According to Project Vote Smart: Senator John Sidney McCain III repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart staff. […]
Unity or Bust
I wish things were different than they are, but all things considered, H. R. Clinton did an admirable job tonight at the DNC. I wish I could have supported a woman. I wish I could have supported Clinton. But her stance on the war made that impossible. At least it was good to see that […]
Wake Up America. John McCain is Senator from a Pit of Corruption.
This is the first of many posts that will be made over the next couple of months that highlight John McCain and what his interests and protection of interests vital to his family’s continuing wealth have done to Arizona. This article by Halbfinger in yesterday’s New York Times offers tantalizing details that require further investigation […]
Women Political Commentators Score! But…
Rachel Maddow gets her own show on MSNBC! I’m reporting solely from what I read in a Commondreams repost of a Washington Post article as I just got home from work and opened my laptop and whooped with joy at seeing a female Rhodes scholar rewarded for her wit and wisdom in political reporting. About […]
Week in Review: Baby Steps Toward Justice Just a Diversion
Ted Stevens’ indicted for falsification of documents yet Halliburton continues on unscathed though they broke contracts, failed to deliver on what they had contracted to do, and allowed men and women to be killed for no purpose rather than profit. This McClatchy article links to all the pertinent documents on the Stevens indictment. This DPC […]
Rambling, Synchronicity & Stuff in the Offing
No time to write (and that really means research as after the research is done the writing happens as if by magic…. yeah right on a good day….) involved posts in the last week. Immediately after returning from BlogHer 08 I came down with a hellacious case of cold/flu. Now I’m really behind and I […]