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  • Trayvon Martin’s horror movie and ours.

    I have not been able to watch much of the Zimmerman trial because I find it too infuriating, but the media coverage has been very revealing in what it has missed. Imagine a 17 year old boy, walking back to his father’s house from a trip to the 7-11. It’s…

  • The Democratic Senate is attacking voting rights, choice, and health reform

    The District of Columbia Circuit Court is the most important Federal appeals court in the nation. Cases involving regulation (such as environmental to labor law), government powers and  voting rights go to this Court which is currently dominated by far right wing Republican activists. Judges include Janice Brown, a fan…

  • Solyndra is a huge Republican scandal

    The Republican complaints about Department of Energy loans to Solyndra reveal the scandalously anti-market bias of so-called Conservatives. Anyone who has worked in competitive markets knows that even the best ventures can fail – hard work and good ideas can be sunk by bad timing or unpleasant surprises. The high…

  • Snowden’s revelations are not either revelations or scandalous

    “Imagine,” the BBC exclaimed last month […] “a global spying network that can eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax, or E-mail, anywhere on the planet. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s true.” That’s from a 1999 article by Seymour Hersh.  The phrase I cut out is: “one of…

  • Who controls Federal Cops and Spies?

    To understand US military and security policy under President Obama start with immigration and take a look at the website for the “National ICE Council”, the union representing 7,000+ employees of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency.  Currently, it’s all about their opposition to the immigration reform bill – with…

  • The Republicans in the Supreme Court committed high crimes

    The most respected and influential conservative Appeals Court Judge wrote this about the Voting Rights Act decision of the Supreme Court Shelby County v. Holder, decided Tuesday, struck down a key part of the Voting Rights Act [..] as violating the “fundamental principle of equal sovereignty” of the states. This…

  • The unbearable lightness of liberal media

    For a number of years, liberals/left and many just fair minded people have noticed the obvious, that Fox News is a branch of the Republican Party – or perhaps the Republican Party is a branch of Fox News.  It’s not a novel observation that Fox News presents viewers with a…

  • Eleven dimensional chess and the voting rights act

    The Supreme Court’s Republican Putsch Posse has struck down a key provision of  the voting rights act which they allege violates some Constitutional provision although not a provision they can name. This came as no surprise to many of us after Bush v. Gore and Citizens United showed that the…

  • America is not a nation of laws as the Supreme Court reminds us

    The Republican partisans on the Supreme Court just reminded us that like every other nation in the history of nations, the United States is ruled by power not what is written on pieces of paper. That power is a combination of votes and elected and appointed offices, money, protests, civil…

  • Snowden and Stasi America hyperbole

    Just try to imagine that the NSA/CIA contain some right wing nuts (just try) and one of them had decided to provide Pakistan Intelligence with advance information on the OBL raid so as to damage the Obama administration.  Would that be freedom of speech? A matter of choice? What, you…