Cindy’s tee-shirt had the number of soldiers killed in Iraq on it [like the counter in the sidebar here]. She was arrested and removed from hearing the State of the Union Message. What a blessing!
Update: The tee-shirt said, "2,245 Dead — How Many More??"
There were jokes around about "How long will it take Bush to mention September 11 in the SOTUS?" I didn’t time it, but it was soon:
On September the 11th, 2001, we found that problems originating in a failed and oppressive state 7,000 miles away could bring murder and destruction to our country.
How do I know [...]
In 1968, I guess a lot of us wondered if times could ever get better. They couldn’t have gotten much worse - a terrible war, a crisis of human rights, a slain leader. But it did get better. And Coretta helped with that with everything she had for as many years as she could [...]
Like everyone else, I’ve been thinking about the votes yesterday and today on Alito’s Supreme Court confirmation. Here’s the data as well as I can present it:
Today, the Senate confirmed Alito 58 to 42. Yesterday, the Senate voted for cloture 72 to 25 with 3 no votes. What got to a lot of us was [...]
I woke up thinking about yesterday’s cloture vote. What’s stuck with me is listening to one Republican after another talk in the Senate about the potential filibuster being ‘partisan’ politics, pandering to ‘extremist groups.’
How does that complaint work exactly? The Republicans voted as a block. Isn’t that ‘partisan’ politics? The Alito Nomination is clearly [...]
The Alito road show has interrupted attention on other things, but they’re not forgotten. Of course there’s the Plame leak, and there’s the N.S.A. unwarranted domestic surveillance issue, but the darkest cloud is the distortion of the prewar intelligence proper - the topic of the long postponed Phase II of the Senate investigation. Raw Story [...]