In a debate over extending tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations,
during a late session last night, Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) made a stunning claim on the House floor, trying to justify the rip-off of the middle class and poor with these words: “Well, folks, if you earn $40,000 a year and have a family […]

I took time off for a long Mother’s Day Weekend. No interent, no writing. Just enjoying time with my children and husband.
Now, back to work.
Am I just paranoid, or was this the plan all along?
The law signed by President Bush less than two months ago to add thousands of border patrol agents along […]

Shouldn’t the first question we have, is the violating of our Rights by spying on our phone calls making us safer? Mr. Bush says that they have had to do this, to keep us safe and the polls have asked the question phrased in a way that it is either we spy on Americans or […]

I was beginning to feel hopeful for America. The people seem to be waking up and they now see that the Emperor has no clothes. Mr. Bush is at 69% disapproval in the polls. The poll numbers show that the Republicans will lose many seats this November and their majority at least in the […]

The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
“It’s the largest database ever assembled in the world,” said one person, who, like the others who agreed to talk […]

Rupert Murdoch, the conservative media mogul whose New York Post tabloid savaged Hillary Clinton’s initial aspirations to become a US senator for New York, has agreed to host a political fund raiser for her reelection campaign.
Why would the man who owns Fox News and not only hounded President Clinton, but did everything he could do […]

Some days you think all the news is always bad. And so it seems to be. But every once in awhile, something good comes along. The American people have stopped drinking the Kool-Aide and have started thinking for themselves. Using the brain that they were born with. It is just baby steps, but it is […]

According to Mr. David Shuster, who has been right about so many reports he does, Mr. Rove is going to be indicted. It’s about time. I know that Mr. Fitzgerald does a slow, careful investigation, and when you are trying to bring an indictment for a crime of this magnitude to a man like Mr. […]

Mr. Bush is not playing with a full deck and yet, he is playing the world’s most dangerous game. Chicken. And he has the whole world playing his game. As his polls go down, (now at 31%) he becomes more desperate to prove that he is “The Man”.
He has said that Iran may not become […]

A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney’s energy task force in 2001, something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress …The document, obtained this week by The Washington Post, shows that officials from Exxon Mobil Corp., […]