Alberto Gonzales publicly announced his resignation as Attorney General of the U.S. publicly today after having turned in his resignation in to Bush on Friday. This is no victory for America. This is a shuffle of a sniveling little suck-up and power-hungry elitist to a duplicitous situational ethicist. Even his old school legal buddies abandoned […]
Bayh is a Rebu….no, he's a Demo…. what is he?
Probably not one of my last posts about Indiana even though I’m on the road back home to Tucson. I feel more comfortable blogging about it when I’m not there. The place scares me. Conservative doesn’t even begin to describe the climate there. Anyway… the supposedly Democratic Senator Evan Bayh finally (after years of Hoosier […]
Torture, Texas and Totalitarianism
I won’t be going through Texas on my drive back home to Tucson this week. I encourage everyone who reads this to also boycott the state. On Tuesday, August 7, in a six-to-three decision, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Kenneth Foster’s final writ of habeas corpus, giving the legal green light for his […]
The Tide is Turning
Reuters is mainstream, no? Well, they sent out a story that Common Dreams picked up today about the perfectly ripe and ready to be plucked activist spirit fruiting in the U.S. It’s true. I was in Ft. Wayne today and needed to do some personal errands and in the course of human events I ran […]
Intentionality and Activism
At times I find the irony of my situation, a woman who doesn’t believe in the inherent worth of politics, in which I spend so much time writing about the whole mess to be a bit sardonic. I am a dedicated believer that you have to go around obstacles. Trying to plow right through items […]
41 Dems Vote For Wiretapping
Grijalva and Giffords were both on the right side of this vote. The 41 Dems from all over the U.S. who voted for this are selling out the American people. For example, why did Harry Mitchell (AZ LD 5) vote with the Republicans to continue giving Bush the expansive power to do whatever the hell […]