last address was to last years’, and all the others since the major changes in domestic and foreign policy undertaken by this administration began 6 years ago.
Domestically, the “missing class,” missing because they never get mentioned by Congress or President, were missing from Bush’s last State of the [...]
House Republicans are trying to pass a bill that establishes the United States as a Christian nation. Their tactic is to rewrite the early history of our nation to look like it was a band of Christian pilgrims carving out a new empire of Christendom in the New World. Or something.
The Nation article [...]
Just one of the many positive and workable suggestions made by The Smirking Chimp’s Stephen Fleischman is to Soak the Rich. Here’s a quote from the article, found at smirkingchimp.com:
Reverse Reaganomics. Re-institute regulation of industry. Make the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for example, do their jobs, so [...]
Warning: Do not download and read the following if you doubt your conservative beliefs; reading this presentation puts you in serious danger of changing your outlook on politics into a decidedly progress one.
I am heartbroken over the plight of the hurricane-homeless of New Orleans. With each new injury to the residents committed since those levees were first allowed to degenerate into an inadequate safeguard (see this previous post; see the Senate’s findings), the story of the betrayal of the American citizens of Louisiana gets uglier. [...]
UPDATE DECEMBER 16, 2007:
Two websites to help you analyze the Republican Party’s love affair with the Christian fundamentalist electorate:
theocracywatch.org
onlinejournal.com
And the online edition of Liberty Magazine, the news journal of the Religious Liberty department of my own Seventh-day Adventist denomination:
libertymagazine.org
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UPDATE DECEMBER 15, 2007:
This is the feeling of more and more in the Republican Party: Christianity is [...]
Isaiah 53:3-6 in The Message:
“We’ve all gone our own way, done our own thing…”
That phrasing…
Stark individualism is not good for a person. It is devastating for a community, for a society. The man, or nation, embracing it, forgets how connected all men are designed to be. Alone, divided off from each [...]
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