June 7, 2006
Once again Mr. Bush uses hate, religion and politics to try to stem the tide against the Republicans losing power.
Mr. Bush and the Religious Right are claiming : “Marriage is being redefined by ‘activist judges’”. As a new Cato Institute report by Professor Dale Carpenter notes, “The ‘threat’ from courts is more imagined than […]
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June 1, 2006
President Bush will promote a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage on Monday, the eve of a scheduled Senate vote on the cause that is dear to his conservative backers. The amendment would prohibit states from recognizing same-sex marriages.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the amendment on May 18 along party lines after a shouting […]
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May 13, 2006
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 […]
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May 2, 2006
For the Cost of One Missile how many people could we feed in Darfur? While you sit down to several big meals today, think about that.
The UN is cutting in half its daily rations in Sudan’s Darfur region because of a severe funding shortfall. From May the ration will be half the minimum amount required […]
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April 20, 2006
The Second Bill of Rights. By now we should be on the third or fourth. But we should at least be fighting for these Rights.
If the Democrats want to win in 2006 and especially 2008 they need to get back to the basics of the Democratic Party. The core issues on which we stand. Human […]
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April 19, 2006
Here’s one of the problems when the Government breaks the law. It seems that it is impossible to fix it when it turns out that you were terribly wrong.
Case in point: Two Chinese Muslim men, Abu Bakker Qassim and A’Del Abdu al-Hakim, were rounded up in Pakistan and shipped off to our Guantánamo Gulog. Four […]
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April 15, 2006
So, We the People, vote to decide who becomes President. Isn’t that what we are taught? Isn’t that what we believe? Isn’t that why we take time out of our lives, to go to the polls and cast our votes?
Well, the truth is, we are wasting our time. We do not decide. Unless, the State […]
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April 8, 2006
If you think that this Administration and America’s Corporations are not in bed together, working to destroy our Constitution and our Rights, then you have not been following the news from EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). One of the most important groups out there fighting for our Rights.
Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a class-action lawsuit against AT&T, […]
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April 3, 2006
We are told to protect our identity by shredding all of our papers, which might have something which the terrorists or criminals might use, before we throw them away. Shred or burn your mail, don’t just toss it in the garbage. The Government is passing all kinds of rules and laws based on their claim […]
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March 22, 2006
In the dark days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, a small group of lawyers from the White House and the Justice Department began meeting to debate a number of novel legal strategies to help prevent another attack. Soon after, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to begin conducting electronic eavesdropping on […]
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