Today the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) ran a story on the “The Fairness Doctrine’s Chilling History.“ CBN runs the usual right-wing nut bias story claiming the world will end if right wing talk radio is forced to provide counter view points along with their nutty stance.
“It was a station outside Philadelphia, fittingly in a little [...]
The Raw Story is running an interesting investigative piece on the arrest, faux-trial, and detention of the Democratic Gov of Alabama from 1999-2003 at the direction of the Bush Administration…
For most Americans, the very concept of political prisoners is remote and exotic, a practice that is associated with third-world dictatorships but is foreign to the [...]
As much as I’d love to think that we would be better off without a super expensive and super strong military all I have to do is look at the recent Russian and Chinese joint war games to know that that is not the reality. It looks and feels to me like we’re heading [...]
The American Century Was Only A Decade
Salon.com:
With the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the United States stood tall — militarily invincible, economically unrivaled, diplomatically uncontestable, and the dominating force on information channels worldwide. The next century was to be the true “American century,” with the rest of the world molding itself in [...]
Let’s just give you the link to the site. But Hillary Clinton at The Abbey? Maybe gays will take an interest in politics in WeHo.
TowlerRoad has got the scoop
The Budget Office released an estimate today that states the Iraq war will end up costing the United States a total of one trillion dollars (and that’s not even counting the thousands of dead American soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis.) Once again the “fiscally responsible” Republicans have taken the US [...]