PART 1 The president of the Associated Press (AP) was spewing venom at the Bush–Cheney administration for having turned the Department of Defense into a propaganda machine. Americans “expect honest answers about what’s happening to their sons and daughters,� Tom Curley told journalism studen...

Holy Popsicles! That’s right, HOLY POPSICLES! OK, ONE holy popsicle in Plymouth, IN. Plymouth has never really been known for anything before, besides being the first location ever of a Montgomery Ward store, but thewy’re hitting the spotlight this week with a frozen piece of something o...

This first week of the Obama Presidency has brought out an amazing selection of outlandishness among the right wing whack jobs. It isn’t just politicians saying “Bush” and “Greatness” in the same headline, either. While I’m sure I am not cataloguing all of the ext...

Dick Cheney is out of office, and already an ugly footnote in history, a man who learned dirty politics and a lust for power early, and then put those values into practice over the last eight years. American history will come to see Dick Cheney as arrogant and as an enemy of the constitution. But fo...

Surely it should have dawned on Senator John Cornyn Tuesday that there’s a new regime in town and that Barack Hussein Obama will not tolerate torture. Surely he hard this section in Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address: As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our saf...

Keith Olbermann’s Countdown broke the story last night, with Russell Tice, former NSA analyst, stating explicitly that the Bush Administration (illegal) wiretap surveillance program was monitoring journalists. DailyKos has a good diary on the subject, but here’s the transcript of the Olb...

Today in 9,000 government buildings, such as the Carl B. Stokes and Howard M. Metzenbaum Courthouses in Cleveland, workers will be taking down the portraits of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as near to noon as possible. Acording to Cleveland,com, those portraits will be destroyed. I’m not sure...

Over the last several years under the disasters of the Bush Administration, it has become commonplace for many of us in the reality-based community to complain about Bush’s leadership and actions. I know of nobody who hoped Bush would pull the doofus move of invading Iraq or appointing a horse...

The biggest triumphs of our system of justice in the last 100 years, I would argue, were in the 50’s and 60’s, and dealt with the civil rights movement. In America we recognized the racism in our past and went a good, if long ways towards correcting that racism that was nearly hard-wired...

Laura Bush was dancing a little Sidestep yesterday on FoxNews, defending her husband’s wreck of a Presidency. . . Fellow Texans, I am proudly standing here to humbly see. I assure you, and I mean it- Now, who says I don’t speak out as plain as day? And, fellow Texans, I’m for progr...